WASHINGTON: China and some other allies are quietly working to get Pakistan off the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) grey list during the agency’s next plenary session, diplomatic sources told......
MULTAN: Pakistan have left India behind in the ICC Men’s ODI Team Rankings after completing a clean sweep over West Indies on Sunday.Babar Azam’s side jumped a spot to fourth in the latest ICC Men’s......
DUBAI: Spin sensation Tuba Hassan was voted the ICC’s Women’s Player of the Month for May on Monday, becoming the first player from Pakistan to win the award.Tuba was awarded the to honour after......
PESHAWAR: The pay and pension bill of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa continues to balloon at an alarming rate eating into precious little development funds amid renewed efforts to reform the outdated system and......
KARACHI: Amid a strong protest and boycott of the proceedings by the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), the Sindh Assembly on Monday passed the Sindh Public Service Commission Bill,......
ISLAMABAD: Turkish Ambassador Ihsan Mustafa Yurdakul called on Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu on Monday.During the meeting, both dignitaries discussed matters of......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) prosecutor on Monday hinted at withdrawing appeal against the acquittal of former president Asif Ali Zardari by an accountability court in the ARY......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb on Monday announced a reduction of Rs250 per kilogram in ghee price and said the commodity would be available at all outlets of Utility Stores......
KRAMATORSK: Ukraine said on Monday its forces had been pushed back from the centre of key industrial city Severodonetsk, where President Volodymyr Zelensky described a fight for “literally every......
BRUSSELS: Google parent Alphabet has offered to let rival ad intermediaries place ads on YouTube to address a crucial part of an EU anti-trust investigation that could pave the way for it to settle......
ATALAIA NORTE: Human remains have been found in the search for a British journalist and Brazilian indigenous expert who disappeared deep in the Amazon after receiving threats, Brazil’s president......
ISLAMABAD: A day before leaving for Iran on an official visit, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday made it clear that former prime minister Imran Khan and his government had not been......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has required would-be Haj pilgrims from many Western countries to apply for visas via a government portal online, a move intended to crack down on “fake” travel agencies,......
BAGHDAD: Iraq temporarily closed Baghdad airport on Monday as choking clouds of dust blanketed the capital, the latest crippling sandstorm in a country that has warned climate change poses an ......
NEW YORK: Oil prices rose on Monday in a session of volatile trade, as tight global supplies outweighed worries that demand would be pressured by a flare-up in Covid-19 cases in Beijing and more......
KARACHI: Despite a massive price increase, State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) curbs on auto financing, and high interest rates, car sales increased by 51 per cent in 11MFY22 to 210,633 units from 139,613......
ISLAMABAD: Additional measures will be needed to bring Pakistan’s budget for the year 2022-23 in line with the key objectives of its International Monetary Fund programme, the lender’s resident......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is facing a stifling balance-of-payments (BoP) crisis and is trying very hard to grapple with the situation both economically and socially, Minister for Commerce Naveed Qamar told......
HAS anger in Muslim countries against hate-spewing members of the BJP done Indian Muslims a favour? The answer lies in the running news story. Read it carefully.“Over 300 people have been arrested......
WASHINGTON: Ambassador Masood Khan, Islamabad’s representative in Washington, meets US President Joe Biden on Monday evening, an appointment that will formalise his position as Pakistan’s envoy......
IT is that time of the year. When targets, revenues, large-scale manufacturing, taxes and baselines can be heard all around. The air in the studios, talk shows and in drawing rooms echoes with Arabs,......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif presided over a meeting in Lahore on Monday to review the economic situation and loadshedding, but no spokesperson spoke to the media about the deliberations......
ISLAMABAD: Fulfilling a mere formality, the National Assembly on Monday began a general debate on the federal budget presented by the coalition government last week with an unimpressive speech by......
RAWALPINDI: As many as 165 Pakistanis stranded in Syria were brought back home on a special flight of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Monday night.According to a PIA spokesperson, the......
THE bickering started before the weekend was out. While economists, analysts and experts were poring over the budget documents to make sense of the implications of the government’s proposals for the......
ISLAMABAD: Senior counsel Hamid Khan on Monday claimed that former prime minister Imran Khan still regretted filing a reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa with the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC)......
WASHINGTON: China and some other allies are quietly working to get Pakistan off the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) grey list during the agency’s next plenary session, diplomatic sources told......
LAHORE: In an apparent bid to make sure Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and his associates do not change their minds and rejoin cousin Chaudhry Parvez Elahi,......
• 16pc pay, 15pc pension raise for government officials • 63,000 employees to be regularised • Rs185bn set aside for settled districts, Rs20bn for merged areas • Rs4bn to be spent on solarisation of......
• Elahi says will only let budget be presented after inspector general, chief secretary tender apology • Cabinet approves budget outlay of Rs3.23 trillion • Budget proposes 15pc more for govt......
IT is that time of the year. When targets, revenues, large-scale manufacturing, taxes and baselines can be heard all around. The air in the studios, talk shows and in drawing rooms echoes with Arabs,......
HAS anger in Muslim countries against hate-spewing members of the BJP done Indian Muslims a favour? The answer lies in the running news story. Read it carefully.“Over 300 people have been arrested......
