By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: A Baloch rights group on Tuesday rejected as “baseless” allegations by the military that it is a foreign-funded proxy movement, accusing the country’s powerful military of trying to undermine its peaceful campaign against alleged human rights abuses and resource exploitation.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Arshad Nadeem, Pakistan’s top javelin thrower, on Tuesday qualified for the Olympic final with a season-best 86.59 meters, ranking fourth and keeping the country’s medal aspirations intact.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s highest electricity tariffs in the region have prompted the country’s top business chamber to seek a Supreme Court-ordered forensic audit of independent power producers (IPPs), amid allegations of excess payments and sector irregularities.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The parliament approved a bill aimed at preventing independent lawmakers from joining political parties after a stipulated period, potentially undermining a recent Supreme Court ruling that boosted the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan called on India on Monday to move from “dispute denial to dispute resolution” and seek a peaceful solution to the Kashmir conflict, as the region marked five years since New Delhi revoked its special autonomy.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The military on Monday accused the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), a rights movement in the southwestern province of Balochistan, of being a “proxy” for “terrorist organizations and criminal mafias”.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The much-hyped Track and Trace System (TTS) has failed to bring major tax-evading sectors into the tax net, primarily due to the Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) inability to implement the technology-based solution seamlessly.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Two judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan issued a 29-page detailed dissenting note on Saturday, questioning the majority verdict in the reserved seats case, which granted relief to former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan supports Iran’s call for an extraordinary session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) after the assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh, Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar said on Saturday.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The short-term inflation rate eased to 18.4 percent in the week ended August 1, the lowest since May 2022, as prices of food and energy items declined, official data showed on Friday.
