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Pakistan: Oil, eatable import bills surge by 60 per cent
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 17 (ANI): Amid a declining economy, Pakistan's oil and eatable import bills surged by 59.98 per cent to USD 21.87 billion in the July-March period, local media reported.
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Bankers in Pakistan protest to restore Saturday holiday
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 17 (ANI): A string of protests was started by bankers in Pakistan after the decision of newly-elected Prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif to grant only one-day weekly leave to the government offices and banking sectors, reported Dawn newspaper.
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Pak National Assembly Speaker to verify resignations of PTI MNAs
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 17 (ANI): Newly-elected Pakistan National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Saturday announced the de-sealing of resignation letters tendered by 123 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers, reported local media.
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After Punjab Assembly brawl, PTI claims Pakistan heading towards civil unr
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 17 (ANI): Reacting to the violence that broke out in the Punjab Assembly between the Opposition and treasury benches on Saturday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry said that the country is heading towards civil unrest, reported local media.
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Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif blames PTI for energy crisis in country
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 17 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday blamed the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government for the ongoing energy crisis in the country and said that the load shedding across the country is due to the "mismanagement and incompetence of the p
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Pakistan adds 97 new COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 17 (ANI): Pakistan reported 97 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the National Institute of Health (NIH) said on Thursday.
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Under Shehbaz Sharif govt, promotions of senior Pakistani bureaucrats appr
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 17 (ANI): Days after Shehbaz Sharif took charge as Pakistan Prime Minister, the Establishment Division has promoted and transferred officers of the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS), the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP), and the Secretariat Group, as per media
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Hamza Shahbaz elected new CM of Pakistan's Punjab
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 17 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League -(N) leader Hamza Shahbaz has been elected as the chief minister of Punjab in Pakistan amid ruckus during the Assembly session.
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'Was it a conspiracy or interference?' Imran Khan asks supporters at power
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 17 (ANI): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman, Imran Khan on Saturday asked his supporters at a political power show in Karachi if they consider the toppling of his government was a conspiracy against this country or an interference.
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Imran Khan makes U-turn over foreign conspiracy letter
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 17 (ANI): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman, Imran Khan on Saturday made a U-turn over his "foreign conspiracy" letter-- the allegations that he made that the US and the country's Opposition were hand-in-glove to remove him from power.
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Raja Pervez Ashraf takes oath as 22nd Speaker of Pak's National Assembly
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 17 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) lawmaker Raja Pervez Ashraf took oath as the 22nd Speaker of the National Assembly on Saturday after he got elected to the post unopposed in the National Assembly session.
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Pakistani forces compel Baloch drivers to march through desert: Report
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 16 (ANI): Pakistani forces allegedly forced several drivers from the ethnic minority areas of Balochistan to abandon their vehicles and march through the desert to their homes in the Chagai district near the border with Afghanistan, local media reported.
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