LAHORE: A citizen, Mashkoor Hussain, has filed a petition in the High Court here on Thursday (4th July, 2024) challenging the immunity granted to (retired as well as serving) civil and military bureaucrats in the 2024-5 budget apropos income tax on property sales. In the petition filed through Nadeem Sarwar advocate, it was pointed out […]
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PM Shehbaz Sharif, while talking to President Vladimir Putin here on Wednesday (3rd July, 2024) on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, recalled Pak-USSR barter trade during 1950s and 1960s suggested renewing the system in order to overcome financial and banking matters. Shehbaz Sharif said: “I think today is the time we can […]
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ISLAMABAD: IHC was recently informed that PTA had forced telecom companies to implement a Mass Surveillance System enabling the spying agencies listen to what people are talking about on their phones, read what messages they are exchanging and monitor what they are doing on the internet. According to details through the Mass Surveillance System two […]
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KARACHI: Thanks to the augmenting crude oil prices in the world, possibility of strong payouts by the oil sector and the encouraging talks with IMF, the bulls were seen raging all over the bourse on Wednesday (3rd July, 2024) enabling KSE cross the milestone of eighty thousand (80,180.87) points with benchmark KSE-100 index climbing 627.99 […]
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UNITED NATIONS: A number of countries maintain sanctions on Taliban, terming it a terrorist group, but Russia is pondering over lifting them. Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Russian Ambassador to UN suggested on Monday (1st July, 2024) that Moscow was considering dropping sanctions against the Taliban as the Afghan authorities met with representatives of the international community […]
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DUSHANBE: PM Shehbaz Sharif and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon talked to journalists at a joint Presser held here on Tuesday (2nd July, 2024). PM, calling for enhancing trade, investment and connectivity between Pakistan and Tajikistan, told: “Today numerous Memorandums of Understanding were signed between the two countries”. He stressed the need for building rail connectivity […]
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ISLAMABAD: Former PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, terming the 2024-25 budget as the worst in Pakistan’s history, criticized tax exemptions to Civil and Military bureaucrats. “If you sell land or house, a tax of 2.5 to 4.5 percent has been imposed on it. But there is a clause kept in it which I don’t think any […]
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ISLAMABAD: Government, citing increasing trend of the prices of Petroleum products in the global bazaar, has augmented the price of Petrol by Rs. 7.45 per liter for next 15 days (1st-15th July, 2024). For two weeks citoyens will get a liter of petrol for Rs 265.61 and HSD for Rs. 277.45 (following a hike of […]
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DOHA: Zakir Jalali, director of the 3rd political dept of Afghan Foreign Ministry, took to the X (Twitter) to inform that 3 official meetings were open, ‘the agenda is open, 30 June, local time, 6:45 p.m. and ends at 8:45 p.m’. د دوحه۳ ناستې رسمي پرانيسته د اجنډا له مخې نن د جون پر ۳۰مه […]
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KARACHI: National Flag-Carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has announced on Sunday (30th June, 2024) reduction of fares for Umrah pilgrims travelling from Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi to Madinah till 15th July, 2024. While return fare of those flights originating from Lahore and Islamabad will be Rs. 86,000/- (+tax), pilgrims boarding from Karachi for Madinah will […]
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