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ISLAMABAD: The exp­enses for this year’s Haj are likely to come down by Rs40,000 per person following “successful negotiations” with the Saudi government, an official said on Monday after a meeting of the Senate’s standing committee on religious affairs. “If the rupee remains stable, the Haj package under the government scheme will come down to Rs1.13 million from Rs1.17m, for …

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has assured the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cyber Crime Wing (Sindh) its “full support” in an investigation into a multi-million dollar scam, a senior official of the FIA claimed on Tuesday. The FIA had last week issued a notice to an official from Binance to explain his position on the company’s linkage to “fraudulent online investment mobile …

The chairman of Oman’s cricket board told Reuters he would have had to wave “Goodbye” to the Twenty20 World Cup had a deadly storm that ripped through the Gulf state on Sunday taken a slightly different path. Eleven people were killed as heavy winds and rain swept through the country after tropical storm Shaheen made landfall in Oman. In pictures: Cyclone Shaheen wreaks …

LAHORE: The US sanctions against Huawei have had a drastic impact on its global business and sharply slowed its revenue growth in 2020. Yet the Chinese tech giant is determined to fight back and rely on other countries for growing its business if the US does not change its policy towards the company. The annual results for 2020 published in …

HONG KONG: China will have jurisdiction over “some extremely rare” national security cases in Hong Kong under a new law to be imposed on the semi-autonomous city, a senior official said on Monday. The revelation came as thousands of Hong Kongers gathered on Monday evening on the anniversary of the death of a man during last year’s pro-democracy protests. Beijing …

KABUL: Preliminary results from Afghanistan’s delayed presidential polls will be announced in the coming days, an election official said on Thursday, after a main candidate ended his boycott of a recount. The country has been stuck in political limbo since the vote, with the two top candidates — President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah — locked in a …

ISLAMABAD: With Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) scheduled to conclude a staff-level agreement on Friday, the two sides agreed on Wednesday that the country would withdraw tax exemptions amounting to Rs700 billion within two years. Read: Technical level talks with IMF begin During their discussions on Wednesday, the two sides worked out a financing gap of around $11 billion …