Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said on Saturday that Pakistan will seek a deferred payment plan for liquefied natural gas (LNG) bought under long-term deals with Qatar as the country faces a balance......
Moeen Ali has revealed he would be willing to end his retirement from Test cricket if England ask him to tour Pakistan later this year.Ali ended his 64-cap Test career last September after admitting......
Tiger Woods joined Michael Jordan and LeBron James in a select group of elite athletes with a net worth of at least $1 billion, business magazine Forbes reported on Friday.The 15-times major winner,......
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has urged the UN General Assembly not to be silent on the offensive remarks made by BJP officials in India last week, warning that silence on such issues could be mistaken......
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday said that all decisions related to terrorism, including those connected to ongoing talks with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), must be made......
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Saturday said there should be no obstacle in former president Pervez Musharraf's return to Pakistan on account of his ill health.He said on Twitter that "past events......
PPP Senator Dr Sikandar Mandhro passed away in the United States on Saturday after a protracted illness, party leaders and his friends said. He was 80.His personal secretary, Abdul Ghani Gopang, told......
The price of US gasoline averaged more than $5 a gallon for the first time on Saturday, data from the American Automobile Association (AAA) showed, extending a surge in fuel costs that is driving......
PTI Senator Shaukat Tarin on Saturday lambasted the incumbent government's budget for the new fiscal year as "non-serious" and based on "unrealistic assumptions", casting aspersions on the......
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday called for international pressure to end a Russian naval blockade of Black Sea ports that has choked off his country's grain exports, threatening a......
Beijing's recent outbreak of Covid-19 that has been linked to bars in the capital is "explosive" in nature, widespread in scope and complex, a Beijing government spokesman said in a briefing on......
Indian police shot dead two protesters and arrested more than 130 others during street rallies sparked by a ruling party official's remarks about Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), authorities......
A special court in Lahore on Saturday reserved its decision on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz's pre-arrest bail applications in a Rs16 billion money......
NOTTINGHAM: Daryl Mitchell led the New Zealand charge as the tourists powered to 318-4 against England by close of play on the first day of the second Test here at Trent Bridge on Friday.Mitchell’s......
BAKU: Charles Leclerc pushed Red Bull rival Sergio Perez off the top of the timesheets to end Friday practice for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix with the fastest time for Ferrari.The Monegasque, who had......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Friday granted transit bail to leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh until June 25 in two cases of rioting and violence registered in......
MOHMAND: Wildfires continued to rage in different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday, claiming the lives of a security official in Mohmand and a volunteer in Upper Kohistan and causing......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Friday said that early closure of markets was being discussed with stakeholders so that the decision to that effect could be implemented in the......
KARACHI: With its 31 branches in all district headquarters, the Sindh government has established a foreign security cell here at the Central Police Office (CPO) to register data of foreigners,......
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Q senior leader and Punjab Assembly speaker Parvez Elahi says former prime minister Imran Khan has postponed his plans to march on Islamabad till after July 20.“The......
KARACHI: Faced with growing concern of local agencies over marine pollution, the Sindh government held a high-level meeting on Friday where the minister for environment directed the Sindh......
RAWALPINDI: Religious and political parties on Friday took out big rallies in protest along with members of civil society against defamatory comments about Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) by......
• Budget reduced from Rs154bn to Rs19bn • Rs1.5bn set aside for construction of Jinnah Hospital in G-11ISLAMABAD: The proposed allocation for the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) has been......
SINGAPORE: Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned a security summit on Friday that “Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow”.Officials in the United States have been saying since Russia’s action......
LOS ANGELES: The United States unveiled on Friday a long list of measures to confront the migration crisis as President Joe Biden and fellow leaders prepared to issue a joint declaration thrashed out......
TOKYO: Asteroid dust collected by a Japanese space probe contains organic material that shows some of the building blocks of life on Earth may have been formed in space, scientists said on......
Finance Minister Miftah Ismail is addressing a post-budget press conference today, a day after he presented the Finance Bill 2022-23 in the National Assembly.The budget outlay for the current fiscal......
ISLAMABAD: The new budget has imposed several duties and taxes on the telecom sector, which is likely to restrict several development projects related to the growth of telephony, internet services,......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council has stressed the need for determining the status of Chief Justice of Sindh High Court (SHC) Ahmed Ali Sheikh, recalling that according to the Aug 16 notification......
THE preamble of our Constitution contains the words: “Now, therefore, we the people of Pakistan … Do hereby … adopt, enact and give to ourselves, this Constitution”. In the Federalist No. 84,......
AFTER the PTI-army ‘same-page’ relationship turned into a raging and ugly divorce, one expected some reluctance from Shahbaz Sharif’s PML-N government in contracting yet another fishy civil-military......
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has urged the UN General Assembly not to be silent on the offensive remarks made by BJP officials in India last week, warning that silence on such issues could be mistaken......
DAMASCUS: All flights to and from Syria’s capital were halted on Friday, the government said, after Israeli air strikes wounded one civilian and damaged an airport runway.Since civil war broke out in......
WASHINGTON: The US announced on Friday that Covid-19 tests would no longer be required for international travellers arriving by air, a major step in the country’s gradual lifting of pandemic......
• Federal budget with outlay of Rs9.5tr presented • Govt employees’ salaries up 15pc, no tax on those earning up to Rs100,000/month • Subsidies on sugar, wheat flour proposed • Taxes on cars over......
ISLAMABAD: Unlike most previous budget sessions, the coalition government on Friday announced its first federal budget for the year 2022-23 without facing any resistance and uproar from the......
• Federal budget with outlay of Rs9.5tr presented • Govt employees’ salaries up 15pc, no tax on those earning up to Rs100,000/month • Subsidies on sugar, wheat flour proposed • Taxes on cars over......
In the budget for fiscal year 2022-23, the government has exempted those earning up to Rs100,000 per month from paying income tax — increasing the limit from the earlier Rs50,000 per......
All-rounder Mohammad Nawaz bagged four wickets as Pakistan defeated West Indies by 120 runs in the second one-day international on Friday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match......
