ISLAMABAD: The large-scale manufacturing (LSM) sector shrank by 3.64 per cent in 2018-19 against the growth projection target of 8.1pc for the outgoing fiscal year, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics......
KARACHI: The first month of 2019-20 started off on a depressing note for the auto sector with 23 per cent and 42pc declines in car production and sales respectively to 16,472 and 10,968 units.The key......
KARACHI: Stringent documentation requirements and video-making have turned away buyers from the currency market while the investment shifted from dollars to unchecked gold buying.Currency dealers......
ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will begin a tour of EU capitals this week, officials said on Monday, in a bid to persuade the country’s creditors to alleviate tough fiscal......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on Monday notified the Employees Contributory Funds (Investment in Listed Securities) Regulations 2018, which apply to all......
DAMASCUS: Air strikes targeted a Turkish army convoy inside a rebel-held part of northwestern Syria on Monday, killing three civilians and wounding 12 others, the Turkish Defence Ministry said.Syria,......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has said that “some things” will be announced about Afghanistan in couple of weeks as his Afghan envoy insisted that accelerating the peace process was the best......
KHARTOUM: Omar al-Bashir received $90 million in cash from Saudi royals, an investigator told a court at the opening on Monday of the deposed Sudanese strongman’s corruption trial.The former......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police on Monday questioned a controversial Indian Islamic preacher for allegedly making insensitive remarks about race in the multi-ethnic country, as pressure mounts on......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday granted pre-arrest interim bail to former chief minister of Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah in the fake bank accounts case against Rs500,000 surety bonds......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday announced that the government was forming a ‘China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority (CPECA)’ to ensure timely completion of corridor’s......
FOR most in Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s move of revoking held Kashmir’s special status in the Indian constitution came as a shock — even if his government’s manifesto......
MUZAFFARABAD: A seven-year-old boy who was hit by an Indian sniper from across the restive Line of Control (LoC) on Sunday night succumbed to his wounds early on Monday, pushing the civilian death......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has said his country’s ties with Pakistan have improved since he cut $1.3 billion in security assistance to Islamabad, rejecting the suggestion that aid is an......
INDIA’S recent actions to eliminate Article 370 and 35a in India-held Kashmir have once again stirred the debate in Pakistan. But, unfortunately, we refuse to look at the issue any differently......
