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Shaukat asks banks to meet demand: Housing finance
KARACHI, Dec 11: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Finance and Economic Affairs Shaukat Aziz estimated on Wednesday a backlog of 5.38 million housing units in the country which represent a big demand... 
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Prospects for South Asia brighter: WB
NEW DELHI, Dec 11: The recent global economic slowdown, adverse weather conditions, and internal and external security concerns reduced growth figures for the South Asia region in 2002. Growth in the...
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Investment mobilization drive from next month
KARACHI, Dec 11: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Finance Shaukat Aziz said on Wednesday that foreigners’ traffic to Lahore and Islamabad had somewhat improved lately, but Karachi remained a problem city mainly...
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Banks have excess liquidity to sell loans
KARACHI, Dec 11: State Bank Governor Dr Ishrat Husain on Wednesday said the banking system had excess liquidity, necessitating aggressive marketing to sell their loans....
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Jatoi wants industrial units skill updated
KARACHI, Dec 11: Federal Minister for Industries and Production Liaqat Ali Jatoi has asked the state-owned industrial units to quickly comply with the requirement of international buyers and manufacture products that...
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Pakistan, Turkey to cooperate in auto sector
KARACHI, Dec 11: The Chairman, Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), Tariq Ikram, on Wednesday said that there is great scope of cooperation between Turkey and Pakistan in the complimentary industries of automobile...
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Stocks recover 12.69 points on active short-covering
KARACHI, Dec 11: Stocks on Wednesday recovered from the previous lower levels followed by active short-covering in pivotals on the perception that 12 paisa per unit cut in power rates may...
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Pakistan, US talks focus on free trade
WASHINGTON, Dec 11: Pakistan and the United States held the inaugural meeting of the joint working group on trade and investment at the White House conference centre on Tuesday....
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Second-hand car import may be reviewed
KARACHI, Dec 11: The Prime Minister’s Adviser on Finance, Shaukat Aziz, on Wednesday dropped broad hint of government reviewing the decision on import of re-conditioned cars....
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China exports LPG to Pakistan
SINGAPORE, Dec 11: China has exported its first cargo of liquefied petroleum gas to Pakistan as part of border trade between the two countries, a China-based industry official said on Wednesday....
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Brisk trading on cotton market
KARACHI, Dec 11: Brisk trading was witnessed on the cotton market on Wednesday as spinners resumed their covering operations in a big way and lifted all the lots offered for sale...
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Wheat tender
KARACHI, Dec 11: The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) has extended the bidding deadline for the sale of 50,000 tons of wheat to December 16 from December 11, a TCP official...
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France offers technical assistance for SMEs
SIALKOT, Dec 11: France on Wednesday offered technical assistance to Sialkot business community for promoting small and medium enterprises (SMEs), besides offering some direct trade relations to the local exporters for...
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Karachi Port operations
KARACHI, Dec 11: Five ships carrying containers, crude oil and passenger buses are due to arrive at the outer anchorage on Thursday, according to KPT sources....
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Friday as holiday opposed
SIALKOT, Dec 11: Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has rejected the proposal of reverting to Friday as weekly holiday....
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Cane growers meeting
KARACHI, Dec 11: Industries Minister Liaquat Ali Jatoi will hold an important meeting with sugarcane growers and representatives of sugar industry at PIDC House here on Thursday....
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