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Debt-ridden Pakistan seeks $2 billion commercial loans from China
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec 6 (ANI): Islamabad is seeking commercial loans of $2 billion from Beijing amid the debt-ridden country seeking a bailout package from International Monetary Fund (IMF). China has already refused to provide balance of payment (BoP) support to Pakistan.
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Pakistan to soon impose 'sin tax' on sugary drinks, cigarettes
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec 5 (ANI): Pakistan may soon impose a 'sin tax' on sugary drinks and cigarettes, said the country's Minister for National Health Services (NHS) Aamer Mehmood Kiani.
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Indian High Commission in Pakistan inaugurates creche
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec 05 (ANI): In a bid to create a more inclusive environment for working women, the Indian High Commission in Pakistan on Tuesday inaugurated a creche- a nursery to take care of babies and young children- for the working spouses of its officials.
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Nawaz Sharif denies allegatons of illegally allotting shrine land
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec 4(ANI): Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday denied allegations of illegally transferring a part of Pakpattan shrine land during his tenure as the chief minister of Punjab province in 1985.
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Now Pak FM sees Indian 'design' in his googly remark
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec 2 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Sunday claimed that by dragging his 'googly' comments against the Sikh community was a deliberate attempt to 'misrepresent and mislead' by the Indian government.
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Pakistan: TLP chief charged with treason, terrorism
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec 01 (ANI): Pakistan's Information minister Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday announced that Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi has been charged with treason and terrorism.
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Pak bowled googly at India with Kartarpur corridor: Pak FM
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov 30 (ANI): Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, claimed that Prime Minister Imran Khan has "bowled a googly at India by opening the Kartarpur corridor".
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Pak Cabinet to mull over provisional status to Gilgit-Baltistan today
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov 29 (ANI): Pakistan's cabinet is all set to meet today to discuss the provisional status of Gilgit-Baltistan, a day after Prime Minister Imran Khan gave his nod to change the region's status to that of an interim province in principle.
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Pakistan to invite PM Modi for SAARC summit
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov 27 (ANI): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be invited for the 20th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit which is to be held in Islamabad, Pakistan's Foreign Office (FO) announced on Tuesday. The dates of the summit are yet to be fi
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Guard who served Jinnah passes away
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov 27 (ANI): Raheem Baksh, who served as a guard to Pakistan's founding father Mohammad Ali Jinnah breathed his last at the age of 92 in Sadiqabad on Monday.
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Nawaz Sharif anxious about brother's cancer scare
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov 27 (ANI): Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has expressed concerns over a medical report of his brother and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif, which diagnosed the latter with cancer.
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Amidst cancer scare, Shehbaz Sharif undergoes medical check-up
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov 25 (ANI): Shehbaz Sharif, the president of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and brother of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, underwent a medical examination at a private hospital here on Sunday.
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