Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Is the Single National Curriculum the right choice?

The PTI government is determined to introduce a uniform education system in the country and has already launched Single National Curriculum courses up to primary level in August 2021, while text books up to middle and intermediate levels would be rolled out by March 2022 and March 2023 respectively. However, the SNC has been shrouded … Read more

Is PTI taking credit of old projects?

Karachi-Green-Line-BRT

“PM is inaugurating PML-N’s uplift projects which once  he ridiculed” KHURRAM DASTAGIR, PML-N LEADER Prime Minister Imran Khan, who inaugurated the much awaited Green Line Bus Project on December 10 and stated that no modern city could function without a modern transportation system while declaring Karachi as Pakistan’s ‘engine of growth,’ has once more taken … Read more

Biggest man-made crisis unfolding before us, says PM Imran on Afghanistan situation

ISLAMABAD: Addressing the 17th Extraordinary Session of Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Afghanistan in Islamabad, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday said if the world did not act and help Afghanistan then it would the biggest man-made crisis that was unfolding in front of us. Imran Khan said no … Read more

Who is Maulana Hidayat?

QUETTA: The overnight emergence of a cleric on to the provincial political stage has sent tremors in the stronghold of Baloch nationalists, who look at the mammoth protests led by Maulana Hidayatur Rehman with suspicion and fear. Maulana Hidayat, a member of the centralist Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), has shot to fame after the recent protest rallies … Read more

Gwadar rising

QUETTA: Nobody expected that an unknown cleric belonging to a centrist politico-religious party would manage to pull such huge crowds in the sleepy port city of Gwadar in southern Balochistan and ultimately force the federal and provincial governments to accept all his demands. Maulana Hidayatur Rahman, the provincial general secretary of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), started … Read more

UAE Dirham to PKR rates on, 19th December 2021

UAE Dirham to PKR

KARACHI: The average customer rates of buying and selling of UAE Dirham (AED) against Pakistani rupee (PKR) are Rs47.10 and Rs48.50 at 9:00 am PST on December 19, 2021. The AED stable against the PKR when compared with the buying and selling of Rs47.58 and Rs48.50 on December 18, 2021. The exchange rate is based on … Read more

Saudi Riyal to PKR (SAR TO PKR) rates on, 19th December 2021

Saudi Riyal to Pakistan Rupee

KARACHI: The average customer rates of buying and selling of Saudi Arabian Riyal (SAR) against Pakistani rupee (PKR) are Rs46.9 and Rs47.81 at 8:00 am PST on December 19, 2021. The SAR increases against the PKR when compared with the buying and selling of Rs46.88 and Rs46.96 on Dec 18, 2021. The exchange rate is based … Read more

Today’s Gold Rate in Pakistan on, 19th December 2021

Gold rate in Pakistan

Karachi: Latest Gold Rate in Pakistan on December 19, 2021 stands at Rs107,253 24k per tola. Karachi Is the main hub for Gold Rate, Every City Follows Karachi Sarafa Bazar Association For Gold Rate, Today Gold Rate for different Cities Including Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar, And Multan, Etc. Gold Rate Today in Pakistan Today 24k Per … Read more

USD TO PKR: Today’s Dollar rate in Pakistan on, 19th December 2021

USD to PKR - Dollar rate in Pakistan

KARACHI: The average customer rates of buying and selling of US dollar (USD) against Pakistani rupee (PKR) are Rs178.45 and Rs179.44 at 3:14 pm PST on December 19, 2021. The USD increases against the PKR when compared with the buying and selling of Rs177.45 and Rs178.15 on December 18, 2021. The exchange rate is based on the average … Read more

China’s Changqing oilfield hits 60 mln TOE production mark

XI’AN — Changqing oilfield, China’s largest oil-and-gas field, has produced over 60 million tonnes of oil equivalent (TOE) of crude oil and natural gas so far this year, hitting the milestone 10 days earlier than last year, the company said Friday. Located in northwest China’s Erdos basin, the oilfield had produced more than 24.4 million … Read more

Complaints against China’s banking sector rise in Q3

BEIJING — Consumer complaints received by the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission and its local bureaus rose 2.6 percent year on year to 87,281 cases in the third quarter (Q3) of the year. Personal loan businesses reported an increase of 38.6 percent in complaint cases during the period. The number of cases involving personal … Read more

In New York, Omicron revives dark memories of a nightmarish 2020

Omicron patient allegedly flees from the quarantine facility in Karachi

NEW YORK – With restaurants in Brooklyn closing in rapid succession and lines at Covid-19 test centers swelling by the day, fears are growing in New York of a return to the nightmare of 2020, when the city was the global epicenter of the pandemic. In Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood alone, more than a dozen bars … Read more

U.S. agricultural futures rise

CHICAGO — Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) agricultural futures rose across the board on Friday, led by soybeans. The most active corn contract for March delivery rose 2 cents, or 0.34 percent, to settle at 5.9325 U.S. dollars per bushel. March wheat climbed 4.5 cents, or 0.58 percent, to settle at 7.75 dollars per bushel. … Read more

China’s postal industry sees robust growth in Jan-Nov

BEIJING — China’s postal industry saw robust growth in business revenue and parcels handled in the first 11 months of 2021, official data showed. The sector raked in over 1.16 trillion yuan (about 182.69 billion U.S. dollars) during the period, up 17.1 percent year on year, according to the State Post Bureau (SPB). In November … Read more

China’s e-commerce logistics activities contract in Nov

China becomes first country to record economic growth after coronavirus pandemic

BEIJING — China’s e-commerce logistics sector reported moderate contraction in November, according to an industry survey jointly conducted by the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing and e-commerce giant JD.com. The survey showed that the index tracking e-commerce logistics activities stood at 109.5 points in November, edging down 2 points from the previous month. The … Read more

Finland’s central bank lowers country’s 2022 growth prediction

HELSINKI — Bank of Finland (BOF) on Friday slightly lowered its growth prognosis for Finland next year to 2.6 percent. The central bank noted the economy is continuing to recover from the steep downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the recovery is slowed by a worsening of the virus situation, shortfalls in raw materials … Read more