By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Unruffled by widespread allegations of rampant corruption surfacing over its four year sojourn in power, former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is dead-set on its narrative of political corruption and accountability being central to all ills of our polity.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Pakistan have reached a staff-level agreement on the seventh and eight reviews of the Fund’s $ billion bailout programme that will allow for a disbursement of $1.177 billion, the IMF said on Wednesday.
By Naveed Naqvi
ISLAMABAD: Pressing for better margins on retail sale of fossil fuels, the Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Association (PPDA) has threatened to close petrol pumps across the country in protest from July 18.
By The Editors
Over the three days of Eid-ul-Azha this year, intermittent but frequent and heavy spells of rain over parts of Karachi killed more than two dozen residents of Pakistan’s most populous metropolis. This is the beginning of the Monsoon season for the port city.
By Naveed Naqvi
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) Deputy Managing Director Abid Malik and is conducting raids to arrest several others including a former managing director of the state-owned company on charges of bilking the company for millions of dollars, Independent Pakistan can report.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI Pakistan’s fragile coalition government is all set to cut fuel prices, a move likely to ensure, for now, much needed political popularity at the cost of vital economic reforms.
The expense concerns a failed bid to privatise the Heavy Electrical Complex (HEC), a unit of Pakistan’s State Engineering Corporation. By Aoun Hussain ISLAMABAD: The
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: At least five people died of rain related causes on Monday as Pakistan’s most populous city Karachi continued to struggle with some of the worst wet weather conditions – and as the Met warned the conditions might continue for at least 24 more hours.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI South and southwestern Pakistan that have been drenched in rain for days, braced for more heavy downpours on Saturday as the death toll from flooding across the country rose to over 120 while thousands were left marooned or homeless in low-lying areas, officials said.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: All levels of his government routinely underscore the need for “tough decisions to save the economy”, but Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif seems to be dithering in the face of an imperative to raise energy prices.
