COLOMBO — Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has urged Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to extend credit support to import fuel as the island nation is facing the worst economic challenges. Besides defaulting on foreign debts due to short of foreign exchange reserves, Sri Lanka has ...

KARACHI – The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested two government employees for posting the names of female officers on a pornographic website over a promotion dispute. Reports said that the suspects shared the names of 35 female officers on the adult website after which they ...

GILGIT – Finance minister of sparsely populated Gilgit Baltistan region Javed Ali Manwa proposed a budget of Rs119 billion in the provincial assembly on Monday (today). Manwa addressing the assembly session announced that Rs47.88 billion were allotted for the development and construction. Rs ...

KARACHI – Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah has unveiled a ‘tax-free’ budget worth Rs1.71 trillion for fiscal year 2022-23. Addressing the session of the Sindh Assembly amid commotion from the opposition leaders, Shah said the provincial government has imposed no new tax in the ...

LAHORE – The Punjab government will present a tax-free budget for the next fiscal year 2022-23 today (Tuesday) with a total outlay of around Rs4,000 billion. On Monday, the budget session was marred by the ruckus over presence of PML-N leader Ataullah Tarar in the Punjab Assembly since he is ...