Amidst calls for a probe into alleged rigging and manipulation of results of the February 8 polls, United States Senator Chris Van Hollen urged Pakistan to “respect people’s decision expressed via votes”. “Respecting the decision of the Pakistani people, expressed through their votes, is the only way a new government will be empowered to tackle […]
The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has alerted authorities concerned about possible rain-wind/thunderstorms with snowfall over the hills in Balochistan and upper parts of the country on Feb 26 and 27. Heavy rainfall may cause flash flooding in local nullahs in Balochistan while snowfall in hilly areas may disrupt or cause closure of roads during the […]
For more than six days now, people in Pakistan have been unable to access the social media platform X, which was previously known as Twitter. The government hasn’t given any reasons for this long disruption. This issue started last Saturday and has affected many users who use the platform to share information. The Pakistan Telecommunication […]
The 16th National Assembly’s freshly elected members’ salaries are set to receive recommendations for a budgetary budget of Rs1.5 billion. The proposal has been prepared by the Cash and Accounts Branch of the NA. Salary costs are estimated to be Rs411.1 million, allowances at Rs130 million, and operating costs at Rs891 million. Benefits for NA […]
The agreement came after six days of meetings between Ukrainian officials and IMF staff in Warsaw, Poland as part of a third review of Ukraine’s $15.6 billion 4-year Extended Fund Facility (EFF) Arrangement with the IMF. The IMF said Ukraine’s progress on the program was “broadly on track”, noting that Kyiv met all structural benchmarks […]
According to details, Ali Khan has been nominated in the murder case for killing a couple in the name of honor in Mianwali. The accused has been handed over to Kamar Mashani police. According to police Ali Khan had killed Naseer and his wife Shumaila in the name of honour and fled to the United […]
According to a report compiled by the finance ministry, Pakistan has achieved 25 targets of the international lender, the sources said and added that a report has been dispatched to the IMF. The condition set by the IMF not to take loans from the SBP was fulfilled, while the payment of the international loans was […]
After becoming Islam, a German Sikh girl of Indian descent got married to a young man from Sialkot. Zainab, formerly known as Jaspreet Kaur, and Ali Arsalan exchanged vows, as attested to by the Islam acceptance certificate from Jamia Hanafia Sialkot. Kaur is the daughter of Sangara Singh and is originally from Ludhiana in Indian […]
An informed source said that on March 26, 2022, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto had advised former army head Gen (R) Qamar Javed Bajwa that he would go public if the military establishment forced the opposition to drop their motion of no confidence against the government of Imran Khan. Numerous politicians were present at the meeting, […]
Overall growth in the domestic taxes has been around 40%, while import duty and related taxes grew by 16% over the July 2023 to January 2024 period. The growth in revenues gained momentum as GDP has revived and FBR collection has come under tighter scrutiny. FBR collections grew by 30% to Rs.5.1 trillion till mid-February […]
