LAHORE: The Punjab government has reached an agreement with the private sector to procure wheat from farmers at the rate of Rs3,500 per maund, abruptly abandoning its market-reform rhetoric. The decision was taken during a high-level meeting chaired by Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif to review the province’s wheat policy and crop procurement framework….
PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman believes that the federal government has effectively become a minority administration following the ongoing political friction between the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and its coalition partner, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). Speaking to the media in Peshawar on Wednesday, Fazl refrained from giving an immediate reaction…
MUZAFFARABAD: The PPP and the PML-N Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) chapters have decided to part ways with the Chaudhry Anwar-ul-Haq government. A meeting was held at Zardari House in Islamabad on Wednesday under the leadership of Chaudhry Yasin, President of PPP AJK, attended by members of the parliamentary party and the core committee. During…
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has acquitted a 74-year-old Christian man in a blasphemy case after 23 years of imprisonment, most of which he spent confined to a death cell due to his mental disorder. “The appellant is more than seventy-four years old and has spent around twenty-three years in prison, most of which was in…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday said the Pakistan-Saudi Arabia defence cooperation agreement is rooted in brotherhood and mutual trust, emphasizing that both nations, by working together, can secure a stronger position in the global community. He was addressing a luncheon held here at the Prime Minister’s House in honour of the visiting Saudi…
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Finance has finalised the annual domestic borrowing plan for the fiscal year 2025-26, under which the government is set to raise over Rs22,000 billion in new loans, sources said on Wednesday. According to sources, the new borrowing will be utilised to repay maturing debt and finance the federal budget deficit. The…
PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) chief Senator Aimal Wali on Wednesday took to the social media platform ‘X’ to explain that he had apologised to the prime minister after receiving clarification from him regarding the concerns he had raised in his Senate address. In his post, Senator Aimal said the prime minister had invited him…
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup backed by Alphabet’s Google and Amazon.com, announced that it will open its first office in India next year, aiming to tap into the country’s growing demand for AI tools. The move comes as AI adoption in India accelerates, fueled by rising enterprise tech spending, a growing pool of skilled talent,…
As the Supreme Court began live-streaming proceedings on petitions challenging the 26th Constitutional Amendment, the Constitutional Bench (CB) heard arguments on a plea seeking the formation of a “full court” — a move seen as crucial for collective judicial deliberation on a case concerning the court’s own structure. The petitioners’ counsel argued that Article 191A…
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday confirmed that former Jamaat-e-Islami senator Mushtaq Ahmad has been released from Israeli detention and is now at the Pakistan embassy in Amman, Jordan. Dar said Ahmad was “in good health and high spirits” and that arrangements had been made for his return to Pakistan…
