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Islamabad: Pakistan is slowly and gradually heading towards Sri Lanka-like crisis situation due to the worsening domestic political and economic situation, which can be turned around through political dialogue and prudent economic policies. “We are at a distance of 30-35 days from Sri Lanka’s (crisis-like situation),” Exchange Companies Association of …

Lahore: A drug addict arrested with a stolen motorcycle has confessed to having murdered his father and stepmother eight years ago. Anti-Vehicle Lifting Staff SP Aftab Phularwan told media that the suspect had fatally hit his parents with a rod and dumped their bodies in a canal and a stream. …

ISLAMABAD, May 15 : Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman has said that environmental degradation was emerging as a national security threat for Pakistan as it was paying a disproportionate price for climate change impacts derived by the developed world. Federal Minister for Climate Change in her talk …

ISLAMABAD, May 15 : Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Miftah Ismail on Sunday said the government was not raising petrol prices and a summary for that matter has been sent to the Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif for a swift decision. “Rising petrol prices causes surge in food prices, which …

ISLAMABAD, May 15 : After seventy four years of illegal creation of Israel on the occupied land of Palestine, the Palestinians are facing the threat of another Nakba (destruction) that will completely destroy Palestine, if Israel is allowed to continue with it’s illegal colonial policies against Palestinian people. On 15th …

BEIJING, May 15 : Pakistan can take an initiative to manufacture low cost solar panels locally in the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) built under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework. According to a renewable energy expert and consultant in Pakistan, China is the leader in solar technology right now. Pakistan …

UNITED NATIONS, May 15 : Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is expected to be in New York this week to lead Pakistan’s delegation to a ministerial-level meeting on global food security aimed at responding to the escalating food prices across the world in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. …

ISLAMABAD, May 15 :The longstanding vagaries of the port city of Gwadar due to growing energy scarcity would end by October, 2023 after the completion of the 300megawatts coal-fired power plant. The 300-megawatt (MW) coal-fired Gwadar Power Plant would cater the needs of some 150,000 local people by the end …

ISLAMABAD, May 15 ): Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday while strongly condemning the killing of two members of the Sikh community in Peshawar, directed the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to ensure immediate arrest and punishment of the culprits. He also urged the chief minister to ensure steps …

ISLAMABAD, May 15: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif Sunday strongly condemned a suicide blast in Miran Shah, North Waziristan in which reportedly six persons including three security personnel embraced martyrdom. The prime minister expressed his deep grief and sorrow over the loss of precious lives and conveyed his sympathies to …