Ukraine War: Trump to sign peace/mineral deal on 28th Feb

WHITE HOUSE: President Donald Trump in a sit-down in the Oval Office with visiting UK PM Keir Starmer here Thursday, informed that he was going to sign an agreement apropos ending war with Russia and accessing Ukrainian rare material on Friday (28th Feb, 2025). “It’s really gonna get us into that country. We’ll be working […]

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IAEA on Iran’s augmenting uranium stock

GENEVA: IAEA has claimed that Iran’s stock of uranium close to weapons-grade has dramatically augmented. IAEA maintained: “The significantly increased production and accumulation of high enriched uranium by Iran, the only non-nuclear weapon state to produce such nuclear material, is of serious concern.” Although Tehran has repeatedly denied that it wanted nuclear weapons, its adversaries […]

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Roosevelt Hotel: NYC to end $220m lease deal

NEW YORK CITY: Due to criticism that American taxpayers’ money was being utilized to help asylum seekers in PIA-owned Roosevelt Hotel, Mayor announced that it would end $220 million lease agreement with the property. It may be recalled that during the 2020 pandemic the hotel had to close its gates. That translated into unbearable financial […]

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Death of the Poet: Akash’s adopted son remanded to police custody

HYDERABAD: An ATC here on Tuesday (18th Feb 2025) has remanded celebrated Sindhi poet Dr. (Allah Baksh) Akash Ansari’s adopted son to police custody for four days. Postmortem report had revealed that renowned Sindhi poet was tortured before dying on Saturday (15th Feb) in a mysterious incendie in his Citizens Colony house’s locked bedroom. Police […]

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Nothing about Ukraine sans Ukraine: Zelenskyy

MUNICH: As, following the Trump-Putin telephonic conversation, USA is pushing to end the 3-year Kyiv-Moscow War, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he needed security guarantees. Following his Friday (14th Feb 2025) rendezvous with with US Vice President J D Vance at the Munich Security Conference, Zelensky took to the Social Media platform to state: “I […]

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Gaza Deal: Hamas to release Israeli hostages

GAZA: Following talks in Cairo, Hamas has proclaimed that it would continue releasing hostages, as mediators Egypt and Qatar had assured they would remove obstacles. It is pertinent to mention here that the mediators had successfully persuaded both Hamas and Israel to continue implementation. Hamas, citing Israel’s violations of the truce, had earlier postponed the […]

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IMF Team Reviews Pakistan’s Judicial/Regulatory System

ISLAMABAD: A 3-member technical mission of IMF, under the Pakistan’s 2024 Extended Fund Facility programme, arrived here Tuesday (11th Feb, 2025) for a week-long Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment. The scrutiny mission will examine six key governance-related sectors and institutions: IMF mission will examine severity of corruption vulnerabilities across six core state functions: 1) Fiscal Governance; […]

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IMF Mission to Conduct Governance, Corruption Diagnostic Assessment in Pakistan

KARACHI: Under Pakistan’s 2024 Extended Fund Facility programme, IMF’s 3-member mission will conduct a Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment. IMF mission will examine severity of corruption vulnerabilities across six core state functions: 1) Fiscal Governance; 2) Central Bank Governance & Operations; 3) Financial Sector Oversight; 4) Financial Sector; 5) Market Regulation; 6) Rule of Law […]

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