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ISLAMABAD: A ministerial meeting on cotton cultivation decided on Wednesday to encourage the companies providing seed technology to introduce their cotton seeds in Pakistan and stressed the need for adopting measures to protect the farmers from fake seeds. The meeting, chaired by National Food Security Minister Tariq Bashir Cheema, was …

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Finance Aisha Ghaus Pasha on Wednesday said the current account deficit had reached $17 billion in the last financial year. “The current account deficit increased in the last year and we faced this situation,” she told the Senate Standing Committee on Finance. She added that …

ISLAMBAD: In total disregard for the evolving flood catastrophe, the government has included four dozen new projects worth Rs78 billion in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) seemingly to appease the coalition partners and diverted Rs23 billion to finance these schemes. The PML-N-led coalition government rushed through the approval process …

Electricity supply to 46 grid stations among the 81 affected by floods had been restored, a statement issued by the Prime Minister Office revealed on Saturday. The restoration work was underway on the orders of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who has instructed all the officers of the power division to …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Saturday announced that all voice calls in flood-hit areas across Pakistan will now be free for consumers. The PTA statement added that Cellular Mobile Operators (CMO) have decided to offer free-of-cost voice calls to facilitate flood victims. “CMOs will provide free voice calls …

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday said that Pakistan wanted to forge closer economic and trade linkages with the United States, a statement issued by Foreign Office stated. He expressed these views while meeting senior Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly’s session on …

KARACHI: He also said a variant found in neighbouring India, which has seen a massive surge of cases in recent weeks, had not been detected in Pakistan yet, but that was because they did not have the kits needed to detect the variant, named B.1.617. Chaudhry said there was a …