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Medicines’ shortage looming ahead, but why?
KARACHI: Pharmaceutical manufacturers have warned that the State Bank of Pakistan s (SBP) refusal to issue letters of credit (LCs) may result in a shortage of medicines because local banks are not issuing the document necessary for the import of raw...
PTI to take decision on dissolution of assemblies by next week: Fawad
JEHLUM: Former Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry said that party will make decision regarding dissolving Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab assemblies by next week. Inaugurating Deena-Mangla Bypass Road here, he said that w...
MoF says ‘yes’ to MoIT proposal: Effective mechanism on cards for making Google payments
Islamabad: IT Minister Aminul Haque said that Finance Ministry agreed to devise mechanism for making payments against Google app services and directed State Bank of Pakistan to delay revocation of direct carrier billing (DCB) for telecom companies, a...
‘Pakistan’s population likely to surge past 330 million by 2050’
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s total population will likely surge past 330 million by 2050, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb said, as she stressed need to control growth rate. “Soon, national emergency plan will be unve...
PM Shehbaz visits Chinese Embassy, condoles death of ex-Chinese President
Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visited Chinese Embassy here to condole death of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Prime Minister met Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Nong Rong and expressed his deep grief on death of former Chinese Presid...
OCHA Head calls on NDMA Chairman
ISLAMABAD: Carlos Geha newly appointed United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA’s) Head of Office for Pakistan called on Chairman NDMA Lieutenant General Inam Haider Malik in his office at Prime Minister Secre...
No respite for coal miners
The pathetic working conditions in coalmines have taken toll on the lives of miners yet again. In this latest incident, as many as nine labourers have lost their lives while four others sustained injuries in an explosion at a coal mine site in Orakza...
Policemen martyred, several injured
QUETTA: Death toll from targeted suicide attack on police truck in Quetta rose further as another child died during treatment hours after bombing, taking number of casualties to four. A suicide bomber targeted truck transporting policemen for securit...
Law Minister Tarar ‘back to pavilion’
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Azam Nazeer Tarar has been reinstated as federal Minister for law and justice after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif rejected his resignation. According to notification from federal government, Ta...
CJCSC Sahir Shamshad discusses national security, regional situation with President Alvi
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Sahir Shamshad Mirza and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Syed Asim Muneer separately called on President Dr Arif Alvi here yesterday. Meetings held at Aiwan-e-Sadr focused on profess...
