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		<title>Zardari urges Japanese Business community to invest in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/02/23/zardari-urges-japanese-business-community-to-invest-in-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/02/23/zardari-urges-japanese-business-community-to-invest-in-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mian Ahsan Liaqat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics & Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asif Ali Zardari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Direct Investment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo: President Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday called on the Emperor of Japan, had a luncheon meeting with selected members of Japan-Pakistan Parliamentarian’s Friendship League and held separate meetings with leading business conglomerates including the President ...]]></description>
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		<title>PM welcomes Investment Conference on Pakistan to be held in Norway</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/02/11/pm-welcomes-investment-conference-on-pakistan-to-be-held-in-norway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/02/11/pm-welcomes-investment-conference-on-pakistan-to-be-held-in-norway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mian Ahsan Liaqat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Direct Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telenor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade Development Authority of Pakistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Islamabad: Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani reiterated that Pakistan is looking for trade with the world to be able to achieve economic self reliance. Pakistan, he said, welcomes foreign investment in various sectors and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign direct investment in Pakistan’s telecom sector slips 50pc</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2010/12/18/foreign-direct-investment-in-pakistans-telecom-sector-slips-50pc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2010/12/18/foreign-direct-investment-in-pakistans-telecom-sector-slips-50pc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noreen Gill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics & Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Direct Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Mobile Equipment Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobilink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan Telecom Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan Telecommunication Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ufone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warid telecom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zong]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE: The foreign direct investment (FDI) in Pakistan’s telecom sector has fallen by more than 50 per cent this year as compared to the corresponding period, according to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s annual report 2009-10. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Four Pakistani economic indicators in the red</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2010/12/10/four-pakistani-economic-indicators-in-the-red/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2010/12/10/four-pakistani-economic-indicators-in-the-red/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mian Ahsan Liaqat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics & Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Direct Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Four out of eight key economic indicators of Pakistan are in the negative zone during the July-October period of the ongoing fiscal year 2010-11 as compared with the same period last fiscal year. Inflation, ...]]></description>
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		<title>‘In Pursuit of a Pakistani Deng Xiaopeng; The Need to Learn, Not Take, From China’</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/05/02/in-pursuit-of-a-pakistani-deng-xiaopeng-the-need-to-learn-not-take-from-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/05/02/in-pursuit-of-a-pakistani-deng-xiaopeng-the-need-to-learn-not-take-from-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 23:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellahi Haroon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pak Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asif Ali Zardari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feudal system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Direct Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terror attacks Mumbai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan in the past 5 decades has greatly benefited from the astronomical rise of China’s re-entry in the corridors of world power.  China has proven to be Pakistan’s time-tested friend and the two countries’ ...]]></description>
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		<title>No progress without good governance: PM</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/02/13/no-progress-without-good-governance-pm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/02/13/no-progress-without-good-governance-pm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nabeel Malik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pak Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Direct Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pak-times.com/?p=7653</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Prime Minster Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that no country could make progress without good governance as this is the key to success and without observing these norms it is not possible to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Better alternatives needed for meeting macroeconomic challenges</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/02/12/better-alternatives-needed-for-meeting-macroeconomic-challenges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/02/12/better-alternatives-needed-for-meeting-macroeconomic-challenges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mian Ahsan Liaqat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics & Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian Development Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Direct Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public private partnership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: The Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali has called for better alternatives to debt to ease Pakistan ’s fiscal problems and meeting macroeconomic challenges being faced by the country. He expressed these ...]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysia to channel Trade, Investment to Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/02/10/malaysia-to-channel-trade-investment-to-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/02/10/malaysia-to-channel-trade-investment-to-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mian Ahsan Liaqat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics & Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[construction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Direct Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nirmala Deshpande]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISMAABAD: Malaysian government agency “The Malaysia’s Professional Services Development Corporation (PSDC)” will channel the Malaysian trade, investment and services to Pakistan. According to statement, received from Pakistan High Commission Malaysia, PSDC’ Manager S. Arokiadass on ...]]></description>
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		<title>ECC allows import of 0.2 million tonnes refined sugar</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/02/03/ecc-allows-import-of-02-million-tonnes-refined-sugar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/02/03/ecc-allows-import-of-02-million-tonnes-refined-sugar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mian Ahsan Liaqat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics & Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Coordination Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FBR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Direct Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) on Tuesday authorised Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) to import 200,000 tonnes of refined sugar to meet an expected shortfall this year. ECC of the Cabinet met under the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sattar for increment in foreign remittances</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/02/03/sattar-for-increment-in-foreign-remittances/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/02/03/sattar-for-increment-in-foreign-remittances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mian Ahsan Liaqat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics & Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Direct Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Overseas Pakistanis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceutical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Bank of Pakistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pak-times.com/?p=7096</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis, Dr. Farooq Sattar has called for introducing new policies to increase foreign remittances from $ 7 billion to $ 15 billion and for the purpose incentives should be given ...]]></description>
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		<title>PM likely to inaugurate Pak-Argentina venture in pharmacy</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2008/12/13/pm-likely-to-inaugurate-pak-argentina-venture-in-pharmacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2008/12/13/pm-likely-to-inaugurate-pak-argentina-venture-in-pharmacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noreen Gill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics & Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNG Kits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Direct Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joint Venture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceutical]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pak-times.com/?p=6300</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani will inaugurate joint venture in pharmaceutical field between Pakistan and Argentina in January 2009. This was stated by the Minister of State for Investment Saleem H. Mandivewalla, here ...]]></description>
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		<title>Efforts for unnatural economic growth brought misfortune</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2008/12/06/efforts-for-unnatural-economic-growth-brought-misfortune/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2008/12/06/efforts-for-unnatural-economic-growth-brought-misfortune/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omer Azam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics & Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dubai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Direct Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan Economy Watch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Pakistan Economy Watch on Saturday said Pakistanis have lost billions of dollars of investments in speculator-oriented Dubai real estate property downturn. Those who lured Pakistanis by showing them golden dreams of rich returns by ...]]></description>
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		<title>Attacks to cripple Indian economy, erode confidence, enhance cost of doing business</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2008/11/29/attacks-to-cripple-indian-economy-erode-confidence-enhance-cost-of-doing-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2008/11/29/attacks-to-cripple-indian-economy-erode-confidence-enhance-cost-of-doing-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omer Azam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Indo-Pak Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Direct Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan Economy Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terror attacks Mumbai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan Economy Watch on Saturday said Mumbai terror attacks are an incident bigger that the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and that of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. India will remain target of homegrown terrorist ...]]></description>
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		<title>Privatization, foreign investments are biggest illusions of the century</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2008/11/25/privatization-foreign-investments-are-biggest-illusions-of-the-century/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2008/11/25/privatization-foreign-investments-are-biggest-illusions-of-the-century/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omer Azam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics & Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Direct Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nationalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan Economy Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Privatisation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Former Secretary General and Minister of State Akram Zaki said on Tuesday privatization and foreign investments are the biggest illusions of the century, it should be banned immediately. He said that we crossed all ...]]></description>
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		<title>President to visit Saudi Arabia to boost trade, investment</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2008/11/02/president-to-visit-saudi-arabia-to-boost-trade-investment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2008/11/02/president-to-visit-saudi-arabia-to-boost-trade-investment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omer Azam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics & Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Direct Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saudi arabia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari will leave for Saudi Arabia Tuesday for holding wide ranging talks with Saudi leadership aimed at expanding trade and economic ties and seeking Saudi support in helping the country confront ...]]></description>
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