Pakistan

BAKU: Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz Sharif addressing World Urban Forum.

ISLAMABAD - Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf on Monday called on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif here.

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday expressed strong displeasure over the failure to register a case despite court orders, warning that rising crime would become uncontrollable if police officials failed to maintain command and control.

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Information Attaullah Tarar on Monday called out the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for its bloated cabinet expansion, saying the new additions would not bring about any difference to the province’s management.

ISLAMABAD: The federal government asked the provinces on Monday to increase their revenue contribution by at least Rs400 billion, nearly 40 per cent of their existing share, in the coming fiscal year through more effective collection strategies in agriculture, property and services to remain in the good books of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). At a consultative meeting with provincial finance ministers, Finance Minister Muh­a­mmad Aurangzeb conveyed the IMF’s deep satisfaction over the robust fiscal performance of both the four provinces and the Centre during the current fiscal year. Speaking to provincial ministers via video link, Mr Aurangzeb said the IMF mission currently visiting Islamabad, as well as the federal government, expected the federating units to remain equally prudent in their fiscal operations for the remainder of the current year and to perform even better next year, a senior Ministry of Finance official who attended the meeting told Dawn. The IMF staff mission, led by mission chief I...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is likely to link its Naya Pakistan Certificates (NPCs) and sovereign bonds to a regulated blockchain via Digitally Native Notes (DNNs) to enable swift settlement for retail investors, particularly overseas Pakistanis. A meeting, presided over by Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb with the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and the newly created Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) on Monday, discussed the tokenisation of sovereign debt instruments and NPCs. It examined potential structures, implementation pathways, regulatory considerations, and next steps for exploring tokenised sovereign instruments within Pakistan’s evolving financial ecosystem. A central element of the discussion was the international precedent for sovereign and quasi-sovereign debt tokenisation and how Pakistan can adopt a structure aligned with established global market infrastructure. “It was agreed that PVARA, Ministry of Finance and SBP will continue to coordinate on the design, governance, and phased ...

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Shariat Court on Monday declared the decriminalisation of suicide attempts repugnant to the injunctions of Islam and struck down a 2022 legislation through which that act had been omitted its as an offence from the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman, Justice Syed Muhammad Anwar and Justice Amir Khan announced the reserved verdict on two separate petitions challenging the amendments introduced through the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Act, 2022. One of the petitions was filed by Advocate Hammad Saeed Dar in 2023 and the other by Advocates Muhammad Azam Malik and Muhammad Kashif Sulehri in 2025. Giving its ruling on the pleas, the court declared relevant provisions of the 2022 law repugnant to injunctions of Islam and consequently void. Moreover, it restored Section 325 of the Pakistan Penal Code. Prior to the 2022 amendment, Section 325 prescribed simple imprisonment or a fine or both for a person who attempted suicide. The provisio...

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Ministers deny any plan to raise voter age in 'rumoured' 28th amend

Reject mediation, ask govt for direct talks

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Plea seeks jail meeting before £190m case hearing

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Operations between twin cities suspended for hours after workers blocked the track