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February 08, 2019 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has made formal requests to 10 more countries under the OECD mechanism as well as Switzerland separately for exchange of information about those Pakistanis who stashed their assets abroad to evade taxes. “We have made requests to 10 more countries for getting automatic exchange of information and so far we […]
February 08, 2019 ISLAMABAD: The federal government would pay a whopping Rs3.6 trillion on account of defence and debt servicing that is equal to 68.2% of the current fiscal year’s revised budget, the centre on Wednesday sensitised the provinces about the grave fiscal situation that has thrown the country into a debt trap. After excluding debt […]
January 19, 2019 CHITRAL: An improvised explosive device (IED) went off in Arandu along the Afghan border killing a security personnel on Saturday. Deputy Commissioner Chitral Khurshid Alam Mahsud confirmed the incident and identified the martyr as Javed Ahmed, son of Abdul Hakim, a sepoy of Chitral Levies. He was a resident of the Arandu […]
PESHAWAR: Despite lofty claims of the provincial education ministry, some 2.6 million children are out of schools in the province, said Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Standing Committee on Elementary and Secondary Education Chairman Taj Muhammad Khan on Thursday. Addressing the first meeting of the committee, Taj said that despite passing 13 years to the October 2005 earthquake, the […]
January 12, 2018 ISLAMABAD: The Safety Investigation Board (SIB) tasked with a probe into the 2016 crash of a PIA’s domestic flight PK-661 that killed all the 46 people onboard, has found a ‘lapse’ on the part of PIA and a ‘lack of oversight’ by Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) that may have led to the […]
December 29, 2018 BOONI: Local leaders, workers and activists of the PPP paid tributes to slain party chairperson and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on her 11th death anniversary here on Thursday. The participants at a meeting highlighted the services of PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Ms Bhutto for the nation especially for the […]
December 25, 2018 DROSH: Two persons were killed in a road accident on their way to Ursoon valley in Drosh area. The ill-fated Toyota pickup bearing number 3579 was going to Ursoon when it met mishap near Ursoon post. Two persons Sohail s/o Sadbar and Imran s/o Salahuddin both the residents of Badogal Drosh lost […]
December 25, 2018 ISLAMABAD: Almost 400,000 children were missed during the nationwide polio vaccination campaign held this month, National Emergency Operations Centre Coordinator Dr Rana Mohammad Safdar told the health minister. He said 260,000 frontline workers participated in the campaign. `Almost 90pc of the 37.73 million under-five children targeted were covered during the campaign and […]
December 25, 2018 ISLAMABAD: Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Chairperson Dr Sania Nishtar on Sunday said there was a need to plug critical gaps in the programme and redesign the payment mechanism. `BISP has many legacy issues which successive managements have strived to address. Several gaps have been plugged but many critical gaps remain to […]