By Naveed Naqvi
ISLAMABAD: Ceased with probing alleged abuse of power and sexual harassment by a former chairman of National Accountability Bureau (NAB), a powerful parliamentary committee says current and former NAB functionaries who think they can flout its authority will be brought to heel through the police.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: While the economic repercussions of Pakistan’s developing political situation are yet to materialise, recent reports from two of the world’s top credit rating agencies show how the country’s internal politics figures in their calculus.
By Riaz Missen
ISLAMABAD: After former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) scored a thumping victory in Sunday’s crucial by-election in the Punjab province, all eyes are on whether the provincial government of its archrival Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) can survive.
By Aoun Hussain
ISLAMABAD: Clearly buoyed by his success in clinching a staff-level accord with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the revival of a stalled Fund bailout, Minister for Finance Miftah Ismail Saturday proclaimed at a media conference here that Pakistan had successfully averted default.
By Aoun Hussain
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has approved a USD 200 million loan to help transform the agriculture sector of Pakistan’s food basket Punjab province.
By Riaz Missen
ISLAMABAD: With the economy bursting at its seams because of double digit inflation that is encroaching on consumer’s purchasing power and pushing suicide and crime rates higher, political rivals have closed their campaign for the mandatory election silence ahead of Sunday’s Punjab by-polls.
By Naveed Naqvi
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Cabinet Friday approved the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry to formally and transparently investigate the serious allegations of sexual harassment against former Chairman NAB Justice (R) Javed Iqbal.
By Staff Reporter
RAWALPINDI: Search is still on for a civilian taken hostage by terrorists along with his military cousin from near Ziarat, Balochistan despite bad weather conditions, a military spokesman has said, asserting the security forces are determined to bring reckoning to the perpetrators.
By Ahmer Kureishi
ISLAMABAD: Aftershocks from the fateful events of April 3, 2022 are still shaking our polity. Now the Supreme Court of Pakistan has ruled in the matter at length: The Deputy Speaker’s ruling of that day violated Article 95(2) of the Constitution and attempted to interpret Article 5 of the Constitution without jurisdiction.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Unruffled by widespread allegations of rampant corruption surfacing over its four year sojourn in power, former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is dead-set on its narrative of political corruption and accountability being central to all ills of our polity.
