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National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) the details of the rebate and subsidy granted on the export of wheat and cement etc. during the last three years; and (b) the names of the major exporters?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Economic Affairs be pleased to state: (a) the details of Economic Credit Lines (ECL) given to various countries; and (b) the steps being taken by the Government further to expand/explore new markets for exports through Economic Credit Lines?
Starred Economic Affairs
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister In-charge of the Prime Minister’s Office be pleased to state: (a) the number of houses which have been re-constructed throughout country which were affected/damaged by the flood or the number of individuals has been given the amount for the construction of houses; and (b) the amount of funds disbursed among farmers of the country?
Starred Prime Minister’s Office
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) what are the reasons for omitting amendments regarding port demurrage in Section 203 of Customs Act, from the Finance Bill, 2022, since the said amendments were in the best interest of the public; and (b) whether the Government has any intention to restore the omitted amendments through Finance Bill in the National Assembly again?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) the details of the confiscated vehicles that could not be auctioned and lying for more than one year; and (b) the maximum period provided by law for auctioning the confiscated vehicles under the rules?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue pleased to state: (a) whether FBR has any mandate to interpret the decision of High Court and Custom Appellate Tribunal; (b) whether the custom authorities are bound to implement the conclusion/fundings of the decision of Custom Appellate Tribunal; and (c) whether custom authorities can issue a show cause notice on the legal question which has already been settled in the decision of Custom Appellate Tribunal; if so, under which law; (d) whether under the sub-clause (d) of para 3 of SRO 886 (1) 2012 dated July 18th 2012 Custom Collectorate can adjudicate the cases of "violation of technical import policy"; (e) if so, the name of the collectorate which will adjudicate the cases of violation of import policy; and (f) the details of general and technical import policy violation under sub-clause (d) of para 3 of SRO 886(1) 2012 date July 18th, 2012?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether the Government, is burdened with unprecedented debt, and huge increase in such debt has accrued in recent years; (b) whether the Government has examined the purposes for which such loans were taken and to what extent such purposes have been served/achieved so far; and (c) how much burden does a common man have to bear to pay these debts?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) the total amount of funds released by the Federal Government for the newly merge tribal districts (Ex-FATA) during the financial year 2022-23; (b) how much amount has been allocated from the total released amount to; (c) the repatriation/compensation of Temporarily Displaced Persons (TDP’s); and (d) the amount allocated for development projects?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister In-charge of the Prime Minister’s Office be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that in recent years a programme was launched in the name of Kamyab Jawan Programme; (b) if so, the criteria on which the programme was based; (c) whether such criteria have been evaluated to assess programme success; (d) if so, the details thereof; if not, the reasons thereof; (e) whether its frame work included a one-on-one or group job counseling programme for youth; (f) the details of the years-wise budget reserved, released and utilized for the programme since its inception; and (g) whether it was a successful programme or otherwise?
Starred Prime Minister’s Office
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state the reasons for increase in inflation rate in the country during the present regime?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) in the light of the critical state of the economy, the estimated savings by each Ministry/Division up till now, or savings expected of the concerned Ministry/Division at the end of the financial year under austerity measures of the incumbent Government; (b) the benchmark on which such savings are based; (c) actual amount granted to each Division for 2022-23 alongwith details of any supplementary grants, if any, made to each Division; (d) whether the amount of saving was from its original allocation or saved from the supplementary grant; and (e) what steps are being taken by the Government to completely eliminate un-necessary expenses of each Division?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Commerce be pleased to state: (a) the details of increase and decrease recorded during the last three years of industrial imports; (b) the details of share of such increase and decrease in overall trade deficit; and (c) the detail of increase made so far in trade of value added items during the last three years of agri products?
Starred Commerce
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) what are the reasons for the continuous deterioration of the country’s economy that has brought us to the verge of default; (b) whether it is a fact that despite the claims of economic reforms by previous Governments, including the current one and joining dozens of International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme; (c) reasons for not fixing issues to resolve the same; and (d) what corrective measures are being taken by the Government to address issues related to economy so that the ongoing IMF programme, should be last programme for the country?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state the head-wise utilization of loan obtained by the PTI-led Government?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact the Government has decided to open letters of credits (LCs) for luxury vehicles; if so, the details thereof indicating also the total number of vehicles, models and prices; (b) whether it is also a fact that during the time of financial crunch and low level of foreign reserves, this step can aggravate the already depleted position of the reserves; and (c) whether there is any proposal under consideration by the Government to instantly stop the import of the luxury vehicles?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) the number of foreign companies working in Pakistan alongwith the details of their investment; (b) the amount of taxes being paid by the said companies alongwith the names of their products; (c) the number of insurance companies working in Pakistan; and (d) the amount of capital invested so far alongwith the number of persons/institutes who got insurance policy?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that Government has taken notice that due to the old computerized less manual system, various natures of cases of the Government employees are pending for which AGPR is responsible such cases are either delayed or misplaced and consequently their valuable service record is at risk of losing; if so, the details thereof; (b) what steps are being taken by the Government to upgrade the entire system of AGPR based on modern computerization technologies to computerize the entire record including elimination of service book culture of non-gazetted employees by setting up a module in which every employee can access their records in real time an automated system that shows when a case was submitted to AGPR, when and by whom it was dealt with; and (c) whether is there any justification for keeping service books of non-gazetted employees, keeping in view the paperless regime and modern technology of computerization?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Commerce be pleased to state the steps taken by the Government to increase the exports of fruits and vegetables during the last three years?
Starred Commerce
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) the Government has taken any notice of the glaring difference in Conveyance Allowance of various grades of Federal Government Servants especially compared to the amount monetization given to Grades 20-22, with rest of the employees; if so, the details thereof; (b) why such a differential rate of allowance was fixed when the transport fare in any city of the country including the twin city of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, is not lower for lower grade employees; while the medical allowance is almost the same for all employees with a difference of a few hundred rupees; (c) is this not a violation of paragraph (e) of Article 38 of the Constitution which guarantees to reduce disparity in income and earnings of individuals including members in different classes of service of the Pakistan; and (d) if so, what corrective measure are being taken by the Government in this regard?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether there is any proposal under consideration of the Government to provide the incentive to the tax payers particularly small companies on regular basis; (b) if so, the time by which it will be implemented?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) when will the GP Fund of Federal Government employees be converted into an Islamic Fund; (b) if so, the details thereof; if not, the reason thereof?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Privatization be pleased to state: (a) the details of any kind of consultancy obtained for completion of privatization transaction of any entity which has not actually been completed for the last ten years; (b) the reasons for not completing such transactions; (c) the expenses incurred on each of the above consultations; (d) whether bids were received for such transaction; if so, the maximum bid price received in each case so far; and (e) what steps are being taken by the Government to initiate a well-thought-out privatization policy that actually serves the country better than being a burden?
Starred Privatization
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether the Government has taken notice of allegedly smuggling of dollars from the country in recent times; (b) if so, the details thereof alongwith volume of such smuggling on average basis of a financial years; and (c) what corrective measures are being taken by the Government to plug such smuggling?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that when an employee of the Federal Government is promoted or upgraded to the next higher scale from 1st June to 30th November, 2022, both days inclusive is entitled to get the annual increment that is granted on 1st December, 2022 other than his due fixation in next scale; (b) if such annual increment is granted to an employee; (c) whether it is granted on the basis of new scale of the employee or the scale which was prior to his promoting/upgradation; if not, reasons thereof; (d) if annual increment is granted, whether the Ministry has taken notice of the fact that several employee of different institutions are not granted annual increments, when they were promoted to higher scale during the aforesaid period; (e) if so, what corrective measures are being taken by the Government to direct all such institutions to do the needful?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) the number of Grade 20 officers posted in FBR and the names among the above officers who are without postings; (b) the number of Grade 21 officers posted in FBR and since when and where the said officers are posted and the number of officers among them who have been working in the field for less than 15 years; and (c) how long an officer can be posted/deputed on office work under the law?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Commerce be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that the direct or indirect ban on industrial imports in recent months has adversely affected the country’s industries; (b) if so, whether any estimate have been made to value the magnitude of such impact; (c) if so, the details thereof; if not, the reasons thereof; and (d) what corrective measures are being taken by the Government in this regard?
Starred Commerce
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state details of the total value of currency notes printed from June, 2018 to December, 2021?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) the details of the total amount reserved, released and utilized for Ex-FATA during June, 2018 to December, 2021 under the head of development; and (b) the present status of each head against which such funds were released?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that digital bank is being set up in the country; (b) if yes, the time by which it start operation and the benefits going to be accrued to the public?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether the Government has taken notice of a fact that bakeries, restaurants, food chains and shops which prepared products were recently levied at 17 percent tax; they have made a habit of cheating to their customers and despite charging tax from them in their final bills, such bills either do not have a QR code and even if it does, it is not readable by the authorized software application of FBR; if so, the details thereof; (b) whether FBR has inspected their bills, receipts, record books to find out as to how many people visits such food outlets on daily basis and how many bills have been generated, on which GST has been collected; if so, the details thereof; (c) what steps are being taken by the Government to prevent the illegal activities of such food outlets which cause loss to the national exchequer; (d) if any one found guilty of such illegal activity whether was held accountable; and (e) what further steps are being taken by the Government to launch public awareness among the public in this regard?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister In-charge of the Prime Minister’s Office be pleased to state the details of the total expenditures of the PM Office/House of vehicles for fuel, repair and foods other than the functions in honour of the foreign delegations etc. since, 2018?
Starred Prime Minister’s Office
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state the details of the decrease made in profit on National Saving Schemes, so far alongwith reasons thereof?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for the Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) district-wise complete details of retailers or shops etc. who have been reported on their unverified invoices through FBR’s Tax Asaan App since the launch of App; (b) the details of estimated losses in recovery of tax from such unverifed receipts; (c) what action has been taken against such retailers or shops; and (d) whether the action taken has been implemented in true sense?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister In-charge of the Prime Minister’s Office be pleased to state: (a) the tehsil-wise detail of major losses sustained by people during the recent floods in the country alongwith the details of problems being faced by them; and (b) time by which their aforesaid issues will be resolved?
Starred Prime Minister’s Office
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Commerce be pleased to state: (a) the year-wise total number and kind of animals imported and exported during the last three years alongwith kind-wise value thereof; and (b) details of the countries from which the animals were imported and exportd during the said period?
Starred Commerce
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that the Federal Government has recently excluded the Constitutional Bodies including the National Assembly Secretariat and the Senate Secretariat in giving special dispensation to the Civil Servants (BPS-1 to BPS-15) as a result of the benefit of such special arrangements; (b) If so, the reasons thereof alongwith reasons for excluding the above mentioned Constitutional Bodies even though earlier such dispensations were give to their employees; and c) what corrective measures are being taken by the Government in this regard?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) the total Government vehicles available with the Ministry, Division including the departments functioning under its administrative control by any arrangements; (b) the use of each vehicle at present along with full details of officers to whom each vehicle is allocated; (c) details, the total monthly fuel and other expenses of the vehicle fleet of each of the above departments; (d) whether the use of such vehicles has been assessed by following the austerity measures announced by the Prime Minister; (e) if so, the details thereof and details of estimated savings expected in coming months; and (f) what further corrective measures are being taken by the Government to eliminate misuse of vehicles and ensure savings in this regard?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Commerce be pleased to state whether it is a fact that the year-wise percentage of domestic imports has reduced during the last three years?
Starred Commerce
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether the recently announced special dispensation for Government servants (BPS-01 to 15) is applicable to employees working under contract, daily wages, ad-hoc or any arrangement other than regular appointment in various departments; (b) if so, the details thereof; if not, the reasons thereof; and (c) what corrective measures are being taken by the Government in this regard?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state the details/fluctuations in the prices of essential commodities during the last three months?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) the details of economic development in the country during the years 2008 to 2023; and (b) number of times Pakistan contacted IMF to stabilize economy and to the organize micro/macro levels reforms during the said period?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives be pleased to state: (a) the total Government vehicles available to each Ministry/ Division including the departments comes under its administrative control by any arrangements; (b) details the use of each vehicle at present alongwith full details of officers to whom each vehicle is assigned; (c) detail the total monthly fuel and other expenses of the vehicle fleet of each of the above departments; (d) whether the use of such vehicles has been assessed by following the austerity measures announced by the Prime Minister; (e) if so, the details thereof and the details of estimated savings is expected in coming months; and (f) what further corrective measures are being taken by the Government to correct further misuse of vehicles and ensure savings?
Starred Planning, Development and Special Initiatives
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister In-charge of the Prime Minister’s Office be pleased to state: (a) the total financial aid and foods received by Earthquake Regulatory Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) from abroad, since 2005 earthquake, till now; (b) what types of goods were received; and (c) the details of utilization of the above said aid as well as goods?
Starred Prime Minister’s Office
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state the total number of new tax payers brought in tax net after Tax Amnesty Scheme of PTI Government, alongwith the increase registered in tax revenue, so far?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state whether it is fact that some cases are pending with Security Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Bench for decision; if so, details of such cases during the last three years?
Starred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister In-charge of the Prime Minister’s Office be please to state the details of the rescue, rehabilitation and reconstruction activities of the NDMA, province-wise and specially of Malakand Division during the last five years?
Starred Prime Minister’s Office
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state the details of the bills submitted to AGPR by the Ministries, Divisions and Departments in violation of para 1 (v, viii, ix etc.) of the Finance Division, circular on 07-07-2022, regarding Austerity Measures during the current financial year?
Unstarred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that some companies being registered with SECP have established their offices in different places or sectors in the country; (b) if so, the details of the addresses sector-wise during the last three years?
Unstarred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that certain food chains in Islamabad, including Cheezious and Jamil Sweets have been charging tax from their customers by issuing provisional receipt on which the tax number of the food chain is not mentioned; (b) if so, the action taken against such shopkeepers/ organizations; (c) the number of such food chains against which action has been taken alongwith the penalties/fine imposed thereon; and (d) the details of action taken against the officers responsible for such breach of rules?
Unstarred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that the pensioners, whose finger prints have faded due to their old age and are also unable to go to bank, are required to submit a life certificate attested by a gazetted officer after every three months; (b) if so, the reasons for not developing online verification system for such pensioners; (c) whether any proposal is under consideration by the Government in this regard; (d) if so, the details thereof; if not, the time by which such system will be developed?
Unstarred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that the officers of Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) were promoted in 2017 as Assistant Vice Presidents (AVPs) and same officers have again been promoted as Vice President's (VPs) in 2022; if so, the justification and details thereof; (b) whether it is also a fact that the officers of ZTBL who were promoted in 2014 as EVPs are not being promoted since a long period; if so, the justification and details thereof; and (c) whether the officers of ZTBL who were promoted in 2014 as AVPs will be promoted in two months; if not, the reasons thereof?
Unstarred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state the year-wise details of the taxes, duties etc. on import of salt during the last three years?
Unstarred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that action is taken by Competition Commission of Pakistan, against selling of products less than the fixed prices; (b) if so, the details of action taken by the Government during the last three years alongwith reasons thereof?
Unstarred Finance & Revenue
National 5 51 1
Will the Minister for Finance and Revenue be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that the executive allowance was granted to the employees (BS-17 to 22) excluding the Private Secretaries are (BS-17, 18 and 19); if so, the justification thereof; and (b) what steps are being taken by the Government to grant such allowance to Private Secretaries, at the earliest?
Unstarred Finance & Revenue



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