Pakistan has rejected Afghanistan’s demand of opening up its eastern borders to allow the state to trade with India.

Civil servants will enjoy up to a 50 per cent increase in “night duty, daily and special pay allowances” from July 1.

A confidential report had revealed that 400 Afghanistan bound containers had gone missing.

Pakistan received over $2 billion less than target inflows due to poor planning of economic managers.

The government has abandoned its eighteen-year old petroleum product transportation formula in a bid to curb misuse.

The government hiked electricity tariff by 7.6 per cent for all categories of consumers under a condition slapped by the IMF.

The ADB disbursements have fallen short of the total target by over 40 per cent for 2010.