The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has granted approval to the acquisition of Coca Cola (Pakistan) under phase-1 review of the Competition Act, 2010, and the Competition (Merger Control) Regulations, 2016. Coca-Cola ?ecek (Turkey) acquired 49.67 percent shareholding of Coca…
Even thinking or talking of any remedies how to grapple with the spiraling and uncontrollable price-hike is a very tough ask, what to talk of actually implementing fanciful ideas and solutions for the rocketing prices! While inflation is round-the-year phenomenon…
By Parvez Jamil Canada Pakistan relationship witnesses many turning points right from the debatable KANUPP nuclear power interaction to the so-called Islamophobia in many a Western- Canadian mind. However, this relationship assumes highly-positive dimensions, especially in the social sector development…
By Masood Sattar Khan (Pakistan News & Features Services) A pilot project of chili farming spreading over 100 acres is completed while another 3,000 acres of land would be brought under chili cultivation that would ensure enhance production in the…
By Masood Sattar Khan (Pakistan News & Features Services) China is a big market of Pakistani Cherry that is grown in abundance at the foothills of the Himalayas and Karakoram mountain ranges in Pakistan’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan region. Nourished by fresh…
MashaAllah our so concerned experts can comment best on important budget focus as on military, agriculture, industry, energy, infrastructure, education, health and, above all, inflation etc. Seldom shared yet vital budget points here: First point: How can a nation…
Come any budget anytime and anywhere in the world, booming “budgetactics”, devised here as a first-hand term.”Budgetactics” is an attempted tact and technique of so-called planners and technocrats to bamboozzle masses with a bull’s eye blue. For example, crafting…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) A former General Manager of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has urged the Prime Minister to take action on maltreatment with the retired employees by the national airline. The national airline has…
President Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) M. Shariq Vohra, while expressing deep concerns over the sudden stoppage of payments by National Saving Center (NSC), urged the government to look into this serious issue as any delay in these…
Consul General of Turkey Tolga Ucak has said that as the coronavirus situation was likely to improve after April 2021 therefore, the Karachi Chambers business community should immediately start online interactions with their Turkish counterparts and subsequently look into the…
Chairman Businessmen Group (BMG) & Former President Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) Zubair Motiwala, while appreciating ECCs endorsement to Rs739 billion Karachi Transformation Plan (KTP), stressed that although KTP covers some desperately needed projects for Karachi but the…
By Syed Sajid Aziz (Pakistan News & Features Services) Mian Nasir Hayatt Maggo, the presidential candidate of the Businessmen Panel in the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), for the upcoming annual elections of 2021, has expressed…
Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has clarified that taxpayers are allowed under the law to file annual income tax returns after the completion of extended period granted by the Chief Commissioners Inland Revenue. FBR has advised the taxpayers to file…
Administrator and Commissioner Karachi Iftikhar Ali Shallwani on Wednesday cancelled allotments of all petrol pumps at Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s land and Land department will issue cancellation orders to petrol stations’ owners. The land would be auctioned as per market value…
British Deputy High Commissioner Mr Mike Nithavriankis has said that youth aspirants for civil service should expand their knowledge so that they could pass CSS examination and serve their country. “Civil service is a great profession and the one could…
Former President of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) and head of the Chambers Leading Group Mr. Siraj Kassam Teli passed away in Dubai on Tuesday December 08th, 2020. Siraj Kassam Teli was known for raising voice for…
As part of its phase-wise plan to transform and improve its entire transmission and distribution network, K-Electric (KE) has planned the upgradation of its existing transmission network from Hub Chowki to Bela Grid. These plans will ensure greater availability and…
The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) during its campaign of inspection of vehicles at various busy places and roads of the city during the last two months found that 22% of the vehicles were violating the provincial environmental law, which…