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Print - 2004-12-25
Sugar market bolstered by fund buying

Sugar market bolstered by fund buying

London white sugar futures ended stronger on Friday after technical signals pulled in fund buyers and took the market to the highest level in more than two weeks, floor sources said. March settled up $3.1, or 1.2 percent, at $254.4 a tonne following a hig
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
London cocoa ends stronger amid Ivorian violence

London cocoa ends stronger amid Ivorian violence

London's cocoa market closed moderately higher on Friday amid concern about fighting in Ivory Coast although dealers said business was mainly focused on book squaring before the end of the year. The Liffe front-month March cocoa futures contract gained 1.
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Panama copper project may be gold mine for economy

Panama copper project may be gold mine for economy

A copper and gold mine planned for Panama's tropical rainforest may boost gross domestic product by some 5 percent a year and become the country's No 2 infrastructure project, a mining executive told Reuters. According to Petaquilla Minerals Ltd, the Cana
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Azeri aluminium firm to expand, cut costs

Azeri aluminium firm to expand, cut costs

Dutch company Fondel Metal, which produces aluminium in Azerbaijan, plans to boost primary aluminium and alumina output there in the years to come as it seeks to expand and cut raw material costs. Fondel manages Azerbaijan's Azeraluminium group, which inc
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Court allows Canada Wheat Board vote count

Court allows Canada Wheat Board vote count

Votes can be tallied in an election for four members of the Canadian Wheat Board's board of directors, a Federal Court judge ruled on Thursday, dismissing a request from a farmer for a new vote. Justice Anne Mactavish ruled against a complaint from Art Ma
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
EU raises cane molasses reference price

EU raises cane molasses reference price

The European Union has reduced its reference price for beet molasses but raised the equivalent price for cane molasses, its Official Journal said on Friday. The EU's sugar management committee, made up of representatives of national sugar authorities and
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
South Korean feed makers buy 50,000 tonnes soyameal

South Korean feed makers buy 50,000 tonnes soyameal

South Korean feed makers groups have bought a total of 50,000 tonnes of South American soyameal for feed production from Cargill in private talks, traders said on Friday. The Major Feedmill Group (MFG) and the Korea Feed Association (KFA) jointly bought t
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Iran needs no sugar imports before March 2005

Iran needs no sugar imports before March 2005

Iran said it does not need to import sugar before March 2005 so long as money is set aside to buy domestic production, which is more expensive than imports, Fars news agency reported on Friday. Minister of Commerce Mohammad Shariatmadari, in a letter to t
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Base metals seen firm but volatile into new year

Base metals seen firm but volatile into new year

Base metals prices are expected to swing wildly on lack of liquidity over the holidays, but traders and analysts believe that underneath they are deep and crisp and even. "The word you are looking for is volatility," Wictor Bielski, resources analyst at M
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
BRIDGE NOTES: The only line of play to bring home a grand slam

BRIDGE NOTES: The only line of play to bring home a grand slam

"Don't count your chickens before they are hatched". The saying of Greek writer and a reformist is also so true while playing a game of bridge. Play taking the unfavourable line of cards into consideration to ensure success of a contract. It was also inci
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
SPORTS WORLD: Humiliating defeat at Perth

SPORTS WORLD: Humiliating defeat at Perth

Pakistan was decimated to all intents and purposes by a resilent Australian outfit playing at Perth before their own crowd, which was enjoying the game, whether the hosts were batting or bowling. The disaster in the first Test of the three-match series wa
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Media's responsibility to empower women

Media's responsibility to empower women

Beyond the political borders, cultures and divides of religion lies a world created by satellite and media waves ruled by the power of the pen and brought into focus by the eye of the camera. This media world allows the inquiring mind, the seeking eye the
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Carols herald Christmas

Carols herald Christmas

Christmas is the most colourful and splendid holiday of the followers of Jesus Christ, which falls on December 25 every year. On this day, the faithful celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ with traditional religious devotion and enthusiasm.
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
LAHORE CULTURAL DIARY: More music concerts

LAHORE CULTURAL DIARY: More music concerts

Three music concerts, one by a Pakistani exponent of kheyal style of singing, the second by an Indian dhurpad singer and the third by a German woodwind ensemble were the highlights of cultural activities during the past week, which the culturally enlighte
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
BOOK REVIEW: 'Shakuntala'

BOOK REVIEW: 'Shakuntala'

Shakuntala is counted among the world best literary classics, which was penned by the second century Sanskrit poet Kalidas. His plays have already been translated in several world languages and played in different parts of the globe but the
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Trucking for the future

Trucking for the future

A blaze of colour awaits inside the premises of the Alliance Francaise. Chairs, benches, cups, chests, lamps, teapots aglow in bright colours at the exhibition of truck Art `Colours of the Road'. Look again and you would think "Hey! Isn't this the art tha
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
LITERARY NOTES: Raghib's 'Rubaiat' on 'Death'

LITERARY NOTES: Raghib's 'Rubaiat' on 'Death'

Raghib Muradabadi is one of the most versatile senior poets on the horizon of Urdu literature today. Having more than three scores of books to his credit, including five exclusively devoted to Rubaiyyat, one could easily surmise that he is a leading Rubai
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
My friend Yasser Arafat & days of the civil war - III

My friend Yasser Arafat & days of the civil war - III

This reply confirmed that Foreign Office had mental reservations about inviting Arafat while I was still thinking how to warn the Foreign Office of the consequences if Arafat was not invited, I received a telegram from the Prime Minister that he was sendi
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
CURRENT TOPICS: 2004 in retrospect

CURRENT TOPICS: 2004 in retrospect

The 21st century has not been auspicious for the world. In the very first year America suffered its greatest homeland tragedy. World Trade Towers - the symbol of America's capitalist pride - were brought down crumbling by a handful of men. It was a terrib
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Quaid-i-Azam and two-nation theory

Quaid-i-Azam and two-nation theory

Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah the Founder of Pakistan was no doubt a great leader of the modern age, who not only led his people to independence but founded a separate homeland for Muslims where they could live independently and cultivate their culture
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
From Lucknow to Lahore - the crucial years: 1937-1940

From Lucknow to Lahore - the crucial years: 1937-1940

Isn't it an irony of fact that a leader like Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who left the All India Congress in 1920 at its Nagpur session on the plea that M.K. Gandhi had introduced religion into politics, came to the conclusion later that the communal problem was
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Pakistan Resolution and problem of minorities

Pakistan Resolution and problem of minorities

Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah possessed a unique sense of political timing. He always struck while the iron was hot. A number of thinkers had presented the idea of homeland for the Muslims. Dr Iqbal had the distinction of presenting a cogent scheme as
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Jinnah - 'the most upright person' who never tried to deceive anybody

Jinnah - 'the most upright person' who never tried to deceive anybody

Sir Patrick Spens, the last Chief Justice of undivided India, paid homage to Mohammad Ali Jannah in the following incandescent words. "There is no man or woman living who imputes anything against his honour or his honesty. He was the most upright person t
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Quaid-i-Azam, Mountbatten and the Indian states

Quaid-i-Azam, Mountbatten and the Indian states

The question of political future of some 565 Indian States, ruled by native princes, which constituted about one-fourth of India's population, had engaged the serious attention of the British rulers, the Congress and Muslim League leadership before and af
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Quaid-i-Azam, a political giant

Quaid-i-Azam, a political giant

Indian Muslims, says Saleem Qureshi, "had travelled a long way. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan made them conscious of their separate existence, the Aga Khan secured them separate electorates, Iqbal gave them an ideology and imbibed them with a sense of separate iden
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Fearless, most feared, foremost parliamentarian of his times

Fearless, most feared, foremost parliamentarian of his times

If Law was Jinnah's first passion in life, Politics was his second one. To his student days in England (1892-96) may be traced the development of this second passion. Like most colonial students of the time, young Jinnah came under the mesmeric spell of t
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
'City for cottage industry' planned

'City for cottage industry' planned

Punjab government is actively considering establishing "City for cottage industry" in the province. Official sources told Business Recorder on Friday that the present regime was committed to bring about the industrial revolution as well as to accel
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Notorious dacoits arrested

Notorious dacoits arrested

Rangers have arrested notorious dacoits Ashiq Jatoi and Sakhu Narajo and recovered arms from their possession during ongoing operation against outlaws in Kutcha area in the jurisdiction of district Khairpur. According to official sources here on Friday, t
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
PPP asked to openly support Musharraf in uniform

PPP asked to openly support Musharraf in uniform

Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim said on Friday that PPP should come openly and support President General Pervez Musharraf in uniform if it desires rapprochement with establishment. "We would welcome them if they want to board the same boat," he
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
PHDEB to help boost flora output in green houses

PHDEB to help boost flora output in green houses

Pakistan Horticulture Development and Export Board (PHDEB) will provide cool vans to facilitate haulage of flora products, an official of PHDEB told PPI on Friday. He said that this decision was taken in a meeting, held few days back regarding promotion o
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Shaukat asks civil servants to change mindset

Shaukat asks civil servants to change mindset

Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has urged the civil servants to adopt a pro-active and result-oriented approach to enhance efficiency and output in the government departments, and be more responsive to the public needs. He was addressing senior government off
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
New buses for Pakistan Steel employees

New buses for Pakistan Steel employees

In order to provide better and comfortable transport facilities to employees, management of Pakistan Steel Mill Karachi has acquired 25 brand new Hino buses through leasing arrangement. Managing Director/CEO Hinopak Motors Limited Keiji Maeda on Friday pr
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Normal winter rainfall in country

Normal winter rainfall in country

A normal winter rainfall has been predicted in the country during January to March. This was announced by the Pakistan Meteorological Department issued here on Friday. It said that on the basis of prevailing atmospheric circulation and global weather cond
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
CBR kicks-off reorganisation process with new motto

CBR kicks-off reorganisation process with new motto

On the instructions of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, the Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has initiated a reorganisation process and announced its new motto. The new motto, "Vision - Mission - Value", is aimed at motivating and spurring tax officers to perfo
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Smoking cessation emphasised to prevent pulmonary diseases

Smoking cessation emphasised to prevent pulmonary diseases

Experts has emphasised that smoking cessation is the most important measures to prevent Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD), while early diagnosis and correct treatment is essential to prevent early death. These were stated at the Continues Medi
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
PPP to challenge creation of new districts

PPP to challenge creation of new districts

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sindh has decided to challenge in the court of law the creation of four new districts in the province by the present government. Demanding withdrawal of decision, the party has termed the creation of Umerkot, Jamshoro, Shahdad
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
FPCCI for early signing of Pak-Iran free trade agreement

FPCCI for early signing of Pak-Iran free trade agreement

The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) on Friday called for early signing of Pakistan-Iran free trade agreement (FTA) to boost trade between the two countries. At a meeting with the delegation of Mashhad Chamber of Commerce,
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
No fresh requests for Haj to be entertained

No fresh requests for Haj to be entertained

Ministry of Religious Affairs on Friday announced that no fresh requests for Haj will be entertained. The spokesman of the Ministry said, in view of pressing demands, the Ministry of Religious Affairs had requested the Saudi Government for some additional
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Microsoft company to invest in IT sector in Sindh

Microsoft company to invest in IT sector in Sindh

Sindh Minister of Information Technology Mustafa Kamal said on Friday that Sindh is a safe and profitable region for investment in Information Technology and provincial government has offered attractive packages and special measures for the foreign invest
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
NWFP governor calls for underlying causes of terrorism

NWFP governor calls for underlying causes of terrorism

NWFP Governor Lieutenant General Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah (Retd) has underlined the need to look at the underlying factors and root causes in different parts of the world, which gives birth to terrorism. "We should have a broaden outlook and in-depth un
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Umra pilgrims

Umra pilgrims

Thousands of Umra pilgrims were stranded at Jeddah airport due to non-confirmation of their return tickets. The unruly mob had turned to the path of protest forcing the government of Pakistan to sort out the ways to make their voyage to the Holy Land hass
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Misuse of Law by KWSB

Misuse of Law by KWSB

KWSB, from top to bottom, is causing mental and financial torture to regular tax-payers by depriving them from water and adamantly using them as their tools by keeping disconnection of water supply in the entire complex of various flats till such time the
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Voters list for Arabic and Kurdish speakers being prepared in Iraq

Voters list for Arabic and Kurdish speakers being prepared in Iraq

Flashing his identity card at a security guard, Anis Mnasri exits a well protected compound in Geneva where hundreds of Arabic and Kurdish speakers are struggling to compile a register of Iraqi voters with just one week left to finish the job. "We are pre
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Christmas, a message of peace and love for all

Christmas, a message of peace and love for all

The Christian community will celebrate the Christmas throughout world today with enthusiasm and religious fervour. Jesus Christ was born some 2004 years ago and no douth the Christians celebrate his birth in Bethlelem. The day starts with midnight mass on
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
The Weather

The Weather

The weather report on Friday (December 24) and the forecast for Saturday (December 25, 2004).
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Jinnah and the Muslim identity

Jinnah and the Muslim identity

Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was one of the most eminent leaders of his time. His visionary leadership transformed the Muslim community of the sub-continent into a nation rooted in their religio-cultural historical identity and a shared perspective on
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
New York cotton

New York cotton

Thursday's closing prices of New York cotton in US cents/lb.

Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Cabinet Committee on Agriculture

Cabinet Committee on Agriculture

The Economic Co-ordination Committee of the Cabinet (ECC), at a meeting on December 9 with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in the chair, appointed a Cabinet Committee on Agriculture. To be headed by the Prime Minister, the Committee would include provincial c
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
New York cotton

New York cotton

Thursday's closing prices of New York cotton in US cents/lb.

Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Tribute to Quaid's greatness

Tribute to Quaid's greatness

Coming in the midst of the ongoing multi-directional efforts for setting the pace of purposeful co-operation between Pakistan and India, the birthday of the Father of the Nation, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, being celebrated today should serve as a c
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Bullion Rates

Bullion Rates

Gold and silver rates in rupees per 10 grams prevailing in major cities on Friday (December 24, 2004).

Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Mineral and industries director

Mineral and industries director

A senior official of Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation (PMDC) Muhammad Yaqub Shah has been posted on the vacant post of Director Mineral and Industries Governor's Fata Secretariat, said a notification issued here on Friday. Muhammad Yaqub Shah has
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Bullion Rates

Bullion Rates

Gold and silver rates in rupees per 10 grams prevailing in major cities on Friday (December 24, 2004).

Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Reshifting of Afghan trade office demanded

Reshifting of Afghan trade office demanded

Chairman, Frontier Customs Agents Group and SCCI standing committee on Railway and Dry port, Zia-ul-Haq Sarhadi has expressed concern of the shifting of the office of Afghan Trade Commission to University Town. In a press release issued here on Friday, he
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Bail plea disposed of

Bail plea disposed of

A judge of anti-corruption on Friday disposed of a bail application filed by Ravi Town Nazim Amer Munir as withdrawn. Earlier, the applicant appeared before the court and sought further time. The court observed that the counsel of the accused must give hi
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Two terrorists arrested with arms and charas

Two terrorists arrested with arms and charas

The race course police have arrested two terrorists, Kashif Khurshid and Faisal Munir alias Haji, and recovered huge arms and charas from their possession. SSP Chaudhry Shafqat told newsmen that race course police station SHO Atif Hayat along with his for
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Closing of sterling rates

Closing of sterling rates

Closing of sterling rates at 1730 GMT - on Friday (December 24, 2004).

Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
PSMA and Punjab University discuss forming of joint forum

PSMA and Punjab University discuss forming of joint forum

A delegation of industrialists led by Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) Chairman Chaudhry Zaka Ashraf on Friday called on Punjab University Vice-chancellor Arshad Mahmood, and discussed possibility of launching a split post graduate diploma in sugar
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Need for energy conservation stressed

Need for energy conservation stressed

Federal Minister for Water and Power Liaquat Ali Jatoi has stressed that the people need to be educated through media about conservation of electricity, keeping in view the low availability of water and high prices of furnace oil in international market.
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Key stock market movements at 1800 GMT on December 24

Key stock market movements at 1800 GMT on December 24

The latest close of key indices on major world stock exchanges and the London closing values of the euro, the Japanese yen, the British pound and gold bullion (previous day's closes in brackets).
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
MMA activists stage demonstration for religion column

MMA activists stage demonstration for religion column

The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) activists on Friday staged a demonstration outside the Lahore Press Club on Friday against the removal of religion column from the machine-readable passport. MMA information secretary Maulana Amjad Khan, MMA Lahore secret
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Cotton Spot Rates

Cotton Spot Rates

Official KCA spot rates for local dealings in Pakistan rupees on Friday (December 24, 2004).

Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Minister and DTO urged to intervene in FPCCI affairs

Minister and DTO urged to intervene in FPCCI affairs

Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) President Khalid Firoz has urged the Federal Commerce Minister, Humayun Akhtar, and the Director of Trade Organisations, to intervene in the Pakistan Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) a
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Poultry rates

Poultry rates

Wholesale poultry rates on Friday (December 24) and for Saturday (December 25, 2004).
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Abad pinpoints 'fake associations' in FPCCI

Abad pinpoints 'fake associations' in FPCCI

Out of 63 member associations of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), a sizeable number of these associations are fake, which have been made the FPCCI members by the ruling group just to control the affairs of the apex tra
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
IMO welcomes Pakistan's move to set up maritime university

IMO welcomes Pakistan's move to set up maritime university

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has welcomed Pakistan's aspiration to develop a maritime university. These views were expressed by the Secretary-General, International Maritime Organisation, London, during the visit of B K Ghauri, Minister f
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Lahore Grain Market Rates

Lahore Grain Market Rates

Grain and other commodity rates in rupees on Akbari Mandi on Friday (December 24, 2004).

Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Shipping Intelligence

Shipping Intelligence

Karachi Shipping Intelligence report incorporating changes till 7 am on Friday (December 24, 2004).

Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Pesco to cut 25 villages power supply

Pesco to cut 25 villages power supply

Peshawar Electricity Supply Company (Pesco) has decided to cut power supply to 25 villages of the disputed tribal area of Shabqadar for non-payment of electricity bills. Talking to Business Recorder Pesco Chief Executive, Brigadier Tahir Saeed Mali
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Shipping Intelligence

Shipping Intelligence

Karachi Shipping Intelligence report incorporating changes till 7 am on Friday (December 24, 2004).

Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Call to create awareness about rights

Call to create awareness about rights

Speakers at a seminar on the topic of 'role of the government in promotion and protection of human rights in the country' have called for creating awareness among the people about their rights so that nobody could dare to violate them. The seminar was org
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Karachi faces worst kind of traffic jam

Karachi faces worst kind of traffic jam

The city experienced worst kind of traffic jam on Thursday as the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) closed down the road from Golimar Chowrangi to Lasbela to carry out development work. Citizens faced immense hardship as the closure of the road resu
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Hong Kong group keen to invest in ports and shipping sector

Hong Kong group keen to invest in ports and shipping sector

Noble Group of Hong Kong has expressed interest in investment in ports and shipping sector of Pakistan. Noble Group Senior Vice-President H.S.Banga is currently leading a three-member delegation to Pakistan with other two members, ie Heneretta Lee and Har
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
THE RUPEE: more appreciation in interbank market

THE RUPEE: more appreciation in interbank market

More recoveries were seen in the interbank market on Friday as the rupee extended its gains versus the dollar, picking up four paisa on buying side at 59.43 and gaining five paisa on the selling side at 59.47, respectively. The currency market will remain
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Suzuki plans to inject CBU vehicles to plug demand gap

Suzuki plans to inject CBU vehicles to plug demand gap

Pak Suzuki Motor Co Ltd has plans to inject the-state-of-the-art CBU vehicles in the first quarter of 2005 to plug the demand gap. Kenichi Ayukawa, managing director, Pak Suzuki Motor Company Limited, informed Jahangir Khan Tareen, Federal minister for In
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
THE RUPEE: more appreciation in interbank market

THE RUPEE: more appreciation in interbank market

More recoveries were seen in the interbank market on Friday as the rupee extended its gains versus the dollar, picking up four paisa on buying side at 59.43 and gaining five paisa on the selling side at 59.47, respectively. The currency market will remain
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
All shares index report

All shares index report

The sector-wise all shares index report on Friday (December 24, 2004).

Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Pak-Afghan highway opened after three years

Pak-Afghan highway opened after three years

As a result of negotiations between the political administration of Khyber Agency, oil tankers association and tribal leaders of Landi Kotal, the international Pak-Afghan highway has been opened for traffic after three days. The tribal of Landi Kotal bloc
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Religion column in passport to be restored: Ijaz

Religion column in passport to be restored: Ijaz

Federal Minister for Religious and Minorities Affairs Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq has said that religion column in machine-readable passport would be restored and Islamic Republic of Pakistan would be printed on the new passport instead of Pakistan. The minister
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Presentation

Presentation

Presentation at KSE auditorium (only for members and an authorised employee of the members).

Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Prominent Kashmiri leader dies

Prominent Kashmiri leader dies

Renowned Kashmiri leader Ghulam Ahmad Jarrah, father-in-law of intellectual late Professor Waris Mir and grandfather of Journalist Hamid Mir, died here on Friday. His Namaz-e-Janaza will be held on Saturday (December 25) at 3 pm at Imam Sahib. After migra
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Cross Transactions

Cross Transactions

Cross transactions between client to client reported on Friday (December 24, 2004).

Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Post-flood meeting to review rehabilitation work on December 28

Post-flood meeting to review rehabilitation work on December 28

The post-flood meeting of the various government agencies will be held at General Head Quarter (GHQ) on December 28 to review the progress of work on the damages caused by the flood last summer. An official source told Business Recorder here on Fri
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
BOARD MEETINGS

BOARD MEETINGS

Board Meetings of Companies listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange.

Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
USAID and cotton growers meet

USAID and cotton growers meet

The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (Smeda) in collaboration with the Multan Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MCCI) has arranged a meeting of USAID with cotton growers, ginners and representatives of the pesticide and fertiliser sectors.
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Board meetings in progress

Board meetings in progress

Board Meetings in Progress of Companies listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange.

Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
Wednesday's near miss was second in PIA history

Wednesday's near miss was second in PIA history

The near miss between Pakistan International Airlines aircraft and that of Air Blue over Rahim Yar Khan on Wednesday was not the first incident of an averted catastrophe by vigilant crews but second in PIA's history. The first near miss also occurred near
Published 25 Dec, 2004 12:00am
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