KARACHI: In a recent event held to discuss how to democratize heritage in our part of the world, the architect Arif Hasan made a remarkable point. He said there are a couple of types of tangible heritage: one, which arises as a result of planning; two, that people believe themselves. The iconic Karachi neo-Gothic Frere […]
KARACHI: Car sales during July and August plummeted a massive 41.3 percent to 20,094 units compared to 34,264 during the corresponding months last year. In August, total car sales decreased to 9,126 units compared to 15,389 in the same month last year. Major car assemblers, including Honda Atlas Cars Limited (HACL), reduced production for ten
ISLAMABAD: The country's trade deficit fell by almost 38 percent in the first two months of the current fiscal year, largely driven by a decrease in imports of non-essential luxury items. The steady decline in the trade deficit shows that the government's battle against the inflated trade deficit is finally bearing fruit, as imports have
LAHORE: Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) denounced on Thursday the beheading of another Pakistani citizen, Mohammad Imran, in Shumaisi prison in Jeddah. Imran, a worker from Chichawatni, traveled to Saudi Arabia in August 2011 to work and was arrested upon arrival at the Jeddah airport. He was implicated in drug-related charges and was sentenced to death
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has expressed the hope that talks between the United States and the Taliban, which were abruptly suspended over the weekend, will soon resume and open the way to intra-Afghan negotiations that will lead to a peaceful resolution of the protracted conflict in Afghanistan. . "We hope that the suspension of the peace
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday praised 58 countries and the European Union for supporting the cause of a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute in line with UN Security Council resolutions and international laws. The prime minister said in his tweet: "I commend the 58 countries that joined Pakistan in the Human Rights
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan made it clear on Thursday that there was no movement in progress to recognize Israel. "…… such actions are part of unfounded propaganda. There are no changes in our policy. Our policy of non-recognition of Israel remains unchanged," Foreign Ministry spokesman Dr. Mohammad Faisal said in A weekly press conference. The comments came
ISLAMABAD: It is likely that a bank of seven Supreme Court judges headed by Judge Umar Ata Bandial will begin the formal hearing of the petitions filed against the presentation of presidential references against Judge Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court since September 17 and judge KK Agha of the Superior Court of Sindh.
ISLAMABAD: The Electoral Commission of Pakistan declared on Thursday before the High Court of Islamabad that the order issued by President Dr. Arif Alvi for the appointment of two members of the PCE of Sindh and Balochistan violated the relevant clauses of the Constitution. In a related development, the opposition parties condemned the government's measure
PAKISTAN is in the vice of a "trap" of debt. Nothing reveals this more clearly than the recently published figures on the fiscal deficit and debt and total liabilities for 2018-19. The budget deficit has been recorded at 8.9 percent of GDP, while debt and total liabilities have increased by Rs. 10.3 trillion, or 35
