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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday said that only a mad man would contest election under the current Election Commission of Pakistan...

The country’s current account deficit widened to $ 2.173 billion during three quarters of the current fiscal year, July-March FY14, reported the central bank...

Chairman CNG Association Ghayas Paracha has said that gas supply on current prices would continue till the next orders of the Supreme Court (SC). Talking...

Important roads of the city could not be repaired or widened as Rawalpindi could not get Large City Package from the Punjab government for...

He is the current heartthrob of the industry while his father rocked the Bollywood scene with his effervescence in the 1980s. And if the...

The two-day jirga for debating the current situation on both sides of Pak-Afghan border will commence today (Tuesday) at Nishtar Hall Peshawar. The jirga will...

The more you analyse it, the more distant the future becomes. The pre-Pakistan generation has almost entirely passed on, in utter despair at how...

In a crackdown against those involved in various crimes, Islamabad police have arrested 979 proclaimed offenders and busted 347 criminal gangs besides nabbing 1,213...

There is probably a special place in hell for ministers, secretaries, under secretaries and other irrelevant sociocrats who are a burden on the national...

The country’s current account balance, after a gap of seven long years, has posted a surplus of $542 million during the recently concluded financial...

Former Pakistan Cricket Team captain Shahid Khan Afridi has said that he does not want any clash with Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and is...

Pakistan’s current account balance remained in green zone for the second consecutive month, as it posted a surplus of $748 million in July-April of...

KARACHI - Driven primarily by healthy dollar inflows on the back of strong export performance and worker remittances, the country's current account (C/A) balance has shown a $99 million surplus during the first nine months of the current financial year. Analysts, however, have warned against complacency, saying it was too early to celebrate the rare 'good news' at a time when incipient threats like soaring oil prices in the international market and a debilitating power crisis at home

LAHORE - PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said he was deeply upset over the current situation in the country, saying that the credit for the current turmoil went to President Asif Ali Zardari who had disappointed the entire nation. Addressing PML-N party workers from Sheikhupura, Kasur and Nankana Sahib at his residence in Model Town, Nawaz said, "I reconciled with President Zardari to change the fate of the country but he ruined the reconciliation in just a month."
He

KARACHI - Pakistan's current account deficit has dwindled 97.34 percent to $81 million in the first seven months of the current fiscal year. This decline, analysts cited, is spurred by healthy dollar inflows from exports and worker remittances.
However, analysts believe that an expected rise in prices of oil on the back of political unrest in Middle Eastern countries might take Pakistan's current account deficit to $4.0 billion during 2010-11.
"The overall deficit may swell

ISLAMABAD - US Vice President Joe Biden is coming to Pakistan with a "strong message" of support from the Obama administration to the political set up in Pakistan coupled with a warning of deep negative impact on Pakistan-US relations in case of any derailment of democracy.
"The US vice president, who arrives on a daylong visit on Wednesday, will deliver a strong message to all stakeholders in Islamabad including the military leadership that President Obama and his

LAHORE - Former Punjab chief minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid's (PML-Q) senior leader Parvez Elahi has said that his party will not let the present system derail and continue to strive for the national solidarity, good governance, strong democratic values and elimination of poverty.
He said this in a meeting held at his residence in Islamabad with the party leaders from Rawalpindi, Jehlum and Attock on thursday.
He added that the party had always upheld national