Pakistan
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علیمہ خان کی 2 گواہان کی دوبارہ طلبی کی درخواست منظور، سماعت 10 جون تک ملتوی
دوبارہ جرح کے لئے درخواست منظور کرتے دونوں کے عدالت طلبی کے سمن بھی جاری کر دئیے
علیمہ خان کی 2 گاہان کی دوبارہ طلبی کی درخواست منظور، سماعت 10 جون تک ملتوی
دوبارہ جرح کے لئے درخواست منظور کرتے دونوں کے عدالت طلبی کے سمن بھی جاری کر دئیے
Woman files gang-rape case against three men in Lahore
LAHORE: The Gujjar Pura police lodged a gang-rape case on the complaint of a woman and formed a team to arrest the suspects nominated in the FIR. The woman, M, alleged in the FIR that the incident took place some weeks back when three suspects took her to fields, where they allegedly gang-raped her....
Medical board that could not determine Sindh landlord's cause of death cleared of negligence charges
https://www.dawn.com/news/2006033
Punjab govt urged not to impose 18pc sales tax on solar equipment
LAHORE: The Pakistan Solar Association, Lahore Tax Bar Association and solar consumer representatives have expressed concerns at reports of proposed 18 per cent sales tax on solar energy equipment in the federal budget and have demanded that the government refrain from imposing any more taxes on the...
لاہور: خاتون سے اجتماعی زیادتی کیس کا مرکزی ملزم پولیس مقابلے میں ہلاک
ملزم نے ساتھیوں کیساتھ ملکر گجر پورہ میں خاتون کو کھیتوں میں زیادتی کا نشانہ بنایا اور ویڈیو بھی بنائی تھی
Peshawar High Court rules it can’t interfere in govt’s policy matters
PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court has declared that it couldn’t interfere in policy matters of government if it remains within the constitutional limits. A bench consisting of Justice Ijaz Anwar and Justice Farah Jamshed rejected multiple petitions against the government’s move to outsource 24 of its ho...
Ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi urges govt to address EU concerns over GSP+
https://www.dawn.com/news/2005950
ایف بی آر کا سوشل میڈیا پر دولت کی نمائش کرنے والوں کیخلاف کارروائی کا فیصلہ
30 ستمبر کے بعد ٹیکس قوانین کے تحت باقاعدہ کارروائی شروع ہوگی
Small traders tax scheme — less a reform, more a negotiated settlement with one of the most under-taxed constituencies
https://www.dawn.com/news/2005963/politics-over-tax-reform
Another mpox suspected case in Bahawalpur
BAHAWALPUR: Another suspected case of monkeypox has been admitted to the Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH) Bahawalpur. The patient, belonging to the city, whose name was withheld by BVH administration, is the relative of the earlier patient from whom the staff nurse had earlier contracted mpox virus. ...
Oil prices climb more than $4 after Israeli strikes on Iran and Lebanon
On Sunday, Iran fired a salvo of missiles at Israeli targets in retaliation for the strikes on Lebanon
Politics over tax reform
The government will market its new “small trader scheme” as an effort to bring retailers into the tax net and generate Rs50 billion annually. A cursory look would, however, reveal that it is less a tax reform initiative and more a negotiated settlement with one of Pakistan’s most under-taxed yet pol...
‘Favouritism’ in medical varsities VCs selection: Punjab govt set to raise age limit by 10 years to ‘accommodate retiring candidates’
LAHORE: The Punjab health department has scrapped the selection process for the appointment of new vice chancellors (VCs) of the five public medical universities and initiated a new summary, requesting the government to increase the maximum age limit of the candidates to 75 years to ‘accommodate the...
فیصل عبدالغفار ’’صفائی کے سفیر‘‘ مہم کا حصہ بن گئے
فیصل عبدالغفار مختلف سماجی، کاروباری اور فلاحی شعبوں میں اپنی فعال خدمات کے باعث ایک نمایاں مقام رکھتے ہیں
Journalist killed in Balochistan's Musakhail
QUETTA: A local journalist was gunned down late on Saturday night in a drive-by shooting Musakhail area of Balochistan, police said on Sunday. Lala Israfeel, a reporter for a private TV channel, was outside his shop in the town of Musakhail when attackers on a motorcycle opened fire, killing him at ...
Sindh, Balochistan cry foul as Irsa keeps mum over deepening water crisis
HYDERABAD: Water crisis in Sindh and Balochistan continues to deepen with each passing day as the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) remains indifferent to their hue and cry constantly being raised over the last few weeks. The two smaller provinces have been expressing their strong reservations ove...
کالعدم ایکشن کمیٹی کی امن و امان خراب کرنے کی کوشش ناکام، راولاکوٹ میں معمولات زندگی بحال
راولاکوٹ میں شرپسند عناصر کو منتشر کر کے امن و امان بحال کر دیا گیا ہے
FIA nabs two more members of illegal kidney transplant ring
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested two key agents of an illegal kidney transplant network after investigators uncovered their alleged involvement in over 150 cases of unlawful transplant and securing fraudulent approvals from the Human Organ Transplant Authority. The main...
26 ویں ترمیم سے عدلیہ کی آزادی مکمل ختم ہوگئی، علیمہ خان
عدلیہ آزاد نہ ہو تو سرمایہ کاری آئے گی نہ ترقی ہوگی، ہمشیر بانی پی ٹی آئی
Hundreds of people evacuated safely after fire erupts at shopping mall in Karachi
KARACHI: Hundreds of people were evacuated as a fire erupted in the cold storage of a department store situated on the ground floor of a mega shopping mall on Rashid Minhas Road in Federal B Area on Sunday afternoon, officials said. Footage that went viral on social media showed people leaving the p...
PTI alleges electoral rigging in G-B polls
PM congratulates PPP on emerging as leading party; praises Election Commission for ensuring free, fair elections
IO seeks Karachi court’s nod to record alleged drug baroness Pinky’s voice samples
https://www.dawn.com/news/2005920
کرن جوہر کی فلم ’دوستانہ 2‘ایک اور بحران کا شکار، اہم ٹیم ممبر علیحدہ
’دوستانہ 2‘ اپنے آغاز سے ہی مسلسل تبدیلیوں اور غیر یقینی صورتحال کا شکار ہے