KARACHI: Sindh Excise and Taxation Department has collected Rs6,384.283 million under the heads of infrastructure cess, motor vehicle tax, provincial excise duty, professional tax, cotton fee and hotel tax during the first seven months of the current financial year against the target of Rs6,320.298 million.
The break-up showed that the provincial E&T Department collected Rs3,574.151 million […]
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) on Thursday has suspended power supply to Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC), due to arrears over Rs 35 billion, the sources said.
Wapda has suspended power supply to KESC after approval of the federal government, the sources added.
KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Monday named Qaim Ali Shah for Chief Minister of Sindh, Nisar Khuhro Speaker Sindh Assembly and Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq Parliamentary Leader in the Assembly.
The above decision was taken in a meeting of the party’s Central Executive Committee held under the chairmanship of Co-chairman PPP, Asif Ali Zardari here at Bilawal House.
KARACHI: Working women hostels will be constructed in every district in the province.
 A sum of Rs 1,200 million has been allocated by the Women Development Department (WDD) Sindh for the purpose
This was stated by Sindh Minister for Women Development Ms Nadira Panjwani in a meeting with the Hyderabad Nazim Kanwar Naveed. She assured that her […]
Successive military regimes in Pakistan have undermined the provincial autonomy once enjoyed by the Sindh province since it elected to enter a federal
Pakistan in 1940. Decades later, and with those promises long broken, Sindh has found its religious freedoms, its freedom to assembly, the rights of its women, and even its environment all violated. […]
The torture of Sindhi human rights activist Dr Safdar Sarki is emblematic of President Musharraf’s tyranny
As he continues to cling to power, Pervez Musharraf presides over a regime in Pakistan that routinely engages in kidnapping, detention without trial, torture and extra-judicial killings, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
Symptomatic of Musharraf’s regime is […]
HYDERABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Sindh President Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Sunday said his party had not taken any decision regarding the parliamentary leader in the Sindh Assembly and for the top slot at the Centre.
He added that the PPP delegation had visited the Nine-Zero and held a meeting with the Muttahida Qaumi […]
KARACHI: The Makhdoom family may get the seat of chief minister of Sindh if Makhdoom Amin Fahim is not made the next prime minister, sources close to the family told Daily Times on Saturday. But PPP leader Sajjad Bukhari said Fahim still topped the list of candidates for prime minister. He said some party members […]