ECC allows power tariff raise.

The hybrid Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Thursday decided to cancel import of 2.1 million tons of wheat and allowed recovery of over Rs17 billion from electricity consumers for the period when the country had been struck hard by Covid-19. The decisions were taken by the Shaukat Tarin-led sub-committee of the ECC, which were stamped within minutes by the Omar Ayub-led ECC under a hybrid arrangement. The ECC hardly met for 10 minutes and rubber-stamped the decisions taken by the...