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The Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute (PKLI) is all set to conduct first-time liver transplant operations of three patients under the `swap transplant programme` on March 17, 2022. It will place Pakistan on the list of the countries conducting swap transplant procedures.

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President Arif Alvi on March 18, 2022 launched the Asaan Karobar Programme saying innovative strategies by incorporating digital technology was essential to ensuring sustainable business activities.

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After a gap of 37 years, two healthcare centres will be established in the federal capital as Prime Minister Imran Khan laid the foundation stone of a 200bed Emergency and Trauma Centre at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) and a 300-bed hospital in G-11 on 21-03-2022.

The emergency centre will be completed in two years while the hospital will be constructed in 30 months.

Updated: 24-03-2022

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Under Section 3 of the Anti-Harassment Act, 2016, was under way in all departments of Balochistan and so far such committees had been set up in 17 departments.

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Prime Minister Imran Khan will inaugurate Pakistan’s first national emergency helpline – 911­– on first of Ramazan (2022)

All the 36 individual emergency numbers for the provision of emergency services like fire brigade, police, health assistance, disaster recovery and motorway police would be integrated into Pakistan Emergency Helpline (PEHEL)-911.

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The government on 07-03-2022, at a meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet approved Rs8.28bn subsidy for 19 kitchen items for Ramazan Relief Package and Rs3bn for intending overseas Pakistanis to benefit from the flagship Kamyab Pakistan Programme.

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The government on 07-03-2022 approved Rs 303 billion worth of a supplementary budget to cover the financing cost of a series of measures – Rs5 per unit cut in electricity rates, partial payments to the oil industry for a price freeze on petroleum products and debt servicing of Naya Pakistan Certificates.

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Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood in February 2022 inaugurated the free lunch programme in 100 primary schools of the federal capital.

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Prime Minister Imran Khan on February 21, 2022 announced a zero tax rate for freelancers in the information technology sector.

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The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and Bank of Khyber in February 2022 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to launch Rs12 billion refinancing schemes to meet the capital and modernization needs of the province`s small and medium enterprises (SMEs).