Tag: Foreign

Foreign investors find budget short on tax broadening steps

The Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) has praised the 2014 budget proposals announced on Tuesday. “The government plan for 2014-15 to reduce...

Five foreign nationals recovered in Balochistan

Police have recovered five foreign nationals during a search operation in Balochistan's troubled Kech District on Tuesday. District Police Officer Bashir Brohi told reporters that...

FIA gets judicial remand of detained foreign women

A local court extended the judicial custody of foreign women arrested on charges of being involved in immoral activities. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) brought...

Do you see development? We did it.

Ahsan Iqbal says government’s vibrant policies have increased foreign investment Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal said on Saturday said the viable...

Foreign companies invest $2.02b for oil and gas exploration

Foreign exploration and production companies have invested about $2.02 billion for oil and gas exploration in the country during last three years. The government has...

No foreign security company allowed to operate in Pakistan: Nisar

  The National Assembly was informed Monday that no foreign security company was allowed to operate in the country under the prescribed criteria for private...

PA lightens tax burden for foreign investors

With a point of view to speed up foreign investment in the province as well as the provision of employment for the masses, the...

‘Foreign assistance monitoring cell’ to be established to speed up projects’...

The Economic Affairs Division (EAD) Secretary Nargis Sethi said that the EAD would constitute a special ‘foreign assistance monitoring cell’ in line with directives...

Commercial attaches directed to lure in foreign investment

The Commerce Ministry has issued directives to 16 commercial attaches posted in different countries to lure foreign investment in the country. Senate Standing Committee...

Certain stakeholders have reservations over MFN status to India: foreign secretary

Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani said while the federal cabinet had already agreed on according Most Favorable Nation (MFN) status to India, certain...

Foreign varsity team visits Dow University

Dr Haider A Khwaja, a PhD from the Department of Environmental Health and Toxicology, School of Public Health, State University of New York (University...

FO refrains from verifying Mullah Nazir’s death

Refraining from verifying the death of Taliban warlord Mullah Nazir in a US drone strike in South Waziristan, the Foreign Office spokesman on Friday...

Foreign content should not be aired during prime time: NA body

The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting on Thursday suggested the government to ban airing foreign content in any language during prime...

Forex reserves stand at over $13 billion

Pakistan’s total liquid foreign reserves as on December 28 stood at $13,808.1 million, said SBP on Thursday. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), in...

Tahirul Qadri a foreign agent: TTP spokesman

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) central spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan on Saturday said Tehrik Minhajul Quran chief Tahirul Qadri was a foreign agent working on a foreign...

Foreign students in UK will get fingerprints scanned to prove...

All foreign students in Britain will have their fingerprints scanned in order to prove they are going to their lectures. Newcastle University has become the...

Putin warns of foreign meddling in Russia

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has warned against foreign meddling in Russian politics and criticised opposition politicians of being in the pay of foreign interests....