ISLAMABAD : President Pakistan Peoples Party Makhdoom Amin Fahim on Thursday expressed the hope that PPP-PML(N) coalition will remain intact.
LAHORE : Predicting the success of the lawyers struggle launched for the reinstatement of the deposed judges very soon, the deposed chief justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that independent judiciary is must for strengthening democracy.
ISLAMABAD : A three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Moosa K. Leghari will resume hearing of the election petition against Chief Minister Punjab, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday.
ISLAMABAD : Pakistans fledgling government unveiled a budget for 2008/09 (July/June) on Wednesday showing a near 30 percent rise in total outlay to 2,010 billion rupees ($30 billion).
ISLAMABAD : Government has increased the number of Supreme Court judges from 16 to 29.
ISLAMABAD : Minister for Finance, Syed Naveed Qamar on Wednesday proposed 20 percent increase in basic pay of all the federal government employees as well as the armed forces in the budget 2008-09.
In his budget speech in the Parliament House, he said that 20 percent raise has also been proposed in the pension of all civilian and military pensioners.
PESHAWAR: At least 13 Pakistani Frontier Corps personnel were killed on the Tribal area of Pakistan as US-led forces in Afghanistan attacked militants “infiltrating” Afghanistan, a security official said on Wednesday.
Islamabad - The lawyers’ “long march” for the reinstatement of more than 60 judges sacked by Pakistan’s beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf gathered momentum Tuesday as it left the southern city of Sukkur to the central town of Multan.
Islamabad, June 10 : Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s handpicked Army Chief, Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, seems to be in no hurry to oblige him by contemplating action against any of the ex-servicemen whom Musharraf accused of violating the Official Secrets Act.
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.