ISLAMABAD: Pakistan urged members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to settle trade in their own currencies and to set up a regional development bank and funds meant to cushion the bloc against international financial shocks, Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar told the group’s heads of government on Tuesday.
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KARACHI: A judicial commission has found that the Karachi businessman Mir Raza Ali was murdered and that the police investigation into his death was an “epic failure”, in a report the Sindh government made public on Tuesday.
Teenager deliberately run over and killed by employer in Multan, police say
MULTAN: A 15-year-old boy who ran from the contractor teaching him to be an electrician was chased down and killed by a car in Multan, police said, in an incident captured on CCTV.
Pakistan’s top general returns to Tehran to keep US-Iran diplomacy alive
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, arrived in Tehran on Tuesday on his fifth visit since April’s ceasefire, with Iran warning that a return to fighting with the United States is a real possibility.
Pakistan presses for Central Asian trade links at Dushanbe talks
ISLAMABAD: Deputy prime minister Ishaq Dar has held talks with Tajikistan’s president and a string of regional leaders in Dushanbe, using a gathering of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation prime ministers to press Islamabad’s case for deeper trade, investment and transport links with Central Asia.
IMF urges Pakistan to trim tax breaks, widen net to lock in recovery
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund urged Pakistan to trim tax concessions and bring under-taxed sectors into the net, saying a fairer system is needed to turn stabilisation into durable growth.
PHC orders Islamabad to answer challenge to emergency rule in KP
PESHAWAR: The federal government must answer a constitutional challenge to the emergency and governor’s rule it imposed on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, after the Peshawar High Court issued notices on Tuesday over a takeover that removed an opposition-run provincial government.
Pakistan drops new tax agency plan, seeks power to retire FBR officers – reports
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has dropped plans to create a new tax agency and will instead seek legal powers to compulsorily retire underperforming officers at the Federal Board of Revenue, according to officials who attended a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday.
Imran Khan’s PTI ends eight-hour meeting with no decision on way forward
ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ended eight hours of core committee talks on the failure of its Islamabad march without adopting a single recommendation, after the party leadership refused to put any proposal to a vote.