The budget of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), announced last month, is twice the size of Pakistan's bailout request to the International Monetary Fund, according to documents.
The budget of J&K stood at Rs 1,18,500 crore ($14.5 billion), while Pakistan sought $7 billion from the IMF.
The irony is not lost on many, given Pakistan's long-standing desire to claim the region since the partition of India in 1947.
Pakistan government is considering to initiate legal proceedings to declare former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party a banned outfit, local media reported.
His remarks came after police claimed to have seized weapons and petrol bombs from the former premier's residence in Lahore
Speaking at a press conference in Lahore, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Saturday said that the legal team of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was examining the matter.
Marvia Malik, Pakistan’s first transgender news anchor, barely survived an assassination bid after two assailants opened fire at her outside her residence. The incident took place on Friday when she was returning home from a pharmacy in Lahore, Pakistan.
Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported that Malik had briefly Lahore out of fear for her safety and relocated to Islamabad. A few days back, she returned to Lahore for surgery.
A violent mob broke stormed a police station in Pakistan’s Punjab province, grabbed an accused arrested of blasphemy charges, stripped him naked, hanged him and then set him on fire.
According to reports, the incident occurred on Saturday afternoon at Nankana Sahib’s Warburton Police Station.
The faith of the person killed is unknown. He was accused of “desecrating the Quran”. Two senior police officers were suspended for failing to prevent the incident.
Ishaq Dar, Pakistan's finance minister, stated on Wednesday that about 90% of the international community's promises for the flood-affected nation were project loans that will be disbursed over the following three years. His comments come two days after the international world promised around $10 billion at a donors' summit in Geneva to assist the cash-strapped nation in rebuilding after last year's devastating floods in a climate-resilient way.