KARACHI: According to the report released by US Govt’s oversight authority on Afghanistan reconstruction SIGAR*, despite receiving aids worth billions of dollars, Taliban failed to rebuild their country. It is pertinent to mention here that since August 2021 (when US withdrew from Afghanistan) an aid of $3.71 Billion has been spent but still the repressive […]
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KARACHI: Sindh Cabinet on Monday (3rd February) has approved the Agriculture Tax bill that shall come into effect from January, 2025 and will be collected Sindh Revenue Board (SRB) instead of the Board of Revenue (BOR). While livestock sector has been exempted, in case of natural disasters adjustments will be made to the agriculture tax […]
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KARACHI: Govt has augmented, for the next fifteen days, the price of petrol by one rupee per liter while the price of HSD has been raised by Rs. 7 per liter. Citoyens will be able to buy a liter of petrol for Rs. 257.13 and a liter of diesel for Rs. 267.95 from 1st till […]
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GAZA: As part of Ceasefire Agreement Hamas has handed over three Israeli and five Thai hostages to Red Cross here Thursday (30th Jan, 2025), Israel reciprocated by liberating 110 Palestinians from its jails. Earlier, Hamas freed four female soldier hostages (Daniella Gilboa, Liri Albag, Naama Levy and Karina Ariev) in exchange for 180 Palestinian prisoners […]
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ISLAMABAD: President has signed Peca amendment bill here on Wednesday (29th Jan, 2025). The Peca Amendment Bill had been passed by the Senate on 28th January. The bill seeks to penalises anyone who propagates fake news. Such person could be incarcerated for three years or up to fined twenty lakh rupees or both. Following approvals […]
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ISLAMABAD: The Peca Amendment Bill has been passed by the Senate here on 28th Jan 2025 (Tuesday). The bill seeks to penalises anyone who propagates fake news. Such person could be incarcerated for three years or up to fined twenty lakh rupees or both. Following approvals from the lower and upper houses the Peca Amendment […]
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KIEV: President Zelensky, while speaking about the possibility of talks with Russia, maintained that contacts could be in different formats and allies should work towards determining one. He said that Ukraine’s involvement was necessary in order to achieve lasting peace. It is pertinent to mention here that in the three years of fighting tens of […]
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MOSCOW: While Trump is speaking about peace in this region, Ukraine lobbed 121 drones targeting 13 regions including Moscow and an oil refinery in the southern Russian town of Tuapse. On the other hand Russia claimed that it had shot down all the 121 Israeli drones and no major damage was reported. Ukrainian authorities lamented […]
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PAKPATTAN: Citing violation of Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016 (Peca), Police has nabbed the administrator of a WhatsApp group here Friday (24th Jan 2025) for uploading an insulting post targeting CM Punjab. According to FIR dated 19th Jan, the administrator had deliberately uploaded an immoral, insulting post on social media, while knowing that the […]
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PARIS: A court here has incarcerated 29-year-old Pakistani Zaheer Mahmood, for thirty years for trying to kill two workers (he thought were employees of Charlie Hebdo) in 2020, with a meat cleaver when the caricatures of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) were republished by the magazine. Attacker Zaheer Mahmood was unaware that Charlie Hebdo had moved […]
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