Budget 2024: Flour price likely to increase
Lahore: Budget-filled with taxes further burdened inflation hit citizens as price of wheat is likely to increase in country. According to Flour Mills Association, significant increase in taxes on recent announced budget 2024-25 caused price of flour...
Pakistan to host SCO members summit, including India, in October: FO
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will host Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Heads of Governments meeting in October this year, Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said. During her weekly press briefing, she stated that before October summit, th...
PTI leaders dispel rumours about rift, say Imran Khan will be next premier
RAWALPINDI: PTI central leaders Omar Ayub, Shibli Faraz, Shahryar Afridi and Raoof Hasan have asserted that next prime minister will prisoner number 804, saying they were united and would remain so. Outside Adiala Jail, opposition leader in National...
Maryam advocates Punjab Defamation Act amid misuse of social, mainstream media
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz described recently introduced defamation law as need of hour and wondered how one could oppose initiative amid an unchecked trend of levelling baseless accusations against others. She promised not to allow...
Tough, unpopular budget stepping stone for IMF programme: Minister
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is looking to clinch staff-level agreement on an International Monetary Fund bailout of more than $ 6 billion this month after addressing all of lender’s requirements in its annual budget, junior Finance Minister told Reuter...
Hafiz Naeem launches JI’s movement for people’s rights
ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan amir, Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman announced to launch ‘Haq do Awaam ko’ movement. Speaking at news conference here, Hafiz Naeem demanded decrease in tax rates and power tariff. Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer said that...
Govt decides to shut down Pakistan Steel Mills
ISLAMABAD: Government has decided to shut down Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM), state-owned enterprise that has been incurring heavy losses for years. In statement, Secretary of Industry and Production said that Sindh government has been offered to take o...
PTI to stage power show in Islamabad on July 6
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced plans to hold a major rally in Islamabad on July 6, following a meeting with PTI founder in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail yesterday. PTI leader Ali Muhammad Khan addressed the media, urg...
PM to personally oversee monsoon emergency plan
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif yesterday formed a high-level committee to handle potential emergencies during the upcoming monsoon season. Chairing a review meeting to address the monsoon forecast and potential emergencies, the prime minis...
IMO audit discovers Herculean Nautical Surveyor holding five posts simultaneously under Maritime Affairs Ministry
KARACHI: The Audit Team of International Maritime Organization (IMO) warned the Ministry of Maritime Affairs that focal persons need to be trained on the Quality Management System so that they can align their management systems with QMS. In most of t...
