NEW DELHI: New Delhi reacted sharply on Wednesday after Xi Jinping again supported Prime Minister Imran Khan in occupied Kashmir, just two days before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the host of the Chinese president for a "summit informal". President Xi told Prime Minister Khan during the talks in Beijing before the Chinese leader's […]
KARACHI: Dr. Reza Baqir, governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), said on Wednesday that reforms introduced to address macroeconomic challenges have begun to bear fruit and an improvement in the external sector has become visible. He made these comments during an interactive session with the members of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court dismissed a petition on Wednesday seeking the elimination of terrorism charges against former retired President Gen Pervez Musharraf and the transfer of the detention case of the judges of the Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) to the court of sessions. A bank in the IHC division composed of the president of the
KARACHI: After weeks of deliberations, meetings with the main opposition parties and consultations with several leaders, the Popular Party of Pakistan (PPP) decided on Wednesday not to actively participate in the sit-in that the head of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI -F) Maulana Fazlur Rehman will take place in Islamabad on October 31. However, the PPP secured
JUSTICE Athar Minallah ISLAMABAD: The chief judge of the High Court of Islamabad (IHC), Judge Athar Minallah, said on Wednesday that judges are not immune to accountability and to ensure transparency in the judicial and legal system, they must submit to a surrender of merciless accounts. In a seminar organized by the Bar Association of
KARACHI: Two months after Pakistan specified around 200 accounts that were suspended by Twitter for publishing content on Kashmir, the government has made progress in its negotiations on the matter with the microblogging website. In August, several users complained that their accounts or tweets were suspended or withheld for posting about events in Kashmir in
ISLAMABAD: The next meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is scheduled to be held in Paris from October 12 to 15 and Pakistan has already prepared its compliance report, which will be presented by the Minister of Economic Affairs Division, Hammad Azhar. The Pakistani delegation plans to leave for France on October 13,
ISLAMABAD: The controversy over the appointment of a new envoy to Sri Lanka has not only caused diplomatic shame in the country, but has also exposed the defective procedure for the appointment of retired military officers in ambassadorial posts. In a statement issued on September 30, the Foreign Ministry said Prime Minister Imran Khan had
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Rapha Parisi, Houston Chronicle update Wednesday, October 9, 2019 6:09 PM CDT Court records show that a man was accused of addiction murder almost three weeks after a fatal high-speed crash in the spring. Jahson Trevone Albert, 24, drove faster than 80 mph on September 26 when he hit Jacquelyn Pleytez's car on Cypresswood's Highway
