Tag: Industrial

LAHORE - Zareen Khan Yousufzai, wife of PIA Managing Director Nadeem Khan Yousufzai inaugurated the PIA Industrial Home at the airline's Head Office. While gracing the occasion, PIA Managing Director Nadeem Khan Yousufzai expressed his views and forwarded his full support for this new project of PIA Industrial Home.
"We must endeavor best of our abilities in order to restore the positive image of the National Flag Carrier," said PIA MD. He said that PIA has always supported the

FAISALABAD - Faisalabad Divisional Commissioner Tahir Hussain said on Tuesday the industrial units located in the urban areas were being shifted gradually out of the city to the industrial estate near Khurrianwala to overcome the problems of urbanisation and industrial pollution.
He was talking to a 16-member team of under-training officers from National Institutue of Management (NIM) Peshwar, who arrived here for a five-day field study tour to get acquainted with the

GENEVA - Industrial policy (IP) is back or rather, back in fashion. Of course, it never really went away, even in countries formally adhering to free-market principles. But the post-crisis world - in which government intervention in the economy has gained greater legitimacy - will see more of it.
Likewise, China's success, and the temptation to bandwagon on its development model, has reinvigorated IP's appeal, as have better policy tools and greater experience of what works and

FAISALABAD - Industrial and textile sectors of the city, along with labour unions, held a massive protest rally to condemn the government's discrimination against Faisalabad that was facing a 5-day gas holiday according to the revised schedule issued by SNGPL authorities. Reportedly, the protest rally was held by the regional office of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), Anjuman Tajiran City Faisalabad, members of Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) and a

KASUR - PML-Q MNA and Environment Standing Committee member Marvi Memon visited Kasur the other day and said that India was polluting the Sutlej River water with the industrial waste. She said the water of the Sutlej River was polluted and injurious to human health.
She added that tanneries' waste was polluting the water of the river and hundreds of villages in Kasur were badly affected by it. She visited different areas where pollution was increasing due to dead animals and

ISLAMABAD - The parliament was informed on Monday that the deteriorating law and order situation coupled with gas and power shortages had led to the closure of 307 industrial units in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and 14 in Balochistan last year.
Responding to queries during the question hour, Minister for Industries and Production Mir Hazar Khan Bajarani admitted that power and gas shortages and the worsening law and order situation, besides disputes of industries with banks over loan

DASKA - PML-N MNA Khawaja Muhammad Asif said on Friday the industrial sector of the Punjab was confronting multiple problems due to unavailability of gas and electricity.
He alleged the federal government was intentionally imposing the crisis of electricity on Punjab whereas 700megawatts electricity was being supplied to Karachi at Rs 3 per unit. Asif said the government was 'inventing' new modes of corruption but PML-N would close all doors of corruption and malpractices with

WAZIRABAD - The local traders demanded of the government to complete legal formalities for the early completion of the industrial estate project in the city.
The city has no match in the field of cutlery items, but is suffering a business decline these days. On the request of the late provincial law and education minister Raja Khaleeq Ullah Khan, a site for an industrial estate was selected and a small industrial estate inaugurated in 1993 in Wazirabad. But the provincial

PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KPCCI) and USAID have drafted a vision document for developing a well diversified industrial and manufacturing base in KP. This base would not only be export oriented but it would also help domestic consumers and create employment opportunities.
The vision document was prepared after a detailed discussion among officials of USAID, provincial government and business community of the province at KPCCI on Wednesday.