BusinessUrea prices will need a rise of Rs 22 per bag in order to cope with a 10 percent levy on gas price in the upcoming budget. Price subsidy on feedstock gas<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/19/levy-on-gas-to-fuel-rise-in-urea-prices/" title="Read more" >...</a>
The federal Ministry of Commerce (MoC) has finally decided to permit the import of three-year old used buses. The draft notification has been prepared, but it has been sent to the Federal Board of Rev
BusinessIt is feared that the once vibrant Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) is set to lose its title of most liquid equity market of the region if the current trend of thin volumes<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/18/kse-risks-losing-coveted-liquidity-status/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALFive would-be Chechen suicide bombers, including three women, were killed by security forces before they could attack a check-post in the provincial capital on Tuesday, police and Frontier Corps (FC)
BusinessWheat procurement campaign across the country for 2011-12 is now in full swing as provincial food departments and official grains procurement agency PASSCO has so far secured about 3.828 million tonne
NATIONALThe government on Monday received notices by four Independent Power Producers (IPPs) giving it 35 days to settle their outstanding dues of Rs 16.2 billion or they would consider invoking the sovereign<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/17/4-ipps-serve-notices-to-govt-for-rs-16b-dues/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Security forces on Monday arrested one Alamzeb and interrogated his mother Amna Bibi, both of whom – along with a third person named Ali Rehman – are wanted by the United States. As per details, a
LAHOREThe intense heat wave made markets and recreational places empty of visitors as citizens thronged the canal and the River Ravi to battle the hot weather and load shedding. With the onslaught of summer
NATIONALPakistani and Indian troops exchanged sustained cross-border fire on Sunday, security officials said, a day after an Indian soldier was allegedly killed by Pakistani troops while patrolling one of the
NATIONALNational sovereignty is more important than aid for us, said Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to US senator John Kerry here on Monday. During his busy schedule in Islamabad, Kerry met separately<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/16/national-sovereignty-more-important-than-aid-gilani-tells-kerry/" title="Read more" >...</a>
SportsBelgium’s Kim Clijsters will take part in the French Open which gets underway at Roland Garros here on Sunday, her manager Bob Verdee has told Le Soir newspaper. The 27-year-old former world<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/16/clijsters-given-all-clear-for-french-open/" title="Read more" >...</a>
KARACHIHaving adopted a hard-line posture on the past role and budget consumed by the Army and ISI, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif arrives in Karachi today on his two-day<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/16/nawaz-sharif-begins-sindh-tour-today/" title="Read more" >...</a>
