Mr. Ghazanfar Bilour, President FPCCI and Syed Mazhar Ali Nasir SVP-FPCCI congratulated Dr. Shamshad Akhtar on her appointment as Caretaker Minister and stated that the appointment reflect her vast experience, expertise and tireless services in the area ranges from macroeconomic policy management to sector specific policies, legal and regulatory frameworks development and implementation.

Mr. Zhang Baozhong, Chairman of China Overseas Ports Holding Company (COPHC) on special invitation of Mr. Tariq Haleem, Vice President of FPCCI visited Federation House and informed FPCCI members about the development of Gwadar Port and Free Economic Zone Projects. On this occasion, Tariq Haleem, Vice President of FPCCI informed that the visit of COPHC to FPCCI is a follow-up of MoU signed between FPCCI and COPHC on March 07, 2018.

Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) Pakistan has started a campaign of plantation to make the city of Karachi cool and pollution free on World Environment Day – June 5, 2018 by planting trees of Neem, which has medicinal properties, at its headquarters – Al-Majeed, Hamdard Centre, Nazimabad, Karachi by its Managing Director and CEO, Usama Qureshi; Chairman, Karachi Central District Council, Rehan Qureshi; Director General, Hamdard Foundation, Farruk hI mdad, Hamdard’s Director of Research and Development, Prof.

The higher hierarchy of Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI) including Ghazanfar Bilour, President; Syed Mazhar Ali Nasir, Sr. Vice President and Vice Presidents of FPCCI; Mr. S.M. Muneer, Former Chief Executive TDAP and Former President of FPCCI and Iftikhar Ali Malik, Sr.

A faculty member of Usman Institute of Technology (UIT) Areeb Ahmed has won the IEEE best research paper award in communications (Second Prize) at the 26th IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference. The event was held at Altin Yonus Resort in Izmir, Turkey on May 2.

Bank Alfalah and Telenor Microfinance Bank held a ceremony in Karachi to launch a payment facilitator relationship that provides existing and potential Telenor Microfinance Bank customers with the opportunity to transact on Bank Alfalah’s advanced payment gateway. The ceremony was attended by the CEOs and senior management of both organizations.

Marking World Environment Day, DP World’s Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza) has launched the UAE’s first green storage and warehouse facilities in Dubai, helping business to reduce their carbon footprint. The global trade enabler’s sustainable, long term growth is aligned with the United Nation’s ninth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation.

All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association has released data for the month of May, 2018.With fifteen days of fasting falling in May, Cement consumption was slightly affected as domestic despatches posted modest growth of 2.40 percent; lowest this fiscal. Exports however, grew by a healthy 41.88 percent boosting overall growth to 5.69 percent.

Governor Sindh Mr. Mohammad Zubair has said that every Pakistani child has a right to healthy nutrition, and Public and Private sector need to play their roles in countering the challenge of malnutrition amongst children. This he said while speaking at the launch of a sustainability campaign “Strong Banega Pakistan” on World Milk Day  by Engro Foods Limited (EFL) at Governor House.

National Foods Limited has been a pioneer in creating innovative products that are integral to the daily lives of millions of consumers across Pakistan. Cementing its position as an expert in food, National Foods works with the best in the industry and in keeping up with this tradition of trust, love and reliance, a partnership has been entered into with the highly-talented winner of ‘Master Chef’ Pakistan – Ms.

Having assumed the charge of DGCAA, Mr. Hassan Baig visited Islamabad International Airport .He inspected different areas and facilities of Airport. He said that cleanliness of all areas of airport should be ensured at any cost. He also emphasized that Airport management should facilitate and help Passengers.

Telenor Pakistan has developed an industry-first customer integration labatits campus – 345. Greater integration of customer feedback and suggestions for constant enhancement of its products and services through its new Customer Integration Lab will reinforce Telenor Pakistan’s positioning as one of the country’s most customer centric businesses.

Petron in chief of Korangi Association of Trade&Industry (KATI) SM Muneer, President Tariq Malik, SVP Salman Aslam and VP Junaid Naqi offer their congratulations to caretaker Chief Minister Sindh former chief secretary Fazl Ur Rehman on his appointment for the slot. 

Federal Commerce Secretary Mohammad Younus Dagha has performed the groundbreaking ceremony for expanding and re-modeling of much-needed Karachi Expo Centre (KEC) under the ‘Emerging Pakistan’ initiative. It is estimated to cost Rs 8 billon and is being planned by the Federal Ministry of Commerce and Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP).

President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PBIF), President AKIA, Senior Vice Chairman of the Businessmen Panel of FPCCI and former provincial minister Mian Zahid Hussain on Friday said that in accordance to the demand of local people the merger of FATA and PATA with KP is a bold and marvellous step of civil and military leadership, which will help resolution of problems of the area and residents thereof.