http://www.thenews.com.pkLatest News Via RSS Feedsen-usCopyright 2009 TheNewshttp://www.thenews.com.pk/rss11/19/2009http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews.jpghttp://www.thenews.com.pkLAHORE: Corruption Perception Index of Transparency International is in line with different rankings assigned to Pakistan in economic and social sectohttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20939111/20/2009KARACHI: Agricultural credit disbursement by commercial and specialised banks rose 9.10 per cent year-on-year to Rs62.839 billion in the first four mohttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20939211/20/2009ISLAMABAD: Construction of airside infrastructure of the Rs11.8 billion new Islamabad international airport has come to a grinding halt with the sponshttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20939311/20/2009KARACHI: Pakistan’s current account deficit in the first four months of the 2009/10 fiscal year was a provisional $1.071 billion compared with a defichttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20939411/20/2009ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is likely to start importing 500,000 tons of white crystal sugar by December to meet domestic needs and maintain strategic reservehttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20939511/20/2009KARACHI: Italy has allocated $10 million for setting up a plant to locally produce self-destructive syringes under a joint venture between an Italian http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20939611/20/2009KARACHI: The Karachi bourse saw bullish trend on Thursday with the benchmark KSE 100 rising 106.43 points to close at 9251.19 points. The free http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20939711/20/2009LAHORE: The Lahore stock market on Thursday again moved up after two days of depression adding 42 points in its benchmark LSE 25-index to close at 2,8http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20939811/20/2009KARACHI: Overall teledensity of the country reached 62.4 per cent in September 2009, according to data released by Pakistan Telecommunication Authorithttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20939911/20/2009ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) registered 197 companies including 18 foreign companies in October 2009, jacking http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20940011/20/2009MIRPUR (AJK): Trade worth Rs73 million was conducted at Chakan Da Bagh Tairtinote entry point on Poonch Rawalakot route during the last two days. http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20940111/20/2009KARACHI: Younus Shaikh and Siddiq Umer have been elected patron-in-chief and chairman respectively of the Karachi Export Processing Zone Business Counhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20940211/20/2009LAHORE: Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited, in collaboration with Chemical Engineering Department of University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20940311/20/2009LAHORE: US Consul General in Lahore, Carmela Conroy, has said modalities are being finalised for starting business visa service from Lahore and hopefuhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20940411/20/2009PESHAWAR: Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd Managing Director Rashid Lone has assured the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) of minimum suspehttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20940511/20/2009KARACHI: There are unlimited opportunities for the expansion of the housing industry in Pakistan, but to achieve this, financial institutions have to http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20940611/20/2009LAHORE: Focus on corporate governance and consumer rights could help in coming out of the economic crisis and the corporate sector should take a progrhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20940711/20/2009LAHORE: Pakistan Industrial and Traders Associations Front (PIAF) has rejected the proposed two per cent increase in federal excise duty, saying the bhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20940811/20/2009LAHORE: Consultant to the Punjab Chief Minister on Economic Affairs and Vice Chairman Punjab Board of Investment and Trade (PBIT), Pir Saad Ahsanuddinhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20940911/20/2009Many important industry stakeholders briefed the media about problems being faced by them. These included tyre manufacturers, poultry farmers,http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20941011/20/2009PARIS: China, Asia and the United States are pulling the world out of an economic vortex with surprising if “modest” speed, the OECD declared on Thurshttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20941111/20/2009NEW DELHI: Indian survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster on Thursday protested outside the offices of the US company blamed for the toxic leak ahead of http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20941211/20/2009NEW DELHI: Thousands of Indian sugar cane farmers staged a massive demonstration in the national capital, halting traffic as they demanded higher prichttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20941311/20/2009Paddy growers to get full payment LAHORE: Pakistan Agriculture Storage and Supplies Corporation (PASSCO) has decided to make full payment to ghttp://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=20941411/20/2009