By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Friday announced to contest an election on all nine National Assembly seats that fell vacant after his party’s lawmakers resigned.
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SBP eases cash margin curbs
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Friday eased 100 percent cash margin requirements on all import on deferred payments to facilitate importers, it said.
ECC rejects Russian wheat at $400/ton; suggests counter price
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is likely to accept import offers made for wheat well below $400/ton for a quantity of 300,000 tons at a government-to-government arrangement with Russia.
IMF & Pakistan: Going in circles?
Taking stock of the progress made over the period covered by the Fund’s EFF program, it is amply clear our economy is worse than before.
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CJP says elections, too, are accountability
By Naveed Naqvi
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Umar Ata Bandial said Friday elections too are a form of accountability, as voters get to hold their representatives accountable at the ballot.
Gen Bajwa for linking Cyber Command to three services
By Naveed Naqvi
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa Friday voiced a resolve to integrate the Army Cyber Command with the three services, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement at Rawalpindi.
Civil society activist hold a candlelight vigil in the memory of the military personnel who embraced martyrdom in the helicopter in this photo dated August 5, 2022. Photo by Rana Imran, courtesy APP.
Martyrs’ families hurt by irreverent comments, says military
ISPR has termed comments, made over social media by hard-core loyalist of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, as “unacceptable and highly condemnable”, asserting the whole nation stood with the institution.
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Innovative online investment platform launched
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: In a landmark development, Pakistan Friday launched Emlaak Financials, the country’s first digital aggregator platform for mutual funds.
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) distributing relief goods among flood hit people of Balochitan. Undated handout photo from KSRelief.
Saudi flood relief help arrives
By Naveed Naqvi
ISLAMABAD: A second consignment of relief goods has been handed over to National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) for the benefit of flood-hit people of Balochistan and other areas in Pakistan, King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) said Friday.
Curtains for Imran Khan?
By Ahmer Kureishi
If some of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders expected the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to burn Imran Khan on stake, well, their hopes have not prospered. But if you look at the ruling handed down by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja and his two colleagues, you cannot help appreciating a job well done.