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It is clear what needs to be done to solve the smog problem, and the legislation is already in place. But will anyone act? It came almost out of nowhere. In the winter of 2016, late in the month of November, Lahore was engulfed in a way it had possibly never been before. Thick, yellow sheets...

@muhammadhafeezmalik @Mav3rick @Edevelop @hydrabadi_arab @FOOLS_NIGHTMARE How can you logically justify this policy? I am not trolling, its a genuine question

The Pakistani middle class is past its scepticism of electronic money. How did we get here, and what comes next? Some time over the next 12 months, Pakistan’s economy will cross an important milestone: the total volume of transactions that people conduct using their credit and debit cards...

KARACHI: The perception that few among the 35,000-odd computer science graduates the country produces every year are actually skilled was reinforced on Saturday at +92Disrupt, a two-day startup and technology conference held by Katalyst Labs. The CEO of one of the country’s largest software...

KARACHI: A conglomerate of Real Estate companies from the United Arab Emirates will invest USD 20 to 25 billion in the real estate industry of Pakistan. This was announced by a strong delegation of various UAE-based Pakistani Real Estate companies including ALMIR, Habib Group, and Mark Stone...

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan attracted $16 billion in visitor spending in 2022 which is projected to touch $30 billion in 2033, says the World Bank. The bank on its website stated that the travel and tourism sector’s total contribution to Pakistan’s GDP was 5.9 percent in 2022 and 4.2 million jobs. This...

Ministry to share smartphone financing policy with stakeholders next week By Shahzad Paracha & Ghulam Abbas ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication has finally prepared the draft policy for smartphone financing. It is going to share the policy with stakeholders...

Bro .....:pop: the hells wrong with them but...

The JUI-F has long established itself as a religio-political force to be reckoned with, but its electoral fortunes have suffered in recent years. Imran Mahir is filled with sorrow and a deep sense of unease when he recalls the July 30 suicide bombing at the political rally he was organising. He...

Gas price rationalization is a big reform undertaken by the caretaker government in view of the fact that in the past successive political governments failed to implement it. Increases in prices of gas have remained inadequate since 2013-14, and that is the core reason behind the buildup of gas...

Will be manufactured at Air Link's facility in Lahore Air Link Communication Limited (AIRLINK), one of the leading mobile phone manufacturers and distributors in Pakistan, announced on Monday that Xiaomi has decided to partner with the company to produce smart TVs at its manufacturing facility...

This will be a controversial thread, but it's been on my mind a lot lately. There's a whole radicalized subsection of our society who almost worships him, putting him above the country, showing disrespect to their own people for him, and even laughing at martyrs. What makes him the Messiah? I...

EDITORIAL: According to a Business Recorder exclusive, the caretaker federal government has directed all relevant ministries to finalise the proposal to share expenditures of all devolved functions with provinces (doing the rounds in the power corridors since the 18th Constitutional Amendment...

KARACHI: The country’s current account deficit declined to $8.0 million in September 2023 as compared to the current account deficit of $360 million in the same month in 2022 The country’s current account deficit was $164 million in August 2023. During the first three months of current fiscal...

ISLAMABAD: Simon Stolp, South Asia Practice Manager for Energy at the World Bank, and his team met with Fawad Hasan Fawad, the Federal Minister for Privatisation in Islamabad. The primary focus was to discuss the government’s agenda for privatisation, with a specific emphasis on the performance...

Key economic indicators reflect a worsening trend (as per data released by the Finance Division) in July-August 2023-24 against the comparable period of the year before: remittances declined by 21.6 percent, exports by 8.3 percent, credit to private sector declined by 222.8 percent, which no...

ISLAMABAD: The country’s two thermal power plants of 700-MW generation capacity have indicated interest in converting themselves to Thar coal, which will bring their generation tariff from Rs 46 to Rs 8 per unit, sources close Managing Director PPIB told Business Recorder. The company’s...

Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani on Sunday said Pakistan has condemned the siege of Gaza as Palestinians are facing unabated Israel aggression and have been without water, food, and power, leading to a severe human crisis, state-run wire service APP reported. “Israel is committing...

ISLAMABAD: The federal government is giving the final touches to the first-ever Petrochemical Policy aimed at attracting investment in the upstream and midstream industry to start indigenous manufacturing of petrochemicals, well informed sources in Commerce Ministry told Business Recorder...