Gilgit Baltistan: Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid Khan on Sunday accused the central government of intentionally slashing the region’s development budget by half, claiming that this was done “under an agenda to push the region backwards”.
Addressing a presser in Islamabad along with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Murad Saeed and Ali Amin...
People in Pakistan have been asked to reduce the amount of tea they drink to keep the country's economy afloat.
Sipping fewer cups a day would cut Pakistan's high import bills, senior minister Ahsan Iqbal said.
The country's low foreign currency reserves - currently enough for fewer than two months of...
Islamabad: Pakistan Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Tuesday said that the country needed USD 41 billion dollars in the next 12 months.
"We have to pay back USD 21 billion in the next year. I am guessing that the outside limit of the current account deficit will be USD 12...
A Pakistan Army soldier was martyred during an "intense exchange of fire" with terrorists in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan tribal district, the military's media affairs wing said on Sunday.In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said the exchange of fire took place between terrorists and...
Islamabad: Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Sunday began enforcing an order requiring all female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on-air. The move is part of a hard-line shift drawing condemnation from rights activists.
After the order was announced Thursday, only a handful of news outlets...
Bachelet had defended her visit earlier on Saturday while still inside China, saying it was “not an investigation” but called on Beijing to avoid “arbitrary and indiscriminate measures” in its crackdown in Xinjiang.
She said the trip was a chance for her to speak with “candour” to Chinese authorities as well...
A top Pakistani general on Monday warned that "unnecessary and unfounded views" on the country's nuclear programme should be avoided, days after ousted prime minister Imran Khan warned that if Islamabad were to lose its nuclear deterrence, it would fragment into "three pieces".
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC)...
Islamabad , August 24 (ANI): An Islamabad court on Wednesday rejected a request by the capital police for yet another extension of seven days in the physical remand of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shahbaz Gill, who was arrested in a sedition case filed.
The judgment came as the two-day physical...
Highlighting the attacks on Chinese nationals in Pakistan, Beijing on Sunday asked Pakistan's Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa to stop attacks on its nationals who are working on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor projects in the Balochistan region.The Chinese demand came in a meeting of senior officials of Pakistan...
London: A number of Indian medical experts on Monday supported calls from an eminent British Indian cardiologist for a full safety review into the use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, administered in India as Covishield, over feared serious side effects such as heart attack and stroke.
Dr Aseem Malhotra, a...
