ISLAMABAD: Just days after challenging the dismissal of his intra-court appeal by the Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench that upheld the single bench ruling to allow Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Sardar Dost Mohammad Mazari to preside over the provincial assembly session on April 16 and elect chief minister, Punjab …
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ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan’s exports to Afghanistan saw a deeper drop since the Taliban took control of Kabul in August 2021, the government on Tuesday took a major decision to allow trade of all products to Kabul in the rupee via land routes owing to the non-availability of tradable currency through …
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IT cannot be easy to be finance minister in times like these, with friend and foe alike gunning for you over difficult decisions that you were forced to take in the greater national interest. This is the sorry predicament Miftah Ismail finds himself in at the moment, merely two and …
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ISLAMABAD: Keeping in view the prevailing situation in the country, the government has planned to expand the scope of the social safety net Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and increase the number of beneficiaries to 10 million, said Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Welfare Shazia Marri. The minister …
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The saga of Dua Zehra, a Karachi girl who was reported kidnapped in April and later discovered to have purportedly eloped in Punjab, has fuelled intense public interest. The alleged abduction and elopement of the girl — whose parents insist is a minor — led to an uproar on social …
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Solar panels generally have a life of 25 years so they may be lighting up your toddler’s wedding functions. Fatima S Attarwala Published July 4, 2022 – Updated about 2 hours ago Did the world turn black when you saw your latest electricity bill? If so, you are not alone. The heat demands air conditioning, …
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ISLAMABAD: As the Covid-19 positivity rate hits insane levels in some cities, government officials blame a decline in testing for skewed figures. They believe that both citizens and the health authorities have started taking the pandemic “as a normal disease” thanks to pandemic fatigue, an expected and natural response to …
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Can PML-N, the leading party of the ruling coalition, motivate and mobilise its political base of traders and industrialists to rise, take risks and surprise the nation by investing more than before against odds to prove mastery of their skills and to show their trust in democracy and the future …
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The ‘International Monetary Fund-dictated’ budget 2022-23 has come into force after the parliament passed it without much ado and the president has signed the finance bill into law. The Rs9.579 trillion annual federal budget carried an unprecedented fiscal adjustment of more than Rs1.75tr or 2.2 per cent of GDP in …
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PAKISTAN has planned the next (digital) census in October 2022 after an inter-censal interval of just five years — instead of the conventional 10 years followed by other countries — and after missing the 2001 and 2011 censuses. The last census, conducted in 2017, was based on the traditional methodology …
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