Tag: Costs

‘RGST will be implemented at all costs’

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer said that the political parties were trying to gain political mileage on the issue of Reformed General Sales Tax (RGST) but it will definitely be implemented at any cost.
He was addressing as the chief guest during the 9th convocation of the University of Central Punjab (UCP) at Expo Centre Lahore. Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Central Information Secretary and member National Assembly Fauzia Wahab was the guest of honour.
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Six-year-old girl’s only chance to live costs Rs 2m

KARACHI: Bhooro Menghwar, a landless peasant belonging to the Dalit caste of Hindus (so-called untouchables), sold his last pair of goats and a cow after having sold everything else in his house to save the life of his six-year-old daughter Veena, who is suffering from severe aplastic anemia.
"The cure is bone-marrow transplant," doctors told him, which he cannot afford.
"What can I do? I have sold almost everything I had," said Menghwar, adding, "I have no option left but

Zardari wants peace in Karachi ‘at all costs’

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday directed Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza to ensure peace in Karachi "at all costs".
He was talking to Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza at the Presidency.
A source in the PPP informed Pakistan Today that the trio discussed various options to restore normalcy to the country's financial hub. "Mirza proposed the imposition of curfew in some areas of