Tag: Selling

13 nabbed for selling dengue equipment at higher prices

The Lahore Police on Monday, under supervision of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Operations Ghulam Mehmood Dogar, conducted raids at Brandreth Road and arrested 13...

Selling ‘Brand Asia’

In collaboration with the Advertising Association of Pakistan (AAP), the Ad Asia has come to Pakistan for a two city road show where Madhukar...

Selling ‘Brand Asia’

In collaboration with the Advertising Association of Pakistan (AAP), the Ad Asia has come to Pakistan for a two city road show where Madhukar...

Selling ‘Brand Asia’

In collaboration with the Advertising Association of Pakistan (AAP), the Ad Asia has come to Pakistan for a two city road show where Madhukar...

Gold flash: Euro zone buying, not selling

HERE’s a turn up. Central banks in the Eurozone are buying gold, not selling it, so far in 2011. Only by €6 million mind, and...

‘NGO’ involved in selling children busted, 12 rescued

A rescue team from the Child Protection Bureau (CPB) freed 12 children of six to 15 years of age from the illegal custody of...

Vendors befool customers by selling less quantity of commodities

LAHORE - Vegetable and fruit vendors at Sunday Bazaars have adopted a technical way of fleecing customers by selling smaller quantities of commodities, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The prices of a majority of vegetables remained stable while some decreased. Although the City District Government Lahore (CDGL) fined a number of vendors for overcharging and weight tempering but it was not enough and overcharging continued. Visits of Lahore District Coordination Officer (DCO) Ahad

Preity denies selling her IPL team

Mumbai - Brushing aside rumours of selling her IPL cricket team Kings XI Punjab, Bollywood actress Preity Zinta said she will never go out of it completely. "We were going to do a stake offload, a bit of it. But there was this random rumour (of selling it). I don't think I will ever go out of it completely because to me its my baby. I have worked very hard for it. I have given my life to it. I can't just wash my hands off it. But I think now it is settled and is in its own zone,"

Police raids bookstores selling pirated OUP books

LAHORE - The police conducted raids on some bookstores and publishing houses and allegedly arrested three suspects for printing and selling pirated books of Oxford University Press (OUP) by violating copyright and trademark.
According to a press release, Lower Mall raiding police party recovered stock of pirated books and registered FIR under Copyright Act 66/67 on the complaint of OUP Manager Sales and Distribution Kashim Hussain against the arrested, including the owners of

Panic selling on KSE, slides by 252pts

KARACHI - Panic selling in high-priced blue chip scrips let the bears prevail at the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) on Friday that saw the political and strategic situation dog local and international share traders. The investors' fear of foreign selling led to panic selling at the KSE owing to disturbing developments like a destabilising political backlash after the controversial release of American spy Raymond Davis and Thursday's drone attack on a Pakistani tribal Jirga and a rare

KSE tumbles on foreign selling

KARACHI - Investors' fears of rising political uncertainty and foreign selling made the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) tumble even further than other regional stocks on Friday.
Analysts believe that factors, like the PML-N's expected announcement on parting ways with the PPP-led coalition government in Punjab and an expected upsurge in oil prices on the back of Middle Eastern unrest shattered the investors' confidence at the local bourse. The KSE-100 benchmark dwindled 315.74

KSE ends at more than two-month low on foreign selling

KARACHI - The KSE-100 Index tumbled a massive 315.30 points spurred by massive battering of world markets, led by unrest in the Middle East. All major sectors closed in the red zone. Market rumours of foreign funds selling took its toll as investors had kept a vigilant eye on the deteriorating local political scenario after PPP and the PML (N) failed to reach consensus on economic reforms.
Weakened local sentiments were supplemented by foreign investors offloading their holding,

Sindh Public Service Commission member, 2 others get four years for...

KARACHI - An anti-corruption court sentenced a Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) member and two others to four years in prison on Saturday on corruption charges. Judge Rashida Asad of the special anti-corruption court sentenced SPSC member Ramesh Udeshi as well as Rehana Minaj and Shahid Ahmed Khan to two years imprisonment in two separate offences.
The court also directed all the accused to pay Rs 50,000 each as fine, and failing to pay the same would result in additional

NA body bars PIA from selling profitable routes

ISLAMABAD - National Assembly Standing Committee on Defence Wednesday directed the Ministry of Defence to bar the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) from selling any profitable routes to other airlines, calling it detrimental to the business of the national airlines.
The committee chairperson, Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho, chaired the meeting. Taking notice of a news report that PIA had agreed to sell to Turkish Air Lines all the existing routes to Europe and America except London,

Owen selling marital home

NEW YORK: 'Take That' star Mark Owen is selling his marital home after admitting cheating on his wife earlier this year, according to a report. The singer stunned fans in March by confessing to 10 affairs behind his partner Emma's back, as well as revealing he has been nursing a secret drinking problem for over a decade.
Now Owen has placed the couple's home in Wandsworth, south London on the market in a bid for a fresh start with Emma and their two children, Elwood, four, and

Man arrested for selling 15-day old son

LAHORE
Shalimar Police on Friday arrested a man who sold his 15-day-old son for Rs 31,000 "owing to financial problems", Pakistan Today has learnt.
Jameel, the father-in-law of the accused Shabbir, said that his daughter Abida gave birth to a boy, who was named Tauseef, a month ago. He said that Shabbir was unemployed for a long time and on the day of the incident he took his son somewhere and returned home without him. He later told Abida that he had sold Tauseef for Rs

Case registered against factory owner for selling animal food for humans

LAHORE
Police informed the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday that a case has been registered against the owner of Whiskas juice factory for selling animal food for human consumption after repacking it as mango juice.
The Shera Kot Police Station SHO submitted a report in the court of Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed stating that accused Amjad Javed, owner of Whiskas juice factory in Lahore, was arrested and sent to jail after registering an FIR against him. But a local court