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Central bank slashes policy rate by 50 bps to 10.5pc

BusinessDecember 15, 2025

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Monday slashed its policy rate by 50 bps to 10.5 per cent. The last reduction in the policy rate came in May. Since then, the benchmark rate has been held at 11 per...

Overseas minister says PM Shehbaz has taken notice of passenger being offloaded at airports, committee formed

NewsDecember 15, 2025

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has taken notice of the frequent offloading of passengers travelling abroad, ordering the constitution of a committee to look into the matter, Federal Minister for Overse...

Year’s last nationwide polio campaign to immunise 45m children begins

NewsDecember 15, 2025

The last nationwide polio campaign of 2025 began on Monday, with the aim of vaccinating 45.5 million children across the country, state-run Radio Pakistan reported. The week-long polio drive is set to...

Pakistan-origin man living in Sydney falsely identified as Bondi Beach gunman fears his life is in danger: report

BusinessDecember 15, 2025

A Pakistan-origin man living in Sydney, who was falsely linked to the mass shooting at Bondi Beach on Sunday, has said that he fears his life is in danger and that he is afraid to leave his house, acc...

Security forces kill 13 terrorists in two separate KP operations: ISPR

NewsDecember 14, 2025

Security forces have killed 13 terrorists during two separate intelligence-based operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the military’s media wing said in a statement on Sunday. “On 12-13 December 2025, thi...

PFUJ dubs Dawn Media Group’s ad ban ‘attack on press freedom’

NewsDecember 14, 2025

The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) on Sunday issued a press release condemning a ban on government advertisements for various outlets operated by the Dawn Media Group, terming the ban an...

IMF targets dubbed ‘new’ benchmarks do not represent ‘imposition of abrupt conditions’: finance ministry

BusinessDecember 14, 2025

The finance ministry said on Sunday that the 11 targets, being categorised as “new conditions” under the ongoing programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), represented “continuity, sequenci...

NOCs to Binance, HTX not ‘blanket approvals’ but first step under supervised entry framework: Bilal bin Saqib

CryptoDecember 14, 2025

Chairman of the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) Bilal Bin Saqib has said that the no-objection certificates (NOCs) issued to global cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and HTX were n...

Norway says envoy’s presence at Imaan Mazari SC hearing ‘in line with international law’

NewsDecember 13, 2025

Norway has termed the presence of its ambassador at the Supreme Court hearing of the husband-and-wife lawyer duo, Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha, “in line with international law,” desp...

Pakistan Army takes top spot with 353 medals as National Games closing ceremony held in Karachi

NewsDecember 13, 2025

The closing ceremony of the National Games was held in Karachi on Friday, with Pakistan Army taking home the highest number of medals. Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Fiel...