The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) meeting was held under the chairmanship of Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan, in
The government on Tuesday told a parliamentary panel that there was no chairman of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority at present as members of the National Assembly had challenged the legal status of the defunct agency and the functioning of its top management. AP/File
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday told a parliamentary panel that there was no chairman of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority at present as members of the National Assembly had challenged the legal status of the defunct agency and the functioning of its top management.
After interesting discussions and a brief break to allow senior officials of the Ministry of Planning and Development to seek clarifications, the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Special Initiatives deferred “The China Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2020” to its next meeting.
The government on Wednesday decided to announce soon a major economic package for Gilgit-Baltistan as promised before regional elections in November last year. APP
ISLAMABAD: The government on Wednesday decided to announce soon a major economic package for Gilgit-Baltistan as promised before regional elections in November last year.
In a meeting with the newly-elected leadership of Gilgit-Baltistan, the ministry of planning and development constituted two technical groups to finalise the integrated development plan on the pattern of the recently announced Karachi Transformation Plan.
GB Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid and Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar jointly presided over the meeting.
National
January 3, 2021
ISLAMABAD: After falling out of favour with his powerful patrons, recently removed Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Omar Sheikh is unlikely to get the nod from the Central Selection Board (CSB) for the third consecutive time for promotion to Grade 21.
Sheikh has already been twice superseded by the CSB. The board, constituted by Prime Minister Imran Khan, starts its three-day session from January 4 to look into the promotion of bureaucrats of different groups to grades 20 and 21.
Omar Sheikh faces heavy odds this time as well in view of the inclusion of two senior police officers in the CSB.
PBS mandated to rebase the national accounts
Business
January 2, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The government has mandated Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) to go ahead with approval of much-awaited re-basing of national accounts from fiscal year 2005-6 to 2015-16 in order to capture the latest ongoing economic activities.
Secretary Ministry of Planning Development and Special Initiatives Mathar Niaz Rana visited PBS on Friday and chaired a meeting on the activities of PBS particularly on national accounts, price statistics and the digital initiatives taken by PBS by shifting from paper based data collection to tablet based data collection. The meeting was attended by the chief economist, members and senior officers of PBS. Rana was briefed about the national accounts compilation methodology and the status of various census, surveys and studies conducted by PBS for rebasing the national accounts from 2005-06 to 2015-16.