This comes two days before their opening day-night one-day International against Pakistan on Thursday
A debt-ridden Pakistan has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia-based Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to borrow $4.5 billion to alleviate oil and gas shortages
Amid the chaos, previously defeated insurgent groups with bones to pick against both Pakistan and China are once more on the rise
This is to check financial crimes and illegal transfer of resources as the country struggled to exit from the FATF's grey list.
The country is burdened by high inflation, rising food prices, raised electricity charges
Pakistan received 2.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine from the United States on Friday, easing pressure on Islamabad in overcoming the shortage of COVID-19 vaccines. According to a US embassy statement, the vaccines were delivered to the Pakistani people in partnership with the COVAX global vaccine initiative, UNICEF, and the government of Pakistan. It says this donation was part of the 80 million doses the United States was sharing with the world, delivering on our pledge to facilitate equitable global access to safe and effective vaccines, which are essential to ending the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest development comes days after hundreds of Pakistani expatriate workers rallied in Islamabad, demanding they should be quickly vaccinated with the Moderna, Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines so they can travel abroad. Pakistan has mostly relied on Chinese vaccines, but some Middle Eastern countries want travelers to produce a certificate to show they've received specific vaccines.
Pakistan is reeling under heavy load-shedding resulting in leaving citizens without electricity for 16 hours.
The US has added Pakistan along with 14 other countries in a list of Child Soldiers Prevention Act which identifies foreign governments having government-supported armed groups that recruit or use child soldiers, a designation that could result in restrictions on certain security assistance and commercial licensing of military equipment. The US Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA) requires publication in the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report a list of foreign governments that have recruited or used child soldiers during the previous year (April 1, 2020, to March 31, 2021). The countries which have been added to the annual TIP list of the US State Department are Pakistan, Turkey, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. According to the State Department, the governments identified on the list are subject to restrictions, in the following fiscal year, on certain security ...
India asks Pakistan to probe and prevent recurrence of 'breach of security'
According to a US embassy statement, the vaccines were delivered to the Pakistani people in partnership with the COVAX global vaccine initiative, UNICEF, and the government of Pakistan.
It was for the second time that the app has been banned this year after its suspension in March by the Peshawar High Court (PHC), which had taken action on a petition filed by several citizens.
Pakistan's external debt is likely to increase in the near future as it is under compulsion to borrow more and more every year
World Bank approved $800 million in financing for two programmes in Pakistan--the Pakistan Program for Affordable and Clean Energy and the Second Securing Human Investments to Foster Transformation
The gas crisis in Pakistan has deepened after two state-owned companies on Monday announced complete closure of gas supply till July 5 to industries and CNG stations
Agni-5 to be mainstay of anti-China arsenal, Agni-P deterrent against Pakistan
Miftah Ismail lashed out at Pak government for a looming energy crisis in the country and delays in the dry docking of liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals, causing shortages in gas and electricity
Deploring FATF's decision to retain Pakistan on its grey list, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that if it was a technical decision then country would have been added to white list
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's Special Assistant on Information Shehbaz Gill announced that the ruling government would control all the current affairs programmes on TV news channels
Pakistan International Airlines has grounded 140 flight attendants for being overweight and excluded them from promotions and the duty roster for July flights, ARY News reported citing sources.
Qureshi's comments came a day after the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), during its plenary meeting from June 21-25, retained Pakistan in its 'grey list'