Bengalis in Pakistan’s Power Structure, Pre- and Post-1971
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Remembering history is of critical importance. And here in Bangladesh, history has always been fascinating for its people and especially for those interested in researching the past. In this fiftieth year of the country’s emergence into freedom from Pakistan, it is therefore consequential that we not only focus on the individuals and the factors - economic, social and political - which were instrumental in our eventually armed struggle for freedom, but also travel back to studies of those Bengalis who in the pre- and post-1971 years served in influential as also insignificant positions in the Pakistani power structure.
Govt allows wheat, sugar import to check prices
ECC sets up a committee to approve second bailout package of $36 million for Roosevelt Hotel
ISLAMABAD:
Five weeks after congratulatory messages by Prime Minister Imran Khan about reduction in sugar prices, the government on Wednesday allowed import of additional 800,000 metric tons of sugar and 300,000 metric ton of wheat to arrest their soaring prices.
The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet took the decisions while also setting up a committee to approve the second bailout package of $36 million for the Roosevelt Hotel in the last four months.
According to a handout issued by the Ministry of Finance, it also decided to relax foreign investment policy, allowing people to make acquisitions and set up subsidiaries and holding companies abroad.