Last week, the Pakistan Securities and Exchange Commission (SECP) swelled the chest and declared that it registered 1,187 new companies in August, bringing the total number of registered companies to 104,030. Compare that to an abysmally small number of companies, 558 to be precise, that have offered shares to the public to negotiate. In a […]
ISLAMABAD: The People's Party of Pakistan (PPP) has called for the removal of law minister Barrister Farogh Naseem from the federal cabinet for his recent "controversial acts" and statements, including one in which he said the federal government could take over the administrative affairs of Karachi enforcing article 149 of the Constitution. In a statement
KARACHI: To establish Pakistan as a work destination for students of the Pakistani diaspora, Mustafaen Kamal has presented a unique project: the Dil Internship Project. "Last year, we saw a huge appetite for" helping "Pakistan, but often the Pakistani diaspora has no natural route to help the country beyond charity. The Dil Internship Project seeks
ISLAMABAD: Former President of the National Registration and Database Authority (Nadra) Tariq Malik was acquitted in a case filed on behalf of former Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan against him on charges of hiding his dual nationality. Judge Shaista Khan Kundi of the Islamabad first instance court, while resolving the case, ordered the cancellation
KABUL: Afghan security forces, backed by US airstrikes, killed two of the "shadow provincial governors" of the Taliban movement on Sunday as fighting intensified following the collapse of talks aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan, authorities said. The operations, which began on Saturday night, were intended to thwart the Taliban planned attacks on Afghan
WASHINGTON: "The reports we are receiving (from Kashmir) are heartbreaking with accusations that include enforced disappearances, mass detentions, rapes and sexual assaults, and the selective detention of political, economic and social leaders," says a letter signed by seven US lawmakers . This is the third letter in less than a week that US congressmen and
SRINAGAR: Occupied Kashmir has seen an average of 20 protests per day against the Indian government in the last six weeks despite a security blockade to calm the riots, according to a high-level government source. Tensions remain high in the disputed Himalayan region after the controversial decision of New Delhi last month to revoke the
LAHORE: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and the Muslim League of Pakistan-Nawaz decided on Sunday to jointly organize "Azadi March" in October to besiege Islamabad and expel the government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, but a decision on the final date of the march would be taken later. The head of JUI-F, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, along with his
ISLAMABAD: The National Logistics Cell (NLC), in coordination with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has completed 24-hour cross-border trade arrangements with Afghanistan through the Torkham border terminal that is expected to open next week. The terminal has been operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on a trial basis and will be formally opened at a
ISLAMABAD: The advisor to the Prime Minister of Finance and Revenue, Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, has expressed the wish that the accountability process will progress in such a way that it does not adversely affect the business climate, since the country is going from an economic crisis of stability due to "difficult decisions" made by
