The Director General of the Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Department has taken strict notice of a 56 per cent shortfall in property tax collection during the first seven months of the 202526 financial year, seeking performance reports from area Inspectors and Excise and Taxation Officers (ETOs). The DG has warned that officers demonstrating poor […]
An emergency meeting was convened by the management of Deewan Cement in Hattar to address environmental concerns, which was attended by a five-member delegation formed by the Environmental Protection Forum Hattar. Anis Ahmed represented the head office of Deewan Cement with full authority, accompanied by a high-level delegation comprising the director, general manager and legal […]
US President Donald Trump said Friday that a change of government in Iran would be “the best thing that could happen,” as he ordered a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East to increase military pressure on the Islamic Republic. Trump’s remarks were his most explicit call yet for the removal of Iran’s clerical leadership, […]
Award-winning Indian writer Arundhati Roy said Friday she was withdrawing from the Berlin International Film Festival after jury president Wim Wenders said cinema should “stay out of politics” when asked about Gaza. Roy said in a statement sent to AFP that she was “shocked and disgusted” by responses from Wenders and other jury members to […]
European leaders on Friday called for a reset in relations with the United States as they gathered at a major security conference overshadowed by President Donald Trump’s repeated broadsides against traditional transatlantic ties. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged “a new transatlantic partnership,” while French President Emmanuel Macron called for “a strong Europe” as more than […]
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has expressed keen interest in leveraging Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) training ecosystem and aerospace development infrastructure to enhance his country’s defence capabilities, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Friday. The Indonesian president shown the interest during his meeting with Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu, Chief of Air Staff, Pakistan […]
Nearly 150,000 Afghans have returned from Pakistan and Iran this year, with the speed and size of the migration pushing Afghanistan deeper into crisis, the UN refugee agency said Friday. After decades hosting Afghans fleeing crises at home, Pakistan and Iran have ramped up deportations and forced millions back across the border to a country […]
A prolonged impasse between US lawmakers over immigration enforcement threatens to ensnare the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a partial government shutdown beginning Saturday, following two fatal shootings in Minneapolis. “For weeks, we’ve been pushing commonsense reforms,” Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Republican-controlled Senate, said ahead of a partial shutdown that would […]
The Pentagon is sending an aircraft carrier from the Caribbean to the Middle East, US officials said on Friday, a move that would put two carriers in the region as tensions soar between the United States and Iran. The Gerald R Ford carrier, the United States’ newest and the world’s largest carrier, has been operating […]
Despite the passage of the 27th Constitutional Amendment and the creation of the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC), the Supreme Court has signalled that it is far from sidelined. In a move that has drawn attention across legal and political circles, the apex court has fixed six cases related to former prime minister Imran Khan for […]