The writer is a member of the staff at the Islamabad Bureau. He can be reached at [email protected]
NATIONAL--Premier holds meeting with lawmakers from GB to finalise draft ordinance--Govt to withdraw review appeal in SC against GB Ordinance, 2019 ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PT
NATIONAL--GI law needed to protect commercial heritage of goods produced in country--India claims GI on 361 products having similarity with Pakistani products ISLAMABAD: In a major developmen
NATIONAL--IPO says publishers will be made part of policy to curb copyrights violationsISLAMABAD: As the Intellectual Property Organization (IPO) Pakistan- an attached department of the Ministry of Commer
NATIONAL-- Industries Ministry will redraft and implement electric vehicles policyISLAMABAD: Despite the fact that Ministry of Climate Change’s proposal for the first-ever Electric Vehicles (EV) policy
NATIONALISLAMABAD: While there are dozens of corruption inquiries pending before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) against the officials of the Ministry of Sc
Business--PSQCA assigned registration of products and set standardsISLAMABAD: After a long fight between the Center and provinces over establishing a uniform standard for food and other consumer items a
NATIONALISLAMABAD: The government has decided to reactivate the Defence Planning and Civil Defence across the country as part of national war efforts to have a cohesive response from both military and civil s
NATIONAL--Int’l rating agency expects CAD to continue narrowing in current and next fiscal year--Report foresees Pakistan's GDP growth to slow to 2.9 per cent in FY2020 from 3.3per cent in last year
NATIONALISLAMABAD: In an apparent attempt to pacify its key coalition partner in the federal government – Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) – the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is likely to review
NATIONAL--IMF says Pakistan has comfortably met performance criteria for end-SeptemberISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reached a staff-level agreement on the first review und
NATIONAL--FBR chief says 135 individuals opted for tax amnesty scheme offered by PML-N govt in 2018, while 56 people availed PTI scheme in 2019--Former finance minister Asad Umar criticises amnesty schem
NATIONAL--Senate body to move privilege motion against Fawad Chaudry--Senate Standing Committee on Science and Technology to hold single agenda meeting on university budgets, says Senator Mushtaq AhmedIS
