Speakers at the Act for Nutrition conference in Islamabad urged stronger public-private partnerships to tackle Pakistan’s nutrition challenges. They said policy inconsistency and weak coordination were...
Pakistan is seeking increased Asian Development Bank financing for public-private partnership projects, including the $10 billion Karachi-Peshawar Main Line-1 railway upgrade. An ADB delegation led by...
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan briefed a Senate Finance and Revenue subcommittee on unauthorized share transfers and legal disputes involving forged signatures and other...
A Senate parliamentary committee on finance and revenue has recommended introducing facial recognition technology to assist taxpayers whose fingerprints have faded or cannot be verified. The...
Jazz World Enterprise Solutions has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding with iTechnology to launch Driver, a new ride-hailing platform. The service will allow passengers to...
Business leader Mian Zahid Hussain has proposed a Pakistan–Saudi Arabia Agri-Food Export Task Force to help raise annual food exports to the Kingdom to $3 billion...
Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan have signed multiple agreements to strengthen cooperation in trade, security, education, environment and technology. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov...
Meezan Bank has approved over Rs31.45 billion in housing finance across 4,424 applications under the government’s Wazir-e-Azam Apna Ghar Programme — Ghar Ho Tu Apna. The...
Saudi Arabia has raised $3.25 billion through a two-tranche sale of US dollar-denominated sukuk, marking its second debt issuance this year. The offering included $1.25 billion...
Pakistan and Uzbekistan have set a target to increase bilateral trade to $2 billion over the next five years. Direct air connectivity is also expected to...
