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Change of plans: IMF agrees to delay PIA sell-off for six months
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund have reached a staff-level understanding to delay privatisation of Pakistan International Airlines by about six months, allowing the government...
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Regional connectivity: Govt believes in development, not rhetoric, says PM
QUETTA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has inaugurated a multibillion-rupee highway that connects Gwadar port with Quetta, saying his administration does not believe in mere rhetoric. Army chief General...
View ArticleCrippling strike — Day 2: All flights grounded as PIA staff refuse to budge
PESHAWAR / LAHORE / RAWALPINDI: Thousands of passengers were stranded as all flights of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) were grounded due to a crippling strike by its employees against the...
View ArticleFirst US mosque visit: Obama slams anti-Muslim rhetoric
BALTIMORE: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday slammed what he called “inexcusable” anti-Muslim rhetoric in the political sphere — a veiled jibe at Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump and...
View ArticleBriton among 18 killed in Paktiya drone strike
PESHAWAR: A British national was reportedly amongst the militants killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan’s border Paktiya province on Monday evening.The drone had targeted a convoy of militants in...
View ArticleFor Kabul, denials just won’t work
Afghanistan has contested Pakistan’s assertion that the perpetrators of the January 20 attack on Bacha Khan University, which left at least 21 people dead, sneaked in from across the border. Both the...
View ArticleLegislation needed: SC orders laws against Sheehsa smoking
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court on Wednesday directed all the provincial governments to pass legislation for banning sheesha smoking.A two-judge bench of apex court, headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial sought...
View ArticleElectoral participation: Voting right for overseas Pakistanis discussed
ISLAMABAD: A Senate panel on Monday deliberated upon enabling overseas Pakistanis to cast votes in the country’s elections.The meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis and Human...
View Article2018 elections: PM refuses to accept K-P governor’s resignation
PESHAWAR: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has refused to accept Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan’s resignation.An insider familiar with the matter told The Express Tribune that Mehtab...
View ArticleUnhygienic food: Five factories sealed
FAISALABAD: City Assistant Commissioner Bilal Abro sealed five factories on Thursday for making unhygienic and substandard edible items. The assistant commissioner and Chief Food Inspector Abdul Qayyum...
View ArticlePlan drawn up for new airline: official
ISLAMABAD / LAHORE / KARACHI: Instead of initiating talks with the striking Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) workers, the government has decided to launch a new airline within four months, The...
View ArticleBio-risk management: KMU, DSP ink Rs4.98m deal
PESHAWAR: Dairy Science Park and Khyber Medical University signed a memorandum of understanding for ‘Bio-risk Management under Livestock Entrepreneurship’. The MoU will help safeguard the health of...
View ArticleLEAD 2016 Pakistan: Seminar held on leadership, strategic management
KARACHI: Over 150 corporate executives, senior bankers and young professionals gathered on Wednesday evening at the Institute of Bankers Pakistan (IBP) to hear business leaders speak about leadership...
View ArticleAgreement inked
ISLAMABAD: Bahria Town London, Neurosurgery Partnership and London Neurosciences Centre Limited signed an agreement on Thursday to provide state-of-the-art facilities to treat neurological patients at...
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Staff-level agreement: IMF wraps up 10th review of Pakistan’s economy
ISLAMABAD: Amid calls to revive the stalled privatisation of Pakistan’s power sector, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday reached a staff-level agreement with Islamabad on the completion...
View ArticleSeeking justice: Sister of military court convict files plea in SC
ISLAMABAD: A complainant, Mashooqa Bibi, has approached the Supreme Court against the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) order that dismissed her petition against a military court’s verdict to award death...
View ArticleSiachen avalanche: Pakistan Army offers to help rescue missing Indian soldiers
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army on Thursday offered to assist India in locating and possibly rescuing its soldiers who went missing after an avalanche at the Siachen Glacier early Wednesday.The Inter-Services...
View ArticleECP move: Polls on reserved LG seats put off indefinitely
ISLAMABAD: The top election supervisory body indefinitely postponed elections for reserved seats in the two provinces on Thursday, In a surprise move that is likely to further delay formation of local...
View ArticleWorld Cancer Day: 90% cancers curable if diagnosed in time: expert
ISLAMABAD: Shifa International Hospital (SIH) Consultant Medical Oncologist Dr Kamran Rasheed told participants of a seminar on Thursday said that 90 per cent of cancers were curable if diagnosed in...
View ArticleIneffective policing? Delaying tactics used to show low crime rate
TAXILA: The local police claim to have brought down the annual crime rate in 2015 by 11 per cent compared to the year before in their annual report. However, this seems to be a manipulation of data, as...
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