KABUL: Zalmay Khalilzad, the US envoy who led the Taliban talks until negotiations collapsed last month, was in Kabul on Sunday meeting with senior Afghan officials, including President Ashraf Ghani. His visit comes amid speculation that the United States is trying to restart efforts to end the longest war in the United States, after President […]
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration believes in extensive high-level commitments to rebuild its ties with Pakistan, replacing the structured dialogue introduced by the Obama administration, says a senior US official. In a recent briefing in Washington, the official also welcomed the establishment of a direct line between the Directors General of Military Operations of the Indian
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan asked the Border Works Organization to postpone the implementation of the axle load condition in a movement to appease the agitated merchants protesting against the government's documentation campaign. In chairing a meeting of his economic team, the prime minister also commissioned financial advisor Dr. Hafeez Shaikh and the president of
ISLAMABAD: At a time when debt levels are unsustainable and alarmingly high, the government revealed Friday that it will borrow additional funds over the next five years due to a greater need to reduce the fiscal deficit and keep it within the projected target. The Director General of the Debt Division of the Finance Division,
ISLAMABAD: The quadrilateral talks on the Afghan peace process on Friday called for the creation of an enabling environment to negotiate an agreement that could end the conflict that has just entered its nineteenth year. The participating countries, Pakistan, China, Russia and the United States, which were represented through their senior diplomats at the meeting
KARACHI: Twitter has blocked almost a million account tweets that focus on Kashmir at the behest of the Indian government, according to research conducted by the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ). According to the report published Friday by CPJ, an independent organization that works to promote press freedom worldwide, hundreds of thousands of
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's main tax machinery has linked the approval of a fixed tax regime for small and medium-sized merchants with the prior approval of the review mission of the International Monetary Fund, which is scheduled to arrive here on Sunday. On October 28, the IMF mission, headed by Ernesto Ramírez Rigo, will begin reviewing Pakistan's
KARACHI: Depressed demand in the automotive sector has led to a 27 percent drop in the total import of fully and semi-hit kits (CKD / SKD) to $ 261 million in the first quarter of the current fiscal year. Of the total imports, the arrival of CKD / SKD kits for heavy vehicles dropped to
KARACHI: On Thursday, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) issued detailed instructions to facilitate Pakistanis abroad to access their bank accounts. Under the new agreement, overseas Pakistanis can now approach their respective banks by email or surface mail and provide identity documents such as a valid passport, visa, CNIC and national identity card for overseas
Ramsha Jahangir ISLAMABAD: In what appears to be the biggest upward shift in a year shown by a country, Pakistan rose 28 places and rose to the rank of 108 in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business index and landed in the club of the top 10 of the world. Business climate improvers. In
