ISLAMABAD: Amid the shutdown strike observed by retailers across the country, the IMF has not yet placed Pakistan on the agenda list of its calendar till September 6, 2024, mainly because of non-confirmation on external financing.
The IMF Executive Board has issued its calendar details and Pakistan has not been...
Pakistan’s ongoing internet slowdown is expected to continue, with repairs to the damaged SMW-4 submarine cable likely to be completed by early October 2024, according to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).
In a statement released on Wednesday, the PTA explained that the internet disruption across the country is primarily due...
Afghanistan said on Tuesday that it is investigating reports of Pakistani fighter jets violating Afghan airspace while patrolling.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesperson for the interim Afghan government, said Kabul will respond “seriously” if Afghanistan’s airspace is violated, the local broadcaster Tolo News reported. “The patrolling of Pakistani aircraft has not...
Imran Khan, the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has labelled the arrest of former director general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt-Gen (retd) Faiz Hameed as an internal issue of the military, distancing his party from the matter.
Following a meeting with senior lawyers at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, Khan’s legal...
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday summoned secretaries of interior and defense, IGP ICT and DG FIA in person on non-compliance of orders to recover two missing brothers.
The court also summoned Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) for assistance in the same case on August 15. The bench...
Pakistan continues to grapple with severe infrastructural underdevelopment, a direct consequence of decades of administrative neglect and mismanagement. This critical issue not only hampers the nation’s economic growth but also significantly impacts the quality of life for millions of its citizens.
Nowhere is this more evident than in regions like...
QUETTA: Peter Charles Sahotra, the founding chairman of the Pakistan Minorities Movement, has said minority communities face insecurity and discrimination in Pakistan and called upon the government to ensure their rights provided in the Constitution.
While speaking at a seminar on National Minorities Day on Sunday, Mr Sahotara said minority...
In response to non-violent protests by Mahrang Baloch, the Pakistani military is contemplating new tactics, including the establishment of new internment centres in Balochistan, similar to those set up in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Reports suggest that these proposed centres in Balochistan would operate like the Guantanamo Bay prison complex or the...
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has expressed solidarity with Baloch Yakjehti Committee and others who are opposing state oppression and called on the Pakistan government to end the crackdown against the peaceful gathering organised by Baloch women against the Baloch genocide by blocking roads, raiding houses, and abducting organisers.
Thunberg called...
Several Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) supporters have been arrested in various parts of Pakistan as the police began a crackdown against the party amid a sit-in at D-Chowk in Islamabad.
Several JI workers who were heading to D-Chowk in Islamabad to hold a sit-in were held and shifted to an unknown place...
