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| April 1, 2002 | Monday | Muharram 17, 1423 |
Cost of production: a critical issue
 The central issue facing the greatly troubled industry in Pakistan is high cost of production. If a globalization of the economy has brought this issue to the fore assertively, the post-...
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Experiments in monetary management
In the last two years, there has been a radical change in the management of the country’s monetary system. The change was overdue; archaic managerial style of the 1990s had damaged...
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Pindi Bhattian motorway: A case of throwing away good money
A federal secretary who retired during the fag end of General Ziaul Haq’s rule once said that if all the summaries that various ministries had sent up to the federal cabinet...
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Code of corporate governance
In addition to a country’s stable economy, momentum sustaining policies, quality of on-going policies and the law and order situation, good corporate practices are also necessary to woo foreign investment in...
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Bulls move in to halt bear-run
The early bear-run on the stock market was halted in the later part of the week as bulls moved in and made active short-covering at lower levels followed by the revival...
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SBP accepts bids worth Rs8bn for sale of PIBs
On March 27, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) mopped up Rs8 billion from the money market through the sale of long-term bonds....
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Rupee stays Stable
The currency market opened the week on a quiet note, after remaining closed for three days from March 23 to March 25, on account of the Pakistan Day and Moharram Holidays....
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Commodities remain mixed
The Karachi wholesale commodity markets passed through another quietly mixed week as leading brokerage and commercial houses remained conspicuous by their absence....
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CCI: essential component of farm credit policy
 The crop farming is a roofless industry. Its activities take place mostly out in the open. In fact, among the various agriculture enterprises, it is the most exposed, and of the...
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Plant viruses: major threat to crops
The word ‘virus’ means poison. Viruses are the most infectious group of diseases and are parasitic in nature. It is possible to describe them in terms of properties of chemical molecules....
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KPT plans well-being of mangroves
 Greenery and sea are not best friends - specially so along the Pakistani coast which is largely rocky and barren. However, the Karachi harbour area and eastward creaks are bestowed with...
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KESC privatization: options and opportunities
 The Federal Minister for Privatization on 22nd March, visited Aptma’s principal office at Karachi, and said that 74 per cent of the KESC shares are being sold in September to an...
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Fast-track dispute-resolution system needed
 It is vital for the government’s tax reform strategy that the administration of the tax appellate system keeps pace with the changing business environment and the legislative programme, so that it...
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EAB: no meaningful performance in two years
The delay in implementing some policies or pursuing others half-heatedly is causing problems in achieving any meaningful turn around in the economy, notwithstanding the official claims that the economy is on...
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Demand for cement in Afghanistan declines
Total confusion is prevalent in the market on whether the locally-manufactured cement has really found its way into the war-torn Afghanistan, or it is a sheer speculative move of the manufacturers...
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Why public sector organizations don’t deliver
 A few recent articles have recounted the woes of employees of certain large public sector organizations, most of which claimed to be victims of callous decisions, arbitrary actions or procrastination by...
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