LAHORE: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that adopting digital infrastructure, embracing digitisation, and promoting new digital activities and exports of digital services can create a framework to attract foreign direct investment (FDI). He termed it a significant milestone towards establishing an investor-friendly environment in the country. In a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office, PM Shehbaz welcomed Pakistan’s …
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has hoped that the Gaza ceasefire, which begins on Sunday (today) morning, will serve as the first step towards a comprehensive solution, including a two-state solution and the establishment of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state. Pakistan also called on Israel to withdraw from Lebanese and Syrian territories, including Golan Heights, and allow UN peacekeepers to operate without …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Irfan Siddiqui has criticised Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan’s recent remarks about meeting Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Syed Asim Munir, questioning the credibility of what he called “backdoor negotiations.” Senator Siddiqui shared what he knew about the discussions and their details, arguing that negotiations cannot succeed through “multiple doors.” …
GUJRAT: A high-ranking government team will be dispatched to Morocco today (Saturday) to assess the situation and ascertain the loss of Pakistani lives in the Atlantic Ocean migrant boat tragedy, which occurred in the waters between Mauritania and Morocco earlier this month. As per reports, 44 out of a total of 65 Pakistani immigrants on board the ship either drowned …
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court’s Constitutional Bench has raised questions over the future of individuals booked under both civil and military laws, but convicted only under the latter, for their involvement in violence on May 9. The seven-judge bench, headed by Justice Aminud Din Khan, resumed the hearing on a set of intra-court appeals (ICAs) on Friday against the Oct 23, …
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Friday announced its intention to challenge the conviction of its jailed founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the £190 million pound Al-Qadir Trust case, while the government tried to justify the punishment as “just deserts” for the former prime minister. Reacting to the announcement of the verdict on Friday, PTI leaders such …
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information Technology and Telecommunication Shaza Fatima Khawaja on Friday acknowledged on the floor of the National Assembly that internet users were facing challenges in Pakistan, but at the same time claimed that presently the internet, VPNs and WhatsApp were fully functional in the country. The minister was responding to the criticism from PPP legislator Shazia …
ISLAMABAD: The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) in a meeting, presided over by Chief Justice Yahya Afridi, approved the appointment of five additional judges — two in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) and three in the Balochistan High Court (BHC) — for one year, on Friday. According to a statement by the JCP, two meetings of the commission — one …
ISLAMABAD: The federal capital’s decades-old sewerage system has almost spent its useful life with the city also facing shortage of water, the Senate was told on Friday. Moreover, the civic agency is short of funds for repair and maintenance of government houses in the capital. These issues were discussed in the upper house of parliament during question hour on Friday. …
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Attaullah Tarar has defended the verdict in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case, describing it as a merit-based decision grounded in the law. Speaking to reporters outside the parliament house on Friday, he said the founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) failed to establish his innocence. Flanked by Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar, the information minister stressed …