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Inflation goes up by 2.83pc in July-Feb: 2000-01 as base year
ISLAMABAD, March 13: The rate of inflation (Consumer Price Index) increased by 2.83 per cent during the first eight months of the current financial year as compared to corresponding period of... 
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Foreign, local banks row over clean lending
KARACHI, March 13: Major local banks now find it difficult to make clean lending to foreign banks because that means enabling the foreign banks to snatch the customers of the local...
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EoIs invited for six ICP mutual funds
KARACHI, March 13: The Privatization Commission (PC) on Wednesday invited Expressions of Interest (EoIs) for sale of ‘management rights’ in six of the 26 mutual funds controlled and managed by the...
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20pc duty on export of leather sought
KARACHI, March 13: Leather garment manufacturers have asked the government to immediately impose 20 per cent duty on export of semi finished and finished leather to ensure its availability to the...
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Govt aims tax-GDP ratio at 14.4pc
ISLAMABAD, March 13: The government has decided to raise tax to GDP ratio from the current 12.28 per cent to 14.4 per cent by 2003-04, reliable sources told Dawn....
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Dutiable imports fall by 0.27pc in 8 months
ISLAMABAD, March 13: The value of dutiable imports fell by 0.27 per cent to Rs251.713 billion during the July-Feb period of the current financial year against Rs252.398 billion over the corresponding...
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Oil price higher
LONDON, March 13: Oil prices ticked higher on Wednesday, regaining $24 a barrel, as figures from the United States signalled another drop in reserves of crude-based products....
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Concessions for filing cos returns by 31st
ISLAMABAD, March 13: The Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) here on Wednesday announced certain concessions to all non-listed public and private limited companies if they filed returns under the...
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LSE member declared defaulter
LAHORE, March 13: The Lahore Stock Exchange declared its suspended member Iftikhar Shafi as a defaulter, after giving him an opportunity to present his point of view before the LSE board...
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Pakistan, UK trade ties grow
LAHORE, March 13: British High Commissioner to Pakistan Hilary Nicholas Synnott has termed trade relations between the two countries as pretty much satisfactory....
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Direct trade
LAHORE, March 13: Argentinian Ambassador to Pakistan Horacio Passo on Wednesday underlined the need for improving direct trade between the two countries....
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KSE-100 index fails to sustain 1,900-point level
KARACHI, March 13: After breaching through the psychological barrier of 1,900 on heavy early buying, the KSE 100-share index failed to sustain this coveted level following rumour-related snap selling but the...
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Prices rise on cotton market
KARACHI, March 13: Cotton prices rose further on Wednesday as ginners held on to their positions firmly on the perception that spinners still need over a million bales to see the...
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Survey for gas pipeline project
PESHAWAR, March 13: Physical survey for designing the 950-mile long gas pipeline project between Pakistan and Iran got under way last week, senior government functionaries said here on Wednesday....
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Karachi Port operations
KARACHI, March 13: Six ships including a rice loader Al-Ghraffah are expected to arrive at the outer anchorage on Thursday, according to KPT sources....
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Malaysian palm oil futures firmer
KUALA LUMPUR, March 13: Malaysian crude palm oil futures were firmer at the close on Wednesday due to hopes of better demand from main buyers India, Pakistan and China in March,...
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