ISLAMABAD: In order to offset declining foreign currency reserves and meet external debt obligations, Pakistan obtained fresh foreign loans worth $4.6 billion over the past seven months, including $1.9 billion from China alone. The foreign economic assistance stood at $4.57 billion between July and January of this fiscal year, according to the data compiled […]
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Monday gave the go-ahead to hold the Pakistan Super League (PSL) final in Lahore. The decision was taken after a high-level security huddle, following a string of targeted attacks across the country, particularly in the capital city ofPunjab, which claimed nearly 100 lives. “Law and order committee, and provincial, […]
ISLAMABAD: The operation “Raddul Fasaad” has quickly earned universal approval from all stakeholders because of the goals it wants to achieve and in view of the enormous threat posed by terrorists afresh. It is a positive development as such a direly needed initiative deserved such a remarkable consensus without which the gigantic targets […]
KARACHI: Karachi has always managed to top the rankings of street crime in Pakistan. After being controlled for a few years, street crime is making a comeback for every citizen of Karachi. Almost every citizen has experienced or heard of incidents in which threats at gunpoint have been made during mugging attempts. According to the […]
New Delhi [India], Feb.11 (ANI): Since when has Pakistan been trying to court the abyss? Is it from recent times or right from the time it became independent? To start with, Pakistan was created due to the insecurity that prevailed among Muslims in the then un-partitioned Indian subcontinent prior to 1947. What the country’s founding father, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, promised during his […]
Canadian rapper Drake has become the best-selling recording artist of 2016, beating the late rock icon David Bowie all the way up to the top spot, said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) on Wednesday. The ranking by the global industry body showed Drake scored worldwide success with his fourth album Views, […]
Myanmar is engaged in advanced negotiations with Pakistan to licence-build the indigenously developed JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft for its air force, IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly has reported. The South East Asian country has already decided to purchase 16 JF-17s from Pakistan, the military news periodical said. Quoting sources in the Myanmar Air Force (MAF), the report said […]
KARACHI: More than 39,000 Pakistanis were deported from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in the last four months, reported the Saudi Gazette on Tuesday. Referring to security sources, the Saudi newspaper said that the deportations were made for “violating the rules of residence and work”. According to Dawn.com, the report also said […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has indicated it may accept a toning down of the language of a report — subject to record — by a one-man judicial commission that severely castigated both the interior ministry and the country’s top security czar after its investigation into the August 2016 bomb blast in Quetta. “Perhaps […]
Qatar’s ambassador to Pakistan, Saqr bin Mubarak Al Mansouri, asserted that the Qatari government is not involved in the Panamagate controversy in Pakistan. According to the Dawn, in a short video released by the Aaj News for their show Rubaru, Mansouri said that the Panamagate is an internal matter for Pakistan. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) […]
