PTI rift deepens over timing of Islamabad march for Imran Khan’s release
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s chief minister has insisted that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s entire political leadership, along with its allied group, is united behind a long march on Islamabad scheduled for September 27, as he moved to shut down suggestions from within his own party that the date was the product of a backroom deal with the government.
Muslim Conference’s Sardar Attique loses Dhirkot seat he held for 40 years, as AJK’s third-phase polling descends into rigging claims
BAGH: Voters across Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch division delivered one of the biggest shocks of this year’s assembly election on Monday, unseating a political dynasty that had held power for four decades, as polling in four constituencies was overshadowed by allegations of rigging, outbreaks of violence and the suspension of voting at several stations.
President Zardari signs off on new high court judges after weeks of constitutional wrangling
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has approved the appointment of additional judges to five of the country’s high courts, ending a weeks-long standoff with the government that had left senior judicial posts vacant and prompted a legal challenge in the Islamabad High Court.
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- Mobile broadband services restored
- LPG prices rise by 29.2pc for February
- Cabinet swells to 75 members
- Govt allows TCP to import wheat via all ports
- World Bank approves $200 million in loan for Punjab’s farm development project
- PM Sharif’s party decides to get tough on hecklers
- Apex court overturns PHC ban on poultry exports
- Shahbaz Gill declined bail
- IHC disposes of PTI employees petition against FIA notices
- Rupee plumbs new lows against dollar
- Punjab gets new policy chief
- Loans under Mera Ghar scheme to continue
- Senior army official shot dead in Balochistan rescue operation
- Bani Gala Firing: Man shot, wounded by PTI leader’s gunman
- Turkish commander calls on CJCSC
- Inquiry commission to probe reasons of energy crisis
- ANP set to fly Sharif’s coop
- Member Communist Party of China calls on COAS
- CHE to be renamed, HQ shifted to Karachi
- Pakistan to import high-quality Afghan coal in rupees
- IHC chucks plea to interfere with legislation
- Saudi Arabia confers King Abdulaziz medal on General Bajwa
- Interior Minister no-show at drugs case hearing
- Pakistan hopes early, successful visit by FATF team
- Pakistan commiserates with Afghanistan over quake, flood destruction
Pakistan remittances rise 13 percent to start fiscal year, defying Mideast conflict
KARACHI: Pakistan’s remittance inflows extended a run of double-digit growth into the new fiscal year, with money sent home by overseas workers climbing 13% in July even as a regional conflict in the Middle East entered its sixth month.
Pump fuel prices stay flat after Platts benchmark goes missing
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan left retail prices for gasoline and diesel unchanged for Tuesday after international benchmark data needed to calculate a new rate failed to materialise, a gap that underscores the growing pains of a pricing system introduced just weeks ago to respond faster to swings in global oil markets.