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ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly was informed on Friday that after removal of the names of over 800,000 “ineligible” beneficiaries from the list of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) over 4.4 million fresh names were being included in it. According to the answer to a written question, the minister in charge of the poverty alleviation and social safety division informed …

ISLAMABAD: With around 40 per cent increase in Pakistan’s public debt and liabilities in 15 months, the government on Thursday disclosed that it intended to borrow another Rs1.9 trillion for financing of its fiscal deficit from January to July 2020. The information was provided by the Ministry of Finance in a written reply to a question by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz …

In reply to question asked by MNA Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali, Minister of Interior Ijaz Ahmad Shah told the National Assembly that murder, kidnapping, hurt dacotiy, robbery, theft, car theft, motorcycle theft and theft decreased from Aug 1, 2018, to Sept 30, 2019. The ratio of crime decreased due to better strategy adopted by the capital police, the written reply …

ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry on Thursday informed the National Assembly that the government did not intend to revisit the process of registering international non-government organisations (INGOs). The ministry was responding to a question by Pakis­tan Peoples Party (PPP) MNA Shazia Marri about the government’s plans to ease the process of registering INGOs. In its written reply, the ministry stated that …