PM meets with Ali Baba chief to get best wholesale deal on letters to...

HANGZHOU - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met with global business-to-business markeplace giant Ali Baba’s CEO Jack Ma on Saturday to discuss with him the...

State Bank bans cryptocurrencies, after failing to figure out cryptocurrencies

KARACHI – In a major development, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has banned cryptocurrencies in the country, citing its failure to understand cryptocurrencies. While...

Corrupt politician exports up by 16.53% in Q1FY18

pbs ISLAMABAD – Corrupt politicians’ exports from the country increased by 16.53 percent during the first quarter of current fiscal year (July-September) as compared to...

Local banker’s eight-month-old son showing excellent third-quarter results

Karachi – Our Finance Correspondent: Shahwez Hassan, the eight-month-5-day-old son of Tariq Hassan, a local corporate banker, is already showing good results in the third...

At least 80pc shares to be offered to Chinese public as PSX about to...

KARACHI: At least 80 percent of its shares would be offered to the public as the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) would stand listed on...

Contract for new CAA directive for wrapping passengers in plastic also won by Shahid...

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) A company owned by retired Air Marshall and alleged political...

World Press Freedom Day: Nationwide laundries offer 15% discount on trouser pressing

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/KARACHI/PESHAWAR/QUETTA – Laundries all over Pakistan agreed to give a 15% discount on ironing of pants, trousers and shalwars on Thursday, May 3, to...

Pakistan to develop first cloud-based storage for disqualified parliamentarians

ISLAMABAD – The National Telecommunications Corporation (NTC) on Wednesday signed an agreement with DQware Inc (DQW), an inventor in digital space for the disqualified,...

Local businesses announce November Jumma-tul-Wida sales

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/KARACHI/PESHAWAR/QUETTA – Local business on Friday benefitted from a nationwide Jumma-tul-Wida sale, as collective profits soared into billions of rupees. According to reports, the Jumma-tul-Wida...

New patriotic telecom company can detect anti-national signals

ISLAMABAD – A new patriotic telecom company, which has the ability to detect anti-national signals, is going to offer 5G mobile services on a...

JS Global Capital’s Faran Rizvi named best equity trader at 14th CFA Excellence Awards

CEO of Insight Securities and veteran trader Zubair Ghulam Hussain received the runner-up award in the equity trade category.

Pakistani rupee could fall to Aamir Liaquat levels, experts warn

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) KARACHI – As the Pakistani rupee fell from 115.63 at...

Pakistan’s power solution in sight as Tesla looks to electrify entire countries

PALO ALTO – After more than a decade of making cars and SUVs and, more recently, solar panels Tesla Inc. wants to electrify a...

Nation’s employees root for PM Abbasi as nation’s HR manager after granting Dar 3-month...

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/KARACHI/PESHAWAR/QUETTA – Nation’s employees want Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to also serve as the nation’s HR manager, after he gave Finance Minister Ishaq...

Islamabad police fills water guns with hollandaise sauce in anticipation of TLP mob

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) ISLAMABAD – The Capital Territory Police equipped itself with Summer...

Karachi’s Water Tanker mafia unanimously approves country’s first water policy

ISLAMABAD: Lauding the decentralisation of nationwide tankers Karachi’s Water Tanker Mafia has unanimously approved the country’s first ever National Water Policy (NWP) while also...

Civilians to eat up more than half of proposed Rs5.237 trillion budget for 2018-19

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet has approved an expansionary fiscal policy that offers little for defence but gives away more than half of the estimated...