serious economic crisis in pak: IMF
Washington: Pakistan is facing “serious economic challenges” and it needs to carry out a set of comprehensive economic reforms, the IMF said, hours after approving a financial assistance of USD 6.7 billion to prevent the country from a brink of economic collapse.
Pak assures safety of Nuclear assets
Islamabad: Pakistan said its nuclear assets are completely safe and dismissed the world’s suspicions as “baseless” at a meeting of the National Command Authority chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Af blames neighbour for mosque attack
Kabul: Afghanistan blamed a Pakistani militant group for early morning shootout on Thursday at a Shiite Muslim mosque in Kabul, while also criticising alleged anti-Afghan elements in Pakistan’s intelligence apparatus.
‘Court to decide on Summon to Sonia’
Washington: Observing that anybody can sue anybody in the US if they pay the filing fee of the court, an Indian-American attorney has said it is for the court to decide if there is personal and subject matter jurisdiction on the complaint filed against Sonia Gandhi.
Blasts injure 20 in Pakistan
Peshawar: Twenty people, including 12 minor girls, were injured in two separate blasts in northwest Pakistan. The first blast occurred near a girls’ school which borders North Waziristan tribal region.
JuD to launch anti-India drive
lahore: Jammat-ud-Dawah (JuD), the parent body of banned terror group lashkar-e-Tayyeba and headed by Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafeez Saeed, will launch an ‘anti-India drive’ across Pakistan from Friday.
Terrorists held for climbers’ Masscre
Islamabad: A senior Taliban commander and his accomplice have been arrested for an attack at a base camp of Nanga Parbat that killed 10 foreign climbers and their Pakistani guide.
Koreas to restore military hotline
Seoul: North Korea agreed on Thursday to restore a cross-border military hotline with South Korea, in another sign of easing tensions between the rivals in recent weeks, the South Korean government said.