BEIJING -UNS: China’s foreign exchange reserves came in at $3.1839 trillion at the end of March, up 1.62 percent or $50.7 billion from a month earlier, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said. Affected by monetary policy and expectations for major economies, the dollar index fell and the prices of […]
Day: April 8, 2023
BEIJING – UNS/Reuters: Seventy-one Chinese military aircraft crossed the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait on Saturday as China began drills around Taiwan in anger at President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with the speaker of the US House of Representatives. The three-day drills, announced the day after Tsai returned from […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: Supreme Court (SC) judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Saturday objected to the verdict issued against him by a six-member SC bench remarking that it held no constitutional significance. Justice Isa issued a detailed note, later taken down from the SC’s website, on the Hafiz-e-Quran extra marks case […]
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has returned the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Bill, 2023, for reconsideration to parliament, stating that the legislation “prima-facie travels beyond the competence of the Parliament and can be assailed as a colourable legislation”. The president has returned the bill unsigned as per […]
KHYBER /BARA -UNS: Two soldiers embraced martyrdom on Saturday after an improvised explosive device (IED) blast exploded near their vehicle. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the explosion took place in the general area of Bara where the martyred, Naib Subedar Hazrat Gul, 37, ( resident of Lower Dir) […]
