Minister of State for Finance Dr Aisha Pasha, in a policy statement delivered during the National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance, stressed that Pakistan's only choice was to return to the IMF.
"We are following the programme in earnest at this stage and strongly hope that issues with the IMF would be settled very soon as the prime minister, the Ministry of Finance and the entire government were committed to the IMF programme and its amicable completion," said Minister of State for
The discussion between Shehbaz and Georgieva took place on Saturday after the finance ministry could not break the deadlock over the loan talks during the past four months, The Express Tribune wrote quoting sources. Two days after the highest-level contact was established between Shehbaz
It is impossible to overstate the financial difficulties Pakistani citizens have been facing, and a significant factor heightening the uncertainty is the elusive IMF deal that has been under negotiation since the Shehbaz Sharif-led coalition government took office in April of last year, The
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Altaf Hussain has said that democracy is under threat in Pakistan and now every citizen of Pakistan is worried over this act of the sick and power-hungry maniacs, injustice and authoritarianism that will drive the country into hell.
Former special assistant to prime minister Tariq Mehmood Al Hasan, former MPA Malik Khurram Ali Khan and former MNA Jamshed Thomas on Sunday condemned the protests on May 9 and announced stepping down from the party positions.
Senior Pakistani journalist Sami Abraham has been taken away by unidentified men in Islamabad on Wednesday, his family claimed, saying that there was no information available regarding his location, Dawn reported.
Ongoing projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been stopped due to a lack of funds. Peshawar University is not having money for paying salaries to employees.
Arson, vandalism, plumes of smoke and gunshots...all hell broke loose in Pakistan as former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested on corruption charges following months of trial and investigation.