As the country is all-set to harvest a record potato crop, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Wednesday directed the Ministry of National Food Security and Research to come up with a strategy to export the surplus to ensure farmers get a fair price for their produce. Chairing the National Price Monitoring Committee (NPMC) meeting, Mr Tarin also directed setting up of a production forecasting un
Federal government employees from BPS 1 to 19 grades will now get a disparity allowance from March 1, except those who are already getting extra allowances. In this regard, the government on Wednesday notified 15 per cent Disparity Reduction Allowance (DRA) on the running basic pay to the “underprivileged employees” up to grade 19. The government announced the DRA earlier this month a day ah
Struggling with current account challenges and foreign exchange reserves, the PTI government borrowed more than $12 billion from abroad in the first seven months of the current fiscal year (7MFY22), almost 81 per cent higher than foreign loans it secured in comparable period last year. The monthly report of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MEA) on foreign inflows showed that the government cro
Pakistan Stock Exchange extended losses on Tuesday, as jittery investors took cue from the global equities’ sell-off amid rising geopolitical tensions that lifted international crude oil prices. The benchmark KSE-100 index, in the absence of any positive triggers, stayed in the red zone throughout the session. Index heavyweight sectors, mainly technology and cement, remained under pressure a
Oil rose to its highest since 2014 on Tuesday after Moscow ordered troops into two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine, tempered by a declaration from Germany’s Chancellor that the nation would not certify the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Germany put the certification of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia on ice while the United States and European Union discussed potential sanc