WASHINGTON: US and Taliban officials have resumed discussions to revive the peace process that was derailed last month after approaching an agreement, US media reported Monday. The talks "touched on confidence-building measures that could include a possible exchange of prisoners or a reduction in violence." The Wall Street Journal reported. A recent New York Times […]
ISLAMABAD: Security personnel from the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) with the assistance of local forces, paramilitary troops and the police will provide security to the visiting royal couple during their stay in Pakistan. An advanced security team in the United Kingdom, made up of more than half a dozen personnel, had arrived in the capital
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) told an accountability court on Monday that a defendant Faisal Shaheen in a video leak case had confessed to making a video of former accountability judge Mohammad Arshad Malik. In the video, the former judge admitted to convicting former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif under duress. The FIA presented the
ISLAMABAD: The Islamic Ideology Council (IIC) has validated around a hundred fatwas, also known as religious edicts, in support of polio vaccination, generating hopes that religious resistance against vaccines will decrease. According to an IIC document available with Dawn, the main body of the council unanimously decided to ratify fatwas by ulema in support of
KARACHI: The investment in government papers, mainly dominated by the banking sector, set a new record by crossing Rs10 billion mark. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), in its latest report published on Monday, showed that banks and non-banks, including corporate sector investments in government documents, reached Rs10.3 billion at the end of August. Most
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet, which met Monday under Prime Minister Imran Khan, made some important decisions, passed an ordinance on the formation of a regulatory authority in real estate and called a meeting of the provinces to reduce the dizzying prices of The essential items. The cabinet, which usually meets on Tuesdays, met a day
The plans for the disaggregation of public gas services and their privatization are back in business, this time as part of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) program. Even before this disaggregation, the main priority of the government is the sale of two government power plants (GPP) based on LNG to meet the objectives of the
Stockbrokers are like sharks that can smell blood from afar. And the most prominent of them are comforting their foreign and high-patrimony individual clients that Pakistan will be unharmed from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) review that will be presented this week. They must have good reasons for their optimism. The market is not
WASHINGTON: The United States has welcomed Pakistan's decision to arrest four leaders of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, indicating that such measures would help improve relations between the two countries. "We appreciate the news that Pakistan arrested four LeT leaders" said Assistant Secretary of State of the United States for South and Central Asian Affairs, Alice
ISLAMABAD: In a breakthrough in Belgrade, Senator Raza Rabbani emerged victorious on Sunday after India withdrew Shashi Tharoor's candidacy for a position on the prestigious executive committee of the Interparliamentary Union (IPU). The IPU holds its 141st general assembly in the Serbian capital. It opened with a meeting of the IPU Asia and Pacific Group
