By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan refused to apologise on Wednesday for the violent protests that erupted on May 9 after his brief arrest in a corruption case, saying he was unaware of the events at the time and had already condemned them.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s first lunar satellite, ICUBE-Q, successfully entered the moon’s orbit on Wednesday, a senior official at the country’s Institute of Space Technology (IST) said, hailing the development as a crucial step towards bigger space missions in the future.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) on Wednesday allowed distribution companies to levy a Rs2.83 per unit additional charge on consumers’ bills for May as part of fuel cost adjustment (FCA) charges.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan plans to introduce pension reforms to reduce its ballooning expenditure and secure a new deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said on Tuesday.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The military on Tuesday set strict conditions for any future talks with the party of former prime minister Imran Khan, saying it must apologise for past actions and renounce its ‘politics of anarchy’.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan suspended a high court order that had denied a party aligned with former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) reserved seats for women and minorities in the national and provincial legislatures.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Iran and Pakistan are reviving efforts to complete a long-delayed gas pipeline project, aimed at supplying 750 million to one billion cubic feet per day of natural gas to Pakistan for 25 years.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The Cellular Mobile Operators (CMOs) have collectively denounced the Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) directive to block over half a million SIM cards, labeling the move as a breach of the Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-Organization) Act 1996 and an illegal action.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are poised to ink a series of substantial agreements, potentially worth billions, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Monday during a banquet honoring a high-level Saudi business delegation in Islamabad.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The ruling coalition on Saturday named new governors for the key provinces of Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
