...• Business community warns of escalation as govt fails to meet tax reform demands • Islamabad, Rawalpindi and a few other cities remain normal KARACHI/LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: Karachi and Lahore — Pakistan’s two largest commercial cities — witnessed a near-complete shutdown on Saturday as tr...
Read Full Article...0.5pc of GDP — in FY25, marking the first such outcome in 14 years. According to State Bank data, the turnaround from a deficit of $2.07bn in the previous fiscal reflects a sharp though fragile improv...
...taneously in Umuahia, the state capital, Aba, the commercial nerve centre, Ohafia and Uzuakoli towns respectively. Addressing newsmen in Umuahia, Abia State Chairman of the Organising Committee and...
... Brief, and on TVC both done on Friday, the State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Joyce Ramnap, laid bare the government’s disappointment at what it alluded to as the military’s inabil...
... Islamabad High Court (IHC) to mandate an inquiry commission on the misuse of blasphemy laws is a rare opening. It allows the state to correct course. Yet, the reaction from religious hardliners and s...
...cluding 15,500 children and a large number of non-combatant women, have been killed and the genocidal Israeli regime is obliterating any infrastructure that enables or supports the most basic form of ...
... continued. Congress general secretary-in-charge (communications) Jairam Ramesh accused Modi of failing to address Trump’s repeated assertions. “The Trump missile gets fired for the 24th time with the...
...h to the ruling APC which has power but also many competitors, or take a chance on a smaller but growing party like the African Democratic Congress (ADC), which offers freedom but little structure or ...
... us so we can get aid, suddenly [I] saw the jeeps coming from one side, and the tanks from the other and started shooting at us,” he said. The Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF), a US-backed group which run...
...ogress in poverty reduction and climate-induced income losses could push an additional 41 million people into extreme poverty by 2050, according to a new World Bank report. The projections show the nu...