ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Thursday approved seven major road projects worth Rs162.607 billion along with three power projects of Rs410.66bn for Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Ecnec meeting presided over by Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Dr Hafeez Shaikh also approved in principle the […]
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KARACHI: The US dollar lost 70 paisa on Thursday and was traded at three-and-half month low against the rupee. The dollar was closed at Rs165 in the interbank market which was closely followed by the open market where the demand for greenbacks was also flat. The dollar exchange rate has been steady around Rs166 for […]
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Six marriage halls and 103 restaurants have been sealed in Karachi for failing to comply with health guidelines and Covid-19 prevalence, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) said on Friday. In a statement, the body said all provinces — as well as Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Islamabad Capital Territory — have been […]
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The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing on Friday issued a statement saying they had suspended an official for acting as the unofficial spokesperson for the agency. “Assistant Director Asif Iqbal was suspended and issued an explanation for maintaining a private Twitter account bearing CCW which stands for CyberCrime Wing. He was acting as the […]
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The Election Commission of Azad Jammu and Kashmir has warned political parties against using portraits of army officers, mainly the chief of army staff, and heads of any other institutions such as the judiciary in their newspaper advertisements and panaflex banners and posters. An order to this effect was issued by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) […]
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Gilgit-Baltistan Caretaker Chief Minister Mir Afzal on Friday said help would not be taken from the Pakistan Army in the upcoming elections for the Legislative Assembly. Elections on the 24 general seats of the GB Legislative Assembly will be held on Nov 15, according to a notification signed by President Arif Alvi last month. In a […]
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US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he and first lady Melania have tested positive for the coronavirus — just a month before the presidential election. “We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!” Trump tweeted early Friday. Melania, through her official account, said she and Trump were quarantining […]
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Pakistan on Friday rejected “speculative and baseless” media reports claiming the Pakistan Army was fighting alongside Azerbaijani forces against Armenia in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. “Such reports are irresponsible,” Foreign Office spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudri said in a statement. Armenian and Azerbaijani forces are currently engaged in the heaviest fighting in years over Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian […]
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ISLAMABAD: Afghan peacemaker Abdullah Abdullah has said that Pakistan is “on the same page” as Afghanistan in relation to the need for reduction in violence and flexibility in Doha intra-Afghan negotiations by Taliban. In an interview on Wednesday, hours before returning to Kabul after completing his three-day visit to Pakistan, the chairman of High Council for National […]
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ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a letter to the president of the UN Security Council has highlighted the threats to peace from Indian actions in occupied Kashmir. Foreign Office spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri at the weekly media briefing on Thursday said the latest letter to the UNSC president was “part of Pakistan’s efforts […]
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