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Cash transfers: UK to contribute to Watan Card programme
Will pitch in Rs8.4 billion, pegged to World Bank’s assistance for the same programme.
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Big players have to pay 15% flood surcharge
FBR team in Karachi to catch tax dodgers.
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Govt proposes merger of ad hoc allowances into basic pay
Pensioners will be the main beneficiary, salaries of existing employees to rise nominally.
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Budget 2012: Govt likely to slash social safety net funding
Only Rs45 billion is allocated to the Benazir Income Support Programme.
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Economic Council: Growth framework targeting 7% rise in economy approved
Govt’s role to be restricted to policy-making and regulation.
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Punjab pleads for foreign loans, but quietly
Punjab government pushes National Economic Council to approve new international borrowing ceilings.
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Budget 2012: ‘Fatcat bureaucrats stifling reform’
Drastic civil service reforms to be called for at economic council meeting today.
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Global share float depends on investor confidence
Govt plans to sell shares of HBL, NBP and Kot Addu in the London market.
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Budget 2012: Govt expenses to rise by 7%
Allocation higher despite devolution of 18 ministries to the provincial level.
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Govt approves projects despite paucity of funds
ECNEC rejects calls for cutting development spending.









