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Bad News for Traders as Fed, Provincial Govts Decide to Close Markets Countrywide by 8pm

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LAHORE MIRROR — As part of energy saving measures, the federal and provincial governments have swung into action and unanimously decided to shut markets by 8pm across the country as part of the efforts to conserve energy, Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Tuesday.

He said this while addressing the media following the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting held in Islamabad with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in chair.

The federal minister said chief ministers of three provinces — Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — participated in the huddle while the planning minister of Balochistan represented the provincial government.