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Govt ups rates of food items Prices of flour, sugar and ghee at Utility Stores jacked up PHOTO: FILE The government has increased the prices of flour, sugar and ghee at Utility Stores. The rates of 20 kg and 10 kg bags of wheat flour have been increased by Rs150 and Rs75, respectively. After the surge, the new price of a 20 kg bag of flour is Rs950 against the earlier rate of Rs800. A 10 kg bag of flour would now cost Rs475 per kg against the old price of Rs400. The price of sugar has been jacked up by Rs17 per kg.  The new price of sugar is Rs85 per kg against the earlier rate of Rs68 per ...

Vessel with 33,000 tonnes of imported sugar arrives at Karachi port test KARACHI: A vessel carrying 33,000 tonnes of sugar imported by the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) arrived at Karachi Port Trust (KPT) on Tuesday, ARY News reported. An official of the TCP said here on Tuesday that a vessel with 33,000 metric ton of sugar docked at the outer anchorage of Port Qasim here. The vessel will be berthed on Tuesday morning and the unloading will start immediately. The TCP spokesperson said imported sugar will be handed over to Utility Stores Corporation. The TCP official further stated tha...

July 27, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee was surprised on putting every expenditure made by the federal ministries in the name of Corona Relief Package as it was found that subsidies on Utility Stores and even the funding for the Panaghas were made from the Corona relief package of over Rs1,240 billion. The Public Accounts Committee also asked to submit the details of international aid received for Covid-19 from the Economic Affairs Division and also sought in-camera briefing on the purchase of corona vaccine from the Ministry of National Health Services and National Disaster M...

July 27, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee was surprised on putting every expenditure made by the federal ministries in the name of Corona Relief Package as it was found that subsidies on Utility Stores and even the funding for the Panaghas were made from the Corona relief package of over Rs1,240 billion. The Public Accounts Committee also asked to submit the details of international aid received for Covid-19 from the Economic Affairs Division and also sought in-camera briefing on the purchase of corona vaccine from the Ministry of National Health Services and National Disaster M...

July 18, 2021 LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) President and Opposition Leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif has said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has confessed to historic inflation by increasing the prices of essential items at the Utility Stores. In a statement, issued here on Saturday, Shehbaz said why the government would increase the price of necessary items at stores under its own control if the country would have not been going through hyperinflation. He said the government that had put Pakistanis through hell for the past three years could only dece...