By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is seeking around $11 billion in bilateral support from China and Saudi Arabia to fill its external and domestic financing gaps as it tries to keep its IMF program on track, an interim finance minister said on Thursday.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The IMF on Thursday defended its role in Pakistan’s economic recovery, saying that its policies are designed to help the country overcome its fiscal and external imbalances and support its social development goals.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is back in the market for liquefied natural gas (LNG) after a year-long hiatus, as it tries to secure supplies for the winter season amid a global gas crunch.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan moved closer to holding general elections in January 2024 as the election commission on Wednesday released a preliminary report on the delimitation of constituencies based on the latest digital census.
Two heads are better than one, goes the old saw. But two in this case seem to be too many – as in too many cooks spoil the broth. At stake is the economic wellbeing of the country, but does anyone care? By Muhammad Ali.
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ISLAMABAD: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, an independent watchdog, on Monday criticised the caretaker government for suggesting that the country could hold fair elections without the participation of Imran Khan, the jailed leader of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.
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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Monday ordered the transfer of former Prime Minister Imran Khan from a remote jail in Punjab to a better facility in near the capital, Islamabad, where he faces charges of leaking state secrets.
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ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar on Friday denounced ‘Hindutva extremists’ as a threat to global peace and security, and urged the United Nations to act against terrorism in all its forms.
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ISLAMABAD: The caretaker government is seeking to improve the performance of 85 state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that have the potential to pay dividends or become profitable, as it prepares for a possible privatisation drive to dispose of dozens of losing-making entities.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s election commission said on Thursday that it would hold general elections in the last week of January 2024, more than two months after the constitutional deadline, citing the need to redraw electoral boundaries based on the latest census.
