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Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his Cabinet on Wednesday unanimously decided to forego their salaries and related benefits due to the precarious economic condition of the country. The decision was taken during a Cabinet meeting as part of the government's austerity policies, aimed at curbing unnecessary expenditures, ...

ISLAMABAD —  The 19-member Cabinet of Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was sworn into office Monday and held its first meeting. The prime minister appointed several top government posts and promised to tackle the country's unrelenting economic crisis. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari administered the oath of ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The 19-member Cabinet of Pakistan’s newly-elected Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif was sworn in Monday during a brief ceremony. President Asif Ali Zardari administered the ministers’ oaths at the President’s Office — a sprawling white-marble building — in the capital, Islamabad, with Sharif in attendance. This came ...

Shimla, Mar 1: The “political crisis” in the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh seems yet to be over as Cabinet minister Vikramaditya Singh, who too raised a “banner of revolt” against Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, on Friday reached Delhi after meeting rebel MLAs in Chandigarh. A day earlier, ...

ISLAMABAD: A political stalemate in Pakistan, after an inconclusive election, ended with Shehbaz Sharif chosen to lead the country again, while efforts were underway on Wednesday to get the second-largest party to join the government to ensure stability.Sharif, 72, who was prime minister for 16 months until August, was ...

GUWAHATI: The Assam cabinet Friday approved a socio-economic survey of the state's indigenous Muslim population. The decision comes a year-and-a-half after the Himanta Biswa Sarma government recognised five communities as "indigenous Assamese Muslims".The Directorate of Char Areas Development, which will be renamed as Directorate of Minority Affairs and Char ...

Bihar Cabinet Wednesday approved the allocation of Rs 2.5 lakh crore over next five years to help 94 lakh poor families counted in the Bihar caste survey. The cabinet also passed a proposal to send a request to the Centre to demand special category status, a move that can ...

Colombo: The Sri Lankan Cabinet has approved the policy to issue free tourist visas to travellers from India and six other countries, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said on Tuesday, amidst efforts to rebuild the debt-trapped island nation’s tourism sector. Foreign Minister Sabry in a statement said that this would ...

NEW DELHI: The cash-starved Pakistani government has not been unable to pay salaries to staff deployed at certain diplomatic missions for the past three months amid a dollar liquidity crunch, according to a report.Press attaches working in US and Hong Kong as well as press counsellors deputed in Singapore ...

BJP leader Devender Singh Rana. File. | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday said that Pakistan’s decision to appoint Mushaal Hussein Mullick as a Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on human rights. was “an indication of a sabotage plan in Kashmir”. Ms. Mullick is ...