KARACHI: Singer and activist Fakhre Alam claimed on Sunday that he has become the first Pakistani to circumnavigate the globe solo. In a message on Twitter, the 42-year-old singer said he wanted to give the good news to all Pakistanis that his Mission Parwaaz had been accomplished. “Pakistan aap sab ko khushkabree deina chaata houn […]
ISLAMABAD: A major fraud has been detected in the National Savings — a public sector organisation of Rs3.6 trillion — in which insiders have reportedly siphoned off around Rs200 million, breaching trust of more than seven million small-to-medium individual savers. The fraud came to light on maturity of 10-year saving certificates of individuals at a […]
MUZAFFARABAD: A single gunshot by Indian forces from across the Line of Control (LoC) killed a mother of two in a village in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, a police official said on Saturday. Munazza Bibi, 22, wife of Wasim Malick, died at 10pm on Friday at her home in Lawana Khetar village, said the Bhimber […]
BEIJING: China will provide necessary assistance to Pakistan to steer the country out of the current economic crisis but more talks are needed on the details of such assistance, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou said on Saturday following the meeting of Prime Minister Imran Khan with his counterpart Li Keqiang. Speaking to reporters at […]
ISLAMABAD: Inflation in Pakistan surged to seven per cent in October, up from 3.8pc in the same month last year — marking the biggest increase in three years and 10 months. Compared to September this year, the consumer price index (CPI) in October increased by 2.6pc. The government has projected a 6pc annual inflation target […]
RAWALPINDI: Former senator and chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Maulana Samiul Haq was assassinated at his house in the strictly guarded Bahria Town’s Safari Villas II on Friday evening, his son and police confirmed. His son, Maulana Hamid-ul-Haq, said that Maulana Sami was in his bedroom when unidentified persons entered the […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday said it would not seek rescheduling of about $2.7bn Chinese loans due for repayment this year but expected a good economic package, including expansion of the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to a next level. “We will give you very good news on return,” said minister for planning and focal […]
LAHORE / ISLAMABAD: Even as they made it plain that they would take strict action if the situation grew worse, both the federal and Punjab governments on Thursday said they were not eager to launch any police operation against the rightwing groups protesting over acquittal of Aasia Bibi in a blasphemy case. Information ministers in […]
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, while talking to Iranian journalists at the end of his day-long visit to Islamabad, said: “Pakistani authorities have proposed coordinated operations [to pre-empt terrorist incidents in future]. There appears to be a consensus within Pakistan that such incidents should not be allowed to recur so that those elements opposed to […]
Mr Sharif, who is also president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), further asked Mr Khan to disclose the name of the person who had sought an NRO (a reference to ending politically motivated cases under the National Reconciliation Ordinance that was promulgated by military dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf in 2008) and challenged the PM […]
