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NATIONAL

In the two villages of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Shangla district, women residents were deprived of suffrage in the by-polls on Wednesday.The 43 seats across the province were vacant as the e

*Six Pakistan stocks in MSCI EM with lower than expected 0.10pc weight   Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) on Tuesday upgraded the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) to Emerging Markets status; the inclusion<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/05/17/morgan-stanley-upgrades-pakistan-to-emerging-market-status/" title="Read more" >...</a>

NATIONAL

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that Pakistan is highly attractive destination for investment that no global player can afford to miss. He was speaking at “One Belt-One Road Pakistan Investment Forum”<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/05/17/pakistan-is-open-for-business-says-pm-nawaz/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Kingsman Pharma Ltd, a company incorporated in the UK, and IJARA Capital Partners Ltd, on Tuesday, formed a partnership to improve the healthcare system in Pakistan and ensure a supply of<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/05/17/british-firm-ijara-ink-jv-agreement-to-improve-healthcare/" title="Read more" >...</a>

by AMER SIAL The Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) has demanded that the super tax should be abolished, corporate and sales tax should be reduced aligned to regional<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/05/17/overseas-chamber-urges-abolition-of-super-tax/" title="Read more" >...</a>

NATIONAL

Fertilisers Importers Council has written a letter to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over the non-payment of subsidy claims. The letter stated that the government had promised the DAP importers for payment of<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/05/17/fertilisers-importers-appeal-to-pm-for-discontinuation-of-subsidy/" title="Read more" >...</a>

The Association of Builders and Developers of Pakistan (ABAD) has expressed concerned over the reported move of the Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) to abolish Fixed Tax Regime (FTR) for builders<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/05/17/abolishing-ftr-will-discourage-construction-industry-abad/" title="Read more" >...</a>

ISLAMABAD

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Oil and Gas Company Limited (KPOGCL) and University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Peshawar signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up a modern facility 'JURASSIC

KARACHI

Losses reported by the business community following the Sindh High Court's ban on movement of heavy traffic during daytime to and from Karachi Port amounts roughly to Rs200 billion every 10 days, Nati

Foreign

North Korea launched a ferry service to the Russian city of Vladivostok on Wednesday to develop links and boost economic cooperation, the North's state media said, as it faces increasing isolation ove

NATIONAL

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers led by the party’s MNA Ayesha Gulalai Wazir on Wednesday registered a protest in front of the WAPDA house against electricity load shedding and overbilling in the province.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/05/17/pti-workers-storm-wapda-house-in-peshawar-to-protest-power-outages/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Foreign

BRADFORD: British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday unveiled a “radical and responsible” manifesto as the party hopes to close the gap against the ruling Conservatives before next month’s election. Corbyn, who<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/05/17/britains-labour-party-reveals-radical-manifesto-for-next-months-election/" title="Read more" >...</a>