Services and agriculture sector help country post highest growth in a decade

Centre, provinces plan to spend Rs2.1trn next fiscal

Request comes as economic managers plan to extend the levy into third fiscal year

Imposes duties on import of cotton; also increases export quota of fertiliser

Shareholders approve 36% increase in gross salary, but Ahmad voluntarily surrenders perks

Proposal for next fiscal year, however, may not get govt’s seal of approval

Wants to do away with the condition of keeping audit selection parameters secret

Commerce ministry gives approval to allowance in bid to ‘conduct studies that will increase exports’

State enterprise decides to lease another 930 acres for National Industrial Park

FBR slaps fines for two dozen offences, but it fails to expand tax net