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The Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, Imran Khan, has announced that he will personally lead his party's election rally in Lahore tomorrow. The rally will begin at 2 pm and comes after Khan castigated authorities for the alleged killing of a member of the PTI party. While the date for the general elections [...]

The sentence of two years in prison and a fine of Rs. 50,000 has been handed down in Faisalabad to a man who shared child pornography on WhatsApp. In 2021, Asif Mehmood Raza was found guilty of distributing indecent material relating to children through various WhatsApp groups. An international organisation lodged a complaint against Raza [...]

Pakistani Minister Announces Hajj policy 2023, reveals cost breakdown and sponsorship scheme for overseas Pakistanis. An announcement of the Hajj Policy 2023 was made on Friday by the Minister for Religious Affairs, Mufti Abdul Shakoor. According to him, 179,210 Pakistani pilgrims will perform Hajj this year and applications can be submitted from March 16 to [...]

NEPRA Allows DISCOs and KE to Recover Fuel Adjustment Surcharge from Consumers in Installments over 8 Months. Power distribution companies (DISCOs) and K-Electric (KE) have been authorized by the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) to collect deferred fuel adjustment surcharges from their customers. Surcharges can reach Rs 14.24 per unit, which will be collected [...]

Security agencies have advised the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) not to conduct elections in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province due to security concerns. According to them, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan poses a serious threat to the safety of the province. The security personnel also disclosed that threats existed in a number of Punjab districts. Officials from the Intelligence [...]

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has been informed that there have been persistent security threats in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province due to the presence of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which could affect the upcoming general election in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. During the briefing at ECP headquarters in Islamabad, Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja [...]

The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, has accused the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of being unfair to Pakistan and leaving the country in a state of crisis. Currently, Pakistan is under pressure to implement measures to reach an agreement with the International Monetary Fund. Since last year, the ninth review of a $7 [...]

The National Accountability Amendment Ordinance 2023 was approved by the Pakistan federal cabinet on the recommendation of the Ministry of Law and Justice. As a result of the revisions to the National Accountability Ordinance 1999, it has become increasingly difficult to transfer cases outside the purview of the NAB ordinance to other courts, tribunals, and [...]

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has received a boost to its foreign exchange reserves, as China sent an inflow of $500 million. According to the SBP, the total was $4.3 billion for the week ending March 3. The dollar's increase of more than Rs3 in the interbank market on Thursday, however, resulted in a [...]

Pakistan's upcoming general elections for the Punjab and KP assemblies hang in the balance as the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) faces resistance from relevant authorities. Officials from the Finance Division and the interior ministry continue to make excuses about a lack of funding, a financial crisis, a lack of police and civil armed forces, [...]

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has invited Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Ghulam Ali for a final consultation to discuss a possible date for the upcoming provincial assembly elections. The ECP and the governor were unable to reach a consensus during their meeting on Wednesday at the Governor's House in Peshawar. In a letter sent by [...]

Gwadar International Airport, located in Gurandani, 26 km east of the coastal city of Gwadar, is scheduled to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif later this month. The airport, built at a cost of $230 million, was financed by the Chinese government's grant under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. Its construction provided employment [...]

The chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, has stated that he does not require support from the military establishment and is willing to discuss the issue with anyone except "thieves." According to an interview with BBC Urdu, Khan expressed his desire to hold elections in the country in accordance with the law and constitution, [...]

Pakistan's Finance Minister, Ishaq Dar, expressed his commitment to complete the $7 billion Extended Fund Facility program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to him, the country is on the verge of signing a staff-level agreement, and his team is committed to fulfilling all sovereign commitments made by the previous administration. The agreement, which [...]

The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) is continuing to prepare for elections in Punjab, despite the fact that its key ally in the federal government, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has remained indecisive despite the announcement of a schedule of elections. All candidates from the province who are interested in running should submit their nomination papers [...]

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari addressed the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, emphasizing that a monitoring mechanism should be established to track crimes against women and girls in territories under foreign occupation, including Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).). The discussion, which Veronica Nataniel Macamo Dlhovu, the foreign minister of Mozambique, presided [...]