ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday sought reports from secretaries of Interior, Defence, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Military Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and sector commanders of spy agencies of Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Azad Kashmir on a petition filed by a woman seeking recovery of her husband, who went missing on June 7. IHC Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani was hearing the …
LAHORE: Incarcerated Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Punjab president Dr Yasmin Rashid has criticised PML-N President Nawaz Sharif for making “false statements” about not believing in political victimisation. In a letter written from jail and shared with the media on Friday, she accused Sharif and his daughter, Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, of arresting and re-arresting women prisoners, including Sanam Javed and Aaliya Hamza, in …
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has dismissed a Punjab government reference against the presiding judge of a Rawalpindi antiterrorism court whom the latter accused of favouring PTI founding chairman Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, incarcerated in Adiala jail. “The prosecution department has been informed by the high court about the dismissal of the reference,” Prosecutor General …
ISLAMABAD: In a rare but apparent downgrade, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will personally head the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec), instead of Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, as he notified the newly formed eight-member centre-provincial forum. This marks the first time in decades that a finance minister will not chair Ecnec, a subordinate committee of the constitutional forum traditionally led …
ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday slashed the prices of petrol and high-speed diesel (HSD) for the next fortnight by Rs10.2 and Rs2.33, respectively. In a notification, the finance ministry said the prices of petroleum products had seen a mixed trend in the international market in the last fortnight. It said Ogra had worked out the consumer prices based on the …
An increasing number of Chinese foreign trade companies are building overseas warehouses, shortening the distance between goods and their target markets. Guangdong Eagle Gifts Co., Ltd. based in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province, has long been devoted to producing various kinds of ceramics, Christmas balls, decorative paintings, and other handicrafts. Overseas warehouses have greatly helped the company’s exports in recent …
At the Fuling high-tech zone in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, staff members can grasp the situations of more than 20 planting bases of traditional Chinese medicinal herbs across the country, including real-time footage and information such as temperature, humidity, and wind direction at these bases, through a pharmaceutical company’s traceability platform. The company, Chongqing Taiji Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. (Taiji …
Construction of a “photovoltaic Great Wall,” consisting of row upon row of blue solar panels, is underway deep in the Kubuqi Desert in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Upon completion, the “photovoltaic Great Wall” will stretch across hundreds of kilometers. The “photovoltaic Great Wall” is also a “Great Wall” of green electricity, industries, innovation and prosperity, said Zhong Yuzhan, …
After completing more than two months of quarantine and acclimatization, the beloved giant panda Fu Bao officially met the public on June 12 at the Shenshuping giant panda base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. Fu Bao returned to China on April 3 from South Korea’s Everland Zoo, where it …
ISLAMABAD: After a seeming change of heart in the PTI to reach out to the government to end the political impasse, the party on Friday walked back and said it would not talk with “three parties”. In February, PTI spokesperson Raoof Hasan had said that party founder Imran Khan had given instructions to initiate contact with all other political parties, except the PML-N, PPP …