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Islamabad: We have great pleasure in announcing the start of the MITEFP-OPEN Business Acceleration Program (BAP-2011). BAP-2007, BAP-2008, BAP-2009 and BAP-2010 were huge successes and the participating teams reported that they benefited tremendously from participating in BAP-2007, BAP-2008 and BAP-2009 and BAP-2010. MITEFP-OPEN BAP now in its fifth year, has …
Read More »Farzana Raja Sings MoU for Provision of Scholarship Worth $ 100,000 for Benazir Income Support Programme Beneficiary Families
Islamabad: Pakistan and China here Wednesday signed a cooperative Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance the friendship and exchanges between the people of two countries. The MoU was signed by the Federal Minister and the Chairperson of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Madame Farzana Raja and Secretary General of China …
Read More »Board concerned over delay in release of funds
Islamabad: 59th Meeting of the Board of Administrators of Export Development Fund (EDF) was held under the Chairmanship of Senior Minister for Commerce, Mr. Makhdoom Amin Fahim today. Secretary Commerce, Mr. Zafar Mehmood was also present at the meeting. There were 23 agenda items for the meetings. The board expressed …
Read More »JCR-VIS Reaffirms Ratings of Silk Bank Limited
Karachi: JCR-VIS has reaffirmed the entity ratings of Silk Bank Limited (SBL) at ‘A-/A-2’ (Single A Minus/A-Two). Due to unsubscribed rights issue of Rs. 2.5b pertaining to Bank Muscat, previously a major shareholder in the bank, Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) of SBL has remained below the international benchmark for commercial …
Read More »Federal Board of Revenue Employees’ Representative Groups Meet Members’ Administrative Committee
Islamabad: A special delegation of various Representative Groups of FBR employees comprising Mr. Rehmat Ali Tarar, Ch. Asif Iqbal Cheema, Saleem Tariq Butt, Shafqat Hussain Cheema, Ch. Akram, Arif Aziz and Malik Naseer called on the Members’ Administrative Committee today and discussed issues like de-freezing of Special Allowance. The delegation …
Read More »Malaysia-Pakistan Business Council funds return home of 10 Pakistanis
Islamabad: Ten Pakistanis detained in Malaysia for immigration violations are set to celebrate the upcoming Eid ul Fitar with their families in Pakistan following an offer by the Malaysia-Pakistan Business Council to fund the cost of their return home, says a press release received here today from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. …
Read More »We are carrying out the mission of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto to make Pakistan a welfare state, says Madam Farzana Raja
Rawalpindi: Federal Minister and Chairperson Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Madam Farzana Raja has said that BISP is striving to make Pakistan a welfare state which was mission of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. While paying homage to Shaheed Benazir Bhutto, she said that the great daughter of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali …
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