There is no proper check on the movement of burgeoning number of non-custom paid (NCP) vehicles despite repeated complaints by the law enforcers that the smuggled vehicles are being used for criminal and terrorist activities in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal Areas...
During a visit to parts of Malakand division the owners of several vehicles and showrooms said that they did not feel any hesitation to use the...
At least 21 non custom paid luxury vehicles — all belonging to the Qatari royal family — have been recovered from the parking lot of a dairy farm owned by Saifur Rehman, a former chairman of the now defunct Ehtasab Bureau, DawnNewsTV reported on Tuesday...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Wednesday conceded that even after implementation of its new mobile phone registration mechanism, non-custom paid mobile phone sets were being unblocked in the black market through stolen identities...
He said non-custom paid handsets were being unblocked in the black market for Rs2,000 to Rs3,000, which could have earned the exchequer more than Rs30,000...
KARACHI: Imports of heavy bikes by the local assemblers have surged owing to strong demand from the governments of Sindh and Punjab...
Bike imports in July-January 2017-18 went up by 150 per cent to $3...
PESHAWAR: An ancient tribal custom, Akhtar Barkha (share), is still practiced in tribal areas and also in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the occasion of Eid...
A separate budget is allocated in tribal families every year for solemnising the custom especially for the newly-wedded women on the occasion of both religious festivals -- Eidul Fitr and Eidul Azha...
PESHAWAR: A Khyber Agency resident on Friday moved the Peshawar High Court seeking the outlawing of an anti-women custom, ghag, in tribal areas and orders for the federal government and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor to make appropriate regulations for its elimination...
He requested the court to declare ghag an inhuman, illegal, un-Islamic and unconstitutional custom...
It was aimed at highlighting the issue of swara – an outdated custom in which underage girls are wedded to compensate for the sins of their male family members...
That fortunate combination certainly saved a 12-year-old girl from Mardan from being forced into marriage with a man thrice her age, and father of nine, in Rawalpindi in a case of vani – an outlawed tribal custom that supposedly restores honour to a wronged family...
But for how long? What fate awaits Reshma and her family once her brother Jilal Hussain and Sher Gul, the man he was giving her in marriage to atone for his sin of...
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Monday disposed of a woman’s petition, which claimed a man, who had invoked the tribal ghag custom against her in Bajaur Agency when she was two only, was creating hurdles to her marriage...
A bench consisting of Justice Ikramullah Khan and Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim observed that though the law prohibiting ghag had not been extended to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), the custom was...
He informed that concerted anti-smuggling efforts led to impounding of 871 non-duty paid vehicles, seizure of miscellaneous goods and foreign-origin diesel/petrol worth more than Rs1,945m as compared to Rs1,350m seizures during the corresponding period of the last fiscal year, registering an increase of 44pc...
In this regard, high speed internet has been installed at custom house, Chaman and Taftan,” he added...
ISLAMABAD: The sub-committee of Senate Standing Committee on Finance criticised on Friday the privatisation of Heavy Electrical Complex (HEC) and termed it a conspiracy to sell national assets at throwaway prices...
The sub-committee, headed by Senator Kamil Ali Agha, pointed out that there were several lacunas in the sale agreement with the Cargil Holding Company which had bought the HEC...
KARACHI: Some assemblers are still rolling out heavy vehicles with non-Euro engines, creating a price distortion in the market...
A major price difference between non-Euro and Euro II vehicles has emerged, which encourages price-conscious customers to buy the former that are more economical...
PESHAWAR: Members of minority communities demonstrated here on Friday to demand of the government to impose a complete ban on sale and use of liquor...
They also demanded arrest of the people involved in the sale of liquor...
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday launched Pakistan’s first ever locally manufactured electric motorcycle...
The launch of the electric motorcycle is part of the present government’s five-year Pakistan Electric Vehicles Policy 2020-2025, approved last year...
Kerry, 71, was taken by helicopter to Geneva’s main medical center, HUG, after apparently hitting a curb with his bike near Scionzier, France, about 40 kilometres southeast of the Swiss border...