ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), taking forward its financial literacy campaign on investment education and awareness, organized a seminar for the students of Air University in Islamabad. The SECP chairman’s vision for increasing awareness of financial markets, products with particular emphasis on fraud prevention was communicated to students. The students were...
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Political party activist among six nabbed in Karachi
KARACHI: At least six suspects including a political leader from Lyari were apprehended in different incidents in Karachi on Friday. As per details, on a tip off, police carried out a raid in Karachi’s Frayer area and detained three suspects namely Qasim, Imran and Ibrahim who were involved in different incidents of extortion. In another...
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Pak-Iran trade hostage to failed trade diplomacy: PBIF
KARACHI: Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PBIF) on Friday said Pakistan and Iran can become important trading partner for which serious efforts are needed. Gas import deal which was to bring a revolution in the Pakistan’s energy market is still under sanctions therefore the two countries should ink new energy deals, it said. Bilateral trade...
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MQM launches four-day hunger strike against Altaf’s media blackout
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Friday launched a four-day symbolic hunger strike against media coverage ban on party chief Altaf Hussain’s statements. Dr Farooq Sattar, Muhammad Hussain and Kaiful Wari among other party members officially launched the strike in Karachi Press Club. Talking to media persons, party deputy convener, Dr Sattar said that workers...
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Govt, opposition agree to form Independent Commission to oversee NAB functioning
ISLAMABAD: The government and opposition on Friday agreed to oversee the functioning of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and linking its references with the approval of the Independent Commission. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar contacted Opposition leader in National Assembly Syed Khurshid Shah regarding a new draft law for NAB. Sources said that Independent Commission will...
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Afghan trucks to travel up to Wagah border
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday agreed to give Afghanistan access to India from its territory, as the Afghan trucks would be able to travel to Wagha Border. Afghanistan and Pakistan governments decided to organize the run of Afghan trucks from Torkham and Chaman up to Waghah carrying Afghan exports. The Afghan trucks will be allowed to...
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Father, son die in Sahiwal trailer-motorcycle collision
SAHIWAL: Two including father and son died and a woman wounded when a trailer hit a motorbike here on Friday. Rescue sources said that a recklessly driven trailer knocked down a motorcycle carrying three family members near village 92/6-R of Sahiwal. The motorcyclist father and his young son died on the spot while mother of...
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Implacable youth guns down sister for honour in Lahore
LAHORE: An implacable brother shot dead his real sister for honour and escaped from the scene after committing the crime here on Friday. Police said that accused over suspicion of relations with a person, opened indiscriminate fire at his teenage sister in Kahena area of the provincial capital Lahore and fled away. The...
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61 killed as bus crashes into truck in Ghana
GHANA: Sixty-one people died and 25 were critically injured when a passenger bus collided head-on with a truck carrying tomatoes on a highway in Ghana, police said on Thursday. It is one of the country’s deadliest ever road disasters. “The latest and the final report is that 61 dead and then 25 are in critical...
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Pope vs Trump: War of words – “Not Christian,” “disgraceful”
Vatican City: Pope Francis on Thursday intervened explosively in the US election campaign, saying Donald Trump cannot claim to be a Christian and also vow to build a border wall to keep out immigrants. “Anyone, whoever he is, who only wants to build walls and not bridges is not a Christian,” the pontiff told journalists...