By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of Binance Holdings Ltd., will advise Pakistan’s government on building a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies as the cash-strapped nation seeks to attract foreign investment and position itself as a hub for blockchain innovation.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: The provincial Sindh High Court on Monday suspended a water allocation permit issued by federal regulators to Punjab province for constructing irrigation canals in the Cholistan region, apparently intensifying a water rights clash between the two provinces.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Pakistan’s stock market suffered a historic 8,000-point collapse in an intraday trade on Monday, battered by global fallout from China’s retaliatory tariffs on the US.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Pakistan’s stock market cratered on Monday, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index tumbling more than 6,000 points in early trading as President Donald Trump’s tariff decision stoked recession fears and oil prices sank.
By Staff Reporter
QUETTA: The Balochistan government on Saturday offered the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) permission to march to Quetta’s Shahwani Stadium but warned of legal action if the party breaches the city’s Red Zone.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will dispatch a high-level delegation to Washington to contest a looming 29 percent US tariff on its goods, a policy threatening the nation’s fragile export-driven recovery, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said on Saturday.
By Staff Reporter
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s military’s top leadership pledged on Friday to counter foreign proxies and hostile internal actors destabilising the southwestern Balochistan province, a region plagued by a decades-long separatist insurgency, saying it would eradicate terrorism in all its forms, regardless of the cost.
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GARI KHUDA BAKHSH: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and a key government ally, demanded Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday abandon plans to build six canals on the Indus River, warning the project threatens national unity and risks inflaming inter-provincial water disputes.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Pakistan’s exports to the US are poised to take a hit after President Donald Trump unleashed a 29 percent tariff on Pakistani imports, part of a broad salvo hitting dozens of countries as he ramps up a global trade war.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The government reduced electricity tariffs by as much as Rs7.69 per unit, the largest cut in years, as Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif seeks to boost the country’s struggling economic growth.
