Saudi help to boost reserves this month: Ishaq Dar
ISLAMABAD: Terming the PTI’s white paper totally misleading, Federal Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar Wednesday said the Saudi financial assistance would boost the dwindling...
Impasse widens in US House speaker showdown
Some 20 Republicans denied McCarthy a majority in three drawn-out votes on Wednesday —forcing another overnight adjournment with little to show for the drama...
Maryam Nawaz’s son Junaid moving to Pakistan permanently
LONDON: Maryam Nawaz Sharif's son Junaid Safdar is set to reach Pakistan to settle there full-time and is expected to assist her mother after...
Car accident case: Supreme Court judge, Islamabad AG have heated argument
ISLAMABAD: An exchange took place between Supreme Court Justice Mazahir Ali Akbar Naqvi and Advocate General Islamabad Jehangir Jadoon on Wednesday during the proceedings...
Bid to smuggle US dollars foiled at Torkham border
LANDIKOTAL: Pakistan Customs has started a crackdown at Torkham border and foiled three different bids to smuggle foreign currency to Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials...
PMLN MPAs told to be in Lahore for assembly session
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) has directed all its MPAs to remain in Lahore as, it believes, there could be a situation...
Global slowdown, higher construction costs weaken cement sales
LAHORE: Cement sales declined by more than 20 percent to record at 21.764 million tonnes in the first half of the current fiscal on...
Pakistan rebuffs India’s latest diatribe
ISLAMABAD: Once again on Wednesday, the Foreign Office outright rejected what it said were “frivolous accusations” by Indian Minister for External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar...
Ecnec okays 11 uplift schemes worth Rs470bn
ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) under the Chairmanship of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday approved 11 development schemes...
‘Imran’s statement quoted out of context’
LAHORE: Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, a senior leader of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), said on Wednesday that the statement attributed to party chairman Imran Khan was...
