• Surplus budget proposes highest development spending of Rs685bn • Rs421.6bn set aside for school education • Rs470bn for health LAHORE: In line with the fiscally expansionary budgets presented by Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the coalition government in Punjab, led by the PML-N, also proposed a budget that seeks to significantly …
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LAHORE: The Governor House this year would get Rs589 million, up from Rs483 million last year, which represents a 21 percent increase in potential expenditures of the office of the provincial constitutional head. The Governor House Secretariat was allocated Rs542 million last year, but it spent Rs483 million only – …
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LAHORE: The Chief Minister Secretariat received 11.62pc less allocation for the next year as the budget spared Rs806m – or Rs21m a day – against the revised expenditure of Rs912m last year. Last year, the secretariat was allotted Rs781m in the last budget, but it ended up spending Rs912m – …
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Two parallel budget sessions are set to be held in Punjab on Wednesday — possibly for the first time — one by the PML-N-led government at Aiwan-i-Iqbal which will be presided over by Deputy Speaker Dost Mohammad Mazari of the PTI, and the other at the Punjab Assembly under Speaker …
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PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa finance minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra on Tuesday said his government would struggle to manage the payment of salary to its employees in tribal districts following the centre’s decision to cap the region’s current budget for the next fiscal. “It will be a challenge for us to fund …
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BTS, the South Korean band that spearheaded a global K-pop craze, is taking a break as a group to work on solo projects, the singers announced on Tuesday. Band member RM, speaking at the annual FESTA dinner that celebrates the group’s founding, said he had been feeling a need to …
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Ambassador Masood Khan, Islamabad’s ambassador in Washington, has met US President Joe Biden on his visit to the White House where the two discussed building a “strong basis for moving Pakistan-US ties forward”. According to a press release issued by the Pakistan Embassy in the US, Khan visited the White …
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Netflix’s most-watched series is no longer just a fictitious television show after the streaming service greenlit “its biggest reality competition ever” called Squid Game: The Challenge. Unlike the series where the stakes are life or death, the worst possible fate in this 456 player competition will be leaving without the $4.56 …
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HAS anger in Muslim countries against hate-spewing members of the BJP done Indian Muslims a favour? The answer lies in the running news story. Read it carefully. “Over 300 people have been arrested from eight districts of Uttar Pradesh so far by the police in connection with Friday’s violence during protests against …
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IT is that time of the year. When targets, revenues, large-scale manufacturing, taxes and baselines can be heard all around. The air in the studios, talk shows and in drawing rooms echoes with Arabs, billions and trillions, with earnest discussions about their significance. Each party has their own set of …
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