ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Saturday that profits of publicly traded companies have increased, indicating that the economy is growing and creating jobs. Despite Covid problems, Imran Khan stated in a statement on Twitter that profits of listed enterprises climbed 59 percent year on year for the first nine months. Profits of listed […]
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Fifth wave of COVID-19 seems to be intensifying in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The coronavirus’s fifth wave appears to be intensifying, with Pakistan reporting 1,345 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the third day in a row with more than 1,000 infections. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the country’s nerve centre for Covid reaction, a total of 46,537 samples were […]
Taliban Deputy PM appeals for humanitarian aid without ‘political bias’
Taliban Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar appealed on Friday for emergency humanitarian aid without “political bias”, saying recent snow and flooding had worsened the plight of the Afghan people. Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in mid-August, the country has plunged into financial chaos, with inflation and unemployment surging. Billions of dollars of […]
Kazakhstan’s President orders troops to shoot violent protestors without warning
Security forces appeared to have reclaimed the streets of Kazakhstan’s main city on Friday after days of violence, and the president said he had ordered his troops to shoot to kill to put down a countrywide uprising. A day after Moscow sent paratroopers to help crush the insurrection, police were patrolling the debris-strewn streets of […]
Stock market claims highest profit of previous 10 years in 2021
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin said on Friday that Pakistan’s stock market made the largest profit in ten years in 2021. Shaukat Tarin uploaded a graph from the Securities and Exchange Companies of Pakistan (SECP) on Twitter from his own account, demonstrating year-on-year growth of profits in the stock market after taxes. https://twitter.com/shaukat_tarin/status/1479334906828406784?s=20 He said […]
Incumbent government’s last three years an ‘economic success story’: PM Imran Khan
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan described the incumbent government’s first three years as a “economic success tale” on Friday. The prime minister said Pakistan performed extraordinarily well in tackling the Covid pandemic in comparison to other regional countries while chairing a meeting of the Macro Economic Advisory Group in Islamabad. He claimed that the government’s […]
Inflation to drop down in three to four month, says Ali Muhammad khan in Senate
ISLAMABAD: Ali Muhammad Khan, the State Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, predicted on Friday that inflation will fall in the next two to three months. Ali Muhammad Khan, speaking to the Senate House, said that the country has been affected hard by inflation; the administration cannot deny this, but the issue will be brought under control […]
Cold weather tightens its hold in Karachi as rainfall reduces
KARACHI: Karachi is experiencing cold weather, with recent light to moderate showers making the weather a little chillier in the port city. The city’s temperature dipped to 13.5 degrees Celsius Friday morning, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), with winds gusting to 10 kilometres per hour. The air was 86 percent humidified. The temperature […]