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The Rawalpindi district government has announced that government servants performing special duty during Ramadan will be given Iftari meal. On directives of District Coordination...

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Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jahangir said on Tuesday that Pakistan Army generals were least bothered about country’s security and more concerned...

A 45-year-old man died on his way to hospital when a traffic warden stopped his car for violating a traffic signal near New Anarkali...

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court’s Lahore Registry challenging the imposition of 15 percent regulatory duty by the federal government on...

KARACHI - The government has revised the duty drawback rates for the towel sector allowing enhancement with effect from March 31, 2011, Towel Manufacturers Association (TMA) spokesman Muzammil Husain has said. It has permitted duty drawback rates on cotton or polyester blended towels bleached and towels partly or fully dyed or printed. As per the SRO, the FBR has allowed 0.71 per cent drawback on cotton towels (bleached) fully white instead of 0.44 per cent, 1.88 per cent on cotton

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the national exchequer suffered a loss of Rs 7 billion due to evasion of customs duty by ISAF containers at the Chaman crossing along the Pak-Afghan border.
Appearing on notice, FBR Chairman Salman Siddique told a three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani that a total of 2,981 containers went missing, of which 408

LAHORE - The Health Department and the hospitals' administrations have yet to decide if they should pay salaries to the young doctors for the period they were on strike. While Mayo Hospital withheld the doctors' last month salaries, Allama Iqbal Medical College (AIMC) and Services Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS) not only paid salaries to medical officers, registrar and senior registrar but also to house officers and post-graduate trainee doctors.
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ISLAMABAD - During a hearing of the missing persons' case on Wednesday, Justice Javed Iqbal said it was government's responsibility and not Supreme Court's to recover these people whereas 222 missing persons had been traced due to the apex court's efforts.
According to a private TV, Justice Raja Fayyaz asked why this issue has not yet been raised in the parliament.
Moreover Justice Fayyaz ordered to submit complete details of the dead bodies found so far.
Defence of

KARACHI - The Sindh government and the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) are at loggerheads over imposing Sales Tax and Federal Excise Duty on all coalfields, other than those in Thar, that are being exploited, Pakistan Today has reliably learnt.
The dispute has surfaced despite the cabinet's Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) approving a fiscal incentive package for all coalfields in Sindh. "The FBR is insisting on bringing all of Sindh's coalfields under the tax net, but

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian men have extramarital sex because of "wives who neglect their responsibilities" to their husbands, a Malaysian lawmaker told Parliament Thursday, outraging women's groups.
"Husbands driving home after work see things that are sexually arousing and go to their wives to ease their urges," said independent lawmaker Ibrahim Ali, according to online portal Malaysiakini.
"But when they come home to their wives, they will say,'wait, I'm cooking,' or 'wait,

RAWALPINDI - The police commando charged with killing governor, who had urged reform of a blasphemy law, asked to be one of his bodyguards, a witness told.
Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri has been charged with terrorism and murdering Punjab governor Salman Taseer on an Islamabad street on January 4.
Qadri has confessed to killing Taseer, saying that he objected to the politician's calls to amend the blasphemy law.
"Three prosecution witnesses, all policemen, made their

LAHORE - More than 8,000 policemen will perform duty on March 23, Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Aslam Tareen said on Monday. He was presiding a meeting of senior police officers to review security arrangements for Pakistan Day on March 23. Tareen ordered officials to ensure checking of all hotels, inns and bus and wagon stands to avoid any untoward incident on March 23.
He directed officers to make arrangements to ensure a smooth flow of traffic.
Tareen said

ISLAMABAD - The government remains ambivalent on reducing duty and other taxes on the import of bulletproof vehicles amid serious threats to the life of prominent politicians and religious leaders of the country from terrorists.
According to sources in the ministries of Interior and Finance, the proposal to reduce duty and taxes was forwarded by Senator Waqar Ahmad Khan a few months ago after he received threats when as a federal minister. Waqar, as privatisation minister, had

ISLAMABAD - Establishment Secretary Abdul Rauf Chaudhry on Saturday confirmed that a notification regarding the termination of contract of FIA DG Waseem Ahmed had not been issued. "We have not issued any such notification for the termination of Ahmed's reemployment after retirement, but the Establishment Division has issued notifications of termination of contracts of 10 other reemployed government officials," he added.
Ahmed said he was still holding his office and his contract

LAHORE - More than 8,000 policemen would perform duty on the Eid Miladun Nabi, Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Aslam Tareen said on Sunday. He was chairing a meeting of senior police officers at his office, in which security arrangements for the Eid Miladun Nabi were discussed.
The CCPO ordered special surveillance and checking of all hotels and bus and wagon stands to avoid any untoward incident and ensure law and order on the sacred occasion. He directed officers to

KARACHI - Fears of a political backlash with regards to increasing product prices may compel the government to trim the deemed duty on High Speed Diesel to five percent in March, but this move is likely to be resisted by local refineries and any changes made to deemed duty may prove to be short-lived.
While deemed duty on local production is collected and retained by refiners; 7.5 percent duty on HSD is collected by the government on imported HSD. Freezing HSD consumption at