ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh is chairing inaugural meeting of the 10th NFC on Thursday. APP
ISLAMABAD: With two smaller provinces Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan pitching demands for higher resources to address their peculiar deprivations, the inaugural meeting of the 10th National Finance Commission (NFC) on Thursday constituted six sub-groups to prepare sectoral recommendations.
Presided over by Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, the meeting did not set a schedule for future meetings or deadlines for completion of studies on six thematic topics and agreed to hold discussions in future if certain terms of reference (TORs) of the NFC were outside its constitutional mandate.
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6 sub-groups formed in first meeting of 10th NFC - Newspaper
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Scuffles mar Malir’s PS-88 by-poll in Karachi
PTI’s Haleem Adil Sheikh detained after ECP expels him from constituency
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KARACHI:
Chaos ensued at the Ghulam Hussain Jhokio polling station in Malir’s PS-88 constituency on Tuesday as a scuffle broke out between the workers of Pakistan Peoples Party, which leads the government in Sindh, and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf during the by-polls.
In a flagrant violation of the Election Commission of Pakistan’s code of conduct armed guards of both parties fired shots in the air undeterred by the presence of police and Sindh Rangers personnel. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf lawmaker Haleem Adil Shaikh was subsequently expelled by the ECP from the PS-88 constituency and detained by the police