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ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has agreed in principle to fund the Diamer-Bhasha Dam, a senior official at the Ministry of Finance told The News.“The Finance Minister had written a letter to the president of the World Bank seeking funding for the project,” he said. “The Asian Development Bank (ADB) – the lead financial institution in providing funds for Diamer-Bhahsa dam – had asked the government of Pakistan to arrange more funds from big donors such as World Bank, as it cannot arrange the required funding alone,” the official elaborated. The Islamic Development Fund and the Kuwait Funds are also ready to provide financing for the project.Earlier, the World Bank had refused to provide financing the project arguing that the site of the project is in the disputed territory
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KARACHI: President Asif Ali Zardari has promulgated the much-awaited ordinance, which allows share market investors to keep their source of investment undisclosed till June 30, 2014. The presidential ordinance, which came into effect on Tuesday and was made public on Wednesday, stated that investors will not be asked about the nature and source of the amount invested in companies listed at local bourses till June 30, 2014. The soft copy of the ordinance is available on the website of the National Clearing Company of Pakistan Limited
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Islamabad To avoid the incident like the one that occurred at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore, in which substandard medicines claimed 150 lives and to provide effective life-saving drugs to the public, the only solution is establishment of Biological Equivalence Laboratory and the federal government is working on it. Federal Minister for Regulation and Services Dr.
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ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was caught completely unawares when Prime Minister Yusuf Raza expressed in Lahore this Sunday the he hoped ties with India will improve after President Asif Ali Zardari’s visit and that ‘a fresh team’ will carry forward bilateral talks to resolve outstanding issues, including Kashmir. He did not elaborate what exactly he meant by ‘fresh team’ but the statement has understandably raised the question of whether Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Kharís portfolio may be changed. Speculation is already doing the rounds in the Foreign Office that Khar may be given a new portfolio in the upcoming cabinet reshuffle and a new FM would lead talks with New Delhi
1 month, 1 week ago by
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Tags: foreign-office, India, Interior, Ministry, rehman malik, zardari
ISLAMABAD: Top Foreign Office officials say in case BlackBerry handsets of former ambassador Husain Haqqani were misplaced, he was bound to register a report in the police and inform the embassy immediately as per SPM so that the ‘concerned people’ would have launched a swift operation to recover them.
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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Housing and Works Faisal Saleh Hayat on Thursday tendered an unconditional apology before an Islamabad High Court (IHC) bench in a contempt of court petition. Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of the IHC disposed of the petition after the federal minister told the bench that the court orders had been complied with and three employees of Pak PWD had been restored to their positions. During hearing on March 20, the IHC bench had observed that the federal minister had not been complying with the court orders
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ISLAMABAD: The tariff differential subsidy (TDS) is feared to increase to an alarmingly level of Rs396 billion during the current fiscal year despite the fact that the power sector has already eaten up over Rs1 trillion under the head of TDS in the last four years, a senior official at the ministry of finance told The News. Experts said this high level of subsidy will lead to higher budget deficit. “This whopping Rs396 billion subsidy will push up budget deficit to 8 percent of the GDP,” Dr Ashfaq H Khan, dean of the economic department at NUST, told The News
2 months ago by
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Table of contents 1. Short title and commencement 2. Amendment of section 6, Act VIII of 1994 National Fund for Cultural Heritage (Amendment) Ordinance 2002 NATIONAL FUND FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 2002 ORDINANCE LXXXVII OF 2002 An Ordinance, to amend the National Fund …
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Table of contents 1. Short title 2. Issue of Rs. 47,22,04,000 out of Federal Consolidated Fund for the period beginning on the first day of July, 1959, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, 1960 3. Appropriation THE APPROPRIATION (SUPPLEMENTARY) ORDINANCE, 1960 ORDINANCE …
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Table of contents 1. Short title 2. Issue of Rs. 2,58,52,00,000 out of Federal Consolidated fund for the period beginning on the first day of April, 1958, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, 1959 3. Appropriation THE APPROPRIATION (SUPPLEMENTARY) ORDINANCE, 1959 ORDINANCE …
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