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Karachi: Commercial importers in Pakistan have announced to stop the import of all food and drink commodities after June 25 due to the non-availability of foreign exchange, reported Pakistan vernacular media Intekhab Daily.During an important meeting, Farhat Siddique, Secretary of Karachi Wholesale Grocers Association, said in an announcement that all banks have refused to give dollars to the
Men’s remains recovered in open water on sixth day of search since boat carrying up to 750 people sankGreek authorities have retrieved a further three bodies in open waters near the spot where a fishing trawler packed with Europe-bound migrants sank la…
Officials say more than 100 Pakistanis were among those killed when a fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized in deep Mediterranean waters. The death toll of the disaster is expected to rise.
Poverty drove young men from small Kashmir town to board ill-fated fishing trawler, say familiesThe last time Mohammed Yousaf talked to his son, Sajid Yousaf, on 8 June, the son was waiting anxiously in Libya for smugglers to pack him and hundreds of o…
Islamabad: As the ninth review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program still remains pending, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board has issued meetings scheduled till June 29 without Pakistan, Pakistan-based ARY news reported.Pakistan has barely enough currency reserves to cover imports for one month. It was hoping to have 1.1 billion USD of the funds released in November –
Islamabad: The government of Pakistan is hailing the country’s first Russian oil imports as a game-changer for the nation’s faltering economy, but analysts emphasise that it is still too early to estimate how much the secret deal will contribute, reported Nikkei Asia.On Sunday, a ship docked at the port of Russian oil imports with the equivalent of around 3,30,000 barrels of Russian crude oil.
Islamabad: Four police personnel and two soldiers of the security forces were injured in different attacks by unidentified armed men in Bara tehsil of Pakistan’s Khyber district on Sunday, Pakistan-based The News International reported citing local and official sources.The gunmen attacked the police post in the Sarki Kamar area in Bar Qambarkhel on Saturday. Four police personnel identified as
Tracking data indicates two vessels stood by or circled around stationary refugee boat for several hoursTracking data suggests an overcrowded fishing boat that sank off the Greek coast last week with the feared loss of hundreds of lives had not moved f…
Michael Kugelman explores both the international and regional dynamics of contemporary South Asian politics with the team, focussing on Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.
Pakistani authorities have arrested 10 alleged human traffickers after it emerged that many of the migrants and refugees who drowned off Greece’s coast were from the South Asian nation. Islamabad has vowed the traffickers would be “severely punished.”