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Coalition rift deepens in Pakistan as Punjab launches flood loss survey
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The PPP has urged Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to provide flood relief through BISP, criticising Punjab's survey-based approach. Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz announced compensation packages but rejected BISP data use. The dispute has deepened rifts between coalition partners PML-N and PPP, D
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Pakistan: PML-N, PPP publicly spar over flood relief, aid appeals in Punja
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
A heated exchange between leaders of Pakistan's two federal coalition partners has exposed growing tensions beneath their public display of unity, centred around how to provide aid to the people affected by the recent floods in the country's Punjab province, The Express Tribune reported.
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Pakistan: Punjab govt forms flood relief committees as 123 killed, 3775 vi
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz announced flood relief committees across districts and tehsils after floods hit 3,775 villages, damaging over 370,000 houses. PDMA said 123 people died in Punjab. Relief camps, evacuations and medical aid continue, while PPP leaders pressed for assistance through the B
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Pak: Woman killed, dozens injured in stampede during disbursement of funds
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Jackson Police Station House Officer (SHO) Baber Hameed said that around 12 to 13 wounded women were shifted to Civil Hospital and was said to be out of danger now.
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Free flour 'rush' shifts to Pakistan govt offices
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A huge rush of people and lack of facilities at free flour point has led to the stampede in the region leading to the fainting of some women, who allegedly fainted at these offices due to suffocation during the last few days.
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Despite Pak PM's announcements, Benazir Income Support Programme does not
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Balochistan does not receive a fair share of poverty alleviation funds under the BISP.
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Pakistan seeks increase in budget deficit from IMF
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Pakistan is also considering imposing the flood Levy on those higher income brackets who are earning lofty profits in recent years and also said adjuster will be used to hike the budget deficit target envisaged at 4.9 per cent of GDP on eve of the budget for 2022-23.
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15,000 more govt schools needed to enrol 4.7 m out-of-school children in P
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 16 (ANI): Pakistan's Elementary and Secondary Education (E and SE) Department needs to establish over 15,000 additional government schools for enrolling a total of 4.7 million out-of-school children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to an internal assessment
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No irregularity, Auditor General report 'misconstrued,' says Pak's Benazir
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 29 (ANI): The office of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), a Pakistan federal cash transfer poverty reduction programme in Pakistan, has said that that "no irregularity" was committed during disbursements in relation to Ehsaas Emergency Cas" and the conte
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