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ISLAMABAD: As the government and the opposition held each other responsible for the country’s economic mess and price hike in the Senate on Thur­sday, a minister conceded that the proposed budget for the next year is eventually an IMF budget. “…..yes, this is an IMF budget, but it was the PTI government that signed the deal and then reneged on …

ISLAMABAD: Taking part in a general discussion on the federal budget in the National Assembly, the lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on Saturday joined their voices by castigating the government for “neglecting” the agriculture sector and asked it to announce a comprehensive agriculture policy. Besides taking their own government to task over poor allocation for the agriculture sector, some treasury …

ISLAMABAD: Members from the treasury and the opposition benches on Friday exchanged salvos in the Senate over the arrest of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) workers with the government accusing the opposition of strengthening the enemy’s narrative while the opposition claiming that it was being pushed to the wall. Winding up discussion in the upper house on the crackdown against opposition …

ISLAMABAD: Two days after showing complete harmony in approving services chiefs’ tenure bills in the National Assembly, the treasury and opposition members on Thursday resumed their routine business of exchanging accusations over economic meltdown. It all started when Minister for Communications Murad Saeed soon after the question hour took the floor to make a policy statement and boasted about the …