December, 2019
Illegal immigrants return home under Malaysian amnesty scheme
ISLAMABAD, Dec 30 (DNA):Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Sayed Zulfikar Abbas Bukhari on Monday said over 8,000 Pakistanis have returned home country under a Malaysian amnesty scheme. He said the amnesty scheme was aimed at ensuring the voluntarily repatriation of illegal immigrants from Malaysia to their respective countries. The ‘Back4good’ amnesty scheme became operational on August 1, 2019 to facilitate the illegal immigrants to return their respective countries without facing any detention or fines, and blacklisting. Zulfikar Bukhari said Pakistan’s High Commission inRead More
Iran, Pakistan to cooperate on anti-poverty measures
ISLAMABAD, DEC 30 (DNA) – Iran’s Deputy Health Minister for medical education Baqer Larijani announced Monday that Tehran and Islamabad are to cooperate on alleviating poverty and social problems. The two neighboring countries also agreed to exchange university students and enhance cooperation in the areas of research and education, Larijani said elaborating on his recent visit to Pakistan. Baqer Larijani at the head of a delegation arrived in Pakistan on December 26. Pakistani officials are willing to enjoy Iran’s health experiences as the country is highly skilled in controlling non-communicableRead More
Russian FM says Western partners purposefully creating tension in Persian Gulf
Moscow, Dec 30, DNA – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said here on Monday that he is confident that the Western partners are purposefully creating crisis and tension in the Persian Gulf, south of Iran. Lavrov made the remarks in a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif who arrived in the Russian capital on Sunday night. In the meeting, Lavrov said Russia and Iran have already presented proposals on ensuring security and stability. Elaborating on those proposals, Lavrov said Russia follows peace initiative while Iran pursues Hormuz PeaceRead More
Six-storey building collapses in Karachi’s Old Haji Camp Timber Market
KARACHI, DEC 30 (DNA) – A six-storey dilapidated building located at the Old Haji Camp Timber Market in Karachi collapsed on Monday. Reportedly, the tumbledown building that had 21 flats was already vacated on being informed by the concerned authorities. The residents were shifted to other places. Earlier today, police had closed the road for traffic movement citing risks that the building could be collapsed anytime. The footage available with the media shows that the front portion of the building owned by Timber Market President Salman Soomro had already bentRead More
Locals-diplomats nexus misusing luxury car import facility
ISLAMABAD: As the government is striving hard to fetch more and more taxes by expanding the tax net, it is being cheated out of billions of rupees in duty under a scam involving misuse of the facility of duty-free import of luxury vehicles by some foreign diplomats, representatives of international non-governmental organisations and armed forces personnel of a few countries, according to sources. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has taken up the matter with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Mofa), asking it to write a letter to allRead More
Opposition seeks parliamentary debate on new NAB law
ISLAMABAD: Assailing the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) for promulgating the controversial National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Amendment Ordinance, the country’s major opposition parties have asked the government to bring the newly-introduced ordinance to parliament for debate. The leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) are alleging that the government has introduced the ordinance to stop NAB from probing mega-corruption cases involving the present government. PML-N’s information secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb said in a statement on Sunday that her party had rejected Prime Minister ImranRead More