By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is just ‘one step away’ from being removed from the grey list of the FATF — the international watchdog monitoring money laundering, terror financing, and other threats to global financial networks, after the had substantially completed its two action plans, covering 34 items, as part of a bid to get off the list on which it has been since 2018.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Power crisis-hit Pakistan, where the sun shines in all its glory most of the year, has planned to make the most of solar energy to overcome its chronic energy crisis, the Independent Pakistan (IP) learned on Thursday.
By Staff Reporter
RAWALPINDI: Denying a raise in the next fiscal’s defence budget, the military on Tuesday asserted, in view of the runaway inflation, their allocation shrank by Rs100 billion, a claim that on the face of it does not add up.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: All is set for Indonesia to send ten shiploads of palm oil to Pakistan on urgent basis, with the first ship ready to set sail for Karachi on Tuesday, according to a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Monday consented to a hike of Rs 7.91/unit in the baseline power tariff on average, but in a staggered manner, starting from July 1, 2022.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: British Airways on Tuesday suspended its direct flights from London’s Heathrow Airport to Islamabad owing to operational issues for fifteen days (June1-30).
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The government direly needs Rs165.2 billion for servicing foreign loans during the outgoing fiscal year as the rupee has slumped to record low against the dollar.
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ISLAMABAD: Top military brass on Monday issued a strong caveat against irresponsible comments on the country’s nuclear arsenal, a message most probably meant for ex prime minister Imran Khan for a political jibe about the safety of the country’s deterrence against the nuclear-armed India.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: On the mornings of long power-less nights, hot and bothered sleep-deprived employees totter into their offices after burning the country’s history’s most expensive fuel and blackguard their employers in hushed tones for eternally stagnant salaries.
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A day after Moody’s downgraded Pakistan’s outlook from stable to negative citing “political and social risk”, British weekly the Economist has provided an apt translation for the obscure jargon: “Imran Khan is jeopardising Pakistan’s attempts to fix its economy”.
