KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has granted advance income tax exemption on the import of drones that were donated by the government of China to assist Pakistan’s agriculture sector. The FBR on Monday issued a notification to allow the exemption. The exemption has been granted by amending the Second Schedule of the Income … Read more
Bollywood superstar Nawazuddin Siddiqui said he will stop working in productions made for India’s booming streaming market, calling online platforms a “dumping ground for redundant shows”. India’s population of 1.3 billion people has attracted streaming giants Netflix, Amazon’s Prime Video and Disney’s Hotstar, all keen to tap into a vast and fast-growing market. Siddiqui, a … Read more
TOKYO: Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida declared victory on Monday after leading his ruling coalition to a strong majority in national elections. Kishida, a soft-spoken centrist who has been in office for a month, vowed to boost the world’s third-biggest economy with a fresh pandemic spending package which he said he would draft this month. … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The government and the outlawed Tehreek e Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) reached an agreement on Sunday, averting the possible bloodshed in the country. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, senior scholar of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat and former chairman of Ruet e Hilal Committee Mufti Muneeb ur Rehman announced that both the parties had reached … Read more
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Bangladesh police have arrested 172 Rohingya in recent weeks after a crackdown sparked by the brutal murder of a prominent community leader, the force said Monday. Mohib Ullah was gunned down in late September in a refugee camp near the port city of Cox’s Bazar, in a region home to over 700,000 … Read more
PARIS: As the official death toll of Covid-19 reaches five million, several world leaders and officials are under fire for their management of the pandemic, with some facing charges and legal investigations. Brazil: Crimes and ‘quackery’ In Brazil, one of the hardest-hit countries with more than 600,000 deaths, a Senate commission approved on October 27 … Read more
PARIS: With the world poised to hit more than five million people officially dead from the coronavirus, experts tell AFP the pandemic’s future path will depend greatly on vaccinations. How many dead? The true number of fatalities is believed to be far higher than the five million based on daily reports provided by health authorities … Read more
LAHORE: Senior Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leader Rana Sanaullah on Sunday said the impression that PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz and President Shehbaz Sharif did not come together in the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) meeting was wrong. “Only one of the top PML-N leadership addresses a PDM gathering at a time,” Rana Sanaullah said while … Read more
BEIJING: Beijing lashed out against a US intelligence review into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic on Sunday, calling it “political and false” while urging Washington to “stop attacking” China. The Chinese foreign ministry’s retort came days after the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a fuller version of its findings from … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has censured Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Vice President Maryam Nawaz for posting a two years old Indian sponsored video about Balochistan on Twitter. Commenting on the tweet, the minister said Maryam Nawaz had again posted an anti-state video on her Twitter account, “which is the part of … Read more
KABUL: Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada has made his first ever public appearance, officials announced Sunday, after he addressed supporters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. Akhundzada has been the spiritual chief of the Taliban movement since 2016 but has remained a reclusive figure, even after his group seized power in Afghanistan in August. … Read more
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s retail trade association Retail NZ asked the government on Sunday to move to Step 2 of the Auckland Roadmap this week, and to get stores in Auckland and the Waikato region open after nearly 11 weeks of lockdown. “While the government ultimately planning to introduce a new Traffic Light system called the … Read more
ISLAMABAD: In the wake of the cyberattack on the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP), NBP President Arif Usmani apprised that the hackers could not succeed to enter the main computer server of the government bank. The hackers had reportedly hacked Microsoft system of the NBP. Immediately following the incident, services of the bank across the … Read more
DUBAI: Pakistan captain Babar Azam’s mother was on a ventilator when he played the T20 World Cup match against arch-rivals India, his father revealed on Saturday. Babar scored 68 not out and shared an opening stand of 152 with Mohammad Rizwan (79 not out) as Pakistan trounced India by 10 wickets in Dubai last Sunday. … Read more
ROME: Britain said Saturday it has not ruled out invoking a Brexit dispute tool with the EU for the first time, after France threatened trade reprisals in a row over fishing rights. “No of course not, I don’t rule that out,” Boris Johnson told Sky News in Rome on the sidelines of a G20 summit, … Read more
RAWALPINDI: Students and faculty members from the University of Turbat visited Quetta on Saturday and interacted with Corps Commander Quetta Corps. According to the media wing of armed forces, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the students and faculty members visited Command and Staff College Quetta, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Science and historic … Read more
DHAKA: Former cricketers and analysts blamed Bangladesh’s disastrous start to the T20 World Cup on the intense pressure placed on the national team. Bangladesh lost to the West Indies by three runs in Sharjah on Friday — the team’s third successive defeat in as many matches in the Super-12 phase, effectively ending their chances to … Read more
KARACHI: The Pakistan stocks had a green outgoing week, while the analysts expect the market to show positivity in the upcoming week attributable to conclusion of talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the sixth tranche. “Moreover, support from Saudi Arabia in terms of safe deposits, IMF tranche, and the upcoming Sukuk issue is … Read more
