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.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Finance Ministry has projected that inflation in April could reach an unprecedented range of 36 percent to 38 percent year-on-year due to a surge in food and energy prices, as well as the effects of a weakened currency.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Police and anti-corruption officials attempted to arrest Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, former chief minister of Punjab and current president of opposition party Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf, during a late-night raid on his Lahore residence.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Talks between Pakistan’s coalition government led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the opposition party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI), made progress on Friday towards breaking the deadlock over the timing of elections.
