Earlier, it had come in for criticism for violating rules in the award of contracts

Cabinet authorises commerce ministry to clear medicine imports on case-by-case basis

Also eases the criterion for electricity transmission to remote villages

Petroleum ministry had recommended 33-percentage-point increase in tax rate

Suggests amendments to the Nepra Act to turn the regulator toothless

Experts say market should be free to determine petrol, gas prices

Country needs to buy 193,000 tons overseas to cater to local demand

1% of total project cost being set aside for security

Govt charging petroleum levy as well as GST on POL products

Moscow will supply gas from Karachi to Lahore at 85 cents per mmbtu