ISLAMABAD: Sindh leads with a 45 percent share in the total income tax collected nationally by the FBR whereas Punjab follows with 35 percent, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 3 percent, and Balochistan 2 percent. The federal capital beats KP and Balochistan in tax collection by contributing 15 percent of the total share, three times more than the […]
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump faced a fresh backlash on Tuesday for removing his mask when he returned to the White House and urging Americans not to fear the COVID-19 disease that has killed more than 209,000 people in the country and put him in hospital. U.S. President Donald Trump poses on the Truman Balcony of […]
The brazen killing of a Toronto-area mosque caretaker points to rising of far-right groups in Canada, experts say. Canadians in Toronto gather around a local mosque to show solidarity with the victims of the Christchurch mosque attacks in New Zealand. Toronto in Canada Mohamed Aslim Zafis was sitting outside a mosque in Toronto’s west end […]
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump is in a military hospital today for treatment after testing positive for COVID-19. This is an extraordinary development that upended the presidential race a month before the Nov. 3 election. Roughly 17 hours after he made his diagnosis public, Trump walked slowly from the White House to a waiting helicopter […]
The United Kingdom is financing Pakistan for the development and production of a High Flow Nasal Oxygen (HFNO) device. That can also be used as a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) device, by Alsons Group which is Pakistan’s premier precision engineering company. UK is doing that through Karandaaz’s Risk Participation Facility with Meezan Bank. Karandaaz […]
The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) has worked out a reduction in the prices of https://rangeinn.com/ppl-finds-hydrocarbon-reserves-in-balochistans-kalat-1277/products (POL) for the upcoming month of October 2020. According to sources, OGRA has forwarded its working paper regarding the next month’s oil prices for necessary feedback. The final decision will be announced by the finance ministry on 30th […]
Despite the government’s efforts to enhance digitization aimed at containing the undocumented economy and complying with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) directives, the demand for currency notes in Pakistan is growing more than ever before. Security Papers Limited (SEPL), the company which produces paper for currency notes, recently posted the highest-ever profit after tax, […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Thursday called upon the rich nations to immediately return the stolen money of developing countries parked in their banks. Addressing a high-level panel on Financial Accountability, Transparency, and Integrity (FACTI) on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly session, Imran said the international community must take decisive actions […]
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to PM on Interior Shahzad Akbar on Wednesday said that Shahbaz Sharif is the ringleader of money laundering and he will be made an example. He said that the TT case of money laundering against Shahbaz Sharif and his family has entered the Accountability Court, Lahore, and it is unfortunate that his niece […]
KARACHI: Remittances from overseas Pakistanis rose by 24.4 per-cent to $2.095 billion during August as compared to last year’s corresponding period, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on Monday. According to figures released by the central bank, remittances reached an unprecedented level of $7.3 billion over the last three months, which are 37.2 per-cent […]
