News Desk

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has amended the existing Branchless Banking Regulations for Financial Institutions (FIs), including commercial, Islamic and microfinance banks, for expanding the outreach of branchless banking operations in<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/06/21/sbp-focuses-on-low-income-segments/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Foreign

Two car bombs near the home of the provincial governor killed at least 25 people and wounded more than 30 in the city of Diwaniyah in central Iraq on Tuesday, a defence<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/06/21/2-car-bombs-kill-25-in-central-iraq/" title="Read more" >...</a>

NATIONAL

Opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Monday that Pakistan was on the verge of destruction because of a failed foreign policy. While talking to journalists during his visit to PML-N’s<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/06/21/pakistan-on-verge-of-destruction-nisar/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Sports

Suresh Raina and Harbhajan Singh struck flamboyant half-centuries, yet India endured a rocky start to the first Test against West Indies on Monday. Raina hit the top score of 82, and Harbhajan<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/06/21/raina-harbhajan-prop-up-india/" title="Read more" >...</a>

NATIONAL

Some 1,200 tribesmen Monday staged a demonstration in North Waziristan tribal region against the U.S. drone strikes and threatened to block the NATO supply line if the government failed to stop the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/06/20/tribesmen-call-for-halt-to-u-s-drone-strikes/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Business

US stocks were mixed over the past week, with the Dow Jones industrials posting its first weekly gain since late April amid hopes Europe would tackle its debt crisis and some positive domestic economi

Business

Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on Monday assured that a mechanism would be devised to curb the Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) review petitions against the decisions of Federal Tax Ombudsman<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/06/20/shaikh-assures-fto-of-fewer-review-petitions/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Unidentified miscreants attacked the homes of two members of the Peace Committee with bombs killing four people including two women and one child and injuring five people in separate incidents in Mohmand<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/06/20/four-killed-in-attacks-on-peace-committee-members/" title="Read more" >...</a>

At least 426 IDPs families have returned to their homes in recently cleared areas (Bar Chamarkand and Alif Gar) of Mohmand Agency by Security Forces on Monday. According to a press release<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/06/20/426-idps-families-return-homes-in-mohmand-agency-ispr/" title="Read more" >...</a>

At least two sisters were killed while one other injured on Monday when unidentified armed men opened indiscriminate fire at a Girls Hostel in Lal Kurti. As per details, the ghastly filled<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/06/20/2-sisters-killed-in-lal-kurti/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday that the country plans to launch bigger satellites to the altitude of 35,000 km above the earth’s surface in future, the semi-official ISNA news agency<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/06/20/iran-to-launch-satellites-35000-km-away-from-earth/" title="Read more" >...</a>

NATIONAL

Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s 58th birth anniversary would be marked on Tuesday and the main ceremony in this connection would be organised at Naudero. The Quran Khawani would be held, blood<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/06/20/58th-birth-anniversary-of-benazir-bhutto-to-be-observed-tomorrow/" title="Read more" >...</a>