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Pakistan State Oil: Rs. 206.89 billion (US$720 million) Karachi: Petroleum [2] 17: Standard Chartered Pakistan: Rs. 205.19 billion (US$710 million) Karachi: Banking [2] 18: Systems Limited: Rs. 181.10 billion (US$630 million) Lahore: Information technology [2] 19: Pakistan Oilfields Limited: Rs. 179.29 billion (US$620 million) Rawalpindi ...
According to the Economic complexity index, Pakistan is the 67th largest export economy in the world and the 106th most complex economy. [10] During the fiscal year 2015–16, Pakistan's exports stood at US$20.81 billion and imports at US$44.76 billion, resulting in a negative trade balance of US$23.96 billion. [11]
This list charts the most successful Pakistani films screened at cinemas in Pakistan and overseas. Pakistani films generate income from several revenue streams including box office sales (admissions), theatrical exhibitions, television broadcast rights and merchandising. See List of highest-grossing films in Pakistan for domestic gross figures.
Pakistan, which had almost no large industrial units at the time of partition in 1947, now has a fairly broad industrial base, and manufacturing accounts for about 17 percent of GDP. Cotton textile production is the single most important industry, accounting for about 19 percent of large-scale industrial employment.
In the first four years of the twenty-first century, Pakistan's KSE 100 Index was declared the best-performing stock market index in the world by the international magazine "Business Week". [ 46 ] [ citation needed ] The stock market capitalization of listed companies in Pakistan was valued at $5,937 million in 2005 by the World Bank . [ 47 ]
Sadruddin Hashwani was born in 1940 in Karachi, Sind, British India into a Khoja Isma'ili family. [1] Hashwanis had migrated with the third Ismaili Imam Agha Khan from Persia in the early 1900s and settled in Lasbela, Balochistan.
In line with its status as a major port and the country's largest metropolis, it accounts for most of Pakistan's revenue generation. According to the Pakistan Federal Board of Revenue's 2006-2007 year-book, tax and customs units in Karachi were responsible for 70.75% of direct taxes, 33.65% of federal excise tax, and 23.38% of domestic sales tax. [3]
Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) was founded as a state corporation under Pakistan's Ministry of Industries and Production in April 1951. It began operations in 1952. [ 1 ] The PIDC board of directors included members of industrial families such as Naseer A. Sheikh of the Colony Group , Adamjee Group , and Syed Amjad Ali of ...