Mobile phone users pay over 55% of the price of a handset in taxes, which is exorbitant, reflects the narrow mindedness of policymakers and requires urgent reduction in levies to promote digitisation, revealed proceedings of a parliamentary committee meeting. The National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance on Tuesday described heavy taxes on mobile handsets as […]
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has announced its Dec 2025-Feb 2026 debt auction calendar, targeting a combined Rs5.45 trillion through domestic securities. This includes Rs3.85 trillion via six Market Treasury Bill (MTB) auctions against Rs3.884 trillion maturing papers (net retirement around Rs34 billion), with the heaviest Rs1 trillion auction scheduled for December 10. Additionally, […]
China has become the first country to amass over 5 million valid domestic invention patents, and its international patent applications submitted via the Patent Cooperation Treaty have led globally for six consecutive years, the country’s top intellectual property (IP) regulator said on Tuesday. By June 2025, the number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 people […]
Poliovirus has been detected in 10 out of 12 environmental samples collected from the metropolitan city’s sewerage system last month, prompting Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to order an intensified and strictly monitored eradication campaign across the province. Presiding over a meeting of the provincial polio task force at his office on Tuesday, the […]