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Talking to journalists here on Tuesday, he said the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leadership was not in favour of granting relief to PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz and to allow her to leave Pakistan. She should face her cases by staying in the country. The minister claimed the government would not remove Ms Nawaz’s name from the Exit Control List and …

KARACHI: The water shortage crisis in the city, which is already receiving less than half of its required water supply, is deepening because of suspension of supply from main pumping stations twice in recent days, while on the other hand, authorities have claimed that the supply would be normalised, a top official said on Wednesday. He also expressed the hope …

KARACHI: Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said that the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) project would be completed under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project as encroachments over the 45km route of the public transport project would be removed within 15 days in line with the Supreme Court orders. Talking to reporters after chairing a meeting and visiting …

ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a seminar on Wednesday said that Pakistan would not support any aggression against Iran and called for strengthening ties with the neighbouring country. The seminar on ‘Pakistan-Iran Relation: Challenges and Prospects’ was organised by the Islamabad Policy Institute in the context of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s recent trip to Tehran. The situation arising out of the US deployment of …

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Water Resou­rces Faisal Vawda said on Wednesday the federal government had increased water use charges for Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) from 25 paisa per unit to Rs1.10 per unit to bring it on a par with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab. This would entail about Rs11 billion additional revenues to the AJK government and make it …

LAHORE: State Minister for Revenue Hammad Azhar on Saturday admitted that the government was facing serious fiscal challenges in spite of several corrective measures taken in the last six months, saying he could not say if the revised fiscal deficit target of 5.1 per cent of GDP would be met. “We are implementing measures to recover Gas Infrastructure Development Cess arrears (from …