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Imran Khan carried out 'suicide bombings' throughout Pakistan: Former Pak
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 7 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday held Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan accountable for breaching the International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal as he called his faulty decisions 'suic
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Imran Khan launches fresh salvo against military establishment
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], June 6 (ANI): Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Saturday took a pot-shot at the military establishment asking them why they did not defend the country against the "conspiracy" that was hatched to topple his government.
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Economic crisis: Pakistan making same mistakes as Sri Lanka
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], June 5 (ANI): Pakistan is replicating Sri Lanka while trying to solve its economic crisis, denying its past mistakes as well as the current happenings domestically and ignoring the lessons it could have learned from the island nation.
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Credit rating agency Moody's downgrades Pakistan outlook to 'negative'
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 4 (ANI): The New York-based credit rating agency Moody's Investor Service downgraded Pakistan's outlook to negative from stable amid a delay in a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for an economic bailout.
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Pakistan power authority NEPRA raises electricity tariff by Rs 7.9 per uni
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 2 (ANI): The Pakistani masses who are under the burden of rising inflation and a deteriorating economy were shocked by the rise in basic electricity tariff by Rs 7.9 per unit.
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Pakistan inflation clocks to 13.76 per cent in May, highest in two-and-hal
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 2 (ANI): Pakistan's inflation rate spiralled to 13.76 per cent in May, the highest in two-and-half-year.
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Pakistan's IMF program depends on govt ability to make fiscal adjustments
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 2 (ANI): The restoration of Pakistan's delayed International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme depends on the government's capacity to make a fiscal adjustment of about 2.5 per cent of the GDP.
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Pak's high expectations from China may fall flat amidst its plunging econo
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 30 (ANI): Pakistan has been reeling under heavy economic turmoil and it is hoping that its all-weather ally China will come to its rescue however eminent economist differs, saying expectations from Beijing are highly misplaced.
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Train travel in Pakistan likely to get costlier
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], May 28 (ANI): Amid the recent hike in fuel prices in Pakistan by the Shehbaz Sharif government, Pakistan Railways (PR) is likely to raise its fares soon enough. The authorities have already forwarded recommendations to increase fares by 15 to 20 per cent.
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'Cash payout for political optics': KP Minister takes jibe on Pakistan PM'
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 28 (ANI): After Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced a new relief package of Rs 28 billion per month "to protect the poor from the burden of petrol and diesel price hike", Kyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister, Khyber Taimur Khan Jhagra while raising quest
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Shehbaz blames Imran for Pakistan's economic woes in his first public addr
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 28 (ANI): Refuting the allegations of foreign conspiracy made by PTI chief Imran Khan, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday blamed the PTI chief for major problems afflicting the nation including mounting loans, inflation and economic woes of the country
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After fuel, electricity prices hiked in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 27 (ANI): Ceding to the demands of the International Monetary Fund for the release of USD 1 billion tranche of loan, the Pakistani government led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has decided to hike the electricity prices by Rs 7 besides privatization of profitable
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