ISLAMABAD, DEC 14 – Prime Minister’s Adviser on Political Affairs Rana Sanaullah has alleged that former army chief Gen (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa directed the registration of a narcotics case against him back in 2019. Sanaullah was arrested in July 2019 during the PTI government after the ANF claimed it recovered 15kg of heroin from his vehicle, and was later granted bail by the Lahore High Court (LHC). Speaking in a podcast, Sanaullah recalled an exchange with Gen Bajwa and former spymaster Hamid, in which the ex-army chief made remarksRead More

ISLAMABAD, DEC 14 – The Ministry of Finance on Sunday denied the imposition of any new conditions under the International Monetary Fund’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) loan programme, saying that the lender’s structural benchmarks aligned with its own reform agenda. “The measures outlined in the latest Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies (MEFP) represent continuity, sequencing, and deepening of Pakistan’s agreed reform agenda under the IMF’s Extended Fund Facility, rather than the imposition of abrupt or unprecedented conditions,” the ministry said in a statement. Clarifying the intent, context, and continuityRead More