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Budget to boost investment: Gwadar will be free port: Shaukat
ISLAMABAD, June 16: Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Sunday that despite various difficulties the new budget would attract considerable local and foreign investment because many irritants had been removed and...
Jirga splits over how to elect parliament
KABUL, June 16: Afghan head of state Hamid Karzai will address Loya Jirga delegates on Monday after the grand assembly failed to elect a parliament following six days of talks, chairman...
Withdrawal of tax exemptions listed
ISLAMABAD, June 16: The finance ministry here on Sunday released the final list of the withdrawals of Income Tax exemptions to be effective from July 1, 2002....
ARD to stay intact: Zafar
LAHORE, June 16: The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy will be kept intact despite the fact that its major components, the PPP and the PML(N), will be putting up candidates against...
23 killed in Kashmir clashes
SRINAGAR, June 16: Twenty-three people, most of them civilians and freedom-fighters, were killed in a sudden escalation of violence in Indian-held Kashmir, police said on Sunday....
Indian troops can now go on leave
JAMMU, June 16: Batches of Indian soldiers who have been on a war footing on the Pakistani border for the past six months have begun going on leave, but defence sources...
Power consumers to pay 15pc sales tax
ISLAMABAD, June 16: The 15 per cent General Sales Tax collection from domestic electricity consumers, except those with below 50 units consumption, would start from December, a finance ministry official told...
Seven die in road accident
KOHAT, June 16: Seven people, including three women, were killed and 14 others seriously injured when a pick-up in which they were seated was hit by an oil tanker from behind...
Chirac’s coalition wins election
PARIS, June 16: The centre-right coalition supporting French President Jacques Chirac has won a landslide victory in Sunday’s second round of parliamentary elections....
Pakistan, India reiterate stances
NEW DELHI, June 16: India and Pakistan on Sunday accused each other of not doing their bit to ease tensions but New Delhi was reportedly allowing its troops home leave in...
Rules changed to increase allowances for expats
ISLAMABAD, June 16: Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Sunday that baggage rules had been changed to increase allowances for overseas Pakistanis....
8 of a family die in AJK landslide
MUZAFFARABAD, June 16: Eight people, mostly children, from the same family, were killed and four injured when their house was struck by a landslide in Neelum valley in northeast of Muzaffarabad...
Three PML leaders arrested
RAWALPINDI, June 16: Police arrested three leaders of Pakistan Muslim League PML, who had been granted bail yesterday by the court of law, from Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Sunday night....
‘No Al-Qaeda cells in Saudi Arabia’
RIYADH, June 16: Saudi Arabia is not host to inactive cells of Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terror network, newspapers quoted top Saudi officials as saying on Sunday....
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KABUL, June 16: Afghan head of state Hamid Karzai will address Loya Jirga delegates on Monday after the grand assembly failed to elect a parliament following six days of talks, chairman...
SRINAGAR, June 16: Twenty-three people, most of them civilians and freedom-fighters, were killed in a sudden escalation of violence in Indian-held Kashmir, police said on Sunday....
