By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Friday raised its main interest rate by 100 basis points in a bid to crush inflation, surprising markets and becoming the first South Asian country to make such an aggressive hike in this economic cycle.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said the government will fulfill its external debt commitments including the repayment of $1 billion sukuk bond that’s due on December 5.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif tested positive for Covid-19, a day after returning from his trips to the UK and Egypt, a minister said on Tuesday.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan on Thursday asked his supporters blocking roads in various cities to lift blockades as the party resumed its stalled long march to Islamabad at the site in Wazirabad where a failed assassination attempt was made on the former prime minister last week.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan said the protest march to press for snap polls will resume on Tuesday from Wazirabad — the city where he came under an assassination attack last week.
By Naveed Naqvi
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday demanded the setting up of a ‘full court commission’ by the Supreme Court of Pakistan to probe Imran Khan’s allegations that the premier, the interior minister, and a senior military official had plotted the failed assassination bid on him.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan on Friday said he had received information about the assassination attempt a day before it occurred, accusing three top figures in the country’s political establishment, including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of a failed plot to kill him.
By Naveed Naqvi
ISLAMABAD: Police fired teargas, baton-charged and detained protesting supporters of opposition Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in major cities on Friday, a day after the former prime minister Imran Khan survived an assassination attempt.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Protesters have taken to the streets on Thursday after former prime minister Imran Khan was wounded in an assassination attempt at a protest rally near Gujranwala, party officials said.
ISLAMABAD: A short video released by the police to media persons shows the purported shooter confessing to an attempt on the life of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. By Staff Reporter.
