A worker holds a fuel injector to refuel a car at a gas station in Karachi, September 16, 2023. — Reuters Increase in IFEM by Rs 2.5 per liter proposed as interim financing measure. The sales tax exemption makes refinery upgrades unsustainable. The refinery improvements aim for POL production to comply with the Euro V … Read more
Information Minister Atta Tarar addresses a press conference on February 7, 2023. — APP No communication channel restored between PTI and government: Tarar. The clarified committees have also not initiated dialogues. Tarar accuses the PTI of creating a “false narrative” to discredit the state. Hours after a “breakthrough” was reported between the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) … Read more
Muslims perform Umrah at the Grand Mosque in Mecca after Saudi authorities eased COVID-19 restrictions on October 4, 2020. — Reuters ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Religious Affairs on Tuesday said that all 79,000 applicants who submitted their applications to perform the 2025 Hajj pilgrimage under the federal government’s scheme had been “successful” as the December … Read more
The collapse of the Syrian government raises new hope: Austin Tice, an American journalist who disappeared in 2012 while covering the civil war in Syria, will be found. President Biden said Sunday he believed Tice was alive, but admitted there was no direct evidence. Tice’s parents spoke to “CBS Mornings” about their renewed hope.
The Syrian government appears to have fallen after opposition fighters said they had entered Damascus following a stunning advance, and a Syrian opposition war monitor reported that President Bashar Assad had left the country. Syrian opposition fighters said Sunday morning they had entered Damascus and residents in the capital reported sounds of gunfire and explosions. … Read more
Two guards stand outside the Foreign Ministry office in Islamabad, Pakistan. -AFP The Ministry of Foreign Affairs asks Pakistanis in Syria to contact the CMU. The ministry provides contact details for facilitation purposes. Rebels claim control of Syrian capital as Assad flees. ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has activated its Crisis Management Unit … Read more
JUI-F leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman addresses a press conference at Jamia Noor Ul Anwar Maskeen Pura in Chiniot on October 27, 2022. — Online Fazl says he doesn’t want confrontation with the state. Government pushes seminaries towards extremism: head of JUI-F. So-called reforms are being imposed on madrassas, he says. Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leader Maulana … Read more
PTI founder Imran Khan addressing an event in this undated image. — AFP/File Imran demands the release of political prisoners facing trial. A 5-member PTI committee was formed to hold talks with the government. PTI founder urges SC to ‘play its constitutional role’. Following the apparent failure of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) “do or die” … Read more
A representative image of a person filling up a car with gas. — Reuters/File The government increases the price of HSD to Rs 252.10 per litre. Ogra sets prices based on the international market. The new rates come into effect on December 1. The federal government has increased the price of petrol by Rs 3.72 … Read more
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch addresses seminar on ‘IIOJK Erasure of Muslim Identity and Genocide of Kashmiris to Bring Demographic Change’ (Youm e Istehsal) organized by Friends of Kashmir at Kashmir House on August 5, 2023. — APP No Pakistan-China program for TTP engagement: FO spox. According to him, Lukashenko visited Pakistan at the … Read more