KARACHI: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on Friday claimed that it was misconstrued that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) opposed subsidies whereas it wanted the targeted ones to be increased. “The fact is that the IMF is against untargeted subsidies. It actually wants the targeted subsidies to be enhanced,” he told the media during his visit to a Utility Store in …
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar on Sunday stated that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has given targets to ministers during the cabinet meeting to fulfil International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditions. In a press conference at the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Secretariat in Lahore, he said that the prime minister chaired a cabinet meeting yesterday where he set …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, replying to a letter by US President Joe Biden, said on Sunday that Pakistan attaches key importance to relations with the United States. In Biden’s first official correspondence with any Pakistani premier in years, the US president said Washington will continue to stand with Pakistan to tackle the most “pressing global and regional challenges.” The premier, according to …
ISLAMABAD: Chinese investigators arrived in Pakistan on Friday to join a probe into Tuesday’s suicide attack in Bisham which claimed the lives of six people, including five Chinese nationals, according to the interior ministry. The five Chinese engineers — and their Pakistani driver — were killed in the suicide bombing on Tuesday while travelling between Islamabad and a hydroelectric dam construction site …
ISLAMABAD: PTI on Friday demanded the resignation of the Supreme Court and Islamabad High Court (IHC) chief justices over their “inaction” on intelligence agencies’ interference in judicial affairs. While addressing a press conference, PTI spokesman Raoof Hassan alleged that CJP Qazi Faez Isa and IHC CJ Aamer Farooq turned “a deaf ear” towards the repeated complaints of IHC judges against …
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet has approved the appointment of Lt Gen Muhammad Munir Afsar as the chairman of National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) for three years. The appointment of the first-ever serving three-star general as Nadra chairman was initially made by the caretaker government led by prime minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on October 2. The appointment has now been officially endorsed …
ISLAMABAD: In a recent reshuffle, the federal government has replaced Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr Akbar Nasir Khan, with Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi, a BS-20 officer currently posted in Punjab. According to the notifications issued by the Establishment Division, Dr Akbar Nasir Khan was posted to the Establishment Division “with immediate effect and until further orders”. Khan had been …
ISLAMABAD: PTI central leader Asad Qaiser has advised his party’s chief minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to snap all ties with the federal government as the Centre will not accept any of his demands. The advice came a day after KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur met Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi in Peshawar and discussed a joint strategy to fight terrorism. “This is …
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s former MNA Aliya Hamza Malik and social media activist Sanam Javed were reportedly rearrested on Friday in a new case of May 9 riots before their release from Kot Lakhpat jail following bail in Shadman police station attack case. This time, sources said, the PTI’s both women had been implicated in a case of torching Kamar Mashani police station …
ISLAMABAD: Retired Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, a former chief justice, was on Saturday appointed the head of the inquiry commission that will investigate charges of interference into judicial independence by the intelligence apparatus. On Tuesday, six Islamabad High Court judges — out of a total strength of eight — wrote a startling letter to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) members, regarding attempts …