Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb Wednesday said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chaired the second meeting of the cabinet in which the entire cabinet strongly condemned the attack on Chinese nationals in Karachi University. It was also decided in the meeting that the entire security operandi would be reviewed regarding the Chinese nationals in Pakistan, in addition to …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged Pakistan to bring its current account deficit under control, an official said, as Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif’s government seeks an increase in the size and duration of the current IMF programme. Pakistan’s current account deficit ballooned to $13.2 billion in the nine months of the current fiscal year from a gap of $275 …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday stressed bringing reforms into the power sector on priority basis. The prime minister stated this in a meeting with Federal Minister for Power Division Khurram Dastgir. PM Sharif directed the repair and uplift of the defunct power plants at the earliest in view of uninterrupted supply of electricity across the country. Khurram Dastagir …

PM Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose government is a key regional ally to Pakistan, took to Twitter to condemn the horrific Friday incident that saw a mob torture and kill Priyantha Diyawadana, an expat factory manager working in Sialkot, over blasphemy allegations. He said that Sri Lanka and her people are confident that PM Imran Khan will keep to his commitment to …

Minister says Rana Shamim was an official member of PML-N who was appointed as GB’s chief judge and then ‘affidavits of party’s choice’ were obtained Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Saturday said that underlying motive of PML-N to make the institutions controversial is to obtain relief in cases against them. Talking to media in Islamabad, …

The federal cabinet has approved an agreement to keep $3 billion aid from Saudi Arabia in the State Bank of Pakistan. The Cabinet endorsed the deal via a circulation summary Saturday.  The Saudi government had promised to maintain a reserve of $3bn at the State Bank. According to the agreement, the aid will remain in the State Bank’s deposit account …