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Dewan group to assemble Kia vehicles

Dewan Farooque Motors Ltd said on Monday it’s signed a technology transfer agreement with Kia Corporation of the Republic of Korea for the production/assembly of vehicles. The announcement resulted in an increase in the automaker’s stock by 2.24 per cent from the preceding day to Rs11.41, even though the company is on the exchange’s defaulter counter. The company made a net loss of Rs105 mil

TPL REIT gets go-ahead for Rs200bn project

A subsidiary of TPL REIT Management Company Ltd has received approval for a master plan to build a gated residential community on 40 acres in Korangi Creek at an estimated cost of “more than Rs200 billion”. The project will be built under the country’s first infrastructure-based real estate investment trust (REIT), which operates like any other property-owning company but offers more transparen

FPCCI sees 10-year extension in GSP+

The business community representatives have claimed that Pakistan will soon have a 10-year extension in the GSP+ status starting from Jan 1, 2024 to December 2034, as the EU has agreed to do so. They have criticised the federal government and the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) for allowing the import of finished products from China and India which is disastrous for the local pharm

More than half of all healthcare spending ‘out of pocket’

The share of people paying for healthcare expenses on their own, or out of pocket (OOP) made up 52.8 percent of the total health expenditure in 2019-20, up slightly went from 51.7pc in 2017-18, the National Health Account estimates released on Monday indicated. Moreover, people spent more than the government on healthcare, around Rs775.412 billion, as against Rs468.228bn spent by the federal, p

Every country can import Russian oil like India, says US

As Russia became India’s top oil supplier last month, the US State Department said on Monday that the United States “does not currently have” sanctions on Russian energy exports to other countries. The Indian media reported earlier in the day that Russia had surpassed traditional sellers Saudi Arabia and Iraq in exporting oil to India. The report noted that India remained non-committal on a