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Goodwill gesture: Flour mills agree to cut prices albeit shortage
Prices will be reduced despite limited wheat availability, high cost
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Lahore airport beats Karachi, emerges as busiest freight handler
Compared to Jinnah airport’s 85,000, Allama Iqbal airport handles 90,000 consignments
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Punjab abolishes old market committees
Provincial government plans to reduce market fee to facilitate stakeholders
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SMART choice? Punjab opts out of WB scheme to mitigate wheat crisis
Suspends a programme to reduce official wheat procurement to 20 million tonnes for five years
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Agricultural challenges: Declining soil fertility threatens crop production
Insufficient use of fertilisers over a long period has depleted the land of its natural organic matter
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Foreign currency worth Rs820 million stolen by customs officials
FIR has been registered against the involved customs’ staff
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Punjab moves to protect sugarcane growers
Considers amendments to prevent sugar mill owners from deducting and deferring payments
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Strict measures: Govt suspends wheat quota of several mills for misappropriation
Some mills had been selling govt wheat in open market, while others were supplying insufficient quantities of flour
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Legal conundrum: Non-compliance puts PAMRA’s status at stake
Under the new law, the authority was mandated to form market committees within a 60-day deadline which it failed to do
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Excise department works out new trap to catch defaulters
Proposes amendments in existing Property Tax Act which are currently being reviewed by the cabinet committee