ISLAMABAD: The exchange rate of Pakistani Rupee strengthened by 14 paisas against US Dollar in the interbank market on Tuesday, ending at Rs160.91 compared with the previous closing at 161.05. Meanwhile, according to Forex Association of Pakistan, the buying and selling rates of dollar in the ...

The Economic Coordination Committee has proposed 1600 rupees as minimum support price for next year's wheat crop. The decision to this respect was taken at a ECC meeting held in Islamabad with Prime Minister's Adviser Finance Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh in the chair. It was briefed to the ECC that ...

LAHORE – Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed said on Saturday that eight more trains would be privatised from the 12th of next month. Addressing a press conference at PR Headquarters here on Saturday, I want private parties to come forward and run their freight trains using the railway’s ...

Federal Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has said that a medical city is being established on 200 acres of land in the Special Economic Zone of Faisalabad. Talking to the media in Lahore today (Saturday), he said that Pakistan will soon become self-sufficient in ...

Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar inaugurated Orange Line Metro Train project in Lahore today (Sunday). This project comprises twenty six stations and tracks spanning over 27.12km.This is the first electricity-run public transport project through which around two lac fifty thousand ...

Pakistan has saved USD129 million as an import substitute by producing more pulses (moong and gram) this year as compared to last year. The Ministry of National Food Security & Research (NFSR) has informed that during the year Pakistan has produced 76,000 tons and 53,000 tons more of moong and ...

ISLAMABAD-Pakistan has borrowed $2.734 billion from external sources in first quarter of the current fiscal year to maintain the country’s foreign exchange reserves. “During July-September of fiscal year 2020-21 the Government has received $2,734 million total external inflows from ...

Washington: The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved $304 million in financing for Punjab Resource Improvement and Digital Effectiveness Program (PRIDE). The program supports efficiencies in public resource management that generate savings and create fiscal space for ...

ISLAMABAD: The export remittances of IT & IT-enabled Services (ITeS), comprising computer services and call centers, surged 43.55pc to $379.251 million during the first three months (July-September) of the current fiscal year (FY21) as compared to $264.187 million in the same period of FY20, ...

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will announce its decision today (Friday) on whether or not Pakistan will remain on its grey list. The FATF plenary is expected to take up Pakistan’s case today, the last day of its ongoing meeting between October 21 and 23. The plenary, which was ...