The Foreign Office on Monday sternly rejected a report that claimed Pakistan sold arms and ammunition to Ukraine in order to secure a crucial bailout package from the International Monetary Fund......
After the recent jump in petrol price to Rs331 per litre, Pakistan’s rate rose to $1.1, a cent more than the current rates in the US. However, the country’s petrol price is still lower than regional......
The discourse surrounding alternative sustainable energy solutions is steadily gaining momentum in Pakistan. Beyond the confines of activists’ offices, corporate boardrooms, government committee......
As the ongoing crackdown on currency and commodity hoarding and smuggling remains in the news, rising fuel and energy prices, with their fallout across all sectors of the economy, continue to hurt......
Once, there was a New World Order, which was characterised by free global trade and e-commerce. Well, it is coming to an end. This is being replaced with a “Reorder” (a term used by Peter Zeihan,......
Undoubtedly, energy security — the uninterrupted availability of energy at affordable prices — has emerged as one of the utmost pressing concerns confronting Pakistan in the present day. On some......
Pakistan’s power sector faces a capacity trap because of the excessive capacity contracted during 2013-18. This resulted in power capacity additions for both indigenous and imported fuels.......
In mature economies, tax policy doesn’t just aim to finance public expenditure but also to promote growth as its primary function. In Pakistan, tax policy focuses only on revenue collection through......
The lacklustre performance of the public policies in some areas and dismal failures in other domains are breeding ideas falling in the realm of culture change in state governance and corporate......
ISLAMABAD: Veterans Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Aqeel Khan teamed up to ensure a dominant victory for Pakistan as they brushed aside Indonesia 5-0 in the Davis Cup World Group-II tie on Sunday.With the......
SINGAPORE: Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz won the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday to end Formula One leader Max Verstappen’s record run of 10 wins in a row and shatter Red Bull’s dream of going through the......
BOURNEMOUTH: Chelsea’s much-vaunted attack failed to fire again as they were held to a 0-0 draw by Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium on Sunday, the second Premier League game in a row in which the......
MELBOURNE: Australia’s Pat Cummins, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc and Glenn Maxwell will return to the One-day international squad for the three-match series in India after recovering from injury, the......
Even after a decade, Bitcoin has not been accepted as a medium of exchange globally by governments, centralised authorities and financial institutions. The European Union has warned the masses......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has upheld acquittal of five police officials by a trial court in a famous case of custodial killing of a suspect at a police station in Shangla around three years......
PESHAWAR: The caretaker government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has decided to restrict seven surgeries to public sector hospitals on Sehat Card Plus (SCP) to put brakes on malpractices by private health......
(Top) Commercial activities such as inflatable bouncy castle and different types of rides, which require tickets for children, and other profitable businesses are under way in the......
KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and zoo authorities are impeding efforts to rescue a Himalayan bear languishing at Karachi Zoological Gardens for the past several years and......
RAWALPINDI: Financing that Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has secured from commercial banks will not be sufficient for a long time, however there has been an improvement in flight operation of......
MOSCOW: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left Russia on Sunday after a rare six-day visit that appeared to solidify his country’s ties with President Vladimir Putin — fanning Western fears that......
RAWALPINDI: Amid the ongoing rain spell, the retaining wall on Grand Trunk Road (recently named as Potohar Avenue) adjacent to the under-construction Soan Bridge caved in on Sunday morning, sending......
LAHORE: Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi has slapped a ban on ex-Pakistan leaves of vice chancellors, principals and executive directors of all the tertiary care institutes of the province,......
LAMPEDUSA: The European Union presented on Sunday an emergency plan for Italy to help it handle migrant arrivals after a record number of people landed on its island of Lampedusa over the past......
WARTIME Pope Pius XII knew details about the Nazi attempt to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust as early as 1942, according to a letter found in the Vatican archives that conflicts with the Holy See’s......
WASHINGTON: White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Malta this weekend, Beijing and Washington said on Sunday, as the world’s two largest economies......
LAHORE: A consultative meeting of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N’s) youth coordinators for Lahore was chaired by Maryam Nawaz Sharif and Hamza Shehbaz on Sunday.The meeting is part of a series......
QUETTA: Balochistan caretaker Chief Minister Mir Ali Mardan Domki has said the Gandhara civilisation has a significant importance in the international identification of Pakistan and measures were......
ISLAMABAD: Revelations regarding the use of sophisticated devices for the purposes of cheating in the recently held Medical and Dental Colleges Admission Test (MDCAT) have alarmed the medical......
MOSCOW: Russia said it had thwarted a coordinated Ukrainian attack on Crimea early on Sunday, while drones also targeted Moscow, disrupting air traffic in the capital, and caused a fire at an oil......
ISLAMABAD: The United States reaffirmed its commitment to partnering with Pakistan’s port and shipping industry to develop a national action plan to encourage more sustainable shipping practices to......
ISLAMABAD: Though it has not been officially announced, the largest political alliance in the country — the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) — has become ‘defunct’ and the larger political parties......
IN the past two decades that the country has been in the midst of various economic and service delivery crises, nearly all solutions proposed by economists, policy professionals, and even some......
PAKISTAN’S macroeconomic crisis, the most serious in its history, continues to warrant urgent and sustained attention.As is well known, the roots of this crisis lie in chronic fiscal deficits and......
UNITED NATIONS: The United States will continue to support credible elections in Pakistan that are free of violence and allow people to decide who rules them, says Elizabeth Horst, the US Deputy......
KARACHI: Calling the current caretaker administration “a continuation of the legacy of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) government”, the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Sunday announced to stage......
LAHORE: Political leaders have congratulated Qazi Faez Isa on his appointment as the 29th chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) and hoped the court would be balanced in the dispensation of justice under......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Republic of Somalia has launched a national identification system with the support of Nadra, a milestone for the ‘ID4Africa’ movement, which aims to provide all Africans with a......
• Rs22.5bn spent in first two months, falling short of Rs950bn annual budget • PDM govt disbursed Rs61.3bn for lawmakers’ schemes within first three weeksISLAMABAD: Amid rising interest payments and......
SAO PAULO: Fourteen people on a small jet died when the plane crashed in Brazil’s northern Amazonas state on Saturday, the state’s governor said.The accident took place in the Barcelos province,......
UNITED NATIONS: The United States will continue to support credible elections in Pakistan that are free of violence and allow people to decide who rules them, says Elizabeth Horst, the US Deputy......
LAHORE: PTI President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi was shifted to Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail on Sunday soon after a judicial magistrate discharged him in a case of alleged corruption in the Lahore Master......
• From Karachi to small towns in Punjab, households struggle to make ends meet • Families skimp on food or enrol kids in seminaries instead of schoolsKARACHI / TAXILA: Growing up in a Pakistani......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa has constituted the full court comprising all 15 judges of the Supreme Court to take up on Monday (today) a set of nine challenges to the......
• Top judge breaks precedent, calls wife to stand beside him during oath administration • Creates history by appointing first female judicial officer as SC registrar • Ceremonial event marred by......
IN the past two decades that the country has been in the midst of various economic and service delivery crises, nearly all solutions proposed by economists, policy professionals, and even some......
PAKISTAN’S macroeconomic crisis, the most serious in its history, continues to warrant urgent and sustained attention. As is well known, the roots of this crisis lie in chronic fiscal deficits and......
