By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Pakistan’s oil sales experienced a sharp decline, with a 46 percent year-on-year drop to 1.171 million tons in April. The country’s total sales during the July-April period of FY23 also suffered a significant setback, decreasing by 24 percent to 13.970 million tons.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has agreed to seek approval from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) before providing any additional subsidies, local media reported on Thursday.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Political deadlock over the scheduling of elections remains unresolved as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by former Prime Minister Imran Khan, submitted a letter to the Supreme Court seeking the implementation of the court’s order on holding the Punjab elections on May 14.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Human Capital Index (HCI) value of 0.41 is below the South Asia average of 0.48 and the country’s human capital outcomes are more in line with Sub-Saharan Africa, where the average HCI value is 0.40, the World Bank said on Tuesday.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s trade deficit has shown a significant reduction of 39.62 percent, amounting to $23.713 billion, during the initial ten months of the current fiscal year.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has surpassed Sri Lanka to become Asia’s fastest inflationary economy, with rising food and energy costs and a weaker currency driving price gains to a record in April, government data showed on Tuesday.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa, the senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court, has urgently called for a meeting of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP), which is long overdue, and has recommended the appointment of two judges to fill the vacant seats in the top court.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s junior minister for Foreign Affairs, Hina Rabbani Khar, had cautioned the country’s top leadership against sacrificing its strategic partnership with China to maintain a cordial relationship with the United States, The Washington Post, quoting a recent leak of US intelligence documents on the Discord messaging platform, reported on Sunday.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The government on Sunday announced that the price of petrol will remain unchanged at Rs282 per litre for the next two weeks, while the price of high-speed diesel has been reduced by Rs5 per litre to Rs288.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by former cricket-star-turned-politician Imran Khan, on Sunday threatened to launch a protest movement if negotiations with the government over the issue of the next national elections fail.
