Archive for  September 2019
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The abolition of Broadening of Tax Base (BTB) Zones by Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has raised the question if the FBR's field formations and operational wings are now capable enough to expand the tax
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Community Resilience in the Digital Age was the theme of a session in Islamabad on Thursday conducted by experts from Facebook's Asia-Pacific headquarters. The workshop, which saw people from civil society, government and academia attend,
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A woman dies every 15 minutes because of breast cancer in Pakistan, therefore, a comprehensive community-based health education programme needs to be launched across the country to raise awareness of breast cancer, so that women
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The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has categorically declared that it is extremely difficult and impracticable to enforce uniform prices of essential food commodities at retail level. About the fixation of prices at the wholesale
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Awaz Group made a clean sweep in annual elections of the Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) for 2019-20 by winning all the Corporate and Associate Class seats. Asim Raza Ahmad, leader of Awaz Group was
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The National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) spokesman has said that the major reasons of delay of few NTDC projects were right of way issues, certain stay orders by locals as well as procurement issues
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A parliamentary panel has unanimously approved the National Information Technology (NIT) Board Bill, 2019 to pave the way for the federal government to introduce e-governance in ministries and divisions for good governance. A meeting of
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After a gap of more than a year and a half, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has resumed hearing of over five-year old foreign funding case involving the ruling party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), and
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The National Assembly Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat unanimously approved the Naya Pakistan Housing and Development Authority Bill, 2019 for passage by the National Assembly. The committee met with Syed Amin-ul-Haq in the chair here
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Prime Minister Imran Khan is to enter into a performance contract with each Minister, with specific goals and targets to be monitored periodically, well informed sources told Business Recorder. This was approved by the federal
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