PM directs Punjab govt to ensure financial assistance to farmers
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed the officials concerned to activate the Punjab Cooperative Department to ensure financial assistance to farmers.
The PM issued...
Public does not want MQM-P to stay with govt: Bilawal
Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has questioned the rationale behind the Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) staying with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf...
Human-rights violations in India
The International Federation for Human Rights has published a report on human right violations in India. The Federation was assisted in compilation of the...
UNCIP Kashmir resolution 1949 still awaits implementation
The Longest lingering and unresolved Kashmir issue, which was lying in the cold storage of the United Nations for almost 55 years, was revived...
Hindutva: Anathema to self-determination
The solution remains a plebiscite
In the wake of the1948 war between Pakistan and India over Kashmir, it was the latter which took the...
Work hard for Afghan peace
But it mustn’t be labour of love
Pakistan has bent over backward to help the USA, the Afghan government and the Afghan Taliban to...
Judgment on NAB
A fiasco costing the country $28.7 million
The single-minded desire of the Musharraf regime to find some– any– evidence against the Sharifs and the...
Exporters demand customs duty waiver on cotton yarn
KARACHI: Value-added textile exporters have demanded the government to abolish customs duty on the import of cotton yarn in order to support the industry...
Cabinet extends fixed tax scheme for construction sector till June 30th
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday extended the fixed tax scheme for the construction sector till June 30, 2021.
According to sources privy to this...
No compromise on right to self-determination: Masood
ISLAMABAD:Â Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has said that determination of the future through a free and fair plebiscite is the...
Amazon buys 11 aircraft to make deliveries faster
Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it bought 11 Boeing 767-300 aircraft, as it looks to boost its delivery capabilities to cater to a surge...
Pakistan, Iran to strengthen cooperation against drug trafficking
Pakistan and Iran have agreed to further strengthen bilateral cooperation between the two countries for elimination of drug trafficking.
This understanding was reached during a...
Covid-19 claims another 59 lives; 1,947 fresh cases surface
ISLAMABAD:Â The coronavirus pandemic claimed 59 more lives during the last 24 hours, taking the country's total death toll to 10,409.
According to the latest update...
Cabinet approves purchase of Covid-19 vaccine to save human lives
ISLAMABAD:Â The federal cabinet, in order to save human lives timely and on emergency basis, on Tuesday accorded approval for the purchase of Covid-19 vaccine...
Pakistan condemns India’s refusal to hand over martyred Kashmiris’ bodies to heirs
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday strongly condemned the latest extra-judicial killings by the Indian occupation forces of three Kashmiri youngsters in Srinagar on December 29...