Secretary, Power Division, Wednesday said that no new power generation plants would be installed that generate electricity using fuel. He said this during the meeting of the Standing Committee on Power Division, chaired by Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Sardar Riaz Mehmood Khan Mazari. The committee expressed its dissatisfaction regarding unannounced load shedding, especially…
The auction advisory committee Wednesday unanimously decided to go for auction of 2100 megahertz (MHz) band in 5, 5 megahertz MHz bandwidth for 10 years using the current consultant’s report at net present value. Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Miftah Ismail presided over the first meeting of the spectrum auction advisory committee for the…
The United States has deported a politically influential man to his native Pakistan, where he had been wanted for allegedly murdering three transgender people after sexually assaulting them.The U.S. immigration agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operatio…
There was already plenty of trouble to talk about when a major U.N. meeting on the landmark Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was originally supposed to happen in 2020.Now the pandemic-postponed conference finally starts Monday as Russia’s war in Ukraine…
Pakistan’s military chief has reportedly sought help from the United Sates in securing the early disbursement of an International Monetary Fund loan as the high price of energy imports pushes the cash-strapped South Asian nation to the brink of a payme…
Finance Minister Miftah Ismael says government’s efforts to reduce imports have finally borne fruit and imports in July, have been only five billion dollars as compared to 7.7 billion dollars in June. In a tweet on Sunday, he said our government is determined to minimize the large current account deficit left by PTI. Source: Radio…
Finance Minister Miftah Ismail says the incumbent government has saved Pakistan from default at the cost of its political capital. In a series of tweets, he said Pakistan witnessed its highest trade deficit in the last year of PTI government as Pakistan imported goods worth 80 billion US dollars. Miftah Ismail said in each of…
President Dr Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif have felicitated Muslims on beginning of the new Islamic year 1444, and prayed that the new Hijri year may bring blessings for Pakistan, Islamic Ummah and the whole world. In their separate messages at the advent of Muharram-ul-Haram, the first month of the Hijri year,…
Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif says the federal government is working with Balochistan government to provide immediate relief to the flood affected people in the province. He stated this in a series of tweets after visiting the flood-hit areas of Balochistan to oversee the ongoing relief work and express solidarity with the flood affected people.…
