During his visit to the United States, Lok Sabha leader of opposition and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi met with several US lawmakers at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, hosted by Congressman Bradley James Sherman. Among the prominent attendees were US Congress members Ilhan Omar, Ro Khanna, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Barbara Lee, and others.Ilhan Omar,…
NEW DELHI: Controversy has erupted in Pakistan’s sporting community around a gala dinner hosted by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in honour of Olympic javelin champion Arshad Nadeem. Several former hockey Olympians have publicly expressed their discontent, alleging that their invitations to the event were rescinded at the last minute due to “guest management” issues. Rao…
Pakistan‘s first individual Olympic gold medalist, Arshad Nadeem, was celebrated with great enthusiasm upon his return from the Paris Olympics. His historic victory in the javelin throw event, marked by a record-breaking throw of 92.97 meters, earned him a grand homecoming at the airport, greeted by hundreds of cheering fans.Nadeem’s plane received a water salute…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, parliamentarians and hundreds of thousands of people offered funeral prayers in absentia on Friday for slain Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, condemning Israeli military actions in Palestinian territories.Haniyeh and his bodyguard were killed in a pre-dawn bombing at their accommodation in Tehran on Wednesday. Just hours before his assassination, Israel…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Friday he had written a letter to the Chinese govt requesting debt re-profiling for Pakistan in an apparent bid to secure the International Monetary Fund’s approval for a $7 billion economic bailout by next month.Islamabad has also asked Beijing to change imported coal-based projects to ones using…
ISLAMABAD: Cash-strapped Pakistan‘s exigency of securing a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) dominated the political discourse on Wednesday as the new Shehbaz Sharif-led govt presented its first federal budget, worth a projected 18.5 trillion rupees, in the National Assembly.Last month, IMF linked any future deal with Islamabad to the passage of the 2024-25…
NEW DELHI: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif declared on Tuesday that all state-owned enterprises, with the exception of strategic entities, will undergo privatisation. The decision was made following Sharif’s leadership of a meeting dedicated to discussing the privatization strategy for financially struggling state enterprises, as per an official statement from his office. Source link
