Islamabad, December 19, 2025 – Pakistan’s textile exports growth slowed significantly in November 2025, bringing the overall increase for the first five months (July to November) of the current fiscal year 2025-26 to 2.73%, according to the latest data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).
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Business community demands waiver of demurrage, detention charges after strike
Karachi, December 18, 2025 – The business community of Karachi has urged the federal government to waive demurrage and detention charges accrued during the recent nationwide goods transporters’ strike that lasted from December 8 to 17, 2025. The strike brought cargo movement at Karachi Port, Port Qasim, and associated terminals to a near-complete halt, leaving import and export consignments stranded and imposing heavy financial burdens on traders and industrialists.
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ABAD threatens shutdown, sit-in over rising extortion and insecurity in Karachi
Karachi, December 17, 2025 — The Association of Builders and Developers (ABAD) on Wednesday issued a one-month ultimatum to the government, warning of a citywide shutdown of construction activities and protest sit-ins if rising incidents of extortion and kidnapping for ransom are not curbed by January 15, 2026.
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Goods transporters call off strike after successful talks with government
Karachi, December 17, 2025 — Pakistan’s goods transporters on Wednesday ended their week-long wheel jam strike after successful negotiations with the government, following acceptance of key demands aimed at easing cargo movement across major ports and highways.
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Government initiates lithium-ion battery policy to boost local manufacturing
Islamabad, December 17, 2025: The Government of Pakistan has launched efforts to formulate a comprehensive lithium-ion battery policy aimed at promoting domestic production and reducing import dependence. The initiative was discussed in a high-level meeting chaired by Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Industries and Production, Haroon Akhtar Khan, on Wednesday.
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Competition tribunal dismisses appeals, allows penalty recovery in two cases
Islamabad, December 16, 2025 — The Competition Appellate Tribunal (CAT) has rejected appeals in two separate cases, clearing the way for the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) to proceed with recovery of penalties imposed for violations of the Competition Act, 2010.
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Business community demands urgent resolution to transporters’ strike
Karachi, December 16, 2025 — Pakistan’s business and industrial community has called on the government for an immediate and decisive solution to the ongoing transporters’ strike, warning that prolonged disruption is inflicting massive losses on trade, industry and the national economy.
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Minister dispatches delegation to resolve goods transporters’ strike
Islamabad, December 15, 2025 — Federal Minister for Communications Abdul Aleem Khan has directed a high-level delegation to engage with the Pakistan Goods Transport Alliance (PGTA) in a bid to resolve the ongoing goods transporters’ strike, which has entered its eighth consecutive day and is disrupting economic activity across the country.
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Industry rejects nominal policy rate cut, demands aggressive SBP action
Karachi, December 15, 2025 — Pakistan’s business and industrial community has strongly rejected the State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) decision to reduce the policy rate by only 50 basis points, calling the move inadequate and out of sync with economic realities.
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Tribunal reduces penalty to Rs25 million in poultry cartel case
Islamabad, December 15, 2025 — The Competition Appellate Tribunal (CAT) on Monday upheld the ruling of the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) in a long-running cartelization case involving the Pakistan Poultry Association (PPA), while reducing the imposed penalty from Rs50 million to Rs25 million.
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