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Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal announced on Monday that the government will launch the National Economic Transformation Plan for the next five years tomorrow. Radio Pakistan reported. During a 2022 briefing, Iqbal presented the previous government’s four-point plan to revitalize the economy, which included increasing exports, encouraging foreign investment, improving the tax-to-GDP ratio and addressing loss-making…

US President Joe Biden on Monday announced $2.5 billion in additional security assistance for Ukraine as he uses his final weeks in office to increase military aid to kyiv before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. “At my direction, the United States will continue to work tirelessly to strengthen Ukraine’s position in this war for the…

The death toll from a traffic accident in southern Ethiopia rose to at least 71 after a vehicle carrying a wedding party veered into a river, a local official said. The truck fell into the water around 5:30 pm local time on Sunday, about 300 kilometers south of the capital Addis Ababa, in Sidama state….

Karachi Traffic Police on Monday released the metropolis’s traffic plan for New Year’s Eve. On New Year’s Eve in Karachi, citizens conduct aerial firing and use fireworks that have caused injuries in the past. Section 144 will now be imposed for 48 hours from December 31 to January 1 on carrying/displaying weapons, aerial shooting and…

National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq will chair a closed-door meeting between the negotiating teams representing the federal government and the PTI on January 2, a notification from the NA secretariat read out on Monday. This will be the second meeting between the negotiating parties, in which the PTI’s demands for the release of imprisoned…

A suspect who allegedly filmed female customers with his mobile phone in the changing rooms of a clothing store in Khanewal was remanded in judicial custody on Monday, police said. Khanewal City Station House Officer (SHO) Muhammad Saeed said dawn.com that the suspect, who worked for clothing brand Limelight, was brought before a judge today…

A US federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury verdict ordering President-elect Donald Trump to pay $5 million for sexually abusing and defaming writer E Jean Carroll. A New York jury found after a nine-day civil trial last year that the former president had sexually abused Carroll in a Manhattan department store in 1996….

Karachi Additional Inspector General of Police (AIGP) Javed Alam Odho said on Monday that the city’s streets would be cleared of protest sit-ins ahead of Maghreb prayers, saying citizens had “suffered enough” over the past few years. three days. The sit-ins, which have continued over the past week, blocked major roads to protest the Parachinar…

Pakistan reported one new polio case in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Monday, raising the year’s total to 68, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said in a statement. Pakistan is one of the last two countries in the world, along with Afghanistan, where polio remains endemic; The disease mainly affects children under five…

The bulls decided to take control of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) floor on Monday as the stock gained over 3,900 points on investors’ expectations that the key interest rate would hit single digits in the near future. The benchmark KSE-100 index rose 3,678.20, or 3.30 percent, to settle at 115,029.37 from the previous close…