ISLAMABAD -Reuters/UNS : Pakistan’s inflation rate stayed above target at 27.4 per cent in August, data showed on Friday, as reforms set out as conditions for an IMF loan complicate the task of keeping price pressures and declines in its rupee currency in check. According to data released by the […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: PTI President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi was re-arrested by the Islamabad police on Friday, hours after the Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered his release. According to the capital police, the former Punjab chief minister was taken into custody on orders of the district magistrate under Section 3 of the […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.-UNS: “Geelani Sahib was a captivating personality, a person with farsightedness, judgment and judiciousness. He undoubtedly was a person of character, truthfulness and steadfastness. A legendary and eminent scholar and intellectual, he was certainly one of the most recognizable experts on the subject of Kashmir in South Asia. The […]
By Iftikhar Mashwani ISLAMABAD : Kyrgyz Republic celebrated its 32nd Independence Day on Augst 31,2023. On this occasion Ambassador of Kyrgyz Republic in Pakistan Mr Ulanbek Totuiaev hosted a colorful dinner and function in a local hotel in Islamabad on Thursday evening. Dignitaries of different walks of life, Ambassadors and […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: Nine soldiers were martyred while five others were injured in a suicide attack at a military convoy in the Jani Khel general area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district, the military’s media affairs wing said on Thursday. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a […]
ISLAMABAD UNS:The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday dismissed the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) plea asking the top court to revisit its order of holding elections to the Punjab Assembly on May 14. “The court will intervene whenever the Constitution is violated,” Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: “India was feverishly indulged in unprecedented increase in its fissile material stockpile and acquisition of all kinds of weapon systems and technologies, posing great risk to this region and beyond,” stated Lieutenant General (Retd) Sarfraz Sattar, former Director General, Strategic Plans Division (SPD), in his keynote address at […]
By Rehan Khan Khushik KARACHI/ HYDERABAD. The World Bank Technical Mission, while visiting the small dam sites in Kohistan and Malir expressed that the project has achieved significant progress in a short period of time. The technical mission comprised on Ms. Amparo Samper Hiraldo, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, Mr. […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: Interim Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Thursday said that the government was working on options to tackle inflated power bills without deviating from its agreements with multilateral institutions. “We have conditionalities and agreements with multi-financial institutions which we have to fulfil at any cost,” he asserted, but […]
ISLAMABAD : As the countrywide protests over massive power bills are intensifying, the Kakar-led caretaker government has failed to come up with any relief measures as it tries to strike a balance between avoiding drawing the IMF’s ire and causing more citizens to blow a fuse. In a recent meeting […]
