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ISLAMABAD: Police in Pakistan remained the most corrupt institution, followed by tendering and contracting and judiciary, the Transparency International (TI) Pakistan reported on Saturday, in its latest corruption survey in the South Asian country. The findings were part of the National Corruption Perception Survey (NCPS) 2023 that was conducted by...
Balochistan , February 28: Children's education in Pakistan's Panjgur is adversely affected due to a lack of educational facilities. The education system is worst in rural areas of Panjgur, Pakistan vernacular media Intekhab Daily reported citing other reports. Panjgur is a small town in the Panjgur District of Balochistan. According to Intekhab Daily, the educational...
Islamabad , December 25: Pakistan, known for sponsoring cross-border terrorism, witnessed the highest number of suicide attacks this year after 2014, with nearly half of them targeting the security forces, Dawn News reported. Citing the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), Dawn reported, "A staggering 29 suicide attacks...
Islamabad , February 28: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project that was commenced a decade ago was held as a harbinger of prosperity for Pakistan. However, seven years later, many projects under the CPEC still remain non-starters while some of those being operational have become liabilities and are incurring...
NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan was on Monday indicted in an Official Secrets Act case. "He has been indicted today and the charge was openly read out," said Shah Khawar of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency outside Adiala jail. This come as another huge blow to the cricketer-turned-politician, who is already in...
WASHINGTON: A large number of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf supporters in the United States, calling themselves as PTI US, on Sunday urged the Biden administration to impose visa bans on Pakistani officials.   The request came as pro and anti-PTI activists vie for favours in Washington.   PTI has introduced another player — Shahbaz Gill...
Karachi , March 14: Several areas of Karachi remained in darkness on Monday as a high tension (HT) transmission cable tripped due to a technical fault, ARY News reported. About 40 per cent of Karachi was completely dark, after a high tension (HT) transmission line tripped, resulting in multiple grid...
Islamabad:  Pakistan's cash-strapped government unveiled a 14.5-trillion-rupee (around $50.5-billion) budget Friday, with over half set aside to service 7.3 trillion rupees of debt. Pakistan's economy has been stricken by a balance-of-payments crisis as it attempts to service crippling external debt, while months of political chaos have scared off potential foreign...
ISLAMABAD (PAKISTAN): Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan's wife Bushra Bibi demanded ‘B-Class facilities’ for her husband under ‘Pakistan Prison Rules’, ARY News reported on Friday. Bushra Bibi wrote a letter to the home secretary of Punjab province and noted that B-Class facilities are liable to be given to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)...
ISLAMABAD: Cash-strapped Pakistan has requested its all-weather ally China to fast-track the refinancing of maturing commercial loans of $1.3 billion and apprised it of the diminishing prospects of revival of the IMF loan programme, a media report said on Tuesday. The request was made on monday by finance minister Ishaq Dar during a meeting...