PM Imran directs to ensure sufficient availability of essential items
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He directed all provincial chief secretaries to ensure implementation on the price list
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Prime Minster Imran Khan on Wednesday directed administration of Utility Stores Corporation to ensure sufficient availability of essential items.
Chairing a weekly review meeting in Islamabad on Wednesday regarding prices of essential items and their availability across Pakistan, he said that ensuring availability of essential items on affordable rates is top priority of the government.
The prime minister advised the Ministry of National Food Security to complete the estimates of kitchen items like wheat and sugar, while keeping future needs of the country at the earliest so that advance arrangements can be ensured.
National
January 30, 2021
KARACHI/ LAHORE: Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has claimed that Pakistan survived the global economic meltdown in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic much better than the rest of the world.
Talking in Geo News programme Aaj Shazeb Khanzada Kay Sath , he said the global economy suffered 8-fold more damages than that of Pakistan. Shaikh said Pakistan’s GDP growth rate was negative 0.5percent when we were emerging from the first wave of the pandemic, compared to the global growth rate of negative four percent. The world recognises that Pakistan’s economy absorbed the global shocks and performed better, the finance minister claimed. Economies of several countries continue to remain in the woods, he said.
National
January 29, 2021
KARACHI/ LAHORE: Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has claimed that Pakistan survived the global economic meltdown in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic much better than the rest of the world.
He said the global economy suffered 8-fold more damages than that of Pakistan. Shaikh said Pakistan’s GDP growth rate was negative 0.5percent when we were emerging from the first wave of the pandemic, compared to the global growth rate of negative four percent. The world recognises that Pakistan’s economy absorbed the global shocks and performed better, the finance minister claimed. Economies of several countries continue to remain in the woods, he said.
National
January 29, 2021
KARACHI/ LAHORE: Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has claimed that Pakistan survived the global economic meltdown in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic much better than the rest of the world.
Talking in Geo News programme Aaj Shazeb Khanzada Kay Sath on Thursday night, he said the global economy suffered 8-fold more damages than that of Pakistan.
Shaikh said Pakistan’s GDP growth rate was negative 0.5percent when we were emerging from the first wave of the pandemic, compared to the global growth rate of negative four percent. The world recognises that Pakistan’s economy absorbed the global shocks and performed better, the finance minister claimed. Economies of several countries continue to remain in the woods, he said.
Rs500m per head for MPs
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January 28, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Wednesday urged the lawmakers from treasury benches to focus more on development projects and success of Ehsaas programme.
The premier said Karachi could not be left at the mercy of the provincial government. He said whether the provincial government supports it or not, the Centre will fulfil its responsibility. He observed this while presiding over a meeting of the parliamentary party of the PTI and coalition parties.
In the meeting, Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh gave a briefing on loans and economic situation while, Minister for Planning Asad Umar gave a briefing on Karachi Development Plan. With the much-debated Senate elections not far away, the PTI members started remembering Jahangir Tareen, former PTI secretary general.