Pakistan's government imposed a "complete ban" on specific expenditures, including the purchase of new vehicles, machinery, and state-funded medical treatment abroad, a statement by the Finance Division stated.
Schulze, who serves as the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development in Germany, was asked by the security personnel deployed at the residence of Sharif to have her handbag checked.
Business owners have become more pessimistic about their future in Pakistan because of continued political turmoil and the new tax-heavy budget, said the Gallup report.
Most of the beggars from Pakistan travel to Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq posing as pilgrims visiting Islamic shrines. However, after landing in those countries, they start begging outside shrines.
Earlier in February, the Shehbaz Sharif government had shut down X after the Election Commission of Pakistan raised allegations of tampering with general election results.
Shehbaz Sharif warned the House that Pakistan was facing an alarming debt crisis so bad that even the expenditures of the National Assembly were being paid after borrowing money.
Shehbaz Sharif will face Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-nominated Omar Ayub Khan in the contest scheduled to be held in the newly constituted National Assembly