ACCA’s global survey about public procurement reveals South Asia respondents want polices that give transparency to the public Karachi,7 December 2020: Governments around the world have faced challenges with public procurement due to the COVID-19 crisis, testing their ability and capacity to react quickly and efficiently to deliver life-saving goods and services to the public, asserts a…
Karachi, June 11, 2020: The FY20(P) GDP growth is estimated at -0.38 percent vs. 1.91 percent last year. In a question to the Finance Minister, he answered that the disparity between the government and IFIs (IMF: -1.5 percent, WB: -2.6 percent) forecasts is due to fluidity of the situation at present. Agriculture sector recorded a…
Karachi, October 23, 2019: K-Electric has awarded the contracts to global technology powerhouse Siemens AG and Chinese construction contractor(s) Harbin Electric for a 900MW Combined Cycle Power Plant and associated grids at Bin Qasim. The contract was signed by Moonis Alvi, CEO, KE; Dr. Keramat Fakhari Executive Vice President, Siemens and Guo Yu, Chairman, Harbin…
Lahore, 8 August 2019: The Pakistan Cricket Board today announced list of central contracts for the 2019-20 season during which the men’s cricket team will play six World Test Championship Tests, three ODIs and nine T20Is. The list has been trimmed from 33 to 19 and the players who have been awarded central contracts are:…
Islamabad, July 15, 2019: The country’s services trade deficit narrowed by 28.22 per cent during the first eleven months of the current fiscal year compared to the corresponding period of last year. The services trade deficit during July-May (2018-19) was recorded at US$3.944 billion against the deficit of US$ 5.496 billion during July-May (2017-18), showing…