ISLAMABAD – The overseas Pakistanis have so far contributed around one billion rupees to The Supreme Court of Pakistan and the Prime Minister of Pakistan Diamer-Bhasha and Mohmand Dams Fund, reveals the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) data. According to the SBP, as of December 06, around Rs8.46 ...

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Petroleum Ghulam Sarwar Khan has said that exploration of oil and gas will be given preference in order to support and strengthen the national economy. Addressing a function in Rawalpindi today (Saturday), he regretted that the exploration was not given preference in the ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived in Karachi today (Sunday) on a day long visit. He was received at the airport by Governor Sindh Imran Ismail and other PTI leaders. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Imran Khan held one on one meeting with Governor Sindh Imran Ismail at the Governor House ...

ISLAMABAD - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has proposed that Pakistan let its currency depreciate to Rs145-150 to the US dollar during talks with the newly installed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government which is seeking a bailout package of $6-12 billion. The dollar should go up or ...

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Meteorological Department’s (PMD) has released drought warning. According to a notification link by the Met Office, below normal rainfall has been recorded over most of the southern parts of the country while major rainfall deficit was experienced in the province of ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has decided to expand CPEC projects. As per media report, Pakistan will place several key projects before the Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) during its upcoming meeting. These projects include $2 billion Karachi Circular ...

KARACHI - Staff members of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and certain travel agents have reportedly been involved in defrauding passengers as complaints have surfaced of people travelling in place of those who had booked their seats first. According to sources in the airline, some ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan was ranked 7th amongst the top ten recipients of remittances globally in 2018 receiving $20.9 billion and with India ranked at 1st with $79.5 billion. Image: World Bank In South Asia, Pakistan was ranked 2nd behind India which bagged the 1st position for ...

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to take a loan of $490 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in order to fund the Karachi Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project. Sources said that the Finance Division would table a summary in this regard during the Central Developing Working Party (CDWP) ...

ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Planning, Development and Reform has clarified a news article published in a section of the press which alleges that Western route is not part of CPEC. A spokesman of the ministry termed it as completely incorrect, baseless and wrongly attributed to the Minister for ...