Miftah blasts at PTI leadership for trying to obstruct IMF deal
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Miftah Ismail castigated PTI leadership after Shaukat Tarin allegedly asked Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to withdraw from International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) deal. Revelations came to fore in an audio leak where ex-...
Pakistan to face big challenge of food security: Ahsan Iqbal
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal said that country might face a big challenge of food security as rice, banana, onion and other agriculture produces have been badly affected due to recent floods. He s...
Did Shaukat Tarin played role to instigate IMF deal?
ISLAMABAD: PTI leader Shaukat Tarin has allegedly asked Punjab Finance Minister Mohsin Leghari to withdraw from International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) deal, just two days after Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government backtracked from it. KP and Punjab provi...
PTCL Group opens doors of its medical centers for flood affected people
Islamabad: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) Group has opened doors of its medical centres for flood affected people in Swat, Dera Ismail Khan, Sukkur, Mirpurkhas, Larkana, Hyderabad, Malir and Quetta. Centres will operate to facilita...
Flood frauds accumulate over Rs 500 billion windfalls to certain classes in country
KARACHI: The flood fraud in the country is a windfall profit business of more than rupees five hundred billion for various classes of the country including bureaucrats, contractors, politicians, and land grabbers. It was disclosed by Engineer Zafar I...
Miftah Ismail announces 8,000MW solar power project, subsidy on bills
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Miftah Ismail announced to install 8,000 MW solar power project to lessen cost of producing electricity in country besides announcing that government would provide relief to power consumers having bills between 200 to 300...
Adamjee Insurance, Sehat Kahani sign deal for digital health services
KARACHI: Adamjee Insurance announced that it signed an agreement with Sehat Kahani a leading telemedicine platform aiming to provide health care (OPD) services as value added service to its existing and potential Health Insurance subscribers. Collabo...
Meezan Bank, Samba Bank partner with Pak Embassy Bahrain to celebrate RDA success
ISLAMABAD: Meezan Bank and Samba Bank in collaboration with Embassy of Pakistan in Bahrain hosted reception at Gulf Hotel, Manama-Bahrain by inviting prominent Non-Resident Pakistanis and customers to celebrate success of Roshan Digital Account (RDA)...
KATI expresses reservation on Presidential Ordinance of Rs38bln new taxes
KARACHI: President of Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI) Salman Aslam has expressed reservations over imposition of new taxes of 38 billion rupees by a Presidential Ordinance. Whereas, instead of keeping interest rate at 15 percent, it...
Foreign investment never comes in political uncertainty: Ahsan Iqbal
ISLAMABAD: Minister for planning and development Ahsen Iqbal said that foreign investment will not come until day of Judgment in poltical uncertainty and confrontation. We have to become economic nation, he said and political stability and continuati...
