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RAWALPINDI: The Senate Standing Committee on Anti-Narcotics has revealed a plan to establish a rehabilitation centre in Lahore for the treatment of drug addicts. A meeting of the Senate panel, convened by Senator Gurdeep Singh, was held at Parliament House on Tuesday. During the session, Senator Falak Naz expressed concern over the availability of drugs in the Adiala jail as …

ISLAMABAD: A Senate panel was informed on Tuesday that latest memorandums of understanding (MOU) with power producers did not include circular debt. The committee was also informed that K-Electric had caused a loss of Rs144 billion to the federal government and is holding back Rs44bn of consumers’ money through stay orders. This was the crux of a meeting of the …

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Functional Committee on the Problems of Less Developed Areas on Tuesday suggested that Afghan refugees should not be forced to return to Afghanistan following a presentation by Chief Commissioner for Afghan Refugees Saleem Khan in which he shared figures about the number of Afghans living in Pakistan. As many as 2.8 million Afghans are living in Pakistan, …