Will the Minister for Economic Affairs be pleased to state: (a) the details of loan obtained by the present Government from various countries and Organizations; and (b) the details of rate of interest to be paid thereupon alongwith the terms and conditions thereof?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) the details of smuggled goods confiscated by Customs Authorities in the country during the last three years; and(b) the procedure adopted for disposal or auction of the said goods and the amount received from the same?

Will the Minister for Commerce and Textile be pleased to state: (a) whether Government has conducted a performance based audit of Commercial Officer/Attaches, who have been posted in different countries for the promotion of country’s export, in recent times; if so, the details thereof; if not, the reasons thereof; (b) if such audit has been conducted what corrective measures have been taken in view of findings thereof; and (c) is there any proposal under consideration to fix a numeric target for growth of exports in the countries where such officers are posted; if so, the details thereof; if not, the reasons thereof?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that World Economic Forum in its report of 2019 ranked Pakistan below as compare to preceding year i.e. 2018 in Global Competitiveness Index, if so, the reasons thereof; (b) whether the Government either has assessed or intends to assess reasons behind such downward trend of the country in Global Competitiveness Index; if so, the details thereof; and (c) what steps are being taken by the Government to improve such rating in coming year?

steps being taken by the Ministry to take full advantage of a regional trade market to boost up the economy of the country during the last five years?

Will the Minister for Planning, Development and Reform be pleased to state: (a) the expected schedule of release of 2017 Population Census relating to Education Attainment Levels of the population, School Enrollment Rates (Gross Enrollment Ratio and Net Enrollment Ratio, etc.) and the Literacy Rates; (b) alternate strategy of the Ministry for provision of reliable information and data on key social and economic indicators of the country which is desperately needed for evidence based planning of development interventions at national and provincial levels; (c) how was the development budget 2019-20 formulated in the absence of exact population census data?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state whether the value of foreign exchange reserves in Pakistan is satisfactory at present?

Will the Minister for Commerce and Textile be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that Government was anticipated to increase the volume of exports by depreciating the value of rupee against dollar;(b) if so, the value of increase in the export of the country since August, 2018 alongwith comparative analysis of quantity and value of country’s export in fiscal year 2017-18 and 2018-19 indicating the percentage of trade deficit in the said years?

Will the Minister In-charge of the Prime Minister’s Office be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that two nuclear power plants are situated in the constituency NA-248 and the Government earns millions of rupees from them every year; (b) if so, whether the Government has taken notice that despite earning millions of rupees every year, the authorities concerned do not spend the amount of their profit for the welfare of the residents of the constituency; (c) if so, the details thereof; and (d) what steps are being taken by the Government to pursue such entities to reserve due funds for the welfare of the resident of the area in the field of health and education, etc?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that there is discrimination in salaries of employees of Federal Secretariat and employees of other Government Authorities/Projects/Courts and Commissions;(b) if so, what steps Ministry is taking to remove this discrimination causing pessimism and brain drain in Federal Secretariat?

it is a fact that the exports of Pakistan are continuously showing a decline over the last two years; if so, the reasons thereof?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that the procedure to file the tax returns is difficult and complicated for common person to understand it; (b) if so, what steps are being taken by the Government to make the said procedure easy and to prepare its form in Urdu language to make it easy to understand by common person?

Will the Minister for Planning, Development and Reform be pleased to state the steps taken by the Government to control the ever increasing unemployment in the country?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) the achievement of Assets Recovery Unit, which was established to bring back stashed money of Pakistanis abroad particularly with reference to bring back aforesaid money alongwith the amount which has been brought back so far; (b) the administrative expenditure of the unit, which has been spent on it so far; (c) details of tours which have been made either by Special Assistant to PM on Accountability who heads the Unit or any other functionary thereof alongwith expenditure incurred upon each visit since the inception of the unit; (d) the authority who approved such visits; (e) is there any proposal under consideration to carry out performance based audit of such unit; if so, the details thereof; if not, the reasons thereof?

Will the Minister for Privatization be pleased to state: (a) whether any strategy being formulated by the Federal Government for the Privatization of Pakistan Steel Mills in future; and (b) the detail of those institutions or Corporations which are running in loss alongwith the plan of Privatization thereof?

Will the Minister for Planning, Development and Reform be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that the Government has decided to shelve power projects pushed by the last Government under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and will abandon hundreds of other schemes under the Public Sector Development Program (PSDP); (b) if so, the details alongwith justfication of each project which is going to be shelved and abandoned; (c) the benchmark upon which, each of above project was selected for such termination; and (d) whether any prior assessment was made to shelve and abandon each of above project in order to determine their necessity in coming years; if so, the details thereof; if not, the reasons thereof?

Will the Minister for Privatization be pleased to state whether it is a fact that Government is planning to enlist DISCOs on Stock Exchange; if so, the reasons thereof?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state the names of all those officers, drawing Salaries from AGPR, who remained in BPS 19 from the year 1994 to the year 2017 with full details, that are department, designations, date of appointment, etc?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that ratio of indirect taxes has been increased in the year 2019-20; if so, the reasons thereof; (b) how does the Government justify that such taxation does not affect the common man particularly imposing of new taxes/ duties and increase in rate of existing taxes and duties on sugar, ghee/cooking oil/ edible oil etc.; and (c) the plan of the Government to reduce the rate of indirect taxes in the year 2019-20 alongwith expected reduction of the rate of indirect taxes in years to come?

Will the Minister In-charge of the Prime Minister’s Office be pleased to state: (a) the details of amount of Foreign Direct Investment made in the country during the period from August 2018 to October 2019 with country-wise and project-wise break up; (b) the share of the said investment made by the Overseas Pakistanis; and (c) the number of Foreign Direct Investment cases under process at present?

Will the Minister for Commerce and Textile be pleased to state the new steps being taken by the Government to enhance Pakistani exports to Bangladesh and Iran in next financial year?

Will the Minister In-charge of the Prime Minister’s Office be pleased to state the steps being taken by the present Government to bring back/attract foreign investors?

Will the Minister for Commerce and Textile be pleased to state: (a) the volume and value of export of those industries, which were declared zero-rated regime by the previous Government such industries include textile, leather, carpets, sports and surgical goods since financial year 2014-15 alongwith increase witnessed in the volume and value of export thereof in said years; (b) the impact upon volume and value of exports of such industries after the imposition of sales tax @17% thereon by the Government; (c) whether it is a fact that volume and value of export of aforesaid industries significantly decreased after the imposition of sales tax; if so, the justification to impose such tax; and (d) what steps are being taken to either rationalize or waive off such taxation at an earliest?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state whether it is a fact that there is no any money exchange agreement or system between Pakistan and Iran; if so, the details thereof?

Will the Minister for Commerce and Textile be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that the Pakistan possesses the World’s largest deposits of Pink Salt, known as pink diamond in the world; (b) whether it is further a fact that the pink salt is exported in raw form and in a meager price; (c) if answer to part (a) and (b) above are in affirmative, the reasons thereof; and (d) steps being taken to export the same in finished/packed form to earn more foreign exchange like other countries in the world?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state the detail of increase in public debt since 2018 till date?

Will the Minister In-charge of the Prime Minister’s Office be pleased to state: (a) the number of complaints registered by general public through Citizen Portal in tenure of the present Government till date; and (b) the number of aforesaid complaints disposed of alongwith the time by which the remaining complaints will be disposed of?

Will the Minister for Commerce and Textile be pleased to state: (a) the steps taken by the present Government to enhance country’s exports to Nepal during current financial year till date; and (b) whether our exports increased as a result of these steps in the said period?

Will the Minister for Commerce and Textile be pleased to state: (a) number of vehicles, which are at the pool of each division, attached department and subordinate offices and any other department under the administrative control of the Ministry at present alongwith annual expenditure on account of such vehicles for the last five years; (b) detail of each vehicle and the name of person alongwith post and grade who is using that vehicle at present; (c) whether authorities concerned have taken notice of misuse of vehicles placed under each of above department contrary to monetization of transport facility; (d) if so, whether any inquiry has been made in this regard; if so, the details thereof and what steps are being taken for accountability of those responsible for such misuse of vehicles?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) tGhoev derentamielsn to ffr oloma nSes potebmtabienre d2 0f1ro8m to vSaerpioteumsb ienrs t2i0tu1t9io; nasn dand (b) tthhee rteeormf?s and conditions for the said loans alongwith the details

Will the Minister for Planning, Development and Reform be pleased to state: (a) the percentage of amount allocated / utilized for development projects of Balochistan under Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) as compare to rest of provinces and other areas during the last five years; and (b) the present status of the each of above project?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that the foreign exchange reserves were at US Dollar 23.7 billion during the previous regime; and (b) the amount of foreign exchange reserves at the start of present Government as well as at present; and (c) the heads under which the same have been spent alongwith the details thereof?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) the value of foreign exchange reserves available in the country at present; and (b) the increase in the value of foreign exchange reserves during the tenure of the present Government?

Will the Minister In-charge of the Prime Minister’s Office be pleased to state the details of total amount of loan given to the youth of country, per head, under the Prime Minister’s Kamyab Naujawan Programme in the country?

Will the Minister for Planning, Development and Reform be pleased to state the number of projects included in PSDP 2018-19 on which construction work started and the percentage of funds utilized out of funds allocated in PSDP therefor?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) the payment made by Federal Government to the Provincial Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during financial year 2018-19 from the Federal Consolidated Fund; and (b) the total arrears of the Provincial Government under the head of royalty of electricity?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) is there any proposal under consideration by the Government to revise relevant rules, in order to provide 100% House Building Advance to those employees, who have attained the age of 50 plus years either to enhance the amount of monthly installments or recover the remaining/outstanding amount at the time of retirement; (b) if so, the details thereof; (c) if not, the reasons thereof?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) the details of direct and indirect economic costs impact of smoking particularly Health-care expenditure, lost productivity due to early mortality and morbidity; and (b) the steps taken or being taken by the Government to discourage the use of Tobacco?

Will the Minister In-charge of the Prime Minister’s Office be pleased to state: (a) the number of cases of corruption registered, against ERRA’s contractors as well as officers, in NAB since 2009 till date, indicating also the number of persons involved in such inquiries; and (b) the total amount of embezzlement in each of the said cases?

Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether State Bank of Pakistan being a regulator has taken notice that fraudulent transactions have been made from the and Account No. 189133-4, NBP Peshawar Road, Rawalpindi in recent month and despite launching complaints in the said banks vide Complaint Nos.1809199042 and 5911662, respectively, the both banks have failed to take prompt action upon such complaints; if so, the details thereof; and (b) what steps are being taken to pursue both of aforesaid banks to investigate the matter, recover such amount and deposit the same in the legitimate accounts?