Pakistan Government is trying hard to get financial help from the International Monetary Fund. The country is facing grim financial situation and has sought help with $300 million loan from the World Bank (WB). The loan had been approved but stalled after the opposition of IMF. As per the reports of BBC, the International Monetary Fund is not in the favor of providing financial help to Pakistan to repay its debts.
Pakistan's foreign currency reserves are continuously falling at a rate of $1.0 billion per month. The country needs around $15.0 billion from foreign lenders to restore normalcy in the financial system.
Washington, Oct 30 : Unfaithful women better watch out, for according to a new research, men are better at detecting a cheating partner than females, and they''re more likely to suspect infidelities that don''t exist.
Scientists found that men were able to spot a cheating heart in more than nine out of ten cases.
They were also more likely to catch out their partner''s lies than women.
The flip side is that to counter this constant vigilance, women may be better than men at concealing illicit liaisons.
London, Oct 30 : A research by scientists from the US and UK has suggested that far from being solitary hunters, sabretooth tigers were social animals who hunted in packs, sharing the spoils among themselves.
According to a report by BBC News, the abundance of S. fatalis (scientific name for sabretooth tigers) fossils in Californian tar seeps suggests they were packs of scavengers, lured in by the distress calls of trapped prey.
The research, carried out in Africa, found that audio playbacks of prey sounds attract social carnivores, but not solitary hunters.
This suggests S. fatalis was social too, according to the Royal Society journal study.
Washington, Oct 30 : After Pakistan summoned US envoy Anne Patterson on Wednesday to lodge strong protest over continued air strikes in its tribal areas, Washington said last evening that it was ready to discuss Pakistan’s “very serious problem” of extremism anytime the authorities in Islamabad wished to.
But, it vowed “no let-up” in counter-terrorism efforts there, reported The News.