US report terms Pak ‘safe harbor’ for ‘terrorists’, Pak disappointed
India welcomes continuation in FATF grey list
Islamabad/New Delhi: Pakistan on Thursday expressed its disappointment over the US State Department’s report which described the country as a “safe harbor” for regionally-focused terrorist groups. The State Department, in its Congressional-mandated 2019 Country Reports on Terrorism, said on Wednesday that Pakistan remained a “safe harbor” for regionally-focused terrorist groups and that the suspension of […]
Turning crisis into opportunity: Pakistan plans to convert locust swarms into fertilizers
Islamabad: Pakistan has plans to convert locust swarms into fertilisers to tackle the massive pest invasion after it destroyed crops and vegetation on vast tracts of lands, which according to some reports poses a bigger threat to the country’s economy than the coronavirus pandemic. The Ministry of National Food Security and Research (NFS&R) has proposed […]
Pak air crash: Pak minister puts responsibility of plane hurtle on pilots
Says they were not focussed, were discussing coronavirus
Islamabad: The pilots of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane that crashed last month were not focussed and they were discussing coronavirus during the flight, the country’s aviation minister told Parliament on Wednesday as he pointed out their “overconfidence and lack of concentration” as some of the reasons for the tragedy that killed 97 people […]
IMF projects India’s economy to contract by 4.5 percent this fiscal
New Delhi: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday lowered its growth forecast for the Indian economy in 2020 by 4.5 per cent, a “historic low”, citing economic slowdown due the two-month-long Covid-19-induced lockdown. “India’s economy is projected to contract by 4.5 per cent following a longer period of lockdown and slower recovery than anticipated […]
Graft Case: ACB files charge sheet against revenue official
Jammu: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has filed a charge sheet against a revenue official in a two-year-old graft case in Kathua district, an agency spokesman said on Wednesday. The charge sheet was filed in the court of Additional Sessions Judge, Anti-Corruption, Kathua, against the then Patwari, Halqa Khokhyal, Nazakat Ali, who was allegedly caught red-handed […]
