[ WASHINGTON: Pakistan is looking for breakthroughs in agriculture and information technology during the first ministerial level meeting of a US-Pakistani trade and investment body in seven years, Pakistan\’s commerce minister said on Tuesday. Commerce Minister Syed Naveed Qamar will meet on Thursday with US Trade Representative Katherine Tai and other senior U.S. officials under the […]
ISLAMABAD: In a major development, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday announced sending its mission to Pakistan next week in a bid to break a deadlock over critical conditions regarding plugging a fiscal hole of around Rs2.5 trillion through a combination of taxation, expenditure and power tariff measures. “At the request of the (Pakistani) […]
KHYBER: Torkham border remained closed for the third consecutive day on Tuesday as a deadlock over starting a dialogue prevailed between border officials of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Assistant commissioner Irshad Momand told Dawn that they were ready to ‘two steps forward’ if a formal request for the reopening of the border was made by the […]