islamabad   The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is mulling for unfriendly taxation measures in the budget for the next financial year 2013-14 that included increase in general sales tax by one percent; increase GST on sugar and to impose federal excise duty on several ...

IslamabadJamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl) is planning to sit on treasury benches with Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) with a condition to adopt issue-based approach on host of the issues, which the upcoming government could face in future.The religio-political party wants its possible divergence of ...

manila - bloomberg - The Philippine central bank is considering adjusting so-called special deposit accounts in an effort to manage costs so it has room to cool currency gains. “We would like to consider ways to make the SDA function more as a monetary instrument rather than an investment ...

ISLAMABAD -  The election commission is considering the option of disallowing the candidates using inappropriate language in the political campaigns from holding public gatherings.The poll body is set to take up the matter in its meeting scheduled earlier next week. Reportedly, it is mulling ...

MULTAN - The district administration has decided to launch another round of crackdown on the owners of illegal cattle sheds in city area. Chairing a meeting here on Saturday, the DCO Syed Gulzar Hussain Shah said that no negligence would be tolerated in operation against cattle sheds, land grabbers ...

MULTAN - The district administration has decided to launch another round of crackdown on the owners of illegal cattle sheds in city area. Chairing a meeting here on Saturday, the DCO Syed Gulzar Hussain Shah said that no negligence would be tolerated in operation against cattle sheds, land grabbers ...

LAHORE :Central Working Committee of Pakistan People’s Pakistan-Shaheed Bhutto was held here on Saturday and discussed the current political situation and party strategy. Chaired by party head Ghinwa Bhutto, the meeting was attended by office-bearers of the party from all four provinces. The ...

Plans are under way for President Asif Ali Zardari to make a brief visit to India in the coming week. While the request is for a private visit to the Ajmer Dargah Sharif, the occasion provides an important opportunity for political interaction at the highest level between Pakistan and India.The ...

LAHORE – Against the backdrop of the dipping popularity graph of the ruling coalition, the PPP-led govt is shaping up the contours of a caretaker set up, which they plan to put in place in July in a bid to hold early elections in October this year, The Nation has learnt. Informed political ...

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to explore the possibility of using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) to make the polling process more transparent.The EVMs system will be introduced initially in by-elections as a pilot project and it will be expanded gradually. For ...

LAHORE - PML-N has decided to muster support of the Opposition parties in the Parliament for conditional support for the passage of 20th Constitutional Amendment.However, PML-N also seeks govt assurance for a complete implementation of the 18th Constitutional Amendment. Top leaders of the ...

LAHORE – The PML(N) has decided to work out a new strategy in case Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani is convicted by the Apex Court and a replacement is made. Sources say that the party leadership is pursuing wait and see policy as to what the prime minister puts before the court and ...

TEHRAN - Iran is looking at "punishing" those behind the assassination of one of its nuclear scientists, a senior military official said on Saturday, pointing the finger at the United States, Israel and Britain."We consider committing a terrorist act of killing a scientist to be a threat to the ...

ISLAMABAD - The PML-N has decided to up the ante for the beleaguered government by moving a no-confidence motion against the prime minister. However, the party is yet to decide when it will submit the motion in the National Assembly and will consult other opposition parties on the matter.In its ...

LONDON  - The British government discussed proposals Monday to give Scotland the legal powers to hold a referendum on independence, which could happen within the next 18 months.Prime Minister David Cameron said a referendum should be held soon because the uncertainty about the issue was ...

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Cabinet has decided to devise a joint political strategy by taking all the coalition partners onboard to effectively respond to those political parities, which want political change before Senate elections by misleading the masses. Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, Federal Information ...

ISLAMABAD - Absence of assurances from abroad to finance infrastructure development of Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project has seemingly forced the cash-starved incumbent government to fetch multibillions from the over-burdened poor masses through imposing Infrastructure Development Levy (IDL) ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - A meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Monday, mulled ways to introduce alternative power generation sources in the province. Steering Committee Chairman Senator Ishaq Dar, Members National Assembly, Engineer Khurram Dastagir Khan, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, ...

ISLAMABAD - The government, in a discriminative move by giving exemption to oil refineries engaged in producing LPG, is gearing up efforts to jack up LPG prices by imposing 10 percent petroleum levy (PL) on selective local LPG producers, it has been learnt. The proposal to impose PL will affect LPG ...

LONDON (AFP) - Britain said Saturday it was mulling changes to discriminatory rules on the line of succession, meaning Prince William and Kate Middletons first born could accede to the throne regardless of gender. Currently the principle of male primogeniture means that the first born son would be ...

WASHINGTON (online) Suffering irreparable loss after blowing up of Raymond Davis cover in Lahore, the CIA is contemplating on a tit-for-tat trapping or targeting Pakistani counterparts serving as diplomats abroad. Diplomatic sources told Online that they had noticed vibes clearly indicating level ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US government said Monday it would seek to develop less invasive body searches at airports, but offered no excuses for seeking to ensure security amid a national uproar over intimate pat-downs. The top US aviation security official John Pistole said he was open to making ...

ISLAMABAD President Asif Ali Zardari while heading a crucial meeting at the Presidency on Tuesday considered Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirzas proposal of clamping curfew only in troubled areas of Karachi as the most practicable option. PPP leadership is in difficult times, as one coalition ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc said it may create a stand-alone version of its Buzz social networking product but wont separate Buzz from its Gmail service, a linkup that has spurred controversy over privacy. Google, the worlds No 1 Internet search engine launched Buzz earlier this week in a ...

KARACHI With water becoming an expensive and rare commodity all over the world, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) is mulling over the idea of introducing water free synthetics turf for international and local competition. According to information available here, the FIH has already ...

TEHRAN (AFP/Reuters) - Iran on Wednesday rejected plans for it to send most of its stocks of low-enriched uranium abroad, delivering a severe blow to UN-brokered efforts to allay Western concerns over its nuclear ambitions. The decision is expected to anger the US and its allies, which had called ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States launched a probe Wednesday to consider slapping almost 100 percent tariffs on imported steel pipes from China in a move that could widen a trade spat between the two key powers. Washington has decided to initiate antidumping and countervailing duty ...

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board is planning to terminate the contract with controversial paceman Shoaib Akhtar due to his never-ending misdemeanors that have always troubled the Pakistan Cricket Board once too often. The PCB is moving towards the decision after its director cricket operations ...

KARACHI - The Provincial Government of Sindh is mulling to open fish hatcheries in all the districts of the province as people have shown their interest for making investment in fish farming. Minister for Fisheries Department Zahid Ali Bhurgari informed the Sindh Assembly during question-hour ...

KARACHI (AFP) - Disgruntled opening batsman Riffatullah Momand Tuesday mulled his future - whether to wait four years to become eligible to play for Afghanistan or revive his career in Pakistan. Momand, 32, was pulled from Afghan squad now competing in the World Cup qualifying tournament in South ...