Pakistan

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Ukrainian president statement comes after Putin said Moscow will 'certainly' achieve its objectives

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QUETTA - Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti on Wednesday said that the digitization of land records is indispensable for transparency, better governance and sustainable development in the province.

Good transporters called off their days-long nationwide strike following successful negotiations with the government, after most of their demands had been met. “We have called off our strike, which continued for 10 days. We have done this after the federal and provincial governments of Punjab and Sindh accepted our demands and signed the settlement document,” President of the Pakistan Goods Transport Alliance (PGTA) Malik Shehzad Awan said on Wednesday. The PGTA is an organisation representing 20 major goods transport associations across the country. According to Awan, during the dialogues, the government’s representatives agreed to reduce fines to a considerable level. Similarly, demands related to axle load, problems with issuing heavy transport driving licenses, issues with customs authorities, motorway police, and disputed clauses of the Punjab Motor Vehicle Ordinance, among others, were also accepted. Talking to Dawn, All Pakistan Truck Trailer Owners Association Chairman Lala Yasir Naseer said that good...

The United States announced a temporary deployment of Air Force personnel to Ecuador on Wednesday as part of its regional anti-narcotics campaign. There was no indication of the scale of the deployment, which comes as tensions are rising over the standoff between Latin American oil producer Venezuela and the United States. The personnel will be deployed at Ecuador’s Manta air force base, which had served as a US base for a decade until 2009. Ecuadoran voters in November overwhelmingly rejected a bid by President Daniel Noboa to lift the country’s ban on foreign bases. But according to the US embassy in Quito, the deployment is a “temporary operation with the Ecuadorian Air Force in Manta”. The “short-term joint effort” will “enhance the capacity of the Ecuadorian military forces to combat narco-terrorists, including strengthening intelligence gathering and anti-drug trafficking capabilities, and is designed to protect the United States and Ecuador from the threats we share”. Ecuador’s defence ministry said th...

The draw for the knockout phase takes place on Thursday

External account upswing masks exploited migrants and 'Dutch Disease'

Govt raises Rs445b in bond auction; gold hits Rs453,562/tola; silver surges to record high at Rs6,822

Around 25,000 containers awaiting clearance at Karachi Port, Port Qasim

Industry leaders point to vulnerabilities stemming from geopolitical tensions, unresolved local issues

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