Beijing: Beijing said Thursday that China and the United States will resume trade negotiations in Washington in early October. There is concern that new punitive tariffs will lead to the collapse of long-term negotiations. The economies of the two largest countries in the world started with a long tax rate for a year, and on […]
KARACHI: Sindh Prime Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has decided to acquire the land of the Metropole Hotel to avoid building a skyscraper in its place and instead develop a modern park for children and the elderly. He also decided to acquire a part of the Sindh Club in the corner to extend the left
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) raised on Wednesday the issue of suspension of tweets and blocking of Twitter accounts apparently related to Kashmir in India. The telecommunications sector regulator has also asked users of the microblogging site to record their concerns about the suspension of their tweets or the blocking of their accounts at
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan remains the least competitive country in South Asia when it comes to travel and tourism, according to the Competitive Travel and Tourism Report published by the World Economic Forum on Wednesday. The report placed Pakistan at the bottom of the Asia-Pacific Competitive Travel and Tourism (T&T) 2019 Ranking. Pakistan ranked 121 this year
WASHINGTON: Their common interests demand that the United States and Pakistan maintain a cautious relationship with modest expectations, argues former US defense secretary James Mattis. In his autobiography Call Sign Chaos, President Trump's first head of defense points out that Pakistan's complicated relations with India force Islamabad to seek a friendly government in Kabul. Mattis,
ISLAMABAD: Amid criticism from members of the government and the opposition of the National Assembly about the price increase and other monetary and fiscal policies, the government ruled out any mini-budget in the near future on Wednesday, saying the improvement in revenue collection would be achieved through technology and administrative measures. This was the crucial
ISLAMABAD: Two more cases of poliomyelitis have been reported, one of each from Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, bringing the count of the current year to 60. The count is five times higher than last year and 7.5 times higher than in 2017. An official from the Polio Virology Laboratory at the National Institute of Health
LONDON: Two people were arrested in connection with a demonstration in front of the High Commission of India in the Aldwych area in London on Tuesday. The demonstration, announced as the "March for the freedom of Kashmir," was organized to show solidarity with the people of Kashmir in India 30 days after Article 370 was
ISLAMABAD: Advisor to Prime Minister of Finance Abdul Hafeez Shaikh (second left) along with Abdul Razak Dawood, Omar Ayub Khan, Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar and Hammad Azhar at a joint press conference on Wednesday. ISLAMABAD: Surrendering to public protest, Prime Minister Imran Khan finally decided to withdraw on Wednesday a controversial ordinance promulgated last week that
British parliamentarians on Wednesday "agreed to continue working to ensure relief from the suffering facing the people of Kashmir," said a statement from the High Commission of Pakistan in London. High Commissioner Mohammad Nafees Zakaria held a closed meeting in the House of Commons in London with a large number of parliamentarians from the United
