PTI senator says confiscation of assets is a harsh punishment, others propose fines and penalties

Goes against earlier commitment to table bill in parliament

Country may return to the IMF as it will need $22 billion for external payments in FY20

ATIR judgment says demand raised in ‘indecent haste and with a pre-determined mind’

Also denies request of food ministry to be awarded country’s cotton committee

ECC decides to roll over the debt, taken in 2012, for two more years

Syed Iqbal Ashraf is accused of sheltering the main accused in a $185m fraud case

Foreign investors expressed interest in acquiring the steel mill on lease

Inclusion would have adversely affected other on-going infrastructure plans, say officials

Parliamentary plan says to let investors declare hidden assets by paying nominal tax rate of 3%