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LAHORE: Former Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Khalid Mahmood on Saturday slammed the government and the PCB over forming a high-level committee to recommend if the Pakistan team should go to India to participate in this year’s ICC World Cup. Earlier, Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) Ehsan Ur Rehman Mazari confirmed that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had formed a committee …

A meeting to resolve the impasse regarding elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is currently under way at the Parliament House in Islamabad between the government and the opposition PTI. A Dawn.com correspondent confirmed that talks between the Imran Khan-led opposition party and members of the ruling coalition were under way on Thursday evening inside Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani’s chamber. The negotiations …

ISLAMABAD: The federal government pharmaceutical firms will hold talks on overcoming the shortage of medicines and the opening of letters of credit (LCs) for the imports of raw materials, citing sources. Sources told ARY News that an important meeting will be held between the pharmaceutical firms and the federal government in Karachi today. The Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association chairman Farooq …

The government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday began discussions on the country’s economic and fiscal policies and the reforms required to complete the much-delayed ninth review of a $7 billion loan programme. A delegation of the international money lender led by IMF Mission Chief Nathan Porter held a meeting with Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and other officials at the …

ISLAMABAD: The talks between the government and the PTI remained shrouded in confusion as the two sides maintained polar opposite stances on early elections amid reports of a ‘backdoor’ contact. Several private TV channels on Friday reported that talks between the two sides have begun as PTI Chairman Imran Khan and the government have sent ‘one representative each’ to President …

The Federal government has agreed to raise the price of the Panadol extra tablet to Rs2.75 while the price for the plain Panadol tablet and Paracetamol has been reduced to Rs117.60.  A session on medicine, chaired by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, was held in Islamabad on Wednesday. The FM discussed the prices with officials of drug producers. The producer and …

Federal Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal, along with representatives of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the Pakistan Army on Saturday briefed the nation about the ongoing rescue and relief efforts underway across the country in the face of catastrophic floods as Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar expressed resolve to deploy all available …

Federal ministers and PTI leaders blamed each other on Tuesday in the aftermath of the killing of a policeman who was gunned down during a raid in Lahore against people “taking the law into their own hands” last night. Kamal Ahmad, a police constable, was killed during an operation in Lahore’s Model Town locality last night after an unidentified person …

ISLAMABAD: Amid hue and cry over financial challenges and rising receivables, the government and the oil industry failed on Wednesday to finalise a mechanism for payment of price differential claims arising out of recent price cuts announced by Prime Minister Imran Khan, raising worries over product shortages. The oil industry and relevant government stakeholders had been raising the alarm over disruptions in …

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided in principle to implement the Textile and Apparel Policy 2020-25 after reaching consensus among stakeholders over cash subsidy for lower utility rates with the aim to boost production and exports of value-added textile products. A formal decision in this regard was taken in the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet. The policy is expected …