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IT cannot be easy to be finance minister in times like these, with friend and foe alike gunning for you over difficult decisions that you were forced to take in the greater national interest. This is the sorry predicament Miftah Ismail finds himself in at the moment, merely two and …

Rain-swollen rivers spilled mud-brown waters across swathes of Sydney on Tuesday, swamping homes and roads while forcing thousands to flee. Emergency services have now instructed about 50,000 people to evacuate  or to prepare to escape the rising waters in New South Wales, officials said. Emergency workers carried out 22 flood rescues …

ISLAMABAD: Keeping in view the prevailing situation in the country, the government has planned to expand the scope of the social safety net Benazir Income Support Prog­ram­me (BISP) and increase the number of beneficiaries to 10 million, said Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Welfare Shazia Marri. The minister …

QUETTA: At least six people, including two women and three young girls, were killed and over a dozen people injured in rain-related incidents in Balochistan on Monday. Heavy rains with strong winds started in many areas of the province in the afternoon. According to sources, five people were swept away …

Solar panels generally have a life of 25 years so they may be lighting up your toddler’s wedding functions. Fatima S Attarwala Published July 4, 2022 –  Updated about 2 hours ago Did the world turn black when you saw your latest electricity bill? If so, you are not alone. The heat demands air conditioning, …

ISLAMABAD: As the Covid-19 positivity rate hits insane levels in some cities, government officials blame a decline in testing for skewed figures. They believe that both citizens and the health authorities have started taking the pandemic “as a normal disease” thanks to pandemic fatigue, an expected and natural response to …

Can PML-N, the leading party of the ruling coalition, motivate and mobilise its political base of traders and industrialists to rise, take risks and surprise the nation by investing more than before against odds to prove mastery of their skills and to show their trust in democracy and the future …

The ‘International Monetary Fund-dictated’ budget 2022-23 has come into force after the parliament passed it without much ado and the president has signed the finance bill into law. The Rs9.579 trillion annual federal budget carried an unprecedented fiscal adjustment of more than Rs1.75tr or 2.2 per cent of GDP in …

PAKISTAN has planned the next (digital) census in October 2022 after an inter-censal interval of just five years — instead of the conventional 10 years followed by other countries — and after missing the 2001 and 2011 censuses. The last census, conducted in 2017, was based on the traditional methodology …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan will lead a rally from Rawalpindi to the Parade Ground in the federal capital, the venue of his slated protest against the coalition government and record inflation, on Saturday (today). Addressing a seminar titled ‘Regime change: Impact on Politics, Security and Economy’ and …