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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday that the release of the final $1.1 billion tranche by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the stand-by arrangement (SBA) would bring more economic stability. On Monday, the Fund had approved the immediate disbursement of approximately $1.1bn to Pakistan. Its executive board met in Washington and completed the second review under the SBA, bringing total …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that if the alleged contents of a diplomatic cipher — which ex-premier Imran Khan cited as proof of a conspiracy to remove his government — published in a US-based news organisation were true, it was tantamount to a “massive crime”. The purported cipher — sent to Islamabad last year by Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that if the alleged contents of a diplomatic cipher — which ex-premier Imran Khan cited as proof of a conspiracy to remove his government — published in a US-based news organisation were true, it was tantamount to a “massive crime”. The purported cipher — sent to Islamabad last year by Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US …

LAHORE: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said the government has raised the electricity tariff because of the tough IMF conditions, but added that 63 per cent of the domestic consumers using up to 200 units per month would be exempted from the power tariff increase. Besides, he said, a partial subsidy was also being given to the consumers of up …

LAHORE: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday accused former chief justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar of being the main architect of the disqualification of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif. “Former chief justice Saqib Nisar was the ringleader of the gang of conspirators. He, in connivance with others, got Nawaz Sharif disqualified,” PM Shehbaz said while inaugurating the construction of a link road to …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Mini­s­ter Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday reiterated Pakis­tan’s desire for revitalisation of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) and signalled its readiness to contribute to the revival of the seemingly dead eight-member regional bloc. In a tweet he posted to mark the Saarc Charter Day, PM Sharif reminded that the people of South Asia had suffered because of …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in a press conference on Thursday, fired broadsides at PTI chief Imran Khan calling him a “fraudster” and the “biggest liar in Pakistan’s history”. The premier was flanked by federal ministers Marriyum Aurangzeb, Ataullah Tarar, and Ahsan Iqbal. At the outset of the press conference, PM Shehbaz recalled the events of April 3, 2022 — the …