In response to the US move to punish businesses that are purportedly associated with Pakistan’s ballistic missile development, the Foreign Office (FO) disapproved of the “political use” of export control on Saturday. FO spokesman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch remarked at a news conference: “Such listings of commercial entities have taken place on allegations of links to […]
Air defence systems over several Iranian cities were activated, state media reported, after the country’s official broadcaster said explosions were heard near the city of Isfahan. A senior Iranian official told Reuters there is no plan for immediate retaliation, adding that there was no clarity yet on who was behind the incident. “The foreign source […]
According to a Bloomberg story, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb stated that the administration anticipated little devaluation of the rupee after discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Currently attending the IMF and World Bank (WB) spring meetings in Washington is the finance minister. According to him, the average annual depreciation of the rupee is between […]
It will be his first foreign trip in the wake of tensions between Iran and Israel. On Saturday, Iran launched drones to attack Israel. Ebrahim Raisi is the first foreign head of state/government who will visit Pakistan after Shehbaz Sharif took charge as the prime minister last month. Iran Embassy sources told The News Sunday […]
In a heartbreaking occurrence that occurred in Nushki area of Balochistan, 11 people were shot dead by unidentified terrorists, nine of them were travelers from Punjab. Approximately one kilometer distant from Nushki, at the steep area of Sultan Chadhai, over a dozen militants stopped the Quetta-Nushki-Taftan N-40 National Highway on Friday night, according to Nushki […]
Nobel Peace Prize winner and education campaigner Malala Yousafzai encouraged Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to raise education spending to 4% of the national GDP on Tuesday, highlighting the need of giving girls’ education special attention. Malala noted in a letter to the prime minister that Pakistan was only allocating less than 2% of its GDP […]
In a plea filed with the Islamabad High Court (IHC), the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) requested a delay of the Senate elections for the chairman and deputy chairman positions on Monday. Five PTI senators have filed a challenge arguing that the existing electoral college is “unconstitutional” since it is incomplete because Senate elections were not conducted […]
Pakistan vehemently denounced Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s “provocative” comments in a broadcast interview on Saturday, calling them a “admission of guilt”. In an interview with CNN News18, Singh stated that India will cross into Pakistan and execute anyone who tries to cross the border and commits terrorism there. “If they run away to Pakistan, […]
In an effort to learn the truth, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pledged on Thursday that the government will look into the threat letters that judges received that included questionable substance. The prime minister said, speaking to the federal cabinet, that the delicate subject shouldn’t be politicized. He noted that the government had done its part […]
Results of intra-party elections held on Thursday indicate that Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman has been chosen as the new emir of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Pakistan religio-political party, for the next five years. In the most recent intra-party elections, more over 45,000 party members voted to choose the next emir, according to Qaisar Sharif, the secretary of […]
