LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq Saturday said that the development of agriculture and prosperity of the farmers were a guarantee for the country's progress. Addressing a farmers’ convention organized by the Kisan Board Pakistan(KBP) here, he said that the country's development largely depended onagriculture as almost 70 per cent of the population was directly or indirectly linked to it. Japan, once a small and backward country, he said, had made great development simply because of an honest leadership. The JI chief wondered as to why the people in Thar were dying of hunger as the government had sufficient stocks of wheat.
Weekly inflation rises 0.15pc, annual rate reaches 9.11pc
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s weekly inflation increased by 0.15%, pushing the annual inflation rate to 9.11%, according to the latest report released...
