Parliamentary panel opposes legal cover for body, says needs more info to decide.

Says fiscal reforms can lessen Pakistan’s dependence on bank borrowing.

Pakistan needs 7% annual growth rate or unemployment will keep on rising.

Neighbours vow to ‘intensify’ work on the pipeline.

Urges more exchange rate flexibility which analysts interpret as letting the rupee slide further against the dollar.

Proposal comes on back of growth in project-based external loans.

Debt Office suggests withdrawing power subsidies, reforming state enterprises.

Concession for two years intended to help economy recover from 2010 floods.

Decision comes in face of price drop in local market, expected bumper sugarcane crop.

The loan would cover the rising costs of the hydroelectric power plant.