ISLAMABAD: The government has set up a high-level committee to prevent possible irregularities and mismanagement during Haj operations.The `Prevention Committee on Haj’ has been formed under Section 33C of the National Accountability Ordinance 1999 in the wake of a large number of complaints and scams which surfaced over the past several years. “The purpose of […]
PESHAWAR: A single-member Peshawar High Court bench on Friday dismissed the petition of a woman and her two relatives for bail in an honour-related killing of her daughter and two grandchildren in Mardan district. Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan observed that keeping in view the evidence on record, the three petitioners didn’t deserve to be […]
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday said the government had decided to appoint women judges, as part of its efforts to take social, economic, legal and constitutional steps for the empowerment of women and for their protection from all kinds of exploitation and violence. He was addressing a ceremony held in Aiwan-i-Sadr to conclude […]
ISLAMABAD: The government appointed on Friday Lt-Gen (retd) Asif Yasin Malik as new defence secretary in place of Nargis Sethi who had been given the additional charge of defence ministry’s top bureaucrat in January this year. Ms Sethi was assigned the job after the dismissal of Lt-Gen (retd) Naeem Khalid Lodhi at the peak of […]
KARACHI: The country’s first Biaxially Oriented Poly-Ethylene Terephthalate (BOPET) polyester film production plant, set up by Novatex Ltd at the cost of Rs4.3 billion, has commenced production. Previously BOPET film, which is an essential for many domestic fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) industries, was being imported. The Novatex project has been set up with the […]
By: Mehtab Haider ISLAMABAD: Ignoring the ruling elites including ministers, parliamentarians and bureaucrats, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has decided to send tax notices to renowned TV anchors and showbiz personalities on the pretext that they are not paying due taxes on their genuine incomes, The News has learnt. This correspondent personally saw the […]
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