BEIJING: In wide-ranging talks with Chinese premier Li Keqiang, Prime Minister Imran Khan underscored the importance of Pakistan and China working together to promote shared objectives of peace, stability and development in Afghanistan and regional connectivity. Afghanistan along with Kashmir was also the mainstay of Mr Khan’s meeting with President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev […]
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No talks with India until it restores Kashmir’s special status: Imran Khan
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday reiterated his resolve that until India reverses its August 5 decision of scrapping Article 370, the government of Pakistan will not hold any dialogue with New Delhi. He was responding to public queries via telephone. This was the third such interactive session where prime minister took live phone […]
PM Imran to inaugurate housing scheme in Sargodha
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday will perform the groundbreaking of another housing project for the underprivileged in Sargodha. This housing project will be the third after project in Lahore and Islamabad under the Naya Pakistan Housing Projects. Fawad Chaudhry in a series of tweets said that PM today will inaugurate a housing project in […]
Changing FBR Head is easier for PM Imran than Fixing FBR? Part – II
Those are the contours of our taxation woes. It won’t be solved by wishing away the FBR. A concerted and serious efforts will have to be made starting with political will of the PM and some sense of civic duty of the Parliament. It will take some out of box solutions and PM and FM […]
Changing FBR head is easier for PM Imran than fixing FBR? Part – I
A couple of months before the PM fired the FBR Chairman, he had threatened his own machinery, which collects more than 96% of the Federal Revenue with disbandment and replacement. The wizard of Kaptanistan with apology to Late Bhutto was screaming “So what, if the FBR fails in collecting revenues, so what if the whole […]
PM Khan to chair Punjab cabinet meeting today
LAHORE: Prime Minister Imran Khan will chair a Punjab cabinet meeting and call upon provincial ministers today regarding implementation of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) 100-day agenda. PM Imran will arrive in Lahore on one-day visit from Islamabad and will conduct a Punjab cabinet meeting at 3pm today where he will be briefed on various matters. […]
Macron lauds Pakistan’s role in fighting terrorism
ISLAMABAD: French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday telephoned Prime Minister Imran Khan and stressed on the need to enhance bilateral trade ties, while he also accepted his Pakistani counterpart’s invite to visit the country. According to a GoP press release, PM Imran briefed Macron over the situation in the South Asian region. The French president […]
Fawad Chaudhry says he googled PM Imran’s helicopter usage cost
ISLAMABAD: Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday said he googled Prime Minister Imran Khan’s helicopter usage cost, which he claimed was Rs50 per kilometre. “I googled Imran Khan’s total helicopter voyage cost, hence if you have any doubts, you can google and see for yourself too. Imran Khan is the PM, do you […]
PM Imran approves to reshuffle IB, FBR, NACTA heads
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday approved to reshuffle federal bureaucracy by removing key officials appointed by the previous Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government. Civilian Intelligence Bureau (CIB) head Ehsan Ghani was removed from his position, while Dr Suleman Khan – a grade 22 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan – was appointed […]