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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s economic growth is expected to accelerate to 3.2 percent in the fiscal year 2024-2025, driven by monetary easing, improved agricultural output, and slowing inflation, a Fitch Ratings affiliate said on Wednesday.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday urged the interim Afghan government to take “immediate and effective” action against terrorists behind a deadly attack on a military base in Bannu, which killed eight soldiers.
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ISLAMABAD: Four Pakistani nationals were killed and 30 others injured in a terrorist attack near a mosque in Oman’s capital Muscat, foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
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ISLAMABAD: The security forces killed 13 terrorists in retaliatory operations after attacks on Bannu Cantonment and a rural health center in Dera Ismail Khan district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military’s media wing said on Tuesday.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s new International Monetary Fund (IMF) program will boost its funding prospects, but the government’s ability to implement reforms will be crucial to securing financing over the next three years, Moody’s Ratings said on Tuesday.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan increased petrol prices by Rs9.99 to Rs275.60 per liter, effective Tuesday, the finance ministry announced on social media platform X.
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ISLAMABAD: The coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday said it would seek to ban the opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and charge its leader, former Prime Minister Imran Khan, with high treason.
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ISLAMABAD: Sanam Javed, a prominent member of opposition Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, was rearrested on Sunday in Islamabad, shortly after her release in a case related to street violence in May last year, her lawyer and party said.
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ISLAMABAD: The government has raised electricity tariffs by as much as 20 percent in a bid to stem financial losses and stabilize its ailing power sector, a move that will hit consumers and businesses already reeling from soaring inflation.
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ISLAMABAD: Former US President Donald Trump was shot in the ear on Saturday during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, sparking widespread condemnation from world leaders, including President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
