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The efforts on the part of Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) are paving the way for export of salt from Pakistan. Pakistan's salt deposits from mines are the second largest in the world, while salt is also obtained in abundance from the...

Minister for Finance Muhammad Aurangzeb says economy has achieved stability. Responding to the points of opposition on the Finance Bill in National Assembly today, he expressed the government's determination to further enhance the stabilization pro...

Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet has given the principle approval to the Finance Division for the establishment of Pension Fund. The approval was given during a meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee chaired by Finance Minister...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that five hundred and ninety billion rupees have been given to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa over the years to augment its capacity in the war on terrorism. Responding to the points of the opposition in the National Assem...

Central Development Working Party has approved 26 development projects worth 900 billion rupees. The approval was granted during meeting of CDWP that was held in Islamabad with Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan in the chair....

Pakistan says the Resolution 901 adopted by the US House of Representatives is an unsolicited interference in Pakistan's domestic affairs which is neither welcomed nor acceptable. At her weekly media briefing in Islamabad today, Foreign Office Spoke...

The Benazir Income Support Programme and the Ministry of Information Technology have agreed to devise a strategy to combat fraudulent activities targeting innocent people. During a meeting with Minister of State for IT and Telecommunication, Ms. Sha...