The distressed people of Pakistan will need to act smartly, learn to live with less, find constructive channels to vent their frustrations and revive family/community bonds to save and sustain their households. The PTI’s budget announced on June 12 did little to provide financial relief or instil hope in ordinary families. Many Pakistanis find the […]
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“Uncertainty” was perhaps the best description by Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh of the next year’s federal budget. He had valid reasons. But this corresponded well with the usual criticism of an “unrealistic” budget with “ambitious” targets. To begin with, the budget seeks to increase the Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) tax collection by almost Rs1.06 […]
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PESHAWAR: The traders and politicians claimed on Sunday that federal budget disappointed people, who were already battered by price hike. Awami National Party central general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain, Qaumi Watan Party provincial chairman Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao and Markazi Tanzeem Tajiran president Malik Meher Ilahi in their separate statements said that government did not […]
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LAHORE: Punjab plans to modestly increase its development spending, cut taxes and implement an economic stimulus to facilitate small businesses in its budget for the fiscal year 2020/2021 to mitigate the crippling impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and create jobs in the province. Officials told Dawn on Sunday that the government plans to target public development investment […]
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ISLAMABAD: Oil companies and refineries have blamed the bureaucracy for current petrol shortage in the country, saying the indecision regarding import as well as enhancing local petrol production led to the current situation. The Oil Companies Advisory Council (OCAC) on Sunday said that a “disinformation campaign and maligning of refineries and oil marketing companies (OMCs)” […]
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An Islamabad additional district and sessions judge on Monday directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to conduct an inquiry against US blogger Cynthia D. Ritchie for allegedly defaming former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on social media. The court was hearing a petition filed by PPP leader Advocate Raja Shakeel Abbasi, who sought registration of a […]
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Legendary fighter pilot Saiful Azam, who was awarded Sitara-i-Jura’at for his heroics in the 1965 war against India, breathed his last in Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Sunday morning, according to officials and media reports. The 80-year-old retired group captain died at his residence, local newspaper Jugantor said. He had been suffering from various old-age complications for a […]
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ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Pervez Khattak on Sunday again invited leaders of the estranged Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), an organisation working for the rights of Pashtuns, to come to the negotiating table to discuss all the contentious issues with the government. “We Pakhtoons belong to the same province thus we should collectively work for the development […]
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• Asks people to protect themselves by wearing face masks• FIA gives clean chit to PM’s aide on health Mirza in masks smuggling case ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar has said the tally of novel coronavirus cases across the country may double within next two weeks and can reach 1.2 million […]
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The National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) on Monday identified 20 cities across Pakistan with potential Covid-19 hotspots using a strategy termed as ‘testing, tracing and quarantining (TTQ)’, according to press release issued by the centre. The TTQ strategy involves ramping up Covid-19 testing followed by rapidly tracing the contacts of confirmed positive cases, and […]
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