'No interest payments from PM relief fund'.

KARACHI -- The finance ministry said on Thursday that the Rs10 billion that was being diverted to help make interest payments to the power sector will not come from the Prime Minister Covid Relief Fund but from the fiscal stimulus package totalling Rs1.2 trillion that was announced by the government in the month of March.

'The ECC decision was to allocate Rs10bn towards the interest payment of Rs200bn PES II issued on...

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