NEW DELHI: The government of India announced that it would revoke the Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card to author and journalist Aatish Taseer for his alleged attempt to "hide information" that his father, Salmaan Taseer, was of Pakistani origin . In an official statement, which Aatish denied, the Interior Ministry said it had "not […]
ISLAMABAD: Concluding the first quarterly review on a successful note, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked the government to definitely achieve the revenue objective, maintain a limit on the issuance of new guarantees and effectively implement the circular strategy of debt reduction. "The conversations with the visiting mission have been very successful," said a
ISLAMABAD: Seven cases of the vaccine-derived type 2 poliovirus were detected, a type of paralyzing disease for which vaccination was suspended in Pakistan in 2014, in the northern areas of the country in recent months, has been officially confirmed. The sources said that the officials involved had been reluctant for some time to admit that
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) approached the Superior Court of Islamabad (IHC) to challenge the decision of the Electoral Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to reject their requests against an audit of the party's foreign funds. Through a petition filed Thursday at the IHC, the ruling party asked the court to restrict the scrutiny committee formed by
Custodian of the sanctuary of Kartarpur Ramesh Singh Arora photographed during the interview. – AFP KARTARPUR: On Saturday a corridor will open that will allow the Sikhs to cross from India to Pakistan to visit one of the most sacred sites of the religion, and thousands of people are expected to make a pilgrimage interrupted
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan may remain on the gray list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) beyond February 2020, mainly due to its risk profile and in view of two simultaneous assessments. Senior officials provided this information to a parliamentary panel on Thursday. They also revealed that the government recovered only Rs5.6 billion in taxes on
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs regretted on Thursday that the Indian government has decided not to make use of the "concessions" announced by Prime Minister Imran Khan for Sikh pilgrims visiting Kartarpur Gurdwara on the occasion of the 550th anniversary of the birth of the founder of Sikhism Baba Guru Nanak “As a special
LAHORE: Former Prime Minister and Supreme Leader of the Muslim League of Pakistan (PML-N), Nawaz Sharif, acceded to the advice of doctors and the persuasion of the family to go abroad for the treatment of their diseases. “Nawaz Sharif finally agreed to go to London after doctors told him categorically that they had already exhausted
PAKISTAN has ensured a great leap in its classification in the latest indicators of Ease of doing business published by the World Bank. This is commendable and welcome, and is the culmination of a diligent and concerted effort made by the government's leading agency, the Investment Board, in conjunction with a wide range of federal
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