Category: Pakistan

President Arif Alvi on Sunday conferred Pakistan’s highest civil award — Nishan-e-Pakistan — on Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani during a ceremony held at the President House in Islamabad. Following the ceremony and a luncheon in honour of the Emir, the visiting leader departed for Qatar. He was seen off by […]

Minister for Planning and Development Khusro Bakhtiar on Sunday urged government and opposition lawmakers to sign a charter of economy in order to prevent Pakistan’s return to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for bailout packages in the future. The idea of a ‘charter of economy’, initially proposed by PML-N leader and former finance minister Ishaq […]

Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani arrived in Pakistan on Saturday evening and engaged in a one-on-one discussion with Prime Minister Imran Khan. Following the tête-à-tête between the two leaders, a delegation-level meeting was held between representatives from both countries in which “both the leaders covered the entire gamut of bilateral relations […]

Maryam Nawaz, a vice president of the PML-N, levelled heavy criticism at the government during a press conference in Lahore on Saturday, accusing it of “creating divisions among the public” and walking her party back from a proposal to arrive at a ‘charter of economy’ with the government. ‘Shehbaz has his own reasons for supporting […]

During his speech in the National Assembly on Saturday, former premier Shahid Khaqan Abbasi criticised the constitution of a Commission of Inquiry to investigate a rise in public indebtedness over the last decade. The Cabinet Division had yesterday issued a notification announcing the terms of reference of a 12-member commission that is to be headed by National […]

National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser late Friday said Prime Minister Imran Khan has agreed to the formation of a committee on a ‘charter of economy’. Taking to Twitter to make the announcement, the NA speaker said he had discussed legislation, politics and economic affairs with the prime minister. During the talks, Qaiser said, the prime […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Asif while taking part in the budget debate in the National Assembly on Friday said that all state institutions should work within their own domains and urged the government and all political parties not to allow turncoats to hold key positions. A number of MNAs from treasury and […]

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Saturday filed a reference against Pak Saarzameen Party leader Mustafa Kamal in a case of the alleged illegal allotment of 5,500 square metres of land on the sea side. The reference was filed in a Karachi accountability court. According to the reference, Sindh Director General Building Control Authority Iftikhar Kaimani, […]

NAWABSHAH: Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Friday that his party would not accept the “puppet government, controlled democracy, media censorship and economic murder of people”. He was addressing a huge gathering of party workers and supporters on Sakrand road here where he launched his mass contact campaign. He said the rulers thought […]

KARACHI: Former prime minister and senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Thursday that the government was meeting only failures one after another on its policies as serious trust deficit showed both by the business community and the public due to its inconsistency and “U-turns” was deepening economic crisis […]