Although the issue of taxation was not on the agenda, the minister brought it up and urged the committee chairperson, PML-N MNA retired Capt Mohammad Safdar, to hold a separate meeting to address concerns regarding heavy taxation by federal and provincial governments on the telecommunication industry...
“There is taxation on almost everything; on every service and every imported piece of telecom equipment etc, whether it is federal...
Needless to say that everywhere from the most developed countries to the most ill-equipped emulators such as Pakistan all favours come at a price...
The relationship between private business and politics is prevalent in Pakistan across major business interests and it cuts across political affiliation and ideology...
KARACHI: While the country’s three operational airlines have been taking cost-cutting measures against the backdrop of a crisis that the global aviation industry has been facing since the outbreak of coronavirus, the decision of AirSial to enter an already saturated market is being seen as a bold move that may give a tough time to competitors but will benefit the people...
The market situation can be gauged from a recent report of the...
Over the span of the last one decade, Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan aka Xulfi remains to be one of the most vibrant and influential musicians of the current wave in Pakistan...
However, the man who was behind popular bands like Fawad Khan-famed 'EP', Junaid Khan's 'Call' and saw their glory days is not very hopeful about the music scene until and unless it is recognised as a separate industry...
As terrorism recedes in Pakistan, tourism appears to be on the rise, with more than thrice the number of international tourists travelling to the country in 2016 as compared to just three years ago, Bloomberg reported...
Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) data showed that international tourists have more than tripled since 2013 to 1...
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly has been informed that 122 sectarian incidents have taken place all over the country since June 2013 and 10 banned organisations have claimed responsibility, or found involved during investigations, of 91 of them...
According to a written reply to a question by MNA Saman Sultana Jafri of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal states that 56 sectarian incidents took place in Punjab,...
Zong has entered into an agreement with Universal Cinemas to become the exclusive telecom partner for Emporium Mall in Lahore, which is Pakistan’s biggest multiplex cinema...
Zong was recently awarded for its top rated service quality by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA)...
LAHORE: Pakistan Mobile Communications Ltd (Mobilink) and Warid Telecom (Pvt) Ltd announced on Thursday their agreement to combine, in first telecommunication merger in Pakistan...
Mobilink is owned by Cairo, Egypt-based Global Telecom Holding (formerly Orascom Telecom Holding), which is 51...
NHK reporter Miwa Sado, 31, who had been covering political news in Tokyo, was found dead in her bed in July 2013, reportedly clutching her mobile phone...
Sato covered Tokyo assembly elections for the broadcaster in June 2013 and an upper-house vote for the national parliament the following month...
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan rejected on Wednesday Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s claim that the 2013 general elections were systematically manipulated or influenced by design...
About unauthorised printing of additional ballot papers and delivery, the ECP said the process of procurement of papers for printing of ballot papers was an exclusive responsibility of the Printing Corporation of Pakistan and the Pakistan...
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Ombudsman’s Secretariat has taken notice of the refusal by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to provide record pertaining to ballot papers printed for 2013 general elections to an applicant, observing that it was not justified and amounted to a violation of spirit of the Freedom of Information Ordinance (FIO) 2002...
2013 by the federal Ombudsman’s institutional reforms act, 2013,” the communiqué sent to...
ISTANBUL: A Turkish court on Wednesday acquitted more than two dozen activists who helped launch mass protests in 2013 against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after a trial slammed by rights campaigners...
The 26 suspects are all leaders of Taksim Solidarity, an umbrella group of civil society, union and political groups at the forefront of the May-June 2013 demonstrations that marked the biggest challenge yet to the dominance of the...
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has dismissed allegations levelled by its former additional secretary Mohammad Afzal Khan that the 2013 general elections were massively rigged and said that no proof exists to substantiate his claims...
Afzal Khan claimed in a television interview that people’s mandate was stolen in the 2013 elections and he accused former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry of being involved...
RAWALPINDI: The results of the cantonment board elections are likely to be a reflection of the results of the 2013 elections with Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N and Imran Khan’s PTI emerging as the two strongest parties...
In the 2013 general elections, PML-N won NA-52, where Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was the successful candidate, and NA-54 where Malik Abrar was victorious...
I hear nothing from the Pakistan government that gives me hope...
I began my hunger strike on May 9, 2013 which means that I have now been on strike for four years and four months...