Govt taking every possible step to increase country’s exports: Senate told
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan told the Senate on Friday that the government is taking every possible step...
Jang Group founder Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman’s wife passes away at 95
KARACHI: The wife of late Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman — Mehmooda Khalil-ur-Rahman — has passed away in Karachi at the age of 95.
Her funeral prayers will be...
India, Australia eye striking trade deal by end of 2022
SYDNEY: Australia and India hope to reach a long-pending landmark trade deal by the end of 2022, according to a joint statement released on...
Dar de-seating likelier as LHC dismisses plea challenging 60-day rule
PTI government's efforts to de-seat PML-N's ex-finance minister Senator Ishaq Dar and get the incumbent Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin elected in his place effectively...
Hoping against hope
Prime Minister Imran Khan has assured the nation that inflation is a temporary phenomenon, and speeding up work on CPEC will soon bring down...
Carmakers come to town
The coming of Skoda and Volkswagen to Pakistan marks the fact that the demand in the small-car market is growing. While the government has...
India-Sri Lanka relations: Effects of China Factor
In comparison to the robust relationship and legacy of intellectual, cultural, religious and linguistic interaction between India and Sri Lanka, in the recent past,...
The EVMs conundrum
The incumbent government is insisting on the use of electronic voting machines in the next general election because it considers it the only solution...
The Race for Indo-Pacific Supremacy
Amid the growing US-China rivalry for supremacy, the geopolitics has been altered to gain for oneself and outsmart one’s rival. This time the battlefield...
Opposition parties protest against rising petroleum prices
Opposition parties on Friday staged a protest in the National Assembly (NA) on account of increasing prices of petroleum products.
During the session, members of...
TTP announce twenty-day ceasefire in South Waziristan
The outlawed terrorist group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) announced on Friday that it had reached an agreement with the Pakistan Army to halt all hostilities...
PPP demands clarity in parliament on talks with TTP
Following Prime Minister Imran Khan's statement during an interview in which he said the government was holding talks with some factions of the banned...
Social media companies may have to pay Rs500m fine for not complying with PTA’s instructions: report
Social media companies could face a penalty of up to Rs500 million if they fail to comply with the instructions of the Pakistan Telecommunication...
HESCO fined Rs31 million by NEPRA for electrocution related deaths of citizens
The National Electrical Power and Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has imposed a fine of Rs31 million on Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) over the deaths...
Saad Rizvi’s detention illegal, LHC rules
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday declared as illegal the detention of Saad Hussain Rizvi, chief of the proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
Hearing a...