{"id":66920,"date":"2020-06-20T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=66920"},"modified":"2020-06-19T17:33:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T12:33:27","slug":"govt-share-gwadar-agreement-with-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-share-gwadar-agreement-with-senate.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt to share Gwadar agreement with Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Maritime Affairs Secretary Rizwan Ahmad \u2014 during a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance on Thursday \u2014 announced his ministry\u2019s decision to share the original plans of the Gwadar Agreement and the Novation Agreement with the senate on the condition of confidentiality, a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/gwadar-agreement-mandates-20-year-tax-holiday-senate-body-told.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gwadar Agreement mandates 20-year tax holiday, Senate body told<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The committee had asked the government to submit the documents as the state had previously proposed a 40-year tax concession for Gwadar\u2019s operators, their contractors, and sub-contractors. However, on Tuesday, the Maritime Affairs Secretary had revealed that the original 2007 agreement had a provision for a 20-year tax holiday, and that it hadn\u2019t included the sub-contractors. The senate, in response, had directed the secretary to submit both agreements to the senate for scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-afghan-trade-begins-via-gwadar-port.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pak-Afghan trade begins via Gwadar Port<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The secretary had earlier said that there was a secrecy clause in the agreement due to which it could not be shared with the public. However, on the insistence of the senators, Ahmad stated that he would share the documents only if the parliament agreed to return the drafts back to the government at the end of the session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Maritime Affairs Secretary Rizwan Ahmad \u2014 during a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance on Thursday \u2014 announced his ministry\u2019s decision to share the original plans of the Gwadar Agreement and the Novation Agreement with the senate on the condition of confidentiality, a news source reported. Read: Gwadar Agreement mandates 20-year tax holiday, Senate body told The committee had asked the government to submit the documents as the state had previously proposed a 40-year tax concession for Gwadar\u2019s operators, their contractors, and sub-contractors. However, on Tuesday, the Maritime Affairs Secretary had revealed that the original 2007 agreement had a provision for a 20-year tax holiday, and that it hadn\u2019t included the sub-contractors. The senate, in response, had directed the secretary to submit both agreements to the senate for scrutiny. Read: Pak-Afghan trade begins via Gwadar Port The secretary had earlier said that there was a secrecy clause in the agreement due to which it could not be shared with the public. However, on the insistence of the senators, Ahmad stated that he would share the documents only if the parliament agreed to return the drafts back to the government at the end of the session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":60701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[32401,32212],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-govt-to-share-gwadar-agreement-with-senate","9":"tag-gwadar-agreement","10":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt to share Gwadar agreement with Senate - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Maritime Affairs Secretary Rizwan Ahmad \u2014 during a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance on Thursday \u2014 announced his ministry\u2019s decision to share the original plans of the Gwadar Agreement and the Novation Agreement with the senate on the condition of confidentiality, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-share-gwadar-agreement-with-senate.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt to share Gwadar agreement with Senate - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Maritime Affairs Secretary Rizwan Ahmad \u2014 during a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance on Thursday \u2014 announced his ministry\u2019s decision to share the original plans of the Gwadar Agreement and the Novation Agreement with the senate on the condition of confidentiality, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-share-gwadar-agreement-with-senate.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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