Pakistan will receive $700 million following approval from the Fund’s Executive Board, as per an agreement reached at the staff level about the first assessment of a $3 billion bailout, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced on Wednesday. A delegation headed by Nathan Porter was in Islamabad to have talks on the first review of […]
Despite Israel’s announcement that it would deploy portable incubators, Palestinians confined inside Gaza’s largest hospital said they had no plan in place to evacuate newborns and were excavating a mass grave on Tuesday to bury patients who passed away while under Israeli encirclement. More than 11,000 people are officially dead from Israeli strikes, with around […]
Due to the accused’s non-appearance, the electoral commission panel postponed the contempt case against Imran Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), and two former federal ministers, Asad Umar and Fawad Chaudhry, on Monday. The case was taken up by a four-person commission headed by Nisar Durrani, a member of the Election Commission of […]
Islamabad is hopeful that the first review of the $3 billion standby agreement (SBA) would be completed successfully, as negotiations between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) team and Pakistani officials are now in their final round. According to sources, policy-level negotiations between the IMF and Pakistani authorities got underway today, Monday, and will go until […]
At a summit conference on Saturday in the Saudi capital, Iranian President Hassan and other Arab leaders are expected to reaffirm their demands that the violence in Gaza cease before the Israel-Hamas war enlists the support of other nations. The Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) are holding an emergency conference in […]
As American activists and journalists continue to demonstrate against the genocide in Palestine, more celebrities have signed an open letter calling for an end to hostilities. In particular, the letter demands that Congress and President Joe Biden move quickly to implement a ceasefire and de-escalation in Gaza, where the number of Palestinian deaths is getting […]
After the May 9 riots, Asad Umar, the former planning minister, resigned from his position as secretary general of the PTI. On Saturday, he also left politics. “After more than a decade in public life, I have decided to completely quit politics,” he wrote in a post on X. Umar, a former close adviser to […]
As the death toll increased and combat heated up near and around hospitals, Israel came under increasing international pressure, notably from its principal partner the United States, to take more action to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Over 11,000 Palestinians have lost their lives as a result of Israeli troops attacking Hamas resistance members who […]
According to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, he received approaches from several political parties last year after a 2021 survey indicated 46% of Americans would back his presidential campaign. In late 2022, the parties contacted the actor and former WWE wrestler, who made his debut as the first guest on Trevor Noah’s new Spotify podcast, What […]
The houses, automobiles, and bank accounts of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif were ordered to be unsealed by an accountability court in Islamabad on Friday in connection with the Toshakhana case that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had filed. In the Toshakhana case, the same accountability court judge postponed the three-time former prime […]
