Stringent monitoring of banks and crackdowns have also strengthened the rupee The Pakistani rupee continued its rally against the US dollar on Tuesday following the return of Ishaq Dar and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to the United States. The dollar was being traded at Rs234.11 in the interbank market while the open-market rate hovered […]
The transgender community on Friday slammed religious elements in the country who are opposing the Transgender Persons (transgender acts), Act (2018). Addressing a news conference in the National Press Club, transgender community representative Nayab Ali said that the law guarantees all fundamental rights of the transgender community of Pakistan, but it was being attacked by […]
Police have arrested a man, who is the son of renowned journalist Ayaz Amir, for allegedly murdering his Canadian national wife, only a day after her arrival in the country from Dubai, where she had been working. According to the police, the deceased was identified as Sara Inam, 37, and she was the third wife […]
Two Pakistan Army majors were among six military personnel who were martyred when a helicopter crash occurred in Balochistan, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said Monday. The unfortunate incident occurred during a flying mission near Harnai district’s Khost city late last night, the military’s media wing mentioned in its statement. The press statement read that […]
PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday said that his party MNAs will return to the National Assembly if the government decides to investigate the cipher from Pakistan’s ambassador in Washington allegedly containing comments regarding the vote of no-confidence against him. Khan’s remarks came during a conversation with journalists in Islamabad. The cipher, based on then-envoy […]
Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday said a two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was “the right thing” for Israel, but he cautioned that a future Palestinian state must not be “another terror base”. n his first address to the UN General Assembly, Mr. Lapid said that despite its ‘hostile surroundings,” Israel has become a […]
‘It won’t happen again’: Imran Khan dodges contempt indictment after month-late apology to judge. The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday deferred contempt proceedings against PTI chief Imran Khan after he expressed the willingness to apologise to Additional District and Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhry. The IHC had initiated contempt proceedings against Imran over his diatribe […]
Pakistan and China trumpeted their “all weather” friendship after their leaders met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit on Friday, but analysts warn that Islamabad’s scramble to extricate itself from an economic crisis could stoke tensions. Both sides’ readouts of the summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz […]
Papua New Guineans “from the mountains, valleys and coasts rose up this morning to the news that our queen has been taken to rest by God,” the country’s Prime Minister James Marape declared on the death of the U.K.’s Queen Elizabeth II. “She was the anchor of our Commonwealth, and for PNG we fondly call […]
A larger bench of the IHC will start proceedings of the case at 2:30 pm on Thursday. A larger bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) will frame contempt of court charges against PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday for passing controversial remarks about Additional District and Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhry during a rally in […]
