Islamabad: In a volte-face, Pakistan's Cabinet on Thursday rejected a proposal of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) to import cotton and sugar from India, according...
The Economic Coordination Committee Wednesday allowed the private sector to import 5 lakh tonnes of white sugar from India and cotton from June, said Finance Minister Azhar.
An official from Ministry of Textile Industry in Pakistan said that a summary had been submitted to the Economic Coordination Committee more than a week ago to lift the ban.
The draft Seeds Bill gets the big ideas right: universal registration, traceability, real penalties. To work for Punjab, it must get federal plumbing and farmer-facing details sorted.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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