Finance Minister Asad Umar on Saturday claimed that Pakistan's monthly current account deficit has already halved to $1 billion and that the IMF programme that the government is pursuing will be its......
LAHORE: Discarded Test opener Ahmed Shehzad, who is currently serving a four-month doping ban, was given a show-cause notice by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday to explain why he has played......
KARACHI: Umar Akmal couldn’t have hoped for a more better opportunity to come really good in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Cricket Championship when his stroke-filled century on Friday inspired......
ABU DHABI: Rival captains Sarfraz Ahmed and Tim Paine were unanimous in their praise of wicket-taking sensation Mohammad Abbas, who helped Pakistan thrash Australia in the second Test in Abu Dhabi on......
UNITED NATIONS: The head of Israel’s leading human rights group strongly criticised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government during a contentious UN Security Council meeting on Thursday for its......
PARIS: The international group that monitors money laundering worldwide (FATF) said on Friday Iran had until February to complete reforms that would bring it into line with global norms or face......
IN his latest book, Fear, Bob Woodward notes Trump had initially insisted “Afghanistan is a total disaster. We don’t know what we are doing. Let’s get out".After becoming president he found his......
AMRITSAR: At least 50 people were killed on Friday after a train ploughed into revellers celebrating a Hindu festival in northern India, police said, the latest major accident on the country’s......
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Thursday praised a US congressman who assaulted a reporter, making light of the attack.Greg Gianforte was sentenced to six months of deferred jail time, 40......
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) notified on Friday that the minimum fixed charges for bulk domestic consumers of natural gas had been increased by 345 per cent.In a......
BEIJING: China’s economic growth cooled to its weakest quarterly pace since the global financial crisis, with regulators moving quickly to calm nervous investors as a years-long campaign to tackle......
KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is mulling to allow manufacturers of knitwear garments to import raw materials under the Duty and Tax Remission on Export (DTRE) scheme.FBR Member Customs......
ISLAMABAD: The operators of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals — Engro Elengy and Pakistan Gasport — on Friday challenged allegations by two federal ministers that they secured contracts at......
THE government seems bloody-minded in wanting to ‘regulate’ media through a ‘one-window’ operation; which will be achieved through a new law and regulatory body that will represent a clubbed-together......
IT is an attack that will have significant repercussions and perhaps a lasting effect on a war that has entered its 18th year this month.The assassination of a notorious police general, Abdul Razek,......
