The government has decided to clear the outstanding dues of Rs. 300 billion owed to Chinese independent power producers (IPPs)… Read More
Tire Smuggling Costs us Rs. 40 Billion Annually
Ghandhara Tyre CEO Hussain Kuli Khan said that tire smuggling has crippled the industry with a sharp increase in the… Read More
Future of Pakistan’s IT Industry: A Mixed Bag of Successes and Setbacks
Pakistan’s IT Exports stood at $1.94 billion in the first 9 months of the current fiscal year (FY23), showing a… Read More
PTEA Rejects Withdrawal of Concessions on Energy Tariffs
Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) has rejected the Government withdrawal of concessional tariff on gas supply to the export-oriented sectors,… Read More
ECC Directs Provinces to Meet Bank Charges for Wheat Procurement
The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the federal cabinet has approved a request of the Ministry of National Food Security… Read More
Agri Department Targets Cotton Cultivation at 4.5 Million Acres in South Punjab
The South Punjab Secretariat in a meeting set a target of 7.58 million cotton bales production from 4.554 million acres… Read More
Farmers’ Association Decry Water Shortage in Sindh
The Sindh Abadgar Ittehad (SAI) has demanded that the government restore natural waterways immediately or risk incurring billions of rupees… Read More
Govt to Present Budget 2023-24 in 2nd Week of June
The federal government will likely present the federal budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2023-24 in the National Assembly on… Read More
Essential Commodities Become Unaffordable as Inflation Grips Pakistan
While companies and industries in the urban space are perched between multi-decade highs of inflation and unemployment, Pakistan’s rural sector… Read More
Climate Change and the Unsettling Future of Rice Production in Pakistan
Rice is Pakistan’s second-biggest crop after Wheat in terms of cultivated area. Besides being the second staple crop and contributing… Read More
Mapping the AI Startup Space in Pakistan – Can We Do More?
“I do not think we have yet seen people with trillion-dollar ideas taking on Google, but that’s about to happen,”… Read More
Is Nuclear the Answer to Pakistan’s Energy Question?
One of the major takeaways from the 2022 Ukraine conflict, catastrophic floods that affected 33 million in Pakistan, and the… Read More
