Programme of around Rs14 billion will provide incentives to overseas Pakistanis to encourage them to send home more remittances through formal channels
Purpose is to help govt deal with expected increase in current account deficit
World Bank working on a number of projects in Pakistan and also interested in providing full support to social security projects, says its senior official
Under the Kamyab Jawan Programme four million people would be targeted and details of the programme would be shared by the Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin later, says information minister
ISLAMABAD: The fear of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has reportedly made the IPPs' Implementation Committee (IC) headed by the Finance Minister, "inoperative" and a cause of embarrassment for those "quarters" that facilitated negotiations between the government and power companies on Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), well- informed sources told Business Recorder.
ECC meeting told that funds were allocated under the Economic Stimulus Package for the entire duration of the Covid-19 pandemic, irrespective of the financial year