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Assembly Parliamentary Year Session No. Sitting No. Question Question Type Ministry
Assembly Parliamentary Year Session No Sitting No. Question Question Type Ministry
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state the amount of privatization proceeds used for repayment of Government debts and poverty alleviation, separately, during the last fifteen years?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Industries and Production be pleased to state: (a) the names, date of appointment and tenure of the Members of the Board of Utility Stores Corporation indicating also the pay, allowances and other fringe benefits admissible to them; (b) the procedure adopted for appointment of the said Members; and (c) whether those Members possess the relevant experience/knowledge of retails business, if so, the details thereof?
Starred Industries & Production
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Ministry for Industries and Production be pleased to state: (a) the names of cities in the country where export processing zones have been established; (b) the role of the said zones in increasing the industrial production and exports of the country; and (c) whether it is a fact that despite the establishment of the said zones, there is no substantial increase in the industrial production of the country, if so, the reasons thereof?
Starred Industries & Production
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be please to state: (a) the date on which the Policy Board of Federal Board of Revenue was established; (b) the functions of the said Board; (c) the number of meetings of that board mandatory to be held in a year under the law; and (d) the number of meetings of the said board held since its establishment with date wise break up indicating also the agenda of each meeting and decisions made therein?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Industries and Production be pleased to state the time since which the employees of Pakistan Steel Mills have not been paid their salaries indicating also the reasons thereof and the time by which the same will be paid to them?
Starred Industries & Production
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state: (a) the names of Non-Government Organization (NGOs) in the country which have been provided development funds from the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) during the fiscal year 2015-16 indicating also the amount provided in each case; and (b) the details of the said NGOs working in Malakand Division and the projects launched / completed by them under the said funds during that period?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state the steps taken by the Government to broaden the tax net in the country and bring the non-filers under the tax net during the last three years and the result/ outcome thereof?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that a number of taxes have been levied on indigenous LPG, if so, the reasons thereof; and (b) the details of the said taxes levied on the said LPG during the last five years indicating also the amount collected from the same?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state: (a) the names of persons/ companies who have obtained loans of Rs. 5 million or more from the National Bank of Pakistan during the last five years; and (b) the number of cases in which the said loans have been repaid / are being repaid and those which have been waived off?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state: (a) the steps taken / being taken by the Government to stop under invoicing in the country; and (b) the steps taken / being taken by the Government to increase penalties for those involved in cases of under invoicing in the country?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Industries and Production be pleased to state: (a) the details of increase or decrease in industrial production registered in the country during the fiscal year 2015-16; and (b) the steps taken / being taken by the Government to increase the said production in the country?
Starred Industries & Production
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state: (a) the amount of local and foreign debts of the country at present; (b) the estimated amount of local and foreign debts to be obtained by the Government during the next two fiscal years of 2016-17 and 2017-18; and (c) the estimated level of debt servicing in the Federal Budgets during the fiscal years 2018-19 and 2019-20?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state: (a) the number of Public Sector industrial units in the country which haven been privatized so far; (b) the number of the said units which are functioning at present; and (c) the amount of taxes which was being paid by the said units at the time of their privatization?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Industries and Production be pleased to state: (a) the make, model and engine power of official vehicles presently at the disposal of the Ministry of Industries and Production indicating also the names and grades of officers who are using the same; and (b) the expenditure being incurred on fuel, repairing and maintenance of the said vehicles on annual basis?
Starred Industries & Production
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Industries and Production be pleased to state: (a) the steps being taken by the Government to establish small and medium scale industries in the country; and (b) the incentives being provided by the Government to encourage private persons to establish the said industries in the country?
Starred Industries & Production
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Industries and Production be pleased to state: (a) the names of car manufacturing companies in the country indicating also the prices of cars being manufactured by them; (b) the details of taxes being charged on each of the said cars; (c) whether it is a fact that prices of the cars of the same make and engine power are less in the neighboring countries than those being manufactured by the said companies in Pakistan; and (d) the steps being taken by the Government to encourage manufacturing of low priced cars in the country?
Starred Industries & Production
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Planning, Development and Reform be pleased to state the detail of agreement made between China and Pakistan regarding CPEC?
Starred Planning, Development and Reform
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatizations be please to state the amount allocated for development projects of the Ministry of Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatizations, its attached departments, subordinate offices, autonomous and semi autonomous organizations/corporations during the fiscal year 2015-16 indicating also the details of project, amount allocated and spent and present status of the project in each case?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Planning, Development and Reform be pleased to state: (a) the details of projects launched in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan under the PSDP for fiscal year 2015-16 indicating also the amount allocated and released for the same during that year; and (b) the amount allocated for the said provinces under the PSDP for fiscal year 2016-17?
Starred Planning, Development and Reform
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Science & Technology be pleased to state: (a) the number of persons working in Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR); and (b) whether it is a fact that about 158 employees of the said Council have not been paid their salaries since 1st January, 2016, if so, the reasons thereof?
Starred Science and Technology
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that as per Finance Act, 2016, the Government has decided to impose 10% tax on capital gains(Capital Gain Tax) within five years, if so, the reasons thereof indicating also its impacts on the Real Estate Market and the sellers; and (b) whether it is also a fact that withholding tax on the purchase of property has been increased, if so, the reasons thereof and its advantages for the investors?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Industries and Production be pleased to state: (a) the share of manufacturing sector in the GDP at present; (b) the targets set by the Government for increase in the share of the said sector in GDP indicating also the steps taken to achieve the same during the last three years and the success achieved so far; and (c) whether there is any proposal under consideration of the Government to bring qualitative and quantitative changes in that sector to further increase its share in the GDP, if so, the details thereof?
Starred Industries & Production
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state: (a) the names of industries in country in which cartels exist at present; and (b) whether there is any law to regulate / deal with such cartels, if so, the details thereof?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state: (a) the number of tax defaulters detected by FBR in the country during the current fiscal year with province / region wise break up; (b) the procedure adopted by the said Board to detect the said persons indicating also the names and designations of officers who detected them with region wise break up; and (c) the amount of tax payable by those persons indicating also the amount recovered from them so far?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state: (a) the estimate quantity of petroleum products being smuggled from Iran into the country on annual basis indicating also the estimated loss caused to the exchequer due to the same; and (b) the steps taken / being taken by the Government to control the said smuggling?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state: (a) the locations of customs check posts established on the main route of Pak-Afghan Transit Trade to check / control the smuggling through the Transit Trade; and (b) whether it is a fact that no such check post has been established on the link roads of the said route, if so, the reasons thereof?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms be pleased to state: (a) the amount allocated and utilized in the Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) projects during the financial year, 2015-16 with province wise breakup; and (b) the details of supplementary grants released, if any, for these projects during the said period with province wise breakup?
Starred Planning, Development and Reform
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state : (a) the amount disbursed under the Benazir Income Support Programme in District Tharparker during the last three fiscal years indicating also the number of beneficiaries of the same with year-wise break up; and (b) whether any increase or decrease was registered in the disbursement of the said amount during that period, if so, the reasons thereof?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state: (a) the amount released under the Benazir Income Support Programme during the fiscal years 2014-15 and 2015-16; (b) whether any case(s) of corruption by employees of the said Programme has been surfaced during the said period, if so, the number of persons found involved and action taken against them; and (c) the steps taken/ being taken by the Government to avoid recurrence of the said cases/ incidents?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Industries and Production be pleased to state: (a) the number of Utility Stores working in Quetta, Noshki, Pashin and Sibi; and (b) whether the said stores are sufficient to meet the requirements/demands of people of said cities, if not, the steps being taken by the Government to increase the number of those stores?
Starred Industries & Production
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Industries and Production be pleased to state whether it is a fact that Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) has been assigned an advisory role in implementation of Prime Minister’s Youth Business Loan Scheme, if so, the initiatives taken by the said Authority in this regard so far?
Starred Industries & Production
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that the trade deficit of the country has increased by over 18 percent during the month of July 2016; if so the reasons thereof; and (b) whether it is also a fact that our imports are increasing at a fast pace as compared to our exports, if so, the names of items the import of which increased during the year 2015-16 as compared to the year 2014-15?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Planning, Development and Reform be pleased to state: (a) the amount allocated in Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for ICT and Federally Administered Areas during the financial year, 2016-17; and (b) the names of projects for which the said amount has been allocated?
Starred Planning, Development and Reform
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state: (a) the present status of balance of payments of the country and its comparison with that during the period from 2001 to 2013; and (b) the steps taken by the Government to improve the situation of balance of payment since 2013 and the results thereof?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Science and Technology be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that according to Ministry report 82% Pakistanis consume dirty water; (b) the criteria / details of contaminants which constitute dirty water; and (c) the measures being taken to improve the quality of water in the country?
Starred Science and Technology
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state the names, addresses and nationalities of the persons/ companies who purchased $ 500 million Eurobonds sold by Pakistan in September 2015?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization
Senate 14 252 2
Will the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization be pleased to state whether there is any proposal under consideration of the Government to sell/ privatize the Pakistan Security Printing Corporation, Karachi, if so, the details and objectives thereof?
Starred Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization



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