Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal has directed to take immediate measures to control the prices of essential commodities to provide maximum relief to the common man.

The Senate was informed in categorical terms on Thursday that no back channel diplomacy is presently taking place with India.   Minister of State for

Former President Asif Ali Zardari and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman met with Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif in Islamabad on Thursday.