File photo International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission chief for Pakistan Nathan Porter has said that he is in touch with the Pakistani authorities. Nathan Porter has said that with the IMF program expiring at the end of June, talks with Pakistani officials will focus on the next fiscal year’s budget. He says program goals and…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva—file photo Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has contacted International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director (MD) Kristalina Georgieva. According to sources, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif asked MDIMF Kristalina Georgieva for help in completing the 9th review. Sources say that the budget details have been shared with the IMF…
—File photo Pakistan has shared the budget proposals for the next fiscal year with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Proposals for important targets including FBR targets, debt repayments have been shared from IMF. Sources in the Ministry of Finance say that the IMF will review the budget and discuss the budget with the officials of…
London: More than 5,000 new species of organisms have been discovered in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a deep area of the Pacific Ocean. The 6 million square kilometer Clarion Clipperton Zone between Hawaii and Mexico is an area of the ocean floor where future mining is expected. According to the researchers, they discovered 5,578 new species…
Continued growth in digital banking and declining trend in non-digital banking volume Photo: File Karachi: State Bank of Pakistan has released its third Quarterly Review of the Payment System for the financial year 2022-23, covering the period January to March 2023. The light is on. According to the review, increased collaboration between banks and fintech…
PCB officials presented Greg Barkley with bouquets of fruits while the ICC chairman looked happy on his visit to Pakistan. Photo: ICC Lahore: Chairman ICC Greg Barclay reached Lahore by private airlines flight. According to Express News, ICC Chairman Greg Barkley arrived in Lahore by private airline flight, PCB senior officials welcomed him at the…
Fist: 6 people were killed and 8 injured due to lightning strike in Tharparkar district of Sindh. Lightning struck the pilgrims of Hindu saint Faqir Parbraham at Vidijhap village in Diplo during thunderstorms in and around Mithi. According to rescue sources, when the lightning struck, a caravan of pilgrims was walking to the hermitage of…
Islamabad / Ankara: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that he wants to hold the seventh meeting of the high-level strategic cooperative council between Pakistan and Turkey soon. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif telephoned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to congratulate him on being elected as the country’s president for the third time and expressed his…
Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that billions of rupees were lost to the country’s economy on the events of May 9 and now investors are not ready to invest money. In his long statement on the social networking site Twitter, the Prime Minister said, “Look at Imran Niazi’s understanding of the economy and…
Islamabad: According to the sources, the Joe Biden administration has expressed its views on the comments made by the former US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad on the internal political affairs of Pakistan and has warned him for the future. In this regard, another source said that although Zalmay Khalilzad is a retired diplomat and has the…
