The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has initiated disciplinary action and immediately suspended six officials found to be unauthorisedly absent from their assigned monitoring duties at sugar mills, reaffirming its zero-tolerance policy towards misconduct and dereliction of duty. The officials had been deployed under Section 40B of the Sales Tax Act, 1990 to ensure effective, […]
ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday praised the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission’s (PAEC) contributions to the health sector, calling the provision of state-of-the-art cancer treatment facilities the “biggest service to humanity”. The premier was addressing an inaugural ceremony of Kashmir Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Oncology and Radiology (KINOR) in Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir […]
Despite the unusual green colour of the sea caused by a seasonal marine phenomenon, the coastal waters of Gwadar remain rich in marine life, with pods of bottlenose dolphins recently sighted in the western bay of the port city. According to a statement issued by WWF-Pakistan, a winter marine occurrence known as the Noctiluca bloom […]
The federal government would not move against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) UK as an organisation but would pursue legal action against specific individuals involved in incitement and threats, if necessary, under UK law, according to the minister of state for interior. “We will not go after PTI UK, but we will target the individuals involved,” Talal […]
The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) took strong enforcement action in 2025 against cartelization, price fixing, and other anti-competitive practices to protect consumers and ensure fair markets. The CCP took this enforcement action in key sectors including sugar, steel, poultry, fertilizer, education, transport, advertising, power supply, and manufacturing. According to a press release on Sunday, […]
Walk through any Pakistani bazaar at dusk and you’ll see the country’s real economy at work. Kiryana shops tally credit in worn ledgers. Hawkers sell fruit at wafer-thin margins. Mobile accessories fly off glass counters as commuters head home. This is Pakistan’s informal retail sector, the everyday economy spanning small shops, micro-wholesalers, market stalls, home-based […]
For much of Pakistan’s recent economic history, stability has been treated as a finish line rather than a starting point. In 2025, after years of volatility marked by sudden inflation spikes, high interest rates that followed, unstable exchange rates, and repeated IMF programmes, the country finally appeared to catch its breath. Since the start of […]
Pakistani cinema made decisive inroads on the international stage in 2025, with a clutch of locally produced films collecting significant honours across respected festival platforms, signalling both rising confidence at home and a welcome recognition of creative depth abroad. The most historic milestone came through the feature documentary ‘Moklani – The Last Mohanas’, directed by […]
The outgoing year, 2025, proved to be an inflationary tsunami, devastating household budgets as prices of food and essential commodities surged to record levels and spilt over into the incoming year, 2026. Pulses, vegetables, fruits, meat, chicken, milk, yoghurt, flour, bread, and even a cup of tea became crushingly expensive, eroding the purchasing power of […]
Violence in western and southern Sudan displaced more than 10,000 people within a three-day period this week, according to figures released by the United Nations’ migration agency on Sunday. Since April 2023, Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have waged what the UN has called a “war of atrocities”, killing tens of […]