Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday approved the purchase of additional aircraft for the existing Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) fleet. According to a press release issued by the airline spokesman, the decision was made during a meeting of the aviation division. The Federal Minister of Aviation, Chaudhry Ghulam Sarwar Khan, the Adviser to the Prime […]
The Trump administration has not yet licensed it to sell to blacklisted companies. On July 4, 2018, the file photo Huawei logo can be seen at the Huawei store in a shopping mall in Beijing. (AP archive) Nearly two months after the US Department of Commerce announced that some sales would be allowed, three sources
Keemo Paul recovered from ankle injury and immediately returned to the West Indies team for a second and final test in India at Kingston, replacing Miguel Cummins, who replaced him in Antigua. squad: Jason Holder (cap), Kraigg Brathwaite, Darren Bravo, Shamarh Brooks, John Campbell, Roston Chase, Rahkeem Cornwall, Jahmar Hamilton (wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Shai Hope
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan and a visiting Chinese commander reaffirmed on Tuesday their countries' commitment to collaborate for peace and stability in the region. "Pakistan and China will continue to consult closely and coordinate for the promotion of peace and stability in the region and the maintenance of strategic balance," said the Prime Minister's
LAHORE: The Pakistan-Nawaz Muslim League and the Pakistan People's Party have accused Pakistan's Tehreek-i-Insaf government of not providing adequate health facilities to their leaders, Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari, saying the prime minister selected , Imran Khan, will be responsible if something happens to them. Expressing concern about the government's apathetic attitude towards the
ISLAMABAD: Around 20,000 cases of human trafficking and domestic violence occurred in the country last year and 92 percent of cases related to women and girls, experts highlighted in a seminar held here on Tuesday. The seminar was informed that women and girls were disproportionately affected by the problem of trafficking in persons, and global
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi will attend the next session of the United Nations Human Rights Council next month to highlight the plight of cashmere in Kashmir in India. "I will personally attend the Human Rights Council meeting and inform the members about the aggravating human rights situation in occupied Kashmir," Qureshi told the
PORTO VELHO: The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, said Tuesday that he was open to discuss the G7's help in fighting fires that devastated the Amazon rainforest, only if his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, "withdraws insults" against him. Bolsonaro's comments come in the midst of a growing war of words with Macron about the worst
ISLAMABAD: The first year of the Pakistani government Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) concluded with a record fiscal deficit of 8.9 percent, perhaps the highest in the country's history, as revenues plummeted while expenditures they remained at the same level as in the previous year, when expressed as a percentage of GDP. In absolute terms, however, expenses broke
ISLAMABAD: After a vicious social media campaign against the polio vaccine was launched, Facebook blocked up to 31 accounts / pages involved in propaganda against vaccination in Pakistan at the request of the government polio program. On Monday, rumors circulated on social networks that a one-year-old girl had died in Swabi due to the polio
