Islamabad: The Pakistan government has steeply hiked petroleum prices to implement the tough preconditions set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to revive the stalled $6 billion bailout package for the cash-strapped country.
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23rd Nov 2024 | Updated at 06:11pm 23rd Nov 2024
No wish for revenge, Nawaz tells supporters on return
- 25 Oct 2023
Islamabad: Pakistan’s former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif arrived home on Saturday, ending a four-year self-imposed exile in London and restarting his political journey ahead of the general elections with a huge rally at Minar-e-Pakistan...
Bilawal to attend SCO meet in Goa, India plays it down
- 26 Apr 2023
Pakistan's foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will attend SCO foreign ministers meet which India is hosting in Goa on May 5.The Indian administration didn't explicitly rule out a meeting between S Jaishankar and Bilawal, but it didn't seem...
Islamabad: A Pakistani court has sentenced a man to 15 years in jail for financing the main handler of 2008 Mumbai attacks. Sajid Majeed Mir, 43, was arrested in 2020 and sentenced in May this year, but his detention and sentencing were never...
Islamabad: In a case of medical negligence, the staff of Rural Health Centre (RHC) in Pakistan's Sindh province has reportedly cut of a new born baby’s head and left the severed head in the mother’s womb which put her life at risk.
New Delhi: At first, he didn’t exist. Then he was declared dead. But 14 years after he and his team plotted the 26/11 attack in Mumbai, Pakistan seems to have “arrested” global terrorist and Lashkar-eTaiba (LeT) commander Sajid Mir, who is probably...
Islamabad: Pakistan will continue to be on the "Grey List" of countries under increased monitoring of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a statement...
Islamabad: Pakistan is going through a financial crisis. Its foreign currency is depleting fast and one way to save precious foreign currency is to reduce the huge import bill. Ahsan Iqbal, a senior Pakistani minister, has urged the people to...
Karachi: The idols of deities at a Hindu temple in Karachi have been destroyed, police said, the latest incident of vandalism against the places of worship...
Islamabad: The Pakistan government is mulling to launch a sedition case against former prime minister Imran Khan and the chief ministers of Gilgit Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for allegedly planning an “attack” on the federation during a...
Islamabad: A former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a retired army general and a leading businessman persuaded ousted Pakistan Prime Minister Imran...
New York: After a period of diplomatic chill in bilateral ties under the Imran Khan government, the United States renewed its high-level political engagement with Pakistan, with secretary of state Antony Blinken reaching out to Pakistan’s new...
