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PSM management plans to half its employees
Islamabad: Pakistan Steel Mills management itself presented a plan to axe half the daily-wage employees and a third of the contractual…
Pakistan misses economic growth target
Islamabad: The country missed the economic growth target for the current financial year by a wide margin mainly because of…
Poultry and meat consumers may be burdened
Islamabad: After making a plan to increase tax rates on packaged milk, the government is also considering levying sales tax on…
Pakistan Railways restructuring: ADB set to approve $300m budgetary support loan
Islamabad: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is set to approve a $300 million budgetary support loan for Pakistan for public sector…
Govt likely to double WHT on cash withdrawals
The government may double the already high withholding tax on cash withdrawal from banks by currency exchange companies, as infighting…
Pakistan, Tajikistan deliberating fibre optic cable link
The Central Asia-South Asia 1,000-megawatt (Casa-1,000) power supply project is expected to pave the way for connecting the two regions…
FBR plans to tax pension funds, non-profit orgs
In a seismic policy shift, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has proposed the imposition of tax on the income of various funds…
Govt plans to impose 10% tax on milk
The government is set to drop a second "white bomb" on the nations' children within a year, as it is…
‘BCCI did not collapse, it was forcibly shut down’
The story of the meteoric rise and fall of the BCCI – one of the largest global banks in the…