News Archives for Print - 2023-01-20

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Print - 2023-01-20

Judges usually don’t question motives for legislation, govt’s counsel tells SC

ISLAMABAD: The federation’s counsel has argued unless the court identifies the constitutional prohibition it ...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 07:56am

Need for national plan stressed at conference: Financial sector capable of providing Riba-free services to all: speakers

KARACHI: The financial sector is capable of providing Riba-free services to all segments of society and a national...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 07:53am

Taxes

FTO directs LTO Karachi to refund extra ST paid on vehicles to BOP

ISLAMABAD: To facilitate car buyers, the Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) has directed the Large Taxpayer Office (LTO)...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 07:50am

Technology field: NTC trying to develop 40 programmes: chairman

KARACHI: “National Technology Council (NTC) is trying to develop forty programmes in Pakistan in the technology...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 07:47am

Persons with integrity should be eligible for interim govt: Imran

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said Pakistan is not in a position to allow any delay...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 07:45am

PTI wants ECP to nullify results of LG polls in Karachi

ISLAMABAD: Accusing Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of stealing the mandate of people, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 07:43am

Iesco to hold open katchery

ISLAMABAD: Iesco management and field formations have always tried to address the issues of esteemed customers on...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 07:42am

Ali Zaidi, other PTI leaders booked in DC office protest case

KARACHI: Police on Thursday booked Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders Ali Zaidi, Bilal Ghaffar, Saeed Afridi, and...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 07:40am

Cross-border terrorist attack: Pakistan asks Iran to hold thorough probe and punish perpetrators

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has asked Iran to hold a thorough investigation into the cross-border terrorist attack in ...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 07:38am

Europe

French workers strike nationwide, saying ‘non’ to Macron’s pension reform

PARIS: French workers went on strike and joined marches across the country on Thursday, halting trains and cutting...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 07:19am

New Zealand PM Ardern announces shock resignation

WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, a global figurehead of progressive politics, shocked the...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 07:13am

Kazakh leader dissolves parliament

ASTANA (Kazakhstan): Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dissolved the Central Asian country’s lower house...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 07:10am

Europe

Lavrov says Russia will ‘sober up’ NATO and EU

MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Moscow would do all it could to “sober up”...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 07:05am

Letters

NA Speaker defending the indefensible

“There is a hue and cry when I don’t accept resignations, and a hue a cry when I do.” This is indeed an apt...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 07:02am

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Daronomics and Maryamania

“So whose narrative is right do you think?” “Narrative as for a campaign or narrative as in within the...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 06:59am

Japan’s yen feels the heat from hard-line BOJ policy

Japan’s yen, long favoured as a safe-haven and funding currency, has in recent weeks become so enmeshed in market...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 06:56am

Debt, inequality and austerity

‘In most western countries, inequality is rising, and social mobility has stalled. Our citizens are losing...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 06:44am

Wheat crisis

Agrarian economy of Pakistan employs a large workforce and considered vital from a social, livelihood and foreign...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 06:35am

Reducing plastic pollution

EDITORIAL: Plastic is composed of major toxic pollutants that tend to harm the environment, and over some decades it...

Published 20 Jan, 2023 06:28am

Fraught present, unknown future

EDITORIAL: The country is fast approaching a point of no return. If the economy is forced upon a default on its...

Updated 20 Jan, 2023 02:33pm

Stocks

Dates of Closure of Books & Annual General Meetings

KARACHI: Dates of Closure of Books and holding of Ordinary and Extra-Ordinary General Meetings of companies listed ...