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PTI founder Imran Khan’s sister Aleema Khan along with party leaders addresses a news conference in Islamabad. Photo: Saba ISLAMABAD: Political temperatures rose sharply on Thursday as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) expressed serious concern over the health of its incarcerated leader, Imran Khan, after a report submitted to the Supreme Court quoted him as saying … Read more
[ . Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Rana Tanveer Hussain. Photo: File ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Rana Tanveer Hussain led Pakistan’s delegation at the 49th session of the Governing Council of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome, where ministers and development partners reviewed strategies … Read more
[ KARACHI: Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) posted a modest increase during the week ended February 6, 2026, according to data released on Thursday. The SBP’s FX reserves rose by $21 million on a weekly basis to $16.18 billion. Meanwhile, the country’s total liquid foreign reserves stood at … Read more
Built on comfort, connection and catchy pop lines, collaboration feels less like a release, more like a conversation LAHORE: Jal frontman Goher Mumtaz has dropped a breezy new track, ‘Har Saal’, featuring Aima Baig, marking his first-ever standalone collaboration with the singer. Written and composed by Mumtaz, the song was released on Monday with an … Read more
. France appetite for eggs hits record highs in 2025. Photo: Reuters PARIS: France consumed a record number of eggs in 2025, driven by their affordability amid economic uncertainty, and the trend is set to continue, prompting ?producers to build more hen houses, the French egg industry group said on Thursday. Demand for eggs has … Read more
. US President Donald Trump makes an announcement at the White House. Photo: Reuters WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Thursday revoked a landmark scientific finding underpinning US regulations to curb planet-warming pollution, marking his biggest rollback of climate policy to date. The repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 “endangerment finding” was paired with the … Read more
[ PBA cites surge in private sector credit, SME lending and record agriculture financing Many foreign investors are believed to be borrowing from their domestic banks at lower interest rates (6-7%) and investing in Pakistan’s T-bills, which offer a high rate of return (20%). Photo: file KARACHI: The local banking sector has announced a voluntary … Read more
Thorbjorn Jagland, who briefly led Norway in the 1990s, had been protected by diplomatic immunity that came with his work with the Council of Europe, but that privilege was waived.
[ The finance ministry has admitted that “public debt dynamics remained a key challenge” during the last fiscal year, as the increase in total public debt was “driven mainly by higher interest payments and exchange rate movements”. Photo: file LAHORE: The fragile external financing system of Pakistan is one of the main reasons for the … Read more
Juliette Lewis plays a woman whose soul inhabits a bespoke armchair in Amanda Kramer’s cinematic specialty item.