KARACHI: The government has acquired the services of a controversial Canadian-based company to help build a "web monitoring system" across the country, according to a New York-based publication, Coda Story. The Coda report said Sandvine is expected to provide equipment to monitor and analyze all incoming and outgoing Internet traffic from Pakistan. In May, reports […]
ISLAMABAD: Formal talks between the government and the opposition on the issue of "Azadi March" will begin on Friday (today) with both parties clinging to the demand for the resignation of Prime Minister Imran Khan. Opposition sources said Dawn that the government negotiating team headed by the defense minister, Pervez Khattak, would hold talks with
ISLAMABAD: The country's large-scale manufacturing production declined for the fifth consecutive month, which increases the fear of mass layoffs throughout the industrial sector. The LSM index fell 7.06 percent in the second month of this fiscal year from a year ago, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported Friday. In comparison, the index had contracted
PAKISTAN has long struggled to attract greater volumes of foreign direct investment (FDI) to expand and modernize its fairly stagnant economic base. Pakistan's level of investment is almost half the volume of investment attracted by growing economies such as Vietnam, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. To accommodate two million Pakistani youth entering the labor market
WASHINGTON: Occupied Indian Kashmir (IOK) faces a "humanitarian crisis" and India's decision of August 5 to annex the "disputed" territory has been a "disaster" for cashmerers, notes a panel of the Congress of U.S. These observations were made Tuesday at a one-day hearing of a subcommittee of the House of Representatives on Asia and the
ISLAMABAD: A few days after Pakistan escaped the blacklist of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the government has revealed that, as part of the global surveillance action plan, more than 700 suspected cases of terrorist financing under investigation are about to be awarded. At a press conference on Wednesday, Economic Affairs Minister Hammad Azhar,
ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi has rejected the representation of the Federal Revenue Board (FBR) against the Ombudsman (FTO). The FBR had appealed to the president against the FTO's recommendations regarding the illegal trade in gold and the initiation of an investigation against tax officials. The FTO Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera, exercising his jurisdiction, initiated investigations into
WASHINGTON: Undersecretary of State of the United States, Alice G. Wells, informed a panel of Congress on Tuesday that India's annexation of occupied lands has not changed the US position on retained Kashmir, as it continues considering it a disputed territory. "We consider the Control Line (LoC) to be a de facto line that separates
ISLAMABAD: The government said on Monday that delays in policy adjustments in fiscal year 2018 mainly drove the rise in inflation that affects the lower and middle classes. The finance government has presented a number of reasons that lead to an increase in inflation, greatly affecting the middle and lower middle class. In a detailed
LAHORE: The Pakistan-Nawaz Muslim League said Monday that retired captain Mohammad Safdar, son-in-law of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was arrested by Punjab police Monday night. According to PML-N spokesman, Marriyum Aurangzeb, Mohammad Safdar was arrested on charges of "hate speech." He was arrested on the highway while returning to Lahore from Bhera. Police had
