By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The government is in advanced talks to secure external financing assurances, a crucial step towards finalizing a $7 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on Tuesday.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military top brass pledged on Tuesday to safeguard hard-won successes against terrorism, following a surge in attacks in Balochistan that killed at least 50 people, including 14 security personnel, in a region vital to China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The Senate introduced a bill on Monday to increase the number of Supreme Court judges to 20, excluding the chief justice, to tackle the growing backlog of cases.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Consumer price inflation rose 9.6 percent in August from a year earlier, the slowest pace in 34 months, as the central bank prepares to cut interest rates for the third time this year.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan confirmed its fourth case of mpox on Sunday, after a 47-year-old resident of Peshawar tested positive upon his return from the Gulf region.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The government on Saturday reduced petrol and diesel prices by 1.2 percent and 1.3 percent respectively, or Rs1.86 and Rs3.23 per litre, effective September 1, marking the third consecutive decrease since July 30.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has proposed an all-inclusive dialogue involving political parties, including the rival Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), and state institutions to tackle the country’s deepening political and economic crises, but his call for cooperation faces opposition from within his ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party over engaging with the jailed opposition leader Imran Khan.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: A senior army officer and three relatives kidnapped in the country’s lawless northwest were freed on Saturday, the military said, without specifying who was behind the abduction or how the release was secured.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: A rare monsoon cyclone, Asna, has weakened in the Arabian Sea and moved away westward from Sindh’s coastal belt, easing the threat of landfall, the Met office said on Saturday.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The consumer price inflation is poised to decline to 9.5 percent-10.5 percent in August, down from 11.1 percent in July, as the country’s economic indicators stabilize, the Finance Division said in its monthly economic update.
