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Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb speaks during a Reuters interview at the 2025 annual IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington, DC, US, April 25, 2025. Photo: Reuters/ File ISLAMABAD: The federal and provincial governments on Tuesday agreed on a working framework outlining the broad contours of a possible targeted subsidy mechanism, as part of efforts to … Read more
President Trump and his aides have made contradictory statements on whether the United States and Israel have transformed the Iranian government through violence.
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said on Tuesday that Israel was “openly and unashamedly bombing pharmaceutical companies.”
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Photo: File ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday directed authorities to take strict action against the smuggling and illegal hoarding of petroleum products, citing the evolving regional situation. The development came a day after President Asif Zardari and the prime minister assured in a high-level meeting that adequate fuel stocks … Read more
Call move ‘dangerous and unprecedented’, urge global action to halt implementation Mourners react during the funeral of three Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli settler attack, in the village of Abu Falah near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, March 8, 2026. PHOTO: REUTERS Amnesty International, the United Nations and the Organisation of Islamic … Read more
After resisting calls for public hearings for weeks, House Republicans have called the secretary of defense to testify at a budget hearing in late April for the first time since the attacks on Iran began.
