By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday issued a sweeping invitation to global investors, including Saudi Arabia, China, the US, and the European Union, to tap into the country’s $6 trillion mineral reserves, as Islamabad races to unlock an underdeveloped sector critical to stabilising its debt-strapped economy.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States pledged on Monday to expand cooperation on trade, counterterrorism, and regional security during the first phone call between Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Foreign Office (FO) said.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Pakistan stocks cratered to an intraday low of 8,687 points on Monday—its biggest point drop ever—before closing 3.3 percent lower, reeling from a global sell-off sparked by China’s retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of Binance Holdings Ltd., will advise Pakistan’s government on building a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies as the cash-strapped nation seeks to attract foreign investment and position itself as a hub for blockchain innovation.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: The provincial Sindh High Court on Monday suspended a water allocation permit issued by federal regulators to Punjab province for constructing irrigation canals in the Cholistan region, apparently intensifying a water rights clash between the two provinces.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Pakistan’s stock market suffered a historic 8,000-point collapse in an intraday trade on Monday, battered by global fallout from China’s retaliatory tariffs on the US.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Pakistan’s stock market cratered on Monday, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index tumbling more than 6,000 points in early trading as President Donald Trump’s tariff decision stoked recession fears and oil prices sank.
By Staff Reporter
QUETTA: The Balochistan government on Saturday offered the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) permission to march to Quetta’s Shahwani Stadium but warned of legal action if the party breaches the city’s Red Zone.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will dispatch a high-level delegation to Washington to contest a looming 29 percent US tariff on its goods, a policy threatening the nation’s fragile export-driven recovery, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said on Saturday.
By Staff Reporter
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s military’s top leadership pledged on Friday to counter foreign proxies and hostile internal actors destabilising the southwestern Balochistan province, a region plagued by a decades-long separatist insurgency, saying it would eradicate terrorism in all its forms, regardless of the cost.
