ISLAMABAD: The government has decided, in principle, to reverse the drastic tax relief provided to the salaried class in its proposed federal budget for 2022-23, official sources told Dawn.In the......
KARACHI: A cabinet minister’s plea to the public to help overcome the foreign exchange glut by consuming less tea has caused ‘a storm in a teacup’.Pakistan, which has been the world’s leading......
LAHORE: The Chief Minister Secretariat received 11.62pc less allocation for the next year as the budget spared Rs806m – or Rs21m a day – against the revised expenditure of Rs912m last year.Last year,......
SWAT/MANSEHRA: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Wednesday directed the relevant agencies to expedite investigation into the forest fires so they could be brought to justice.He issued......
DOHA: Qatar hopes to house some of the 1.2 million fans expected to attend the FIFA World Cup later this year in 1,000 “traditional tents”, organisers said on Tuesday.“This is one of the options......
BROOKLINE (Massachusetts): A hotly anticipated US Open starts Thursday that will test the world’s top golfers over a formidable layout at a historic setting with a splash of controversy as......
LAHORE: For the first time, Pakistan batters are occupying the top two positions in One-day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals as per the latest rankings of teams and players issued by the......
LAHORE: The running of the Punjab Assembly will cost over Rs10 million a day during the next financial year as the provincial budget on Wednesday allocated a healthy sum of Rs3.688 billion to it to......
LAHORE: The Governor House this year would get Rs589 million, up from Rs483 million last year, which represents a 21 percent increase in potential expenditures of the office of the provincial......
PESHAWAR: Having observed a strike in the daytime, nanbais (bakers) resumed the sale of roti on Wednesday evening here after the district administration formally increased its price by Rs5.Tandoor......
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Wednesday said that the provincial government had taken important measures to address the issue of poverty across the province, allocating Rs4.22......
KARACHI: Police on Wednesday filed an interim charge sheet against five suspects — including three brothers and their father — in the young Jazlan murder case.The suspects — Hasnain Faiz, his......
KARACHI: Another criminal revision application was filed in the Sindh High Court against the May 23 order of an antiterrorism court through which it transferred the Nazim Jokhio murder case to a......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan claimed on Wednesday there was no government both in the Centre and in Punjab.Speaking to party workers in Rawalpindi, he said: “There is......
KARACHI: With little enthusiasm among residents and cautious campaigns by political parties amid low turnout expectations, over half a million registered voters of NA-240 are set to exercise their......
• Surplus budget proposes highest development spending of Rs685bn • Rs421.6bn set aside for school education • Rs470bn for healthLAHORE: In line with the fiscally expansionary budgets presented by......
BRUSSELS: The European Commission launched new legal action against Britain on Wednesday, accusing London of putting peace in Northern Ireland at risk by trying to overhaul the post-Brexit trade......
MOSCOW: Russia said on Wednesday it was “deeply concerned” after Israel’s top court ruled that a Jewish settler group legally purchased an east Jerusalem property from the Greek Orthodox Church.The......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif directed the authorities concerned on Wednesday to address the administrative, financial and development issues confronting the governments of Azad Kashmir......
CAIRO: Israel and Egypt plan to boost gas exports to Europe under an agreement signed during a Cairo visit on Wednesday by the European Commission president as the bloc seeks to wean itself off......
GENEVA: The UN rights chief on Wednesday slammed the Taliban’s “institutionalised systematic oppression” of women and girls in Afghanistan, warning they face a “critical” situation.Since the Taliban......
KYIV: Ukraine may not be able to regain its role in helping maintain global food security unless damage done to the country’s agriculture sector during Russia’s invasion is repaired, Ukrainian......
THREE years ago, Pakistan’s economy shrank, and growth was at minus 0.5 per cent. The following year, 2020-21, the growth rate jumped up to 5.7pc, more than twice the initial target for that year set......
BOTH Houses of our national parliament, and the four provincial assemblies, have been holding their budget sessions. This yearly ritual reserved for the month of June will be over in the next one to......
WASHINGTON: The Biden administration has maintained “regular indirect contact” with Iran, says the US State Department, indicating that Washington might have received a new proposal from Tehran to......
WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve announced the most aggressive interest rate increase in nearly 30 years, raising the benchmark borrowing rate by 0.75 percentage points on Wednesday as it battles......
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Wednesday allowed 42 paise per unit increase in average tariff of distribution companies (Discos) of Wapda under quarterly......
LAHORE: The PML-N-led coalition government in Punjab has decided to continue its political rival PTI’s flagship universal health insurance programme or Insaf Sehat Card by allocating a hefty amount......
ISLAMABAD: The absence of a meaningful opposition in the National Assembly was filled by senior parliamentarian and Minister for Water Resources Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah on Wednesday when he......
• Statements of assets filed for fiscal year ending on June 30, 2020 • Details show PM has liability of Rs141.78 million • Religious affairs minister’s asset is 1 tola gold owned by wife • One PML-N......
ISLAMABAD: The government raised fuel prices by up to 29 per cent on Wednesday, removing fuel subsidies in an attempt to trim the fiscal deficit and secure critical support from the International......
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided, in principle, to reverse the drastic tax relief provided to the salaried class in its proposed federal budget for 2022-23, official sources told Dawn.In the......
THREE years ago, Pakistan’s economy shrank, and growth was at minus 0.5 per cent. The following year, 2020-21, the growth rate jumped up to 5.7pc, more than twice the initial target for that year set......
A READER reminded me that I should mention my brief entrée into Lahore’s theatre scene.It was early 1967. Plays being performed in Lahore then included Khwaja Mueenuddin’s Mirza Ghalib Bandar Road......
