. KARACHI: The Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat on Friday decided to hold quarterly review meetings to monitor the K-IV and other key projects, push for faster progress, and suggested convening a joint session of all relevant Senate committees to help resolve Karachi’s long-standing water and sewage problems. The body, which met with Senator […]
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Screenshot from a social media video released on Friday shows protesters gathering as vehicles burn amid developing anti-government unrest in Tehran. Photo: AFP LONDON/PARIS: Iran plunged into a near-total internet blackout on Friday as authorities moved to quell the biggest wave of anti-government protests in more than a decade, with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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Ishaq Dar speaks at an OIC high-level event on peace and tolerance on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s 80th session ISLAMABAD: An extraordinary meeting of the foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is taking place in Jeddah today to discuss Israel’s recognition of the self-proclaimed Somaliland region, a move that
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World Bank representative Anthony Cholst said the bank will continue economic cooperation with Pakistan. PHOTO: REUTERS ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has approached the World Bank for its possible role in refinancing a $36 billion energy sector debt from multilateral and bilateral creditors that it had previously taken to install power projects. Government sources told The Express Pakinomist
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Cancels second wave of attacks on Venezuela; Neighbors, allies sharply critical of US actions NEW YORK: President Donald Trump’s increasingly expansive view of American power, openly dismissive of international law and instead rooted in what he calls his “own morality,” is sending shockwaves across capitals as Washington deepens military, economic and political interventions from Latin
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. LAHORE: JI chief Hafiz Naeem has called on the powerful elite to stop issuing certificates for treason. He has claimed that his party will bring a public revolution in the country. Addressing the participants of a training camp at Mansoora in Lahore, Naeem said that the powerful should not block the way of the
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. ISLAMABAD: The Establishment Division has made eighteen additional nominations for the 39th Senior Leadership Course. It has also withdrawn five officers’ nominations and changed the posting stations of nine officers. According to a notification issued, the list of officers nominated for the mandatory senior management course required for promotion to Grade 20 has been
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Under the public-private partnership, 741 patients benefit in the first phase on a first-come, first-served basis Mustafa Kamal. Photo: FILE As many as 741 cancer patients from Islamabad, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan will receive free medicines worth nearly Rs 10 million each in the first phase of a five-year public-private partnership initiative. The Ministry of
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Prime Minister Shehbaz orders immediate pilot projects for loss making power supplies from PESCO and QESCO The federal government has decided to convert power utilities operating at high losses to solar energy as part of efforts to improve electricity supply and curb financial losses in the power sector. The decision was taken at a high-level
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Reuters claims Pakistan closes in on $1.5bn arms deal with Sudan; the deal could include 10 Karakoram-8 jets, 200+ drones ISLAMABAD: Military-to-military engagement with friendly countries is a routine affair that includes various facets of defense cooperation, Pakistani security sources said on Friday, following a Reuters report that claims Pakistan is in the final stages
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