The price of a cup of tea in several cafeterias, kiosks and restaurants in Karachi has increased, as tea sellers claim that they have to do so due to the high cost of sugar and gas and electricity.

The previous PDM-led government and the current interim government have raised the petroleum products prices by over Rs50 in the last 45 days in line with the agreement signed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

More than 1600 textile industries were forced to shut down operations in Pakistan during the last 16 months of the Pakistan Democratic Movement-led coalition government.

Domestic consumers in Pakistan are paying Rs57.80 for per unit ectricity, a Geo News report revealed on Monday.

The Pakistani rupee continued to lose ground against the international currencies on Tuesday, hitting a new low in the open market as the financial markets remained jittery amid an ongoing economic crisis.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has rejected the government's proposal for tariff adjustment or provision of additional subsidy to inflation-hit people of Pakistan, Geo News reported on Tuesday.

The Central Ulema Council of Pakistan has issued a fatwa (religious) decree, declaring that hoarding dollars is a "grave sin".

For the first time in the whole province, Punjab issued a heavy transport vehicle (HTV) licence to a transperson, Shahana Abbas Shani.

Bahawalpur Commissioner Dr Ehtesham Anwar Mahar has established "good quality pink toilets" for women travellers along the major highways of South Punjab's city.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif, who has been in self-imposed exile in London since November 2019, will return to Pakistan on October 21, his younger brother Shehbaz Sharif confirmed on Tuesday.

For the first time in Balochistan, a female police officer, Faryal Fareed, has been posted as senior superintendent of police (SSP) in the Jaffarabad district of the province.

Rescue-1122, the emergency service in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has initiated a motorcycle ambulance service in Peshawar with the support of the World Health Organization.

A district and sessions court in Islamabad Saturday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for Somia Arshad, wife of slain anchor person Arshad Sharif, for failing to appear before the court in journalist's murder case.

A special court, established to hear cases under the Official Sec­rets Act, Thursday granted Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan permission to talk to his sons Qasim and Sulaiman on the phone via WhatsApp.

Dr Arif Alvi is set to become the fourth democratically elected president of Pakistan to complete a five-year term as his tenure officially ends today (Friday).