[ad_1] Chuck Schumer met with Pakistan’s prime minister on Thursday, another stop in a recess spate of globetrotting that also included India and Israel. [ad_2] #Chuck #Schumer #met #Pakistans #prime #minister #Thursday #stop #recess #spate #globetrotting #included #India #Israel ( With inputs from : www.politico.com )Continue Reading
[ad_1] Islamabad: Cash-strapped Pakistan’s current account deficit shrank 90.2 per cent to USD 0.24 billion in January from USD 2.47 billion in the same month last year, the data shared by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) showed on Monday. “Current Account Deficit (CAD) recorded USD 0.2 billion in JanContinue Reading
[ad_1] Lahore: A fact-finding mission led by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has reported an alarming uptick in the persecution of the minority Ahmadi community in the country’s Punjab province. The HRCP report, released on Wednesday, found evidence to suggest that the civil administration in Gujranwala and WazirabadContinue Reading
[ad_1] Karachi: Pakistan’s former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf will be laid to rest on Tuesday in the Army Cantonment area here, officials said. Musharraf, the architect of the Kargil War in 1999 and Pakistan’s last military ruler, died on Sunday in Dubai after a prolonged illness. The 79-year-old former presidentContinue Reading
[ad_1] New Delhi: Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and outlawed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) had made hand grenades available to their sympathisers and conspired with them to carry out “lone wolf” attacks and blasts in Hyderabad City, the First Information Report (FIR) of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) revealed. The FIR,Continue Reading
[ad_1] Islamabad: The foreign exchange reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) have plunged to precarious levels as the cash-strapped nation desperately seeks to revive the stalled bailout programme of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), local media reported. Due to foreign debt payments, the central bank said itsContinue Reading
[ad_1] Islamabad: Former information minister and senior Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry was released from jail on Wednesday after a court granted him bail in a sedition case. Chaudhry, 52, a close aide of former prime minister Imran Khan, was arrested from his residence in Lahore last week inContinue Reading
[ad_1] Pakistan police Islamabad: The police in Pakistan’s east Punjab province foiled a terrorist attack in the Mianwali district on Tuesday night, officials said. The terrorists launched an attack on the police station with sophisticated weapons and tried to enter the building by taking advantage of the night, spokesperson forContinue Reading
[ad_1] State Bank of Pakistan. Islamabad: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said its foreign exchange reserves had decreased by $923 million last week. During the week ending on January 20, the total foreign exchange reserves of the Pakistani central bank fell to around $3.67 billion, the central bank saidContinue Reading
[ad_1] Karachi: British publication Financial Times has warned that Pakistan’s economy is at risk of collapse with the government’s “failure to revive” an International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal, Geo News reported. According to the report, rolling blackouts and a severe foreign currency shortage are making it difficult for businesses toContinue Reading