Islamabad: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has again raised the issue of imposing additional fertilizer taxes and introducing an excise tax on pesticide use to partly offset a shortfall in the annual fiscal target, which the government has asked to be postponed until next year. The global lender has asked the government to trigger the […]
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Islamabad: Representatives of Pakistan, China, Russia and Iran met on Moscow on Monday to coordinate their positions before the seventh round of consultations in Moscow’s format on Afghanistan, which is expected to start on Tuesday (today). The meeting brought together special envoys from the four regional powers for detailed discussions on the situation in Afghanistan,
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Islamabad: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday that it hoped that the safe evacuation of former Senator Mushtaq Ahmad would be “successfully completed in the coming days”. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, through its embassy in Amman, works tirelessly to ensure the safe evacuation of former Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan,” FO
Rawalpindi: The leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-E-insaf (PTI) warned Monday that the president of the party foundation, Imran Khan, could be transferred to isolation after a few additional hearings and accused the authorities of carrying out a campaign to divert the attention of his message. The party also said that future imran messages will be delivered
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Gilgit: The Police Inspector General (IGP) Gilgit-Baltistan Afzal Mohammad Butt revealed on Monday that eight to ten terrorists were involved in the assassination of the eminent religious scholar Maulana Qazi Nisar Ahmad. He said that the real authors had been identified and that their arrests were expected in the coming days. Addressing the media representatives
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Islamabad: In what seemed to be a high -level intervention to defuse political tensions between the governments of Sindh and Punjab, President Asif Ali Zardari summoned Federal Interior Minister Mohin Naqvi to Karachi on Monday for urgent consultations, Express News reported. This decision came as a war of words between the Pakistani-Nawaz Muslim League (PML-N),
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Islamabad: While Pakistan is struggling with an extended trade deficit, an increase in unemployment and an exodus of multinational companies, experts urge the government to adopt a more aggressive protectionist approach – similar to the “America First” strategy of US President Donald Trump – to protect national manufacturing. Trump’s economic policy, which was based strongly
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Islamabad: Judge Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan, judge Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan, expressed serious reserves on the use of artificial intelligence (IA) in legal proceedings, warning that “robot judges will always remain subordinate to their programmers”. In a letter addressed to the chief judge Sarfraz Dogar – a copy of which was also disseminated among all
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Islamabad: Judge Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan, judge Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan, expressed serious reserves on the use of artificial intelligence (IA) in legal proceedings, warning that “robot judges will always remain subordinate to their programmers”. In a letter addressed to the chief judge Sarfraz Dogar – a copy of which was also disseminated among all
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ISLAMABAD: In his dissenting note in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) judges’ transfer case, Supreme Court Justice Shakeel Ahmad disagreed with the contention of the petitioner IHC judges that intelligence agencies have a role to play in matters relating to the appointment or transfer of judges. In February this year, three judges from different high
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