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KARACHI: Expressing serious concerns about realty fraudulent practices across Sindh, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman retired Lt Gen Nazir Ahmed Butt has disclosed that in Karachi alone documents for 7,500 acres have been falsified leading to corruption amounting to Rs3,000 billion, according to a press release of the Association of Builders and Developers (ABAD) on…
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue has expanded the scope of non-filers’ purchases, allowing them to buy rickshaws, motorcycles, tractors and cars up to 800cc. The decision was part of the committee’s approval of a sub-committee report recommending revisions to The Tax Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024, aimed at addressing stakeholder concerns…
• Reporters Without Borders calls recent amendments ‘dangerous tool in hands of authorities’• IHC asks attorney general to help court with journalists’ petition• Journalists to observe ‘hunger strike’ today across the country against changes to cybercrime law ISLAMABAD: The recent amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca) will stifle free speech instead of…
BEIJING: Shares in Chinese automaker BYD jumped on Tuesday after it unveiled plans to unroll advanced self-driving technology on nearly all its cars, including budget models priced below $10,000. The company also said it would integrate AI startup Deepseek’s software into its cars, following domestic peers such as Geely, Great Wall Motors, and Leapmotor. BYD…
An Elon Musk aide was mistakenly given clearance to make changes to the US Treasury Department’s highly sensitive payments system containing millions of Americans’ personal information, a department official said on Tuesday. The admission came in a sworn statement to a federal judge amid heated criticism that the 25-year-old employee of billionaire Musk had editing…
WASHINGTON: Both Pakistan and the United States have told the United Nations that terrorist groups operating from Afghanistan pose a serious threat to global peace. Speaking at a UN briefing on the persistent and evolving threat from the militant Islamic State (IS) group, Pakistan’s UN envoy Munir Akram urged the UN Security Council to address…
ISLAMABAD: An alliance of opposition parties, on Tuesday, resolved to increase coordination in order to give the government a tough time. At a dinner, hosted by Tehreek-i-Tahaffuz-i-Ayeen-i-Pakistan chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai, opposition leaders Fazlur Rehman, Asad Qaiser, Omar Ayub, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Sardar Latif Khosa, Arif Khan, Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar and others agreed to hold…
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General (DG) Rafael Mariano Grossi on Wednesday called on Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar to discuss the role of nuclear energy in climate mitigation and adaptation, according to statement by the Foreign Office. Pakistan holds a long-term partnership with the IAEA which is responsible for ensuring peaceful use of…
• IGP says MQM-H chief was arrested for ‘inciting people’• Transporters block National Highway, Northern Bypass KARACHI: Police on Tuesday evening picked up Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi chairman Afaq Ahmed after unknown persons torched four heavy vehicles in the city during the day in what appeared to be incidents of vigilante justice. Recently, the Sindh government…
US President Donald Trump has fired the independent inspector general for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), US media outlets reported on Wednesday. Paul Martin’s dismissal came a day after his office issued a report critical of the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency, the Washington Post, CNN and others reported. They cited…