Prime ministers foreign travels cost taxpayers staggering Rs 630 million on May 9, 2016ISLAMABAD: The United States has squeezed the funding for Pakistan, Iran has expressed its displeasure with the Pakistani officials linking it to the Indian spy, China is getting impatient over slow progress on the CPEC and India is mounting pressure on Pakistan one way or the other, yet Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been on […]
Nawaz to respond to opp queries on Panama leaks in NA on May 8, 2016ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is all set to respond to opposition’s queries regarding Panama leaks in the National Assembly session starting from Monday. Government sources told Daily Times that all PML-N MNAs have been directed to make sure their attendance during the assembly session and be ready to respond to the opposition, especially the […]
Nisar and Shahbaz in intense backchannel talks with COAS on May 6, 2016ISLAMABAD: No matter how much the federal government cherishes ‘exemplary’ civil-military relations, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif have spent several sleepless nights to hold backchannel dialogue with the military top command. Daily Times has learnt that both senior PML-N leaders dashed to Rawalpindi several times in the last […]
Military demands independent body to regulate CPEC affairs on May 5, 2016ISLAMABAD: The military establishment is pressing the government hard to set up an independent regulatory body to oversee all the affairs of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), it has been learnt reliably. “There has been strong demand by military circles that an independent regulatory body be set up to handle affairs of the CPEC … they […]
Dar meets Indian counterpart at ADB summit on May 5, 2016FRANKFURT – Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs Senator Ishaq Dar and his Indian counterpart Arun Jaitly had a brief informal interaction on Wednesday on the sidelines of the annual general meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The two finance ministers met when Dar was on the way to attend a bilateral meeting. During […]
Khurshid forwards joint ToRs to PM over Panama Papers on May 5, 2016ISLAMABAD – Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Khurshid Shah has formally forwarded terms of references (TORs) – jointly compiled by the opposition parties for probe over Panama leaks – to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. According to the private TV channel, Khurshid moved a one-page letter, attaching along the ToRs, to the prime minister. He […]
Chhotu spills the beans on political patronage on May 5, 2016ISLAMABAD: The startling disclosures of Ghulam Rasool alias Chhotu has shocked the intelligence agencies by claiming that he had full backing of over one and half dozen elected people – members of the national and provincial assemblies. Sources told Daily Times that as many as 13 accomplices of Chhotu have been handed over to the […]