Author: Javed Mahmood

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: The Punjab Assembly will meet on Friday afternoon to elect the new leader of the house to settle the…

“Russia plays a strategic game. Keeping low flows is better than cut-off. It decreases our resolve to reduce gas demand. We must not fall into the trap and go [into] crisis mode anyhow,” said Simone Tagliapietra, senior fellow at the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel.

“The grain export agreement, critically important for global food security, will be signed in Istanbul under the auspices of President Erdoğan and UN Secretary General Mr. Guterres together with Ukrainian and Russian delegations,” Erdogan spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said in a tweet.

He said “politically aware” lawmakers, who might understand PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s “wrongdoing”, will not support their party’s nominated candidate — Pervez Elahi — for Punjab’s top office.

Italian Premier tendered his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella during a morning meeting at the Quirinale Palace. Mattarella’s office said the president had “taken note” of the resignation and asked Draghi’s government to remain on in a caretaker fashion.

Pakistan along with Mongolia, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos stand out in terms of Asian countries which are vulnerable to repayment difficulties based on economic fundamentals and external creditor relations.

American CIA chief said that the case of Sri Lanka should be a warning to other nations.

An An was gifted by the Chinese government in 1999. Jia Jia, the female panda who was given to Ocean Park with An An, died in 2016 when she was 38.