November 7, 2005	Monday	Shawwal 4, 1426

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A new core inflation index? THE recently released SBP Annual Report contains analytical explanations of practically every trend in the economy witnessed last year....		PTCL’s botched sell-off WHETHER Privatization Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh’s last minute dash to Dubai last weekend succeeds in salvaging the sale of Pakistan Telecommunications Company (PTCL) to Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) or not, the...
Monetary policy working at cross purposes INFLATION is causing concern to every one and the Government has avowed to control it. The concern about inflation has been heightened by an abnormal increase in domestic prices during FY04-05...		High cost of farm inputs DISCUSSING the government’s agriculture policies, one often tends to be harsh because they leave some glaring needs of the sector unattended when these should be taken up ahead of any other aspect of the sector....
Citrus quality to meet global demand CITRUS comprizes of different edible fruit species like mandarin, oranges, grapefruit, lemons and limes. Out of 6,52,000 hectares under fruits, about 28 per cent...		Managing salinity for sustainable agricultural development ABOUT 60 per cent of tubewell water used for irrigation in Pakistan is saline to sodic in nature that adds salt in agricultural lands each year....
Integrated pest management for optimum output DISEASES limit the production of vegetable and fruit crops. Some are easy to identify but others difficult. Effective disease management is essential for high quality production....		Will WTO ministerial deliver a fair deal? THE crucial 6th WTO ministerial meeting just six weeks away, the negotiators in Geneva are busy finalizing the text of the proposals to be presented at Hong Kong mainly on agricultural subsidy....
Sindh without an effective disaster management strategy WHILE mourning the deaths of more than 57000 peoples in Kashmir and NWFP in the earthquake on October 8, the civil society, the government and the international community are engaged in...		Ways to fight poverty WITH poverty estimated to be high, affecting a third of the population, millions of young and middle-aged Pakistanis have gone abroad to work....
Institute of technology for Mekran PLANS are underway to set up Gwadar Institute of Technology (GIT) in Mekran in line with the official policy to develop Gwadar port and industrial zone under the 9th five-year plan....		Optimizing cane production SUGARCANE cultivation is carried out for sugar and its products. Besides this, a number of valuable by-products like alcohol used by pharmaceutical industry, ethanol used as a fuel, bagasse used for...
Proposed changes in POL price mechanism THE ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources (MP&NR) in a recent summary to the Prime Minster has proposed a number of amendments in the pricing mechanism for POL products....		Enforcing corporate governance codes ENFORCEMENT of corporate governance rules could also be achieved by relying on other parts of the legal system to which these would be linked. Several parts....
Saarc summit and Safta THE future of Saarc as a regional organization depends on implementation of the road-map contained in the Declaration for greater economic integration, adopted at Kathmandu...		Has the time come for oil sands exploitation? WHERE is the world’s biggest single oil reserve? Logic will point toward the Middle East: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq etc. Most of the people outside the petroleum industry and some insiders...
Risks in external debt overhang QUITE a number of low income developing countries have reaped the benefits of external debt booked by them at the initial stage of their borrowings which eased up their position on...		Electricity for all by 2007 THE government at all levels has committed to providing the two basic essentials— potable water and electricity— to the entire population by the year 2007....
Should KSE-100 share index only go up and up? HAS the KSE-100 share index only one way to move-up and up, almost non-stop and moving the other way is the mischief of the bears. If that be so how high...		PTCL-Etisalat deal reports mar trading on stock market CONFLICTING reports about the PTCL-Etisalat deal dominated the trading on stock market as investors played on both sides of the fence in a holiday-shortened week....
Rs5bn injected to ease liquidity crunch ON October 31, the State Bank of Pakistan injected Rs5 billion through buy back of Treasury bills. The liquidity was injected at 8.55 per cent per annum....		Pre-holiday mood kept market lackluster PRE-HOLIDAY mood prevailed on the Karachi wholesale commodity markets during last week as commercial and brokerage houses mostly kept....