A police constable, who was not given leave or was suffering from mental stress, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head inside the police line Makuaana. According to officials, Muhammad Farooq Mubarak, a resident of Chak No. 530 GB, was recruited in the police department two years ago and was transferred from the district […]
Authorities in Dera Ghazi Khan have moved to curb a deadly new trend in suicides: the ingestion of toxic “wheat pills” intended to preserve harvested grain. In a span of one year, the district’s Trauma Centre alone treated 215 cases of wheat-pill poisoning, 55 of which proved fatal. Over the past four months, as the […]
An Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft ‘inadvertently’ dropped a tank that fell on a house in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district on Friday, causing severe damage to the property but no injuries or casualties were reported, the Indian media said. The IAF launched an inquiry into the incident and said that it regretted the damage caused […]
As New Delhi hammers the panic button while turning a blind eye to simmering discontent in the occupied valley, Indian forces have launched yet another crackdown on innocent Kashmiri Muslims in the Indian-Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). According to sources, civilians are being deliberately targeted in a thinly veiled attempt to sweep state failures […]
Even before its unilateral suspension in the wake of a militant attack on tourists in occupied Himalayan valley of Jammu and Kashmir three days back, India was not adhering to the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) of 1960. In the recent past, India boycotted the proceedings of Hague based Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) which Pakistan […]
The Senate on Friday unanimously passed a strongly-worded resolution rejecting India’s allegations that Pakistan was involved in the April 22 attack at Pahalgam in the Indian-Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). The resolution, moved by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, categorically denounced what it described as “baseless and frivolous” attempts to malign […]
A letter has been addressed both to Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi and Islamabad High Court (IHC) Acting Chief Justice Sarfraz Dogar on behalf of former prime minister Imran Khan to bring to their attention “the continuing disregard by the authorities of the law and the Constitution”. It said Imran Khan is presently facing […]
The fourth meeting of the China-Pakistan Joint Working Group on Agriculture was convened in Beijing earlier this week. The meeting was co-chaired by senior officials from the Department of International Cooperation of China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the federal secretary of Pakistan’s Ministry of National Food Security and Research. The meeting primarily […]
Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, met with the Fitch Ratings team in Washington, DC, on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund-World Bank Spring Meetings. According to a press statement released on Friday, the finance minister expressed gratitude to Fitch Ratings for upgrading Pakistan’s sovereign credit rating from CCC+ to B-, […]
The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) has launched a major research initiative under its Research, Regulatory Insight & Advocacy Assistance (RRI&A) project, in collaboration with the Lahore School of Economics (LSE) and the University of Chicago. The study, titled “SME Finance and Lending in Pakistan,” seeks to understand why Pakistani SMEs remain underrepresented […]