Khalid Mustafa
ISLAMABAD: The government has presented another gift for the inflation-stricken masses in the form of a further rise in petroleum prices by Rs2.70 per liter. It is as if the general sales tax had not increased by just one percent but by three ...
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Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: The Swiss government’s response to the letter written to it by the government of Pakistan following the apex court’s order in the NRO case has arrived in the law ministry, sealed in an envelope.
Credible law ministry sources revealed ...
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ISLAMABAD: US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday night conveyed his felicitations to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on telephone, said the Foreign Office.
Nawaz thanked Kerry and reiterated his government’s resolve to further consolidate and ...
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Asim Yasin
ISLAMABAD: Pakhtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief and MNA Mehmood Khan Achakzai on Monday sought the withdrawal of forces from the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (Fata), immunity to all the foreigners hiding in Fata and serious ...
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Riaz Khan Daudzai
PESHAWAR: The PTI-led coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday presented its maiden tax-free budget for 2013-14 with a total outlay of Rs344 billion, proposing a levy of one percent cess on transportation of goods crossing the ...
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Mansoor Ahmad
LAHORE: Salaries and pensions have been increased by 10 percent in the Punjab budget which was presented in the provincial assembly with a total outlay of Rs897.59 billion. The minimum salary was fixed at Rs10,000 a month.
Punjab Finance ...
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News Desk
RAWALPINDI: Annual provincial budgets were presented in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Monday by the governments of the PML-N, PPP and PTI, respectively.
The budgets of the three governments have some similarities and some ...
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Syed Bukhar Shah
PESHAWAR: Terming the provincial budget for 2013-14 as the best one, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has said people will realise its benefits in the near future.
Talking to reporters after the presentation of the budget in the ...
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our correspondent
Karachi: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain on Monday gave the party’s Coordination Committee three days to conduct a nationwide public referendum to reach a decision on whether the party should join the government or sit in the ...
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our correspondent
PESHAWAR: The Provincial Doctors Association (PDA) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter on Monday asked the government to increase the annual budget of Health Department and raise the salaries of doctors or else they would launch protest across the ...
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Muhammad Anis
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Monday said the government had constituted a joint investigation team to investigate the Quetta killings and terrorist attack on the Ziarat Residency and the findings of the report would be ...
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Khalid Mustafa
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar has said that the Senate committee on finance should come up with an alternative plan to generate an additional Rs60 billion if it does not support the increase in GST from 16 to 17 percent. “This is ...
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Asim Yasin
ISLAMABAD: Raza Rabbani, the parliamentary leader of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in the Senate, on Monday declared the federal budget 2013-14 in opposition to provincial autonomy and therefore, in violation of the 18th Amendment of the ...
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our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday sought solid evidence pertaining to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain’s legal status in the party.
A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad ...
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our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar Monday called on Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif at PM House and briefed him about the budget session of the Parliament.
Dar also apprised the premier that a comprehensive and constructive discussion on ...
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ISLAMABAD: Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Syed Khurshid Shah on Monday assured the government of full cooperation from the opposition benches to eliminate terrorism from the country.
Speaking on a Point of Order in the National ...
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Waseem Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is filing a petition with the Accountability Court on Tuesday for issuance of ex-Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s arrest warrants in the illegal appointment of former Oil and Gas Regulatory ...
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Tariq Butt
ISLAMABAD: The first judicial challenge to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has come as appointment of a key member of his cabinet, Federal Law Minister Zahid Hamid, has been challenged in the Supreme Court by a lawyer.
Zahid Hamid advised Pervez ...
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Muhammad Saleh Zaafir
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan will make his maiden appearance in the National Assembly on Wednesday and address the House immediate after taking oath of the membership.
The National Assembly Secretariat has been ...
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Farooq Aqdus
ISLAMABAD: US Secretary of State John Kerry is not visiting Pakistan in the last week of the current month, as a change has been reported in the schedule of his two-day visit.Earlier, the Special Advisor of the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs ...
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News Desk
SARGODHA: Three children of the same family died of measles in Sargodha on Monday. According to reports, three daughters of Sultan Ali, a resident of the Laksian area of Sargodha, succumbed to the deadly disease at the DHQ Hospital. Sultan’s three ...
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