POL prices slashed by Rs12.63/litre
ISLAMABAD: Government slashed petrol price by Rs 12.63 per litre after which new price of petrol will be Rs 224.80 per litre. Announcement has been made by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar at a press conference here yesterday. Similarly, price of High-Spee...
US extends debt relief to flood-ravaged Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Washington on Friday rolled over an agreement to suspend service payments on $132 million of Pakistan's debt, the US embassy in Islamabad said, as the country faces an economic crisis exacerbated by devastating floods. Pakistan's economy i...
To tackle cypher controversy, govt likely to appoint interim foreign secy
ISLAMABAD: Controversy surrounding secret diplomatic cable has cast a shadow on appointment of a new foreign secretary as government could not take a decision to name chief diplomat and instead made a ‘stopgap’ arrangement. Position of fo...
PTI bigwigs purposely strategise ‘foreign conspiracy’
Islamabad: Another purported audio clip of PTI Chairman Imran Khan and his team has surfaced, just days after a sound bite of the former prime minister allegedly telling his then-principal secretary Azam Khan to "play" with the US cypher had come to...
Article 6 applies on Imran Khan, says Defence Minister
LONDON: After the recent audio leak of PTI chairman Imran Khan, Defence minister Khawaja Asif believes that Article 6 of the Constitution, which pertains to high treason, applies to the former prime minister. To a question on the government’s p...
Pak FO castigates Modi regime over killing five Kashmiri youth in IIOJK
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office said that it was matter of grave concern that Indian occupation forces had martyred five more Kashmiri youth in extra-judicial killings and fake encounters in Kulgam and Kupwara areas in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and K...
FM Bilawal’s comments attest to Pak-China mutual trust, friendship: Mao Ning
BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson said that Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s comments on China’s assistance to Pakistan for flood relief efforts attested to mutual trust and friendship between two countries. FM Bhutt...
Justice Faez urges CJP to fill vacant seats
ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa urged Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial to "immediately" convene a meeting of Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) to fill vacant Supreme Court seats as unfilled seats may leave country's highest court "dysf...
What directives Nawaz Sharif gives to his legal team?
ISLAMABAD: PML-N Supremo Nawaz Sharif directed his lawyers in London and Pakistan to work out petition to resort to court in connection with his return to Pakistan. Nawaz Sharif will make final decision in consultation with PML-N leadership eit...
Today’s trends in dramas irks Humaima Malick
Humaima Malick is considered among biggest stars of Pakistan. She achieved success both in films and dramas. She was a success with Ishq Junoon Deewangi and later on her film debut as Zainab in Bol. Humaima went and also worked in Bollywood and she w...
