Nigeria to buy 10 trainer aircraft from Pakistan
The deal strengthens PAC’s status as a world class aviation industry producing the supersonic JF-17 Thunder and Super Mushshak trainer aircraft...
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PakistanArmy trainer aircraft crashes in Swabi, pilots eject safely
In a short statement, PAF spokesperson Air Commodore SM ALi said that a K-8 trainer aircraft was destroyed when it crashed during a training mission in Zaida village of KP's Swabi district...
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PakistanFemale pilot dies as PAF trainer jet crashes near Mianwali
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Flying Officer Marium Mukhtiar became the first female pilot to have died on a mission when a PAF trainer jet crashed near Kundian, Mianwali, Tuesday afternoon...
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ArchiveWasim as trainer
APROPOS the news ‘Wasim agrees to train youngsters twice a year’ (Aug 14)...
The 13-day LG Super Star Campaign under the supervision of pace legend Wasim Akram sends a positive signal to cricketing circles that the future of fast bowling in Pakistan is secure -
ArchiveMoU signed with Turkey for sale of trainer aircraft
KARACHI: Day two of the International Defence Exhibition and Seminar (IDEAS) 2016 saw the signing of some 13 memorandums of understanding (MoUs), which included an agreement with Ukraine for up-gradation of the Al-Khalid tank and another with Turkey for the sale of the primary trainer aircraft, the Super Mushshak...
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PakistanTrainer plane crashes; crew remain safe
LAHORE: A training aircraft being flown by a trainee pilot along with his instructor crashed on Tuesday in a residential area of Garden Town, damaging the boundary wall of a house as well as power distribution cables and an electricity pole...
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ArchivePilot safe as 3rd PAF trainer aircraft crashes in less than two months
A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) trainer aircraft crashed on Wednesday while on a routine training mission near Takht Bhai in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Mardan district, the PAF said in a statement...
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ArchivePHF set to hire Australian trainer for improving players’ physical capabilities
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) is all set to rope in an Australian trainer to improve national players conditioning, agility and speed, PHF president retired Brig Khalid Sajjad Khokhar said on Thursday...
That is why we’ve decided to hire a trainer, who will impart training to optimise athletic abilities of our players,” he said...
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ArchiveWasa to expand tax net
The official said that 115,000 water consumers were within the agency’s tax net, including 10,000 commercial consumers, but that of the charges recovered were from domestic consumers...
Mehmood said the agency was improving its recovery rate, and that instead of increasing water charges, is bringing more people within the tax net...
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ArchiveTrade leaders call for widening of tax net
KARACHI: The government needs to take a policy decision for broadening of tax net and increasing revenue collection rather than short-term measures like imposition of withholding tax on non-filers of tax returns...
The leaders unanimously said that without taking a drastic policy decision, the government would not succeed in its objective of broadening the tax net and increasing revenue collection...
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PakistanJI rejects bill bringing generals, judges under accountability net
ISLAMABAD: Following in the footsteps of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) has also rejected the almost finalised National Accountability Commission (NAC) bill that suggests bringing generals and judges under the accountability net...
In the 12th meeting of the committee, Senator Farhatullah Babar of the Pakistan Peoples Party — who introduced the proposal to bring generals...
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ArchiveKP to get Rs17bn net hydel profit annually: Khattak
“The federal government will ensure payment of Rs17 billion to the province yearly in the head of net hydel profit while a total of Rs112 billion will be paid to the province in different sectors,” he told journalists here on Sunday...
He said that the next meeting with Pesco chief executive and Wapda would be held to discuss the issues of net hydel profit and power loadshedding...
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WorldFacebook launches Internet.org platform amid net neutrality debate in India
The move comes amid growing debate in India, home to the world's third-largest population of Internet users, over free access and net neutrality in the country...
But a number of e-commerce firms and content developers pulled out of the service subsequently as activists claimed it violated principles of net neutrality - the concept that all websites on the internet are treated equally...
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PakistanInternet escapes tax net
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Friday withdrew tax on internet services apparently on ‘pressure of social media’...
Hundreds of websites in the country had been displaying a message “Don’t tax the internet” as part of their blackout campaign against the tax -
ArchiveVote for net neutrality
THE first round in a battle between telecom operators, the industry watchdog, some big corporates and media organisations on one side and hundreds of thousands of netizens and net activists on the other over the issue of ‘net neutrality’ came to an end last week, with the ordinary net user winning the round handsomely...
Most of them are now propagating the mantra of net neutrality and are abandoning the agreements they had signed...
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