The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked Pakistan to tax the salaried and business individuals at a single income threshold by lowering the highest taxable income limit of the salaried people, which will result in charging a 35% income tax rate at a monthly income of Rs333,000.
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Pakistan and Japan have qualified for the final of the ongoing Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2024 in Ipoh, Malaysia after they finished at the top of the points table.
The two sides will lock horns on May 11 at the same venue. Pakistan are at the top of the table after four games. They have registered...
Pakistani firm wins legal battle against Canadian company at int’l court
Bermuda-based FHL held responsible for covering arbitration costs of $250,000
A Pakistani oil company, Petroleum Exploration (Pvt) Ltd (PEL), has emerged victorious in a legal dispute against Bermuda-based Frontier...
Retired officers settled abroad getting pension in dollars
An RTI request has unearthed that civil and military pensioners living abroad are receiving their pensions in foreign currency. There are as many as 164 pensioners, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), who live abroad...
Ex-CJP seeks reimbursement of monthly 2,000 units of three years
Former chief justice of Pakistan Anwar Zaheer Jamali has urged the government to reimburse the cost of 2,000 electricity units per month for a period of three years as he is using solar panels
Former chief justice of Pakistan...
Govt launches action against Illegal immigrants as deadline ends
The Caretaker government of Pakistan has launched action against illegal immigrants as the deadline to leave the country voluntarily expired today (Wednesday).
On October 3, an apex committee of the National Action Plan (NAP)...
Ghulam Sarwar Khan joins Tareen-led IPP
ISLAMABAD: Former federal minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan has joined Jahangir Tareen-led Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP) on Tuesday.
IPP Patron in chief Jahangir Tareen and President IPP Aleem Khan welcomed the former minister to the party.
It was being...
Caretaker PM Kakar grilled during LUMS visit as he faces tough questions from ‘angry youth’
But bad news for some is that he kept his cool.
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Qatar Shocks India; Sentences Eight Indian Navy Officers To Death In Spying Case
A Qatar court has announced the death penalty for eight Indians arrested in the country last year, the Indian government said on Thursday, adding it was "deeply shocked" by the verdict.
New Delhi said in a...
CJP Isa schedules SJC meeting for tomorrow
Council to discuss allegations of misconduct against judges of higher courts
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa is going to convene a meeting of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) on Friday to discuss various complaints filed against...
70% of Pakistan’s female engineering graduates out of workforce: survey
59.2% of female engineering graduates in urban regions are out of labour force, reveals PRIDE-Gallup survey
News Desk October 24, 2023
FILE PHOTO: Express Tribune
A comprehensive analysis of the Labour Force Survey...
Clerics in Bannu district have forced a senior zoology teacher of the Government Postgraduate Degree College to denounce English naturalist Charles Darwin’s theory of biological evolution and mixed-gender gatherings, and declare that women are inferior to men.
Assistant Professor Sher Ali...
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Pakistan's Comeback King Nawaz Sharif Returns Again
By Emma CLARK
October 19, 2023
Photo: Arif ALI
Despite a graft conviction hanging over him, a court this week granted ex-prime minister Nawaz...
Ex-wife of Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, Jemima Goldsmith, has spoken about the Israeli bombing in Gaza while sharing some of her past experiences:
I have Jewish and Muslim family members & friends, whom I deeply love. I have lived in a Muslim country for ten years and have been to Gaza...
Public servants cost national kitty over Rs8tr, study reveals
ISLAMABAD: The federal government spends over Rs8 trillion on paying its 1.92 million employees and providing pensions on top of over six dozen kinds of perks, privileges and other dole outs, yet knowing little about their...
Islamabad High Court has issued notices to former Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and former DGISI Lt. General Faiz Hameed.
Chief Justice Amir Farooq, hearing a petition to register a case against General Bajwa, General Faiz Hameed and others in the FIA for breaking the legal barrier and...