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Metro Pakistan, formerly known as Metro-Habib and Makro Habib, is a Pakistani supermarket chain stores operator based in Lahore. [2] It is a subsidiary of German chain Metro Cash & Carry and Thal Limited. Metro opened its first store in 2007. [3] It operates 10 supermarkets, in total, in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Faisalabad, and Multan. [4]
Makro had also expanded to the United States in the mid-1980s. In 1989, Kmart bought the US locations, [2] and converted most of them to Pace Warehouse in 1990. Makro expanded to Asia with its first store in Thailand in 1989. Operating as Siam Makro, the company is a joint venture between Charoen Pokphand and SHV Holdings. In 1994, Siam Makro ...
Pakistan and its two largest city economies. Source: [1] As of 2019, Lahore had an estimated GDP of $84 billion. [2] [3] As of 2008, the city's gross domestic product (GDP) by purchasing power parity (PPP) was estimated at $40 billion (projected to be $102 billion by the year 2025, with a slightly higher growth rate of 5.6% per annum, as compared to Karachi's 5.5%).
Karachi: Banking [2] 7: Colgate-Palmolive Pakistan: Rs. 364.96 billion (US$1.3 billion) Karachi: Fast-moving consumer goods [2] 8: Pakistan Tobacco Company: Rs. 340.26 billion (US$1.2 billion) Islamabad: Tobacco [2] 9: Nestlé Pakistan: Rs. 337.85 billion (US$1.2 billion) Lahore: Fast-moving consumer goods [2] 10: MCB Bank: Rs. 333.36 billion ...
As of the 2023 Census, there are two megacities, ten million-plus cities, in Pakistan. 128 cities having a population of 100,000 or more. Of these 128 cities, 81 are located in the country's most populous province, Punjab , 23 in Sindh , 13 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , 8 in Balochistan , two in Azad Kashmir , and one is the Islamabad Capital ...
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]
Lahore, Karachi, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta 2011 Current/political 15 Daily Sarhad (Urdu: سرحد) Peshawar 1970 16 Business Recorder: English Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore 1965 Pakistan's first financial newspaper 17 Daily Times: Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad 2002 18 Dawn [5] Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore 1947 Founded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah: 19
This is a list of metropolitan areas in Pakistan. These metropolitan areas are home to about 20% of the population or about 46 million Pakistanis. Every Pakistani city with a population of 500,000 or more is considered a metropolitan area. This list is according to the 2017 Census of Pakistan. [1] [2] [3]