By: SOHAIL SARFRAZ Many leading showbiz superstars are not behind in evading taxes, revealed tax profiles of actors/singers belonging to television, film and fashion industry prepared by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). It has been reliably learnt here on Monday that the individual tax profiles of the showbiz high profile stars reflect – they […]
DERA GHAZI KHAN: A youth on Monday killed his brother’s pregnant wife over suspicion of illicit relations with someone here. According to police, one Ata Muhammad killed his brother’s pregnant wife (sister-in-law) named Aisha Mai with repeated strikes of brick over doubt of illicit relations with someone in a village of Choti Zaireen area of […]
Rawalpindi: A division bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi on Monday rejected the bail pleas of Ali Musa Gilani, son of former Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, and former health minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin in ephedrine quota allotment case. The division bench comprising Justice Khwaja Imtiaz Ahmed and Justice Ebradur Rehman Lodhi inquired from […]
MULTAN: A father axed his daughter and her husband to death here in Nagina Colony in the Mumtazabad Police precincts on Monday. The deceased were identified as Sobia and her husband Sajid. The killer namely Muhammad Aslam surrendered himself to the police executing the crime. Police sources said that Sobia developed a friendship with Sajid […]
KARACHI: According to the HRCP, a total of 1,725 people lost their lives to violence in the city till this August. The city lost two apolitical residents for every political activist to violence in the first eight months of the year, according to a report released by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) to […]
By: Farooq Baloch KARACHI: A telecom official believes that if the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) expects to auction third-generation (3G) mobile telecom licences by December this year, the government must increase diplomatic efforts to attract investors from across the border. “Both countries have made significant progress on the economic front by reducing their lists of […]
By: Kashif Hussain LAHORE: The federal government on Monday issued development funds worth Rs 7.54 billion to the Punjab Assembly lawmakers of the PPP and PML-Q after they filed complaints against Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif for not releasing funds. Former premier Yousaf Raza Gilani made a commitment to the PPP lawmakers to provide them funds […]
By: Sidrah Roghay Karachi: With the government, human rights activists and the media of Pakistan all having played a pivotal role in securing the release of the hostages on board the MV Suez vessel, the wives of two of the freed Indian seamen decided to visit the country and express their gratitude for the return […]
By: Shakeel Anjum ISLAMABAD: The police have held prayer leader of Mera Jafar Khalid Jadoon Chishti liable to criminal conspiracy in the case of a Christian girl, Rimsha Masih, who was arrested on his complaint about alleged burning of a holy scripture, by adding Section 120-B of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) to Section 295-B, […]
By: Muhammad Ejaz Khan QUETTA: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Monday declared that there was a consensus that the affairs of Balochistan were not being run in accordance with the Constitution, asking what was left to mourn when the government was unmoved even after the murder of a sessions judge, and what could be […]
SUKKUR: Police recovered a woman after a raid in Salehpat area near here on Monday. She was kidnapped by her brothers four months ago and sold into marriage with another man as a punishment for marrying a man of her own free will. The Sukkur bench of the Sindh High Court directed police to recover […]
KARACHI: An exhibition of paintings by Hanif Shehzad opens at the Chawkandi Art gallery on Tuesday at 5.30pm. The show will remain open till Sept 11. Dawn
KARACHI: A total of 227 political activists were killed in targeted attacks in the first eight months of the current year, said a report of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on Monday. The report entitled ‘Killings in Karachi — January to August 2012’ said that overall 1,725 people perished in the city during this […]
By: Idrees Bakhtiar KARACHI: Not all Gandhara artefacts confiscated a few months ago in Karachi are counterfeit, a final report by the Archaeological Department of Sindh has concluded. At least 161 items, out of 395, have been found to be genuine antiquities, some of them 2,000 years old, and are worth billions of rupees, the […]
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