The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that its executive board would convene on April 29 to deliberate on approving a $1.1 billion lending package for Pakistan. This month’s cash is the final installment of a $3 billion Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) with the IMF, which was obtained by the country last summer in order to […]
Pakistan has unequivocally rejected the contents of the “2023 Country Report on Human Rights Practices,” calling it “unfair, based on inaccurate information and completely divorced from the ground reality,” as the US State Department issued its appraisal of the human rights situation per country. Foreign Office (FO) spokesman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said in a statement […]
Nawaz Sharif, the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), paid a visit to Hazrat Saad ibn Abi Waqqas’ (RA) mausoleum on Thursday in Guangzhou, the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. While on a week-long personal vacation to China, the former prime minister performed Fateha at the sacred tomb of […]
In the Dubai 12-Hour Endurance Karting Race, team Pakistan’s leader, Enaam Ahmed, not only secured Pakistan’s first-ever top-4 finish at the Nations Cup, but he also produced a stunning 9-lap lead over arch-rivals India, setting up a historic moment. Ahmed guided his team to an incredible victory on the difficult course, surpassing more than thirty […]
Wednesday saw the release of fresh information on the development of Threads, a social networking site owned by Meta that was introduced as an alternative to Elon Musk’s X last year. According to the statistics, Threads is gaining ground on Elon Musk’s previous Twitter, X, in the contest for daily active users. Apptopia’s analytics show […]
The announcement of rewards by the Balochistan government for Shahzaib Rind, the karate champion who defeated his Indian counterpart, underscores the significance of sports in fostering national pride and cross-border camaraderie. Shahzaib’s remarkable achievement not only brings glory to Balochistan and Pakistan but also exemplifies the potential for cooperation and mutual respect between nations, transcending […]
“Talking about Palestine in Germany should not be an act of courage,” the 2023 opening ceremony of ALFILM – Arab Film Festival Berlin organizers declared. It is even more difficult to organize a film festival including Palestinian perspectives a year later, given the continuous horrors committed by Israel in Gaza. Right now, it seems like […]
The purported illicit hiring practices at the lower house of parliament’s secretariat have been brought to the attention of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). Sources claim that the National Assembly Secretariat has received a letter from the NAB requesting information about appointments made to its office between March 2018 and March 2024. The letter requests […]
To stay relevant, Lara Dutta appears to have borrowed a page from the Bollywood playbook that is now doing the rounds. In an uncommon political statement, the star told Zoom that she agreed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks on Muslims made during a rally in Rajasthan. When asked about Modi’s speech in Rajasthan, according […]
K-Electric (KE) has been given approval to invest Rs392 billion over seven years to upgrade its energy delivery network by the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra). KE said that if the investment plan was accepted without any reductions, there would be a rise of Rs1.9 per unit in the transmission rate and Rs1.3 per […]
