By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: When they couldn’t find an exorcist to drive the demons possessing the economy out, some number-crunching wizkid pitched the idea of rebasing the economy to shave some decimals off those hairy figures, which the PTI-led regime’s likely fifth column found quite clever and convinced Imran Khan to go for it.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: The central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by 150 basis points to 13.75 percent, the second hike in less than two months, to tame runaway inflation as policy makers try to win a bailout from the International Monetary Fund without meeting the politically tough condition of increasing fuel prices.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ruling coalition is huddling together yet again Monday – this time to deliberate ways and means to counter the political onslaught of Imran Khan, the prime minister they ousted from power.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan asked his supporters to march on Islamabad for a ‘battle for real freedom’ sit-in on May 25 to press the coalition government to call an early election or face popular rage in a grim escalation of a three-month long political crisis.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Where the manifest sexual innuendo Imran Khan poked at Maryam Nawaz betrays the degeneration of his cynical toxic masculinity, it also lays bare his personal libidinous frustration that men of his mentality gratify by telling the women, who challenge them socially, sexually, and politically, how “penetrable” they are. Shame. But it must be said.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Top government personalities at both federal and (Punjab) provincial level reportedly professed ignorance as to who had greenlit or ordered the Saturday arrest of Dr Shireen Mazari, a close aide of the ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has initiated a fresh round of consultations with his Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) allies over whether the coalition should continue in government or step down to make way for fresh elections, Independent Pakistan can report.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Friday ruled that the 25 members of the Punjab provincial assembly who recently voted contrary to the position of their Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party have lost the membership of the august assembly.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s administration Thursday slapped a ban on luxury imports as a step towards balancing the country’s broken budget, demonstrating it means business when it comes to redressing the country’s festering economic woes.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s newly elected coalition government has reached a consensus that spending cuts in development projects in the next fiscal year are the best way to stabilise the country’s fragile finances hit by expensive energy imports.
