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By National News Desk Islamabad: Repeated border flare-ups in the last few weeks have exacerbated the tensions between Pakistan and Iran threatening to further destablise an already volatile region. Various agencies have reported the killing of at least two people in a shooting incident at the common border of the two countries, triggering large scale protests in Sistan-Baluchistan, the second largest province of the 31 provinces of Iran. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh said the country’s competent authorities are “working on the case of recent clashes with fuel smugglers” in a southeastern region near the common border with Pakistan.…
By National News Desk Islamabad: Pakistan will have to make further legislation on at least two counts to meet three outstanding benchmarks of the 27-point action plan of the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog FATF before the new June deadline, a media report said on Tuesday. The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) placed Pakistan on the grey list in June 2018 and asked Islamabad to implement a plan of action to curb money laundering and terror financing by the end of 2019 but the deadline was extended later on due to COVID-19 pandemic. The new deadline was…
By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday said it has decided to offer coronavirus vaccine doses to all participants of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 6. “Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to offer SARS-Coronavirus Vaccine doses to all participants of the Pakistan Super League 6, becoming the first cricket board to use the vaccine that produces protection against the Covid-19 virus,” PCB said in a statement. “The decision has been made in the line with the PCB’s duty of care policy and to ensure all participants of the league remain safe and healthy during the event,…
By National News Desk Islamabad: Political leaders, activists and religious figures on Tuesday voiced hope for greater tolerance as they mourned slain Pakistan minister for minorities’ affairs Shahbaz Bhatti, at a tribute organized by a Washington-based group on the 10th anniversary of his killing. Bhatti, a member of Pakistan’s small Christian community who sought reforms to blasphemy laws that critics say are frequently tools of persecution, was shot at least 25 times as he left his mother’s house on March 2, 2011. Islamist extremist group Tehrik-e-Taliban claimed responsibility for the killing of Bhatti, who had faced particular backlash for defending…
by Kaswar Klasra ISLAMABAD, Mar. 3 (Gwadar Pro) – China took only four decades to pull nearly 800 million of the population out of ‘absolute poverty’, setting an example for developing countries like Pakistan, who are trying hard to alleviate poverty. It’s a success story which the world only knew about last week, when President Xi Jinping proudly announced that China has eliminated absolute poverty. Xi made the announcement last week on Thursday amid clapping and desk thumping during a grand gathering held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, to mark the nation’s poverty alleviation accomplishments and honor…
By Our Staff Reporter Lahore: Mystery shrouds death of an underage maid who was found dead in a house in Lahore’s upscale Defense Housing Authority on Monday. According to police, twelve years old maid was found allegedly hanged in the house of her employer under mysterious circumstances in the Defence Housing Authority in Lahore. Employer found her body hanging from ceiling fan in servant quarter and informed the police. Although Pakistan’s laws discourage employing underage maids, however, twelve-year-old Marya had been working against Rs12,000 monthly wage and the landlord of the house claimed that she committed suicide by hanging herself…
By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan may allow cotton import from India through land route as prospects of gradual restoration of bilateral trade ties have brightened after the new ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control, according to a media report on Sunday. Citing sources in the Ministry of Commerce, The Express Tribune reported that Adviser to the Prime Minister on Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood may take a decision on whether to import cotton and yarn from India next week. They said that the issue of cotton shortfall has already been brought to the notice of Prime Minister Imran Khan,…
By National News Desk Islamabad: Pakistan’s top court on Monday ruled that the Senate elections on Wednesday would be held through a secret ballot, amid a raging controversy among the government and Opposition parties about allowing an open vote to avoid corruption. The five-member bench of the Supreme Court issued the 4-1 verdict on the presidential reference filed in December last year about holding the election of the upper house through an open ballot to avoid use of money in the polls. The court stated that elections of the upper house of Parliament are held under article 226 of the…
By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: As Pakistan’s financial debt continues to mount, the Imran Khan government received USD 6.7 billion in gross foreign loans in the first seven months of the current fiscal year, including a new commercial loan of USD 500 million from China last month. According to The Express Tribune, Ministry of Economic Affairs reported that during the July-January period of fiscal year 2020-21, the government obtained USD 6.7 billion in external loans from multiple financing sources. The gross loans were higher by 6 per cent or USD 380 million over the same period of the last fiscal…
By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan’s landmark, new deal with Qatar for liquefied natural gas at lower rates will save Islamabad a total of about $3 billion over the next 10 years, an adviser to the country’s prime minister said Monday. The agreement, signed last Friday, will save the state $317 million annually due to the reduced price of the gas compared to the 2015 agreement between the two countries, according to Nadeem Babar, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s adviser on petroleum. This “will result in the lowering of the overall cost of liquefied natural gas” imported from Qatar, Babar said.…