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Daily Archives: March 23, 2014

Daily Times, Xinhua sign bilateral cooperation pact

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ISLAMABAD: The Daily Times and Xinhua, Chinese state news agency, signed a bilateral cooperation agreement at a ceremony organised at a local hotel on Saturday. Under the pact, Xinhua has provided Daily Times an exclusive access to its news as well as pictorial content, in a first-of-its-kind deal by the Chinese official news agency with […]


PBC for cancelling CNICs, passports of undocumented persons

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Pakistan Business Council (PBC) has proposed to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to get cancelled Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) and passports of the undocumented persons, whom notices were issued and returned as ‘unknown’ to ensure compliance by potential taxpayers. Sources told Business Recorder on Saturday that the PBC, representing 45 largest private sector […]


Taliban reps playwith media, project their message

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ISLAMABAD: Contrary to the previous round, the Taliban committee has taken the lead over the official team in publicly projecting the overall position and demands of its appointing authority, the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Earlier, Irfan Siddiqui, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister, who was convener of the government body, used to regularly inform the […]


Speakers underline protection of forests in Sindh

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Forests are primary source of livelihoods for thousands of local communities and currently they were diminishing due to multiple threats. This was stated by speakers on occasion of World Forest Day observed by WWF-Pakistan under its Building Capacity on Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Areas of Pakistan (CCAP) project at Baghan town near Keti Bunder, […]


Admiring calligraphy show opens at Artscene

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KARACHI: Artscene Gallery has inaugurated a solo exhibition of calligraphy featured on Holly Quran alphabets and names of Allah by an emerging artist Noreen Akhter, here on Saturday. On the inauguration ceremony a large number of art lover, art critics, artists and others were present. Around 40 art pieces of the artists were on display […]