A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will meet Sri Lanka’s president for talks to finalise a bailout package, including restructuring debt of about $29bn, amid the nation’s worst financial crisis in more than 70 years.
The second such IMF visit in three months comes on Wednesday as the...
Kabul: Taliban has shut down shops that were accepting Pakistani rupees as the mode of payment in Uruzgan province, reported Tolo News.
Officials of the committee for Afghani Promotion said that the usage of foreign currency has been banned in this province and will deal legally with violators.
“We will keep...
Beijing: Pakistan's newly-appointed Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari held talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Sunday in Guangzhou city and emphasised that "it is critical to resolve all outstanding disputes in South Asia in view of the challenges faced by the people due to the pandemic, soaring...
Lahore: Sixteen graves of the Ahmadi community in Pakistan’s Punjab province have been allegedly desecrated by religious extremists for using Islamic symbols on gravestones at a cemetery, a spokesman of the minority community said on Wednesday.According to Jamaat Ahmadiya Punjab spokesperson Aamir Mahmood, on August 22, unidentified persons desecrated...
Pakistan’s third-most populous province has decided to have a work-from-home policy on Fridays for its employees, in the latest among a raft of decisions to save energy and avoid nationwide blackouts.
The step has been announced to save fuel and electricity, Taimur Khan Jhagra, the finance minister of the northwest...
The police chief in Pakistan’s Sindh province reportedly directed the officials on Sunday to take special security measures to ensure the protection of Chinese nationals working on different projects throughout the country. The announcement came a few weeks after a deadly attack in Karachi that killed four, including three...
Kathmandu: Nepal Foreign Minister NP Saud on Tuesday rejected the claims of the Chinese Ambassador to Nepal that an airport had been built under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Nepal.
FM Saud rejected the claims while addressing the International Relations and Tourism Committee stating the BRI project hasn't been...
Dhaka: Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday sentenced three persons to death for collaborating with the Pakistan Army and committing crimes against humanity during the country's Liberation War in 1971.
One of the convicts is a fugitive and was tried in absentia but the other two faced the trial in...
Islamabad: Amid the political instability and debt payments for power plants coming up under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), IMF’s threat to delay the release of the USD 3 billion bailouts from six billion has pushed the Islamabad into an economic crisis.
Earlier, on June 12, Pakistan Finance Minister Miftah...
Protests were carried out on Friday in Turbat and Panjgoor against the “enforced disappearance” of Baloch women. Scores of protests, predominantly women and children, took to the roads in the sweltering summer sun, carrying placards and chanting slogans for the safe release of Noorjan Baloch and Habiba Baloch who...
