No power distribution firm being privatised, NA body told

ISLAMABAD: The Privatisation Commission has informed the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Privatisation that presently no power distribution company (Disco) was being privatised, as the management contract or conc...

Dar’s warning fails as sugar sells at Rs180 per kg

KARACHI: Consumers continued to pay high prices for sugar despite Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar’s firm announcement a few days back that the sweetener prices should not exceed Rs164 per kg. The average national ...

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Suspect arrested as terror plot foiled in AJK

MUZAFFARABAD: Authorities in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Friday claimed to have foiled a major terror plot, arresting a militant whose revelations exposed the expanding reach of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known a...

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Japanese envoy hosts Iftar for scholarship recipients

ISLAMABAD: Japanese Ambassador to Pakistan Shuichi Akamatsu hosted an Iftar reception at his residence Friday to honour members of the MEXT Alumni Association of Pakistan and bid farewell to the departing scholarship recipients....

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CM promises to include opposition’s proposals in upcoming budget

KARACHI: In a rare show of political unity in the Sindh Assembly on Friday, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah assured the opposition members that the recommendations and suggestions they had forwarded during the pre-budget deba...

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IHC seeks report on disappearance of journalist Ahmed Noorani’s brothers

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has ordered the station house officer (SHO) of Noon Police Station to submit a detailed report on the disappearance of two brothers of journalist Ahmed Noorani, who is currently living i...

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