ISLAMABAD: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) has said that the corporate sector, being the most documented segment of the economy, has been neglected by the government in its effort to cater to annual budget targets...
On the other hand, the services, wholesale/retail, transport and agriculture sectors are still not fully documented; their contribution to the national exchequer is negligible; and the majority...
Syed Naeem Shah, 35, scored the highest in the exams among private candidates — that is, among non-traditional students — last year in Karachi, winning a scholarship for further studies from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP)...
Shah still has to pass an entrance exam to formally take up the scholarship, an ICAP official said, requesting anonymity as he was not authorised to talk to the media...
Prominent cleric and head of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Tahirul Qadri, on his return to Pakistan on Tuesday, said that he had come back to seek justice for the victims of the 2014 Model Town incident and their families...
In June 2014, seven people, including members of the PAT, were killed during a clash between PAT protesters and policemen in Lahore...
WASHINGTON: Wars in Pakistan and Afghanistan have killed at least 149,000 people between 2001 and 2014, says a recent report by a US think-tank...
The 149,000 deaths include US military members, contractors, as well as at least 26,270 civilians in Afghanistan, and 21,500 in Pakistan...
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister's Adviser on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said on Friday that Pakistan wants result-oriented dialogue with India on all issues of mutual concern including the core issue of Kashmir...
Speaking at the 22nd Ministerial Meeting of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Regional Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Aziz maintained that Pakistan pursues a policy of good relations with all the...
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has said that Pakistan wants result-oriented dialogue with India on all issues of mutual concern, including the core issue of Kashmir...
Addressing the ministerial meeting of the Asean regional forum in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, Mr Aziz emphasised that Pakistan pursued a policy of good-neighbourly relations with all countries...
LAHORE: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has posted the final results of the 6th Population and Housing Census 2017 on its website, according to which the country’s total population stands at 207...
“For a successful conduct of the census, improvement in census processes and involvement of stakeholders, the government of Pakistan constituted a sub-committee of the Governing Council of PBS consisting of renowned demographers and...
Problem was that he hadn’t paid FIFA or its ticketing associate MATCH services that was handling tickets for the World Cup in Brazil; instead he’d paid the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) for the tickets...
In what seems to be a breach — and a big one for that matter from what recent developments show — officials of Pakistan’s football governing body were re-selling tickets, and that too at a higher price...
The reserves, piled up in the past decade due to high crude prices, dropped from $732bn at the end of 2014 to $683bn at the end of April, Saudi firm Jadwa Research said in a report...
A large chunk of the forecast deficit — around $30bn — is a result of new King Salman having granted Saudi workers two months extra pay...
ISLAMABAD: Eleven Pakistani members of the Ahmadi religious minority were murdered for their faith in 2014 and authorities failed to apprehend any of the killers, a report said Monday, highlighting growing intolerance toward the sect...
In May, gunmen shot dead an American heart surgeon, Mehdi Ali, who was visiting Pakistan on a charity mission in Sindh...
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench has summoned the counter-terrorism department’s DSP (investigation) along with the relevant records over a plea of the father of a student martyred in the 2014 Peshawar Army Public School carnage that his statement be recorded by the agency probing the killings...
Meanwhile, the bench also adjourned hearing into another petition filed by slain APS student Asfand Khan’s father, advocate Ajun Khan,...
An Anti-Terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad on Friday ordered Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan to record his statement in four cases — including the Asmatullah Junejo assault case — registered after the PTI's months-long 2014 dharna which left the capital city paralysed...
"Referring to this 2014 dharna, Khan claimed the sit-in was "politically driven"...
A new full bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday started hearing multiple petitions concerning the 2014 Model Town tragedy after a previously-constituted bench recused itself from hearing the case over "personal reasons"...
KARACHI: Banking industry’s pre-tax profit surged by 52 per cent to an all-time high of Rs247 billion in 2014 thanks to their huge investments in government securities, the State Bank said on Thursday...
In its quarterly report ‘Performance of Banking Industry’ for Oct-Dec 2014, the SBP said, “Banks holding of government securities surged to Rs4...
The report revealed that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) outflows from developing Asia increased by a third to $440 billion in 2014, followed by North America ($390bn) and Europe ($286bn)...
Moreover, transnational corporations (TNCs) from developing economies invested almost half a trillion US dollars abroad in 2014 — a 30 per cent increase from the previous year...