ISLAMABAD – The government has decided to collect television license fee from the customers along with their domestic electricity bills. In order to lessen the burden and to create ease for payment, the government has decided that the fee would be collected in 12 monthly installments of Rs25 each through the domestic electricity bills exceeding […]
ISLAMABAD – The government has imposed 5 per cent withholding tax on advertisements of TV channels operating from abroad, while increase of WHT from 10 per cent to 20 per cent has been announced on income from prize bonds, winnings, and prizes and lotteries. Apart from these budgetary steps, petroleum dealers will now pay 10 […]
ISLAMABAD – Finance Minister Senator Shaukat Aziz said on June 12 the government had simplified payment of fee on television sets which would enable the TV set owners to pay the fee along with the domestic electricity bills. Presently, domestic TV holders are required to pay TV license fee of Rs.300 per annum in lump […]
ISLAMABAD – Utter chaos and mismanagement prevailed as the Press Information Department (PID) distributed the budget documents to the journalists here on Saturday. A number of journalists said the mismanagement could have been avoided if the PID had put its house in order regarding distribution of the important budget document. They said the PID had […]
SHIKARPUR- Two women took away in retaliation for the abduction of a girl returned home on Friday after the intervention of Sardar Nooruddin Sanjrani and District Naib Nazim Zafar Shaikh. The two women, Sardaran and Hazooran Sanjrani, were kidnapped at gunpoint from the Sanjrani village by armed men soon after a girl, Koonj Sethar, 18, […]
LAHORE – Begum Surayya Khursheed, addressing a forum by monthly Phool at Hameed Nizami Hall on Saturday, said Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah was a disciplined and patriotic personÂality and citizens can learn a lot from her life. Begum Surayya said Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah realized the true wishes of the Quaid-i-Azam and wanted to see Pakistan moulded […]
Editorial… A committed journalist, a jealous champion of freedom of the press, a meticulous chronicler of the oreals of the press, and other epithets easily come to mind; all true, yet none would adequately describe Zamir Niazi, who passed away on Friday morning. He was a phenomenon, unique not for the definition of his commitment […]
KARACHI – Veteran journalist Zameer Niazi passed away after protracted illness. He was 72. Late Zameer Niazi had strived hard for the freedom of speech and wrote a number of books on the subject. He was the father of a senior journalist Haris Zameer. The President and Secretary General of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists […]
KARACHI – All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) President Arif Nizami and Secretary-General Aslam Kazi have expressed profound grief and sorrow over the death of renowned journalist and a leading press historian Zamir Niazi. In a condolence message, they said Zamir’s commitment to the press freedom could be gauged by the fact that he wrote three […]
ISLAMABAD – Secretary General Pakistan Muslim League, Mushahid Hussain Sayed said that women being more than fifty percent of the population were integral part of the politics and assured that PML would give them due representation in the reorganization of the party. Addressing a gathering of women in Islamabad on June 10 at PML House, […]
KARACHI – The well-known chronicler of the press in Pakistan, author and journalist Zamir Niazi, whose career began in 1954 when he joined Dawn, passed away on Friday morning. He was 72. He has left behind his widow and two sons, Haris Zamir and Junaid Zamir. He had been unwell for some time, and was […]
KARACHI – Media representatives, leaders of opinion and people from a cross section of society have expressed their grief over the death of renowned journalist and author Zamir Niazi who passed away on Friday morning. Eulogizing the services rendered by him for the cause of press freedom, they said in their condolence messages that by […]
KARACHI – Veteran journalist Zamir Niazi passed away here on June 11 morning after a protracted illness. He was 72. For more than a decade he was under treatment, but on Tuesday last his condition deteriorated and he was admitted to a hospital where he went into coma and never recovered. After Friday prayers he […]
ISLAMABAD – A meeting of the Inter-Provincial Co-ordination on Information Technology chaired by Federal Minister for Information Technology Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari here on Thursday described the proposed levy of General Sales Tax (GST) on the sale of IT hardware and software as detrimental. “There is consensus between the federal IT ministry and IT departments […]
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