ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan budget 2008-2009 will be announced today, that is expected to increase the import duty from 25 to 30 per cent on most of the goods. It is also expected that govt would increase general sales tax (GST) to by 2% to 17%, the local newspaper reported today.
“But I am sure they would be taking the latter steps,†local newspaper quoted one of the Govt official as saying. The increased import duty and GST will raise an additional Rs 200 billion in tax revenue the government desperately needs to jack up its development and relief efforts.
KARACHI : A caravan of lawyers and members of civil society have reached Sukkur on Monday night from where they will move towards Multan on Tuesday. A large number of lawyers and members of civil society groups and political parties were included in the convoy that left on Monday morning from Karachi and Quetta to Sukkur. The Deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry will also arrive in Multan today to receive the convoys from Sindh and Balochistan.
ISLAMABAD: The Constitution Avenue of Islamabad has been blocked with huge containers and barbed wires to block long march on Islamabad.
KARACHI : Lawyers have started long march for the restoration of deposed judges on Monday. Convoys of lawyers including members of civil society that left form Karachi and Quetta heading towards Sukkhar.
LAHORE : Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Mian Shahbaz Sharif is all set to take oath as the 21st Chief Minister of Punjab in a ceremony being held here at Governors House today (Sunday). The Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer will administer the oath. It would be the second term of Shahbaz Sharif as Punjab Chief Minister.
ISLAMABAD : President Pervez Musharraf said that he will not resign in current situation and will not use article 58-2b to dissolve the parliament. He said this while talking to the senior journalists here on Saturday.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Government on Friday submitted to the United Nations a formal request for investigation into the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, local TV reported. Pakistan’s U.N. Ambassador Munir Akram met with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and submitted the request, said Pakistan’s private Dawn TV channel. Bhutto, also former leader of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP),was killed in a gun and bomb attack last December while attending a political rally.
LAHORE : The coalition partners in the Punjab Assembly on Thursday formally nominated Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Mian Shahbaz Sharif as their unanimous candidate for the leader of the house in the provincial assembly. The decision was taken in a joint parliamentary party meeting of the coalition partners held at 90, Sharah-e-Quaid-e-Azam on Thursday.
ISLAMABAD: Deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that nation is demanding the independent judiciary here on Thursday.In a telephonic address to the Gujrat Bar Association he said that the people’s belief in government lies in the sovereignty of judicial system in the country.
Islamabad, June 4 : Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Asfaq Parvez Kayani may have taken some steps to pull the Pakistan Army out of the country’s seamy and uncertain political cauldron, but sooner than later, he will be sucked into the thick of politics, believes Ayesha Siddiqa, the author of “Military Inc.”Â, the controversial […]