- A difficult budget Both the prime minister and his adviser on finance have shunned proposals calling for even a slight increase in tax rates.
- ‘No disease-free area‘: Summary to Punjab CM estimates 670,800 cases in Lahore alone CM Buzdar had been advised to go for for a complete lockdown on May 15 given the alarming spread of the virus in the metropolis.
- Two High Commission officials expelled by India The charge was immediately rejected by Pakistan as “false and unsubstantiated”.
- Pakistan’s inflation rate slows to 8.2pc year-on-year in May The inflation rate was 8.5pc in April.
- Prices of petroleum products reduced; petrol to sell at Rs74.52 Rate of levy, however, increased by 26pc.
- Farogh Naseem resigns as law minister, will represent govt in Justice Isa’s reference case Naseem says he has resigned on the “request” of the prime minister.
- Over 500 die in Sindh during May due to coronavirus, plane crash: Murad A total of 553 patients go home in a day after recovering from Covid-19.
- Covid-19 testing facility stops working over kits shortage in Abbotabad “No laboratory testing has been made since May 26 due to non-provision of consumables.”
- Capital admin to fine people up to Rs3,000 for not wearing masks Procedure will be similar to traffic rules violations, fine will range from Rs100 to Rs3,000.
- No school can resume teaching without govt permission, says minister Failing students will also be promoted to next class.
- 16 special flights to bring over 3,000 stranded Pakistanis from S. Arabia Government decides to enhance domestic flights operation.
- Banks are making huge interest income Relaxed rules for treatment of bad loans in wake of Covid-19 may help banks in the second quarter.
- Ethiopia seeks extension in waiver to export red beans Pakistan banned the import due to ‘serious destructive and virulent quarantine disease’.
- Poultry traders postpone strike as govt forms panel to resolve price issue Chicken meat price has been ranging between Rs300 to Rs350 per kilogram for the last many days due to decrease in supply from the farms to wholesalers.
- Punjab slashes Rs3bn from police budget The “shocking” development comes at a time when the virus had claimed lives of four police officials, while 650 others tested positive in Punjab so far.
- Clashes outside White House as US cities under curfew Trump spends nearly an hour in a bunker, which was designed for use in emergencies like terrorist attacks, after Secret Service sounds high alert.
- Mosques reopened in S. Arabia for congregational prayers Worshippers were instructed to bring their own prayer mats and to perform ablution at home.
- Waqar Younis urges Afridi and Gambhir to end social media war Advises the pair to “calm down” in an online chat show.
- PCB eyes new home series as World T20, Asia Cup in doldrums The PCB has already agreed in principle to send the Pakistan cricket team to England for a full tour in July.
