Browse official statements, public updates, and development news from the Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives.
Urumqi, China 2 December Federal Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiatives, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal, delivered a keynote address at the inaugural Tianshan Forum on Central Asia Economic Cooperation in Urumqi, calling for a bold new era of regional connectivity, geo-economic integration, ...
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Islamabad, 25th Nov 2025: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has released the Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2024-25, marking a major milestone in the modernization of the country’s labour statistics. The new survey has been conducted in accordance with the latest standards of the 19th Internation...
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Islamabad - 25 November 2025 Federal Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiatives, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal, Addresses URAAN Pakistan Debates 2025 Federal Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiatives, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal, addressed the URAAN Pakistan Debates 2025 in Islamabad, termi...
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Islamabad, Federal Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiatives, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal, delivered an inspiring address at the Pakistan Teacher Development Conference, emphasizing the central role of teachers in shaping Pakistan’s future. He said that teaching is not merely a profession bu...
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Islamabad, 18th November 2025: Planning Minister Prof. Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday chaired a meeting of the National Price Monitoring Committee (NPMC) in Islamabad, noting that although general inflation has eased to 6.2 per cent from 7.2 per cent during the same period last year, recent upward pressures...
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Islamabad, 15th November 2025: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP), in a meeting chaired by the Federal Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiatives and Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Ahsan Iqbal, approved 9 different development projects. Out of these, 7 projects w...
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Islamabad, 14 November 2025 : Federal Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiatives, Mr. Ahsan Iqbal, addressed the launch of the Monthly Development Update and the ceremony recognizing the month’s best-performing officers. Highlighting the resilience of Pakistan’s economy, he noted t...
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Islamabad, 13th November 2025: All future construction in Pakistan will now be carried out under the Green Building Code - a decision taken under the vision of the Prime Minister and the leadership of Federal Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiatives, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal Chaudhary, to a...
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Cambridge, UK: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal, delivered a keynote address at the Trinity College, University of Cambridge where Pakistan’s national poet-philosopher studied philosophy as part of his birth anniversary on 9th November. The e...
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OXFORD, UK – November 8, 2025 – In a landmark moment for Pakistan's development journey, the global Pakistani diaspora, today adopted the historic Oxford Declaration on URAAN Pakistan, uniting behind a shared vision to transform the nation into a trillion-dollar, knowledge-driven economy. Unpre...
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London, November 7, 2025: In a major step toward boosting the Uraan Pakistan implementation, two landmark Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) were signed in London between Quaid e Azam University and PIDE and the University of Cambridge and its affiliate, Cambridge Enterprise Ltd, respectively. The e...
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London, UK November 6 Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiatives, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal, held a productive meeting with the UK’s Minister of State for Trade Policy, Mr. Chris Bryant, to advance Pakistan–UK economic cooperation under the recently signed Pakistan–UK Trade Dialogue Me...
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