Monday, December 13th, 2021
Afghan Taliban seek world’s ‘mercy and compassion’ to help millions of Afghans in desperate need
KABUL: Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers are committed in principle to education and jobs for girls and women, a marked departure from their previous time in power, and seek the world’s “mercy and compassion” to help millions of Afghans in desperate need, a top Taliban leader said in a rare interview. Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi also told The Associated Press that the Taliban government wants good relations with all countries and has no issue with the United States. He urged Washington and other nations to release upward of $10 billion inRead More
Champions League draw to be ‘entirely redone’ after error
PARIS , DEC 13 : The draw for the last 16 of the Champions League is to be “entirely redone” after an embarrassing technical error, European football’s governing body UEFA said on Monday. UEFA blamed a “material error” due to a “technical problem with the software of an external service provider” as it announced that the draw for the first knockout round of its flagship competition would be redone at 1400 GMT. With the draw being streamed live from UEFA’s headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, the problem was made evident whenRead More
Unprecedented inflation being witnessed in country: Shehbaz Sharif
LAHORE, DEC 13 (DNA) — Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif said on Monday that the inflation being witnessed today was unprecedented. Speaking to the media outside an accountability court (AC) in Lahore, he said that record price hike had broken the back of a poor man and devastated each and every household in the country. “So much so that people are yearning for a single loaf of bread now,” he said, and added, “They are praying to Allah (TheRead More
Shakil Durrani’s memoirs, ‘Frontier Stations’ launched by the Peshawar University
The Area Study Center of the Peshawar University, most appropriately, conducted the book launch of the ‘Frontier Stations, An account of public service in Pakistan’, by the former civil servant Shakil Durrani, last week. The Director of the Centre Prof Shabbir Ahmad Khan leading the introduction to the book stated that the author who remained Chief Secretary KP, AJK, Sindh, GB as well as Chairman Wapda and Railways has raised pertinent issues in the memoirs. He not only dissects open these critical matters but proposes neat solutions to redress the problems. TheRead More
FBR Rebuts Disinformation About POS Integration Drive on Social Media
ISLAMABAD, DEC 13: /DNA/ – Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has strongly rebutted disinformation being spread on the social media against the proposed Service Charge of Rs.1 to be collected on all invoices issued by Tier-1 Retailers integrated with FBR’s electronic system of real-time reporting of sales. It is being insinuated as if the rate of the Service Charge is 1 percent instead of Rupee 1 per invoice only. This baseless propaganda by some vested interests is thoroughly malicious in intent and definitely suspicious in content. The nominal Service Charge @Read More
Russia may deploy intermediate nuclear missiles in Europe – senior diplomat
MOSCOW: Russia said on Monday it may be forced to deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe in response to what it sees as NATO’s plans to do the same. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russia’s RIA news agency in an interview that Moscow would have to take the step if NATO refused to engage with it on preventing such an escalation. His comments further raised the stakes in an East-West standoff in which Russia is demanding security guarantees from the West while the United States and its allies are warning Moscow to pull back from whatRead More