Four Killed in Il-76 Plane Crash in Russia
In Russia, four people were killed and five others injured after an Il-76 transport plane crashed in western region of Ryazan. In a statement, the...
Pakistan Dispatches Second Tranche Of Relief Goods To Earthquake-Hit Afghanistan
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan on Friday dispatched the second tranche of humanitarian assistance for the earthquake affectees in a C-30 aircraft of Pakistan Air Force to Afghanistan....
PML-N And MQM-P Believe In Long Term Political Partnership : Saad Rafique
KARACHI: Federal Minister for Railway and Aviation Khawaja Saad Rafique said on Friday that Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P)...
Industries Will Shut Down Owing To Imposition Of Super Tax: Shaukat Tarin
KARACHI: Former finance minister Shaukat Tarin has termed the Federal Budget 2022-23 as ‘anti-people’ and ‘bloody’, warning that Pakistan could face Sri Lanka-like crisis if...
Electricity Saving Measures Will Not Be Applicable On Saturdays
KARACHI: The Sindh government has amended the notification for the closure of markets, shopping centres and business activities on Saturdays for saving electricity amid the...
Federal Govt Allocated Massive Amount Of Rs 100 Bln For Development Of Balochistan: PM
Gwadar: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced the provision of 200 acres of land for establishment of a residential colony for the fishermen of Gwadar...
Chinese Consortium Loan Worth 2.3 billion Dollars Credited SBP
Islamabad: Minister for Finance and Revenue Miftah Ismail says Chinese consortium loan worth 2.3 billion dollars has been credited into State Bank of Pakistan. I...
PSX Witnessed Crash As KSE- 100 Index Plunges Over 1, 600 Points
KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) Friday witnessed a crash immediately after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced “tough decisions” taken by the government in the...
Fixed Tax Will Be Imposed On Small Traders: Miftah Ismail
Islamabad: Minister for Finance Miftah Ismail has said the government has decided to levy super tax on the affluent class to reduce budget deficit in...
Pakistan Stresses On Resolution Of All Disputes Including Kashmir With India: FO
Islamabad: Pakistan has always stressed on resolution of all outstanding issues through result oriented and meaningful dialogue including the issue of Jammu and Kashmir with...
NEPRA Approves Uptick In K-Electric Per Unit Price Under Fuel Adjustment Charges Of April
Islamabad: National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has approved a raise of Rs 5.27 per unit for K-electric customers under the fuel adjustment charges for...
Met Dept Rings Bell Of Danger As Monsoon Rains Will Lash Karachi From July 1
Karachi: Citizens of Karachi be alerted as Meteorological department (Met Dept) has predicted that this time around more than thirty percent of usual rains will...
Covid-19 Sixth Wave: Commissioner Karachi Urged To Ensure Precautionary Measures
Karachi: Director General (DG) Health Sindh has written a letter to the commissioner Karachi in the wake of possible sixth wave of Coronavirus. The DG...
Coronavirus Once Again Increasing Across The Country As 309 new COVID Cases Reported
Islamabad: 309 new Coronavirus cases have been reported throughout the country during the last 24 hours. As per data shared by the National Institute of...
Dollar Price Increases Again In Open and Inter-Bank Market After One Day Depreciation
Karachi: Dollar price once again increased by 77 paisa after stoppage of its continued spike in last few days . According to forex dealers, after...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif To Visit Gwadar Today
Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will pay a one-day visit to Gwadar today. In a short span of one month, it is second visit of...
Coalition Partners Have Decided to Complete Govt-Term: PM
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has reiterated that coalition government will complete constitutional term and steer the country out of current economic crisis. Addressing...
COVID Positivity Ratio Jumps to 21pc in Karachi
KARACHI: A new wave of Corona is looming across the country. In the last 24 hours, most corona cases were reported in Karachi. In the...
Govt Replacing Names of our Projects: Shaukat Tareen
Former Finance Minister Shaukat Tareen has said that Miftah Ismail should ‘stop fooling people’ by badmouthing out economic performance. Responding to Finance Minister Miftah Ismail’s...
Price of Some Items Increased At Utility Stores
RAWALPINDI: Utility Stores Corporation (USC) has increased prices of some essential food items. According to the notification, the price of split lentil increased from Rs162...
Miftah Says Imran Khan Tried To Make Pakistan Default
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Finance and Revenue Miftah Ismail says the government has provided relief to poor people by shifting burden of tax on rich people....
Rupee Gains 4.70 Against US Dollar
KARACHI: The rupee snapped its losing streak against the US dollar, gaining Rs4.70 n the interbank market a day after the government secured the much-anticipated...
Power Tariff Likely to Increase by Rs11.34 for K-Electric Consumers
KARACHI–As nation faces rising fuel cost and inflation, the power tariff is also likely to increase by whopping Rs11.34 for K-Electric consumers. According to sources,...
Afghan Govt Confirms Death of Atleast 1,000 in Quake
SHARAN: A powerful earthquake jolted a remote border region of Afghanistan overnight killing at least 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more, officials said Wednesday, with...
Pakistan Sees 268 Covid Cases
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported one death in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus as the number of confirmed positive cases has surged to 1,532,732....
Oil Prices Fall In International Market
Oil prices continued to pull back on Thursday, dropping more than 2% as investors recalibrated assessments of recession risks and fuel demand amid interest rate...
Five Dead as Rainfall Hits Karachi
KARACHI: Five people, including four children, were killed as the city witnessed heavy rain with strong winds on Wednesday night, said rescue sources. The deaths occurred...
Asif Ali Zardari’s Mother Passes Away
KARACHI: PPP Co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari’s mother, Zareen Ara Bukhari, passed away in Karachi, the party confirmed Wednesday. Family sources told that...
Parliamentarians Will Be Taken Into Confidence: Ministers
ISLAMABAD: An in-camera meeting of the National Security Committee, which met in Islamabad on Wednesday with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the chair, held a...
Italian Defence Chief Calls on COAS Bajwa
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Defence, Italian Armed Forces Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone on Wednesday called on the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa,...
Punjab Assembly Passes Finance Bill 2022-23
LAHORE: The provincial government passed, amid the absence of the Opposition, its budget of Rs3.226 trillion for the financial year 2022-23 in the Punjab Assembly...
NSC Briefed on National Security
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday chaired an in-camera meeting of the National Security Committee and discussed talks with proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and...
Italian Defence Chief Lauds Professionalism of Pakistan’s Armed Forces
Chief of Defence General Staff Italian Armed Forces Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone called on Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu in Islamabad on Wednesday....
LHC Disposes of Plea Against Authenticity of Meera’s Marriage With Atiqur Rehman
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday disposed of a plea challenging the validity of Pakistani film actor Meera’s marriage with Atiqur Rehman due to...
Maryam Nawaz Feels Sorry For Imran Khan’s Mental Health
LAHORE: PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has once again criticized former Prime Minister Imran Khan, saying that she feels sorry for his mental condition. In...
Gold Price Declines By Rs1,850 Per Tola
KARACHI: In line with its last day’s momentum, gold price in Pakistan plunged by Rs1,850 per tola to settle at Rs145,300 on hopes that the...
KSE-100 Index Sheds 63 Points
KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange’s (PSX) benchmark KSE-100 index opened in the green on Wednesday, continuing its momentum from the previous day, just hours after...
Pakistan, Chinese Consortium Sign $2.3Bn Loan Agreement
Chinese consortium of banks has signed a loan facility agreement worth 2.3 billion dollars and the inflow is expected in a couple of days. This...
More Pained We Felt More Than The Letter When Thieves Imposed On Us: Imran Khan
Islamabad: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan said “I say by making the God witness, I didn’t think of ever who be made army chief...
Indian Controlled Judiciary Responsible For Killings Of Kashmiris: Meshal Malik
Islamabad: Wife of Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik, Meshal Malik on Wednesday said that the controlled Indian judiciary is responsible for the judicial murder of Kashmiri...
IHC Instructs ECP To Hold New Delimitations, Issue Schedule Of LBEs In Islamabad
Islamabad: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday approving PML-N and PPP petitions regarding postponement of local bodies elections in Islamabad, has ordered the Election Commission...
Judicial Magistrate Orders Regarding Autopsy, Exhuming Body Of Amir Liaqut Suspended
Karachi: Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday suspended a judicial magistrate east verdict regarding autopsy and exhuming of media and religious personality Dr Amir Liaqut...
FO and PM Express Condolences Over Lives Lost in Afghanistan Earthquake
Islamabad: The foreign ministry of Pakistan and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have expressed condolences over the lives lost in the earthquake. The Prime Minister said...
Earthquake Wreack Havoc In Paktika Province Of Afghanistan As 950 Killed
KABUL: An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 killed at least 950 people in Afghanistan early on Wednesday, officials said, adding that at least 610 of people...
SC Suspends LHC Order Regarding Election Of Hajj Pilgrims Facilitators
Islamabad: Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) on Wednesday suspended Lahore High Court (LHC) order against an election of facilitators of Hajj pilgrims. A three-member bench...
IMF And Pakistan Broker Agreement After Successful Talks
ISLAMABAD: The agreement reached between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the government Pakistan. The IMF and Pakistan brokered a staff-level agreement after following successful...
Pakistan Signs Agreement With Iran To Get Additional 100 MW Electricity For Balochistan
Tehran: Pakistan and Iran have signed an agreement pertaining to electricity import to Balochistan. Minister for Energy Khurram Dastgir Khan says the government has signed...
6.1 Magnitude Earthquake Jolts Parts of Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck parts of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the wee hours of Wednesday. Tremors were felt in Islamabad, Multan, Bhakkar, Phalia, Peshawar,...
Three Arrested Over Sidhu Moosewala’s Murder
NEW DELHI: Indian police have arrested three men accused of murdering hip-hop star Sidhu Moose Wala, seizing a cache of weaponry including a grenade launcher...
ECP Takes Notice of Qureshi’s Press Conference
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikander Sultan Raja took notice of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) vice chairperson and the former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s press...