ISLAMABAD: Minister for Finance Shaukat Tarin has said that agriculture, livestock and poultry are a major source of GDP, and both livestock and poultry are less organized and informal sectors formed an essential component of food supply. In his budget speech, he said that the government was striving to strengthen these sectors. He also said […]
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PCMEA demands priority to carpet industry for increasing exports
LAHORE: Pakistan Carpet Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PCMEA) has said that country’s export sectors are facing more difficulties and they should be given priority, especially the carpet sector. PCMEA Vice Chairman Riaz Ahmed told the media on Sunday that he had written a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan for solving carpet sector’s problems to […]
Farrukh says foreign remittances may touch $28bn by June end
ISLAMABAD: State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib on Monday expressed the hope that the foreign remittances would touch 28 billion dollars mark by the end of June. Addressing a news conference at the National Press Club, he said that the overseas Pakistanis had full trust in the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan […]
Cows come home to haunt India’s Modi
One of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s signature policies has been protecting cows, but for Raghuvir Singh Meena — a Hindu farmer struggling to protect his crop of chickpeas from roaming cattle — it has gone too far. Farmers overwhelmingly supported Modi’s nationalist party when he swept to power in 2014 but the strict measures […]