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[ Explores potential for collaboration in financial sector reforms, digital transformation Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb is interviewed during the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting at the IMF and World Bank’s 2024 annual Spring Meetings in Washington. PHOTO: REUTERS ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance Muhammad Aurangzeb on Wednesday held a meeting with a … Read more
[ National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq. PHOTO: FACEBOOK ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has reportedly given the go-ahead to National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq to proceed with negotiations between the government and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), sources said on Wednesday, a significant development in efforts to cool political temperatures. Parliamentary sources said that … Read more
. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk. PHOTO: COURTESY/UN GENEVA: The United Nations on Wednesday said decades-long discrimination and segregation of Palestinians by Israel in the West Bank were intensifying, and called on the country to end its “apartheid system”. In a new report, slammed by Israel, the UN rights office said “systematic … Read more
Comedian and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel sharply criticized President Donald Trump during Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday, marking the fifth anniversary of the Jan 6, 2021 US Capitol insurrection. Kimmel targeted a commemorative White House web page and social media posts that he said glorify the rioters and misrepresent the events of that day. Kimmel reminded … Read more
National Dialogue Committee (NDC) convenes a conference in Islamabad to discuss political situation in the country. Photo: X ISLAMABAD: A group of former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders, along with politicians from other parties, on Wednesday proposed a series of confidence-building measures, including the formation of high-powered negotiation teams comprising government and opposition representatives, to help … Read more
[The Trump administration said Wednesday that the United States was withdrawing from 66 international agreements, including a major climate change treaty.
Bazaars were shuttered and demonstrators met with violence from security forces amid rising anger about the country’s dire economic situation.
[ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s textile and apparel exports suffered a broad-based decline across its three largest markets, the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom, during the first half of FY26, signalling a deepening competitiveness crisis for the country’s largest export sector. Chairman Pakistan Textile Council (PTC) Fawad Anwar said the downturn was not … Read more
The vessel was one of two taken into American custody as the Trump administration said it was executing a “deal to take all the oil.”
Hamisha Daryani Ahuja’s ‘Namaste Wahala’ marks the beginning of collaboration between the two massive movie sectors LAGOS: The greeting “namaste” associated with yoga and the Pidgin word for trouble, “wahala”, widely used across the world thanks to Afrobeats, speak to Indian and Nigerian influences on the English language. But the film industries of the two … Read more