ECC seeks report on measures to control locust.

ISLAMABAD -- The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet has directed the Ministry of National Food Security and Research to brief the ECC in its next meeting on the measures taken so far, including the areas treated so far with spray and pesticides, to control the threat of desert locust in different parts of country. The direction was issued in a meeting of the ECC held here at the Cabinet Block with Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh in the Chair. For coping with the emergency...