Tag: Govt

Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh announced on Friday a number of tax rationalisation measures including reduction in general sales tax from 17 to...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday gave another week to the Punjab government to file its reply in a petition challenging frequent protests on...

The government has imposed an unannounced ban on a book written by slain journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, Pakistan Today learnt on Friday. Per details, the...

Around 200 special education teachers on Friday held a demonstration against the government for not regularising their services in front of the Parliament House....

A three-member Supreme Court bench on Thursday directed Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul to submit within two weeks government’s stance over 686 illegal appointments in...

While admitting that the government had failed to achieve all of the key economic targets for the current fiscal year, Finance Minister Dr Abdul...

No proposal to provide ad-hoc relief to government employees in the 2011-2012 budget is under consideration but the final decision in this regard would...

The government is likely to unveil a consolidated budget of Rs 3.8 trillion, envisaging a total revenue of Rs 2.7 trillion, fiscal deficit of...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif approved on Thursday the unanimous decision of the PML-N’s joint parliamentary party to launch a decisive movement...

The Lahore Bar Association (LBA) called off its strike against poor security arrangements in sessions courts on Thursday after the government took measures to...

Student organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGO) on Thursday asked the federal and provincial governments to allocate more than five percent of the gross domestic...

Ministry of Water and Power has issued the notification regarding increase in power tariff by 0.92 paisa per unit. The distribution companies would receive Rs...

President Asif Ali Zardari has directed government’s economic team to evolve poor friendly budget besides providing relief to government employees through increase in their...

The Punjab government is ready to present its Rs 651 billion budget for the next fiscal year during the second week of June in...

The federal government is likely to revise the basic pay scale (BPS) of its employees in the upcoming budget, sources told Pakistan Today on...

Inflationary pressures in the terrorism-hit country seem to persist, as all indicators of money aggregates, including the money supply, keep growing at a rapid...

Saudi Arabia plans to limit the number of work permits given to foreigners in an attempt to increase employment among Saudis. Larger firms will...