TCP floats tenders for wheat on 5th
KARACHI, July 2: The Trading Corporation of Pakistan is floating tenders on Monday for import of half a million tons of wheat, and the first ship loaded with grains is expected to sail in Karachi port either late August or early September.
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China ready to import mango from Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, July 2: Tax collection in 2003-04 was Rs514 billion, which is Rs4 billion higher than the budgetary target. The final tax collection figure is expected to be Rs515 billion.
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SPI shoots up by 0.66pc
KARACHI, July 2: Inflation measured through Sensitive Price Index or SPI shot up by 12.02 per cent at the last week of 2003/04 over the same period of 2002/03.
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Sunken barge halts activity at PQ
KARACHI, July 2: Activity at the Port Qasim came to stand still on Friday after a bunker barge sank in the approach channel of the port, official sources said.
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'SRO 399 to push pesticides prices up'
MULTAN, July 2: Various stakeholders of the pesticides business have raised serious objections over a manner in which a statutory notification was issued by the federal ministry of food, agriculture and livestock.
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Companies easy exit scheme extended
ISLAMABAD, July 2: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has extended the facility of applying for de-registration under its Companies Easy Exit Scheme (CEES) up to December 31.
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KSE-100 index gains 55pc in last fiscal
KARACHI, July 2: During financial year ended June 30, 2004, at least a dozen companies outperformed the KSE-100 index, which continued its bull-run with a gain of 55 per cent.
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CDC service inaugurated
KARACHI, July 2: Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan chairman Dr Tariq Hassan said that the reform process had to be organic and was never final in any growing market.
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Promotion of trade with Kabul, Tehran stressed
QUETTA, July 2: Balochistan Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani has said that the issue of promoting trade with Afghanistan and Iran will be take up with the federal government.
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Balochistan produces 98,000 bales of cotton
ISLAMABAD, July 2: Balochistan province showed remarkable progress in cotton production recording an output of 98,000 bales of cotton during the current season. According to official sources this production was from 39,000 hectare acres of land.
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Prices decline on cotton market
KARACHI, July 2: Cotton prices on Friday maintained their downward drift in the absence of strong buying from spinners and mills owing perhaps to turmoil on the world markets.
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Stray selling in base shares clips gains on KSE
KARACHI, July 2: Stocks finished the weekend session on a mixed note as leading shares managed to add to their overnight gains despite late selling at the inflated levels amid active two-way trading.
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