Increase transmission network voltage may reduce electric losses in Pakistan, says Chinese expert, according to a report published by China Economic Net. China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative, has solved the electricity shortage problem in Pakistan ...

The federal government will present budget 2021-22 on June 11 link with an outlay size of around Rs8,000 billion. As the total size of the economy now stands at Rs52,057 billion, the federal government is to set the economic growth target of 4.8 percent for FY22. In FY22, the government would ...

Apparently, in agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the government is setting inflation, economic growth and fiscal and core deficit targets for the next financial year, following a change in the economic team and encouraging macroeconomic indicators. According to the report, a ...

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation Dr. Sania Nishtar says over 7 million needy population of Pakistan are being looked after under ‘Ehsaas Kafalat Program’. Talking to private news channel, she said ‘Ehsaas Payment System’ will be fully ...

The Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet has approved a proposal of Power Division regarding the release of subsidy for the supply of 100 percent RLNG to export oriented industry for the month of March last year. The meeting presided over by the Federal Minister for Finance Shaukat ...

RAWALPINDI – The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Wednesday summoned Punjab Minister Mian Aslam Iqbal and former provincial minister Samiullah Chaudhry in connection with the ongoing investigation into the sugar scam. Both ruling party leaders have been directed to appear before ...

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday in Islamabad launched the Advisory Portal of the National Security Division. According to the details, Imran Khan attended the inaugural session of National Security Dialogue as the Chief Guest. Speaking on the occasion, Prime Minister Imran Khan said that ...

*ISLAMABAD: In a bid to provide maximum relief to vulnerable segments of the society,** Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday directed his economic team to decrease the burden of indirect taxes on the poor. * Presiding over a meeting of the economic team in Islamabad today, PM Imran Khan said that ...

WASHINGTON — In the most ambitious U.S. effort to stave off the worst of climate change, President Joe Biden signed executive orders Wednesday to transform the nation’s heavily fossil-fuel-powered economy into a clean-burning one, pausing oil and gas leasing on federal land and targeting ...

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development (OP&HRD) Sayed Zulfikar Abbas Bukhari Monday exhorted the expatriates to refrain from investing in the housing societies, selling land without obtaining No Objection Certificates (NOCs) ...