♦ Growth-focussed Rs18.9 trillion federal budget 2024-25 to be unveiled today: Rs1500 billion spared for development projects: Tax collection target set at Rs12,970 billion: Salaries, pensions to be increased: Rs1,252 billion spared for defence spending: Deficit to stand at Rs9,800 billion: Rs9,700b allocated for debt servicing
♦ Federal Budget 2024-25: Rs1500 billion proposed for development spending
♦ Federal budget to lay ‘eye on winning new IMF bailout’
♦ Non-filers to face music in federal budget
♦ Current account deficit target set at $3.7 billion
♦ Punjab budget for next FY to be presented tomorrow
♦ Govt eyes 1,962 megawatts increase in power generation by June 2025
♦ Closure or merger of some govt departments proposed
♦ PTI’s Zartaj Gul claims federal budget is not people-friendly
♦ Hajj-bound TV anchor Imran Riaz arrested at Lahore Airport
♦ PM Shehbaz orders building Health Tower in Islamabad
♦ Punjab CM Maryam launches Traffic Response Unit in Lahore
♦ Mohsin Naqvi orders removal of CDA member environment
♦ Gold price in Pakistan steady ahead of budget
♦ Stock brokers hope budget taxation proposals will spare them
♦ Tetanus injection shortage leads to exorbitant black market price in Karachi
♦ Ex-CJP Saqib Nisar uses influence for grandson at Aitchison College
♦ Army killed 181 terrorists in 7,745 operations in KP, Sindh, Balochistan
♦ Two ANF men among 3 killed in firing by drug dealers in Jhelum
♦ Man clubs mother to death in Faisalabad
♦ Three sanitary workers die in Bhalwal due to gas leakage
♦ One dies of Congo virus in Quetta hospital
♦ Australia romp into Super Eights
♦ New Zealand hold 'honest conversations' ahead of must-win T20 WC clash