Senators on Friday presented a motion in the Upper House expressing concerns that Pakistan appears to be getting the short end of the stick in Free-Trade Agreements (FTA) struck up with Beijing as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project...
Senator Mian Atiq presented a motion in this regard, which also raised concerns that China was not utilising various economic concessions granted to it by Pakistan...
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly through a unanimously adopted resolution on Tuesday opposed changes in the original plan of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), saying it would create disharmony amongst the federating units...
Any deviation from the decisions of the APC will not be acceptable to the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, moreover it will create disharmony amongst the federating units of Pakistan...
“But the surgery itself is illegal in Pakistan,” she said, pointing to the cyclical nature of the problem...
Speaking on a point of order, the chief whip of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PIT) in the lower house, Dr Shireen Mazari, sought clarification from the interior minister if there were FIRs registered against the controversial cleric...
ISLAMABAD: The controversy over banners inviting military takeover recently put up by a little-known political party and remarks of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan about people distributing sweets in case of a military coup echoed in the Senate on Tuesday, with members asserting that no one was indispensable...
Mushahid Hussain Sayed of the PML-Q ruled out the possibility of a military intervention, saying: “I do not see any...
NEW YORK: A new crop of ads on New York City subway cars reads “Justice now, but justice how?” The words evoke the tone of street protests over police killings of black men across the United States during the past three years...
But the ads are not a plea from civil rights activists
Ayyan Ali was arrested on March 14, 2014, at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport, Islamabad, while trying to go abroad — on valid visa, passport and air ticket — but carrying foreign currency worth $506,800 without prior permission of the State Bank of Pakistan and without any lawful excuse about why she was taking the money abroad...
Sehla Ashai, a Kashmiri-American lawyer, went a step ahead and exposed India’s strategy of blaming everything on Pakistan...
If the law and the facts are both against you, just pound the table and yell about Pakistan,” she said...
VIENNA: Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz hinted on Saturday that borders could be closed across the Balkans in response to a rush of migrants towards Greece from Turkey, echoing action taken during Europe’s 2015-16 migration crisis...
Greek police fired teargas to push back hundreds of migrants gathered on the border with Turkey on Saturday, as a crisis over Syria shifted onto the European Union’s doorstep
The visitors are in Pakistan for a week-long pilgrimage; their visit was arranged by the High Commission of Pakistan Colombo with a view to promote religious tourism in the country through showcasing historic sites...
Pakistan is home to an ancient Buddhist civilisation that remained hidden from the eyes of the world over the years...
PESHAWAR: The controversy over Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai’s views on marriage echoed in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Friday with members of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party and Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal urging her family to clarify position on the issue...
However, opposition Awami National Party’s Nisar Khan and ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Ziaullah Bangash defended Malala and her family’s position on the issue... ...
The situation took an ugly turn when the members of combined opposition, comprising Paksitan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Grand Democratic Alliance and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan chanted anti-government slogans when the chair switched off the microphone of Opposition Leader Haleem Adil Sheikh after his heated remarks...
ISLAMABAD: Expressing his apprehensions at the success of talks with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday admitted on the floor of the National Assembly that anti-Taliban feelings were growing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) as people were holding protest demonstrations in various parts of the province against the Taliban presence in their area...
Editorial: TTP talks’ oversightThe minister...
LAHORE: With the federal government hinting, and the Punjab most probably following, at wheat release price of Rs1,950 per 40kg, the flour price is set to increase by a staggering 22...
73 per cent – from the current official price of Rs860 per 20 kilo to Rs1,100...
HYDERABAD: President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi has said that price hike has become a global issue and prices of essential commodities increase with rise in prices of fuel and appreciation of dollar’s rate against rupee...
IT was an expanding industry all over the world and Pakistan had also witnessed a substantial increase in IT-related income, he said...