By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: As the end of Pakistan’s fiscal year nears and the budget making exercise gets into a higher gear, data on the performance of various sectors of Pakistan’s economy is trickling in and numbers are being crunched to piece together a clearer picture of national accounts.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Democratic Front (PDM) government has decided to bite the bullet of economic stabilisation and aim to complete the full term of the sitting National Assembly before heading to the general election, well-placed sources told Independent Pakistan on Wednesday.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s economic whiz kids today opened talks with their International Monetary Fund (IMF) counterparts on a stalled bailout facility with their fingers crossed as their forerunners left no room for error for them.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan Tuesday ruled the votes of any parliamentarians dissenting with their party position in four crucial matters would not be counted.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Aamir Ashraf Khawaja, Federal Secretary of Health, is about to get the axe for allegedly godfathering a slew of malpractices that nearly maimed the medical regulatory authority, sources said.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The PLMN coalition government on Monday attached an enhanced security detail to former prime minister Imran Khan, perhaps no less than what he used to enjoy when was in power, a day after the fire-breathing politician swore he was a ‘marked man’.
By Staff Reporter
So this is what the multiple crises staring Pakistan in the eye from all sides boil down to: Who is responsible for the mess we are in?
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Abdul Joshi has summited Mount Everest along with an elite international team of mountaineers, the Pakistan Alpine Club has said.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has once again declined to authorise any immediate increase in petroleum prices, throwing a spanner in the works of the government team tasked with negotiating a revival of the stalled USD 6-billion bailout with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: If anyone had any misgivings about how much Pakistani women love cricket, they now stand corrected. In what the officials have termed as an overwhelming turnout, no less than 1,118 young young women showed up in the trials organised by five of the country’s six cricket associations, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has said.
