Business - 31

This three-day motor show, exhibiting local as well as foreign manufactured vehicles will remain open for the general public on December 18 and 19, who could enter into the premises by showing their driving licenses. The show providing an opportunity to automobile industry in the country to exhibit their latest products and mop up the [...]

Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf opened a coastal highway on Thursday linking the main industrial city of Karachi with a deep-sea port being built with Chinese help in the country’s south. People in Baluchistan, Pakistan’s largest but poorest province, have for years complained that governments have ignored its development. The road is expected to open up [...]

Pakistan received an amount of $1609.76 million as workers’ remittances during the first five months of the current fiscal year from July to November 2004, as against $1488.08 million received in the corresponding period of the last fiscal year, registering an increase of $121.68 million or 8.18 per cent. During last month, workers remitted an [...]

Farrukh Ashraf repaired the shoes with 2½-inch heels worn by the precision dance troupe, which finished a 37-performance run of “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” here last week. “The work was not that hard; it’s just so many of them at one time,” Ashraf said recently while gluing rubber-sole protectors to 24 pairs of T-strap leather [...]

The Alliance Against Sexual Harassment (AASHA) is organising a working women’s assembly on Dec 22to highlight various problems being faced by women at workplaces. A large number of women rights activists, journalists, intellectuals, academicians and other opinion makers will also attend the daylong conference to be held at a local hotel. Sameena Pirzada, Sanya Saeed, [...]

Makro, a company owned by SHV Holdings of the Netherlands, has decided to invest in Pakistan in a business that would promote fresh produce and local products in the domestic and international markets. According to a press release on December 13, Makro is a high volume, no frills wholesaler of food and other items and [...]

THE Pakistan Society of Harrow are setting up a Matrimonial Agency to help eligible Asians in Harrow to meet their ideal partner. The society based in Northolt Road has been going for two years and their aims are to look after the interests of the Pakistani community by catering for their cultural, social, educational and [...]

The monopoly of the state-owned telecom giant, Pakistan Telecommunications Company (PTCL), over fixed line telephones, is coming to an end in Karachi with the start of the new year, as two new private telecom operators are ready to provide fixed line as well as wireless connections to new subscribers. The PTA official said that in [...]

Pakistan Business Council was formally launched in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday to help promote trade, commerce and investment between the two friendly countries. The Business Council was approved and registered by the UAE government and a formal announcement was made at a press conference arranged by the Abu Dhabi Chamber of [...]

Exel, the world famous leader in supply chain management, on Saturday announced a decision to expand its operations in Pakistan with the opening of its new country headquarters. The new office would provide integrated airfreight, sea-freight and contract logistics services for both export and import services supporting customers in complex and time-critical industries such as [...]