Pakistan’s energy generation mix is 40 percent based on indigenous resources while 60 percent comprises imported oil fuel and the government has...
The first batch of copper and gold production from the Reko Diq mine is likely to commence in 2027-28 for which final...
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) has become the top most attractive destination point for five million domestic and foreign tourists during 11 months, with Lower...
The World Bank (WB) approved $200 million to support Pakistan aiming to transform its agriculture sector by implementing climate-smart technologies to increase water-use...
Ahsan Iqbal, the federal minister for planning and development, emphasized the importance of keeping the promises and commitments made to invest $600...
The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) has revealed that 115,000 unverified retired employees of Pakistan Railways are being paid Rs 35...
Chinese company Yutong Bus agreed to the offer to establish a public transport plant in Sindh after an extensive meeting held between Sindh minister...
The overall deposits held by scheduled banks have depicted an increase of about 15% YoY to around Rs 22.8 trillion in June...
Disaster management authorities are bracing for another spell of torrential rains, mainly in Sindh and Balochistan, in the prediction of a “vigorous...
The PTI side was in complete control on Sunday as unofficial results from the Punjab by-elections in 20 constituencies revealed that the PTI...
The official launch of the Orange Line Metro to Islamabad Airport is facing an additional delay because of political interference and pressures...
Pakistan placed an order for four cargoes for July and out which the first cargo of imported wheat reached Pakistan on July 5...
Pakistan’s exports to regional countries showed an upsurge of 18.26 percent during the first eleven months of the fiscal year (2021-22), against...
As a large number of areas of the federal capital have been severely hit by floods during monsoon rain, the Capital Development...
The Finance Ministry has announced to release subsidies earmarked in the budget on a case-to-case basis during the ongoing fiscal year. As...
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has declared the construction of the Navy Golf Course in the Margalla Hills National Park illegal and...
The newly-built Shahkam Chowk flyover has been started for traffic, facilitating the mobility of the public at Link Canal Road, Shahkam intersection,...
Pakistan has been placed as the second-worst country with regard to gender inequality, ranked 145 out of 146 states, according to the...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has confirmed that it had agreed to a staff-level agreement with Pakistan on the mutual seventh and...
Pakistan is working ambitiously to attain $15 billion in IT exports within three years, Federal Minister for Information Technology, Syed Amin-ul-Haq said. ...
The Islamabad police registered more than 800 street crime cases of snatching, robberies, burglaries, and auto thefts last month. According to police...
Pakistan’s job market has started to shrink on the account of economic slowdown, as various sectors have reported layoffs whereas for fresh...
Pakistan is home to over 7,000 glaciers, more than anywhere else on Earth outside the poles and the increasing worldwide temperatures along...
Prime Minister Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif inaugurated the Green and Blue lines of the mass transit metro bus service on Thursday. It is...
More than 300 textile mills have been closed because of a cut in gas supply, All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) Chairman...
The Islamabad Police has launched a new WhatsApp number so people can report lost and found items to accelerate the recovery process....
The federal government’s budgetary borrowing for the financial year 2021-22 was 85 percent more than the last year, while the private sector...
Pakistan’s rice export to China crossed $277.56 million during the first five months of Financial Year 2021-2022, up 9.73% year on year....
Pakistan’s first floating solar power project, which will generate 500 megawatts of energy, is all set to be launched soon on Keenjhar...
In order to satisfy a key requirement of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) about establishing primary budget surplus in the next fiscal...
The popularity of Pakistan’s captivating mountains is at its all-time peak as for the first time in recent history over 1,400 foreign...
Export of services reported an increase of 17.71 percent during the first 11 months of 2021-22, as per the data released by...
In order to fulfill the demand of residents and the growing popularity of the Sindh People’s Intra-District Bus Service, the transport sector...
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has asked the Frontier Work Organisation (FWO) to present the draft PC-I of the Bhara Kahu bypass...
The government has started working on a comprehensive solar energy policy including tax waivers and concessionary loans for users in order to...
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has increased its key policy rate by 125 basis point to 15 percent during its review...
Another spell of monsoon rainfall is expected across the country on the occasion of Eidul Azha, the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has...
In the fiscal year that concluded on June 30, 2022, Pakistan’s trade deficit expanded by 55.29 percent as a result of higher...
Regardless of persistent price hikes and a stoppage in construction activities during the past few months, national cement sales in FY22 depicted...
Minister for Power Engineer Khurram Dastgir announced nearly 7,000 MW of electricity would be added to the national grid before the arrival...
The youngest member of Pakistan’s climbing community, Shehroze Kashif broke another record by becoming the youngest mountaineer to summit Nanga Parbat. Kashif...
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is making different advanced roads to make sure easy access to the tourist spots at an estimated cost...
The government has expedited its efforts to fulfill the strict conditions of the European Union (EU) to ensure a ten years extension...
To make Islamabad “one of the safest cities” in Pakistan, the federal government is looking forward to installing additional cameras in the...
Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Masood Khan unveiled that Pakistan’s exports to the US showed an upward hill during former Prime...
With the arrival of Eidul Azha, prices of vegetables have almost doubled across the country as storekeepers are selling items at their...
The federal power regulator Nepra authorized a significant rise in electricity tariff for K-Electric’s consumers on Monday, which is yet another bad news for...
Khyber Pakthunkhwa’s northern areas including Nathia Gali have attracted around 37,452 backpackers and adventure sports enthusiasts because of its pleasant weather following...
The government has released an amount of Rs 46,868.33 million against the allocation of Rs 69,485.05 million for different power division schemes...
On Monday, chief minister of Punjab, Hamza Shehbaz Sharif, declared that the province will give free electricity to household consumers who used...
World Bank has warned Pakistan of macroeconomic instability, and the balance of payment crisis considering the widening existing account deficit and other...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has inaugurated the Innovation Hub Program (IHP) in Islamabad, a platform to facilitate exchange of ideas between the...
Consumer price index (CPI) of Pakistan rose 21.3% in June from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said on Friday, for the...
The ZU Peshawar or TransPeshawar Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has been selected for the Prize for Cities Award 2022 under World Resources...
Pakistan has borrowed $13.539 billion in fresh external loans as well as grants during the first eleven months of the current financial...
United States has blacklisted 36 companies, including those from China and Pakistan, for supporting Russia in the Ukraine conflict. On Tuesday, US...
The city of lights, Karachi comes on top in philanthropy, people in Karachi have big hearts which is the reason city has...
The current account deficit (CAD) abruptly widened to $15.2 billion during the first 11 months of the outgoing financial year as compared...
Two female Pakistani mountaineers Samina Baig and Naila Kiani have set their eyes on doing something which no other Pakistani woman has...
The Punjab Cabinet has approved the Punjab Local Government Bill (PLGA) 2022 with an increased quota of reserved seats for the youth...
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) gathered Rs 6.125 trillion against the upward revised target of Rs 6.100 trillion, an increase of...
The war in Ukraine has sparked a global food crisis which is predicted to kill millions due to hunger and contagious diseases,...
The total profits and dividend outflows raised $1.6 billion during the 11 months of the present financial year (11MFY22), showing that foreign...
Prime Minister Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif has approved the import of super-critical quality coal from Afghanistan in rupees rather than in dollars, saying...
The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has cleared 19 mega development project having an estimated cost of Rs 142.3 billion. The meeting...
According to the sources, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) meeting was presided over by Finance Minister Miftah Ismail who approved a total...
Pakistan has been ranked 29th among the countries having natural gas reserves, publicized in the findings of a gas monitor report presented...
The Zilhaj moon has not been sighted anywhere in the country as no testimony was received and Eidul Azha will fall on...
The Economic Affairs Division announced on Monday that Pakistan and France had signed a contract for the suspension of loans totaling $107...
Good news for Karachites as 100 more buses for People’s Intra-District Bus Service arrived at Karachi Port from China on Tuesday. PPP...
The Secretary of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) revealed that Pakistan has the potential to generate $8 billion in revenue...
Pakistan is facing a hike in power crisis as it failed to agree on an agreement for LNG supply next month. LNG...
Pakistan’s exports to China have surpassed $1.605 billion during the first five months of 2022, rising by 5.42% year on year, according...
Burning fossil fuels are the major source of microscopic air pollution which has shortened lives worldwide by more than two years, researchers...
A group of 8 foreign tourists are on the way to Khunjerab Pass from Islamabad through rickshaw, they will cover around 745...
‘Karachi’- The economical hub of Pakistan, also known as the ‘City of Lights’, has been ranked among the world’s worst cities to...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced that the coalition government looks forward to imposing a 10% super tax on large-scale industries, and...
The Punjab Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) gave nod to six development schemes of different sectors having an estimated cost of Rs...
The current financial year is going to end this month but the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is still behind the previous year’s...
According to a DG Sindh Safe Cities Authority official, the Karachi Safe City Project will gradually install up to 10,000 closed-circuit television...
A Chinese consortium loan of RMB 15 billion, or around $2.3 billion, has been credited to the State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP)...
The banking sector has recorded an increase of 19.6 percent mainly because of much higher private sector participation in the economic growth...
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has given a no-objection certificate (NOC) to the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Rawalpindi to install 15...
Around 450 Sikh pilgrims arrived here on Tuesday through Wagah border to observe the 183rd death anniversary of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. They...
Pakistan’s non-textile exports rose 27.40 percent year-on-year to $11.25 billion during the first 11 months of the outgoing fiscal year on account...
In a bid to produce cheaper electricity up to 5,000 megawatts (MW) via solar plants, the government has initiated the spadework and...
Pakistan’s exports to Italy observed an increase of 46 percent to $1.002 billion during 11 months on a year-on-year basis, thus making...
After a long delay, Finance Minister of Balochistan Sardar Abdul Rehman Khetran revealed the province’s budget for the fiscal year 2022-23, having...
Kristin Harila, a Norwegian female climber, is ready to summit K2 and Nanga Parbat, in her attempt to climb five 8,000-metre peaks...
Chinese firms have been invited to invest in Pakistan as Chinese expertise in technology and the cheap Pakistani labour could act in...
The government has decided to convert 3,960 MW of electricity produced from imported coal onto local coal of Thar to stop using...
A 6-kilometre long part of Gujrat-Jalalpur Jattan Road till the University of Gujrat’s Hafiz Hayat campus Road will be re-established at a...
The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has initiated a tourism police with the intention to provide better services and security to people who...
The recent massive hikes in fuel prices have adversely hit the routine life of the middle and lower-middle class, consequently, more than...
Stanford University has issued a publication on how the world can learn from Imran Khan’s poverty alleviation Ehsaas Program initiated by the...
The Sindh government has set aside an amount of Rs 4 billion in the next fiscal year 2022-23 for procuring more buses...
Textile and clothing exports showed an increase of 28.26 percent year-on-year to $17.62 billion during the first 11 months of this fiscal...
More than 200 wildfires caused damage to forests and pastures over an area of 14,430 acres in different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
According to the Pakistan Economic Survey 2021-22, the total public debt stood at Rs 44,366 billion at the end of March 2022,...
Punjab’s canal system is suffering through a 75 percent water shortage as the province was provided 53,100 cusecs of water against its...
On Tuesday, overseas Pakistanis sent $57 million using Roshan Digital Accounts, setting a new record for the largest remittance in a single...
The goods transporters have announced 40% increase in the fares of cargo shipments following the third consecutive increase in petroleum prices in...
The Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) has succeeded to discover new oil and gas reserves from wells in districts Ghotki...
Punjab Minister Sardar Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari presented the Punjab budget for the fiscal year 2022-23 in the Punjab Assembly session held...
Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal has urged people in Pakistan to reduce the consumption of tea as sipping fewer cups a day...
The Pakistani rupee continued its free-fall and crossed the 210 threshold against the US dollar for the first time in the interbank...
Andreas Ferrarese, the Italian ambassador to Pakistan, said Italy was investing €1.5 million in a project in Pakistan to promote olive cultivation...
Renting a car in Pakistan is now so easy, we have found an easy way to rent a car through eZhire app...
Pakistan has “largely fulfilled its two action plans,” according to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and will be pulled from the...
The National Highway Authority (NHA) gave the contract costing Rs8 billion for the construction of 168 kilometers long-missing link in the M-8...
The PTI-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government reserved a record amount of Rs 418 billion for development projects in the Rs 1.33 trillion...
Karachi parks are soon going to be turned into solar power, Kidney Hill Park and Safari Park will be switched to solar...
Moody’s Investors Service affirmed the B3 long-term deposit ratings of five top Pakistani banks meanwhile changing their outlook to negative from stable...
Pakistan has received a record over $28 billion in remittances in the first 11 months of the outgoing fiscal year, presenting an...
The Green Line metro bus service from Bhara Kahu to PIMS and Blue Line metro bus service from Gulberg to Faizabad are...
The rate of unemployment in former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government declined from 6.9 percent to 6.3 percent. As per the Economic...
The Cabinet Development Committee (CDC) of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) approved 33 projects in the communications and works (C&W) sector costing...
Finance Minister Miftah Ismail revealed the Pakistan Economic Survey 2021-22 at a press conference, saying that the industrial, agriculture and services sectors had helped...
Pakistan’s exports observed an upsurge of 27.78 percent during the first eleven months of the current fiscal year (2021-22) when compared to...
Canadian were treated to a colorful display of traditional truck art in downtown Ottawa by Pakistani artists who changed a white wall...
The budget for the fiscal year 2022-23 (FY23) has been presented by Finance Minister Miftah Ismail in the National Assembly on Friday....
The Punjab Masstransit Authority (PMA) is expected to reduce the Lahore Orange Line and Metro Bus System fares in Lahore, Rawalpindi, and...
The World Bank (WB) has projected a moderate Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate for Pakistan standing at 4% for the coming...
As the key government and authorities figures have been drawing attention to the economic losses because of illegal trade, Pakistan’s shadow economy...
Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Friday unveiled the coalition government’s maiden budget with an outlay of Rs 9.5 trillion for the fiscal...
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) data showed that country’s merchandise trade deficit hiked by 57.85 percent year-on-year to an all-time high...
A Pakistan-born miniature artist, Shazia Sikander, has been awarded Fukuoka Prize in Arts and Culture for introducing innovation in the traditional art...
The inaugural ceremony of the China-aided Eastbay Expressway of Gwadar port was conducted on Friday in the port city of Pakistan’s southwest...
Pakistan Railways procured a total of 230 modern passenger coaches with the intention to modernize the department along with facilitating the commuters....
According to a new World Bank report, 733 million people globally do not have access to electricity, whereas 2.4 billion people are...
Google has developed a suicide hotline onebox for Pakistan, which allows users to connect with a suicide prevention helpline directly from the...
The first meeting of the Punjab cabinet held on Wednesday approved Rs 200 billion subsidy on flour to ensure the commodity will...
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan made an announcement to decrease the 35 percent fuel quota for government employees in the province...
With energy bills responsible for such a large portion of most household budgets, it makes more sense to seek for ways to...
The popular bus-sharing service Swvl has halted its intracity shuttle service in various cities across Pakistan due to the present economic upheaval....
The government has shocked the consumers by increasing ghee and cooking oil prices by an unprecedented Rs 208 and Rs 213 to...
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measured the country’s inflation which is found to be increased to a two-and-a-half-year-high at 13.76 percent in...
Mari Petroleum Company Limited (MPCL) discovered a huge gas reservoir of one trillion cubic feet at its Bannu West-1 well in the...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has told Pakistan to narrow the budget deficit down to 4.9 percent of the GDP for the...
The e-challans being issued to the drivers for violating traffic rules by the Punjab Safe City Authority (PSCA) are illegal for having no...
Pakistan’s outlook was dropped from stable to negative by Moody’s Investor Service on Thursday, citing “heightened external vulnerability” and uncertainty about procuring...
The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) okayed an increase in the price of energy of Rs. 7.91 per unit and released a...
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah inaugurated the much-desired Rescue 1122 service in the province on Tuesday. Addressing the inauguration ceremony,...
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has raised a record Rs 5.349 trillion tax during the first 11 months of 2021-22. But,...
The longstanding issues of the port city of Gwadar because of increasing energy scarcity would be settled by October 2023 after the...
Work resumes on Balochistan’s biggest hydropower project, the Naulong Dam, that will irrigate 47,000 acres of barren land and provide 4.4MW of...
At least 600 million trees globally fall victim to tobacco farming each year. Trees are cut down to make way for growing...
We rarely notice the different pictures on the currency notes that we use on a regular basis as Pakistanis. As many of...
Sindh government’s Spokesman, Karachi Administrator, and CM Advisor on Law Barrister Murtaza Wahab laid the foundation stone for the reconstruction of Shahrah-e-Noor...
Economic Coordination Committee of Pakistan on Saturday decided to directly import two million metric tonnes of wheat from Russia on cash. Pre-empting...
Since 1950, Pakistan has been a member of the International Monetary Fund and IMF has granted loans to Pakistan on twenty-two occasions,...
Pakistani mountaineers Sirbaz Ali and Shehroze Kashif achieved another landmark on Saturday morning when the duo summited 8,463m Mt Makalu in Nepal,...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) revealed that projects valued at $2 billion for Pakistan would be finalized after holding discussions with the...
According to a notification from the Ministry of Commerce, the federal government lifted the restrictions on the import of raw materials, intermediate...
After inadvertently catching a rare fish while fishing in the Gulf of Oman near Jiwani, a small town in the Gwadar area,...
Regardless of the political unrest in the country which affected almost all sectors of life including business, the outflow of profits and...
Pakistani entrepreneur and activist Tanzila Khan has been bestowed with the Prince’s Trust International Amal Clooney Women’s Empowerment Award at The 2022...
Famous Pakistani mountaineer Ali Raza Sadpara, 56, surrendered to his injuries and embraced death in Skardu early Friday morning. The mountaineer had...
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has proposed a bill in the provincial assembly to establish an Rs.50 million endowment fund for the wellbeing...
Pakistan has risen six places in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) latest Travel and Tourism Development Index (TTDI) 2021. The Travel and Tourism...
Six Pakistani UN peacekeepers were given UN medals of courage for giving their life for the pursuit of peace in a helicopter crash...
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has approved Rs 7 billion funds to construct a bridge, which would connect Torghar with Buner. Talking to the...
Pakistan’s mango production is likely to decrease by around 50 percent this year, due to the unusually high temperatures and water shortages,...
The National Assembly (NA) adopted the Elections (Amendment) Bill, 2022, on Thursday, which aims to eliminate the use of Electronic Voting Machines...
The Tarbela Dam once again has touched the dead level as the second dip in water flows has hit the country’s water...
Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial has been included among the 100 Most Influential People of 2022 by Time magazine. The top judge “is widely...
With current account deficits and a short foreign exchange reserve, the ousted PTI government borrowed $15.4 billion in foreign loans in the...
Well-known multimedia artist and art teacher, Pir Hamid Ali Kheshgi has garnered widespread recognition when an Italy-based organization nominated his art piece for...
The National Highways & Motorways Police (NH&MP) is looking forward to undertaking new initiatives for reducing reliance on human intervention and will...
Four fundamental climate change indicators, including greenhouse gas concentrations, ocean heat, ocean acidification, and sea-level rise, set new records in 2021, as...
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) Board has given the nod to the suggestion of swapping 327 acres between the civic agency and...
Exports of meat and meat preparations from Pakistan continued to increase regardless of the presence of Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) which came...
Indian security forces have martyred six freedom fighters in the Indian occupied Kashmir in the past 24 hours following the conviction of...
Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has inaugurated several development projects in the Lower Dir district, also broke grounds for many other schemes and...
Pakistan’s external debt and liabilities (outstanding) have shown an increase of 5.41 percent to $128.92 billion during the first nine months of...
Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) project would be executed on the same model as Orange Line Metro Train in Lahore, Ahsan Iqbal, Minister...
Internet service in Pakistan is being artificially limited as the government seeks to shut down protests organized by former Prime Minister Imran...
The provisional GDP growth rate for the year 2021-22 is estimated at 5.97% which has increased the size of the economy of Pakistan to...
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) board meeting has approved the completion of work on the expansion and restoration of the Islamabad Expressway...
To maintain the balance between inflation and economic growth, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) hiked the monetary policy rate by 150...
There is an outbreak of diarrhea and cholera is making a comeback in Pakistan, as thousands of people have been infected because of contaminated water....
The provincial cabinet of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has given a nod for the launching of the Insaf Food Card in the province aiming...
49 buses for Orange Line Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) Service have arrived at Karachi port, said Sindh Minister for Information, Transport and...
The Balochistan government has announced the establishment of four industrial zones at Dalbandin, Turbat, Muslim Bagh, and Chaman for the enhancement of...
The United Nations has included Pakistan in the list of 23 countries that are facing drought emergencies. The report released by the...
Pride for Pakistan! Hunzaiite Abdul Joshi has successfully summited the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest (8,848 meters), and raised the country’s flag...
During the protest of the Ministry of Finance over ‘unsustainable fuel subsidy’, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has approved Rs 55.48 billion...
Two Pakistani, Ayessha Quraishi and Marium Agha have made it to the final round of South Asia’s leading art prize, The 2022 Sovereign...
State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Wednesday declared use of forex trading platforms including OctaFX and Easy Forex illegal in Pakistan. The...
As part of measures that a minister stated would save $6 billion, the Pakistan government has banned the import of non-essential and...
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is looking forward to initiating the Blue and Green Line Metro Bus Service with regular traffic until...
After catching 18 big rare croakers (also known as Kir) in the waters of Jiwani earlier this week, a bunch of Baloch...
The current extreme heatwave all over the country refuses to end as five Pakistani cities have been ranked among the top ten...
The federal government has decided to impose a complete ban on the import of superfluous and luxury items to deal with Pakistan’s...
Tim Hortons, one of North America’s largest restaurant chains, is expanding into Pakistan this year, with intentions to launch dozens of outlets around the...
Under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the first hydropower project with 720MW Karot Hydropower Project (HPP) has begun trial operations as two...
The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MEA) has shared that Pakistan has made a net addition of $4.77 billion during the first half...
Experts have raised red flag for economy as Pakistani rupee dropped to a new historic low of 200 against US dollar in...
Pakistan’s Textile group exports in July-April, 2021- 2022 hit a record high of $15.981 billion against $12.688 billion during the corresponding period...
The Pakistan government has received more than 800 applications from adventure tourists across the world and is expected to welcome at least...