ISLAMABAD: Property owners in the capital have seen an unprecedented 200pc increase in property tax with little time to pay the charges. The Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (MCI) approved the property tax increase last December, so it is applicable as of July 1, but tensions between the MCI and the Capital Development Authority (CDA) over who […]
KASUR: Chunian police arrested 12 more suspects on Sunday in connection with the rape and murder of three children whose bodies were found in sand dunes near the Chunian bypass about a week ago. The total number of arrests has reached 20 and all suspects belong to Chunian. Because of the number of arrests, it
LAHORE: Taking a big leap towards digitizing its half-million documents with history since the Mughal period, the Punjab archives department has solved 27,000 archives and purchased four specialized scanners to scan them. "The slow project of digitalization, preservation and modernization of the department of archives of Punjab has received a new impulse, through important steps
HYDERABAD: The judge of the district and Larkana's sessions seemed reluctant to conduct a judicial investigation into the mysterious death of Nimirta Mirchandani, a senior BDS student at Bibi Aseefa Dental College, Larkana, who was found dead in her room at the shelter on September 16 in accordance with the request of the department of
LAHORE: Maulana Fazlur Rehman, head of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), convened on Sunday the president of PML-N and the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif and discussed the modalities of the long Proposed march against the government. Both leaders, along with their assistants, also discussed the country's political and economic situation at
Once a month, Wahid Mohammadzai goes to Afghanistan in a van to bring dry wood to sell in local markets. Previously, he worked on the Reko Diq gold and copper mining project as a worker to earn a monthly salary of Rs20,000. I meet Wahid near Kili Hummai, his village, about 15 km from the
ISLAMABAD: While the number of dengue cases in the country has reached the five-digit figure, the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health, Dr. Zafar Mirza, warned that there will be an additional increase in these cases in the next 10 days. “However, during the next month the disease will be controlled since
ISLAMABAD: Two new cases of polio were confirmed in the district of Lakki Marwat, which is also the constituency of the health minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Hisham Inamullah Khan. An official from the Polio Virology Laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH), who is not authorized to speak on the record, said both cases
KARACHI: The Federal Minister of Law and Justice, Dr. Farogh Naseem, has said that because a lot of economic activity is generated in the agricultural sector, the federal government should collect the agricultural tax. Speaking as the main guest at the annual dinner of the Pakistan Tax Lawyers Association (PTBA) on Saturday night, the minister
GILGIT / MANSEHRA: Twenty-six people died and at least 20 others were injured when a bus bound for Rawalpindi from Skardu hit a small hill near Babusar Pass in the Diamer district on Sunday morning. Ten soldiers on board the bus also lost their lives as did three children and eight women. The officials had
