. PESHAWAR: The Anti-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police on Saturday said it had foiled a potential major attack after arresting a woman suspected of planning a suicide attack during a targeted raid in Dera Ismail Khan. Officials said the arrest took place in the locality of Sheikh Yousaf Khema Basti following intelligence […]
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Tax collection. Photo: file ISLAMABAD: The Federal Constitutional Court has declared the levy of sales tax on construction services in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa constitutional, dismissing appeals filed against the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sales Tax on Services Act, 2022. Headed by Justice Aamer Farooq, a two-judge bench of the FCC considered a number of challenges against a May 13,
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Lt Col Shahzada, 43, a resident of Mansehra, and Sepoy Karamat Shah, 28, of Peshawar, were killed in the attack. PHOTO: ISPR RAWALPINDI: An Army officer and a soldier embraced martyrdom in a suicide attack in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district, the Army’s media wing said on Saturday. According to Inter-Services Public Relations, a convoy of security
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PTI Central General Secretary Salman Akram Raja addresses a press conference on Sunday. SCREENSHOT LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is grappling with escalating internal conflicts, apparently rooted in a leadership crisis, with its general secretary emerging as the latest target for criticism within the party. Amid growing unease, he assured his detractors that he would
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Police officers walk past the Supreme Court of Pakistan building, in Islamabad, Pakistan April 6, 2022. REUTERS ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has declared the blocking of a citizen’s Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) to execute a financial decree illegal, ruling that such action exceeds the powers granted to the executing courts under the Code of
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. ISLAMABAD: Despite registering 31.9 million births at the union council level in 2025, these records are yet to be uploaded into the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), according to the authority’s latest performance report. The report, recently submitted to the Ministry of Interior, notes that NADRA now has 227 million people on its
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ISLAMABAD: An MP belonging to the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) has submitted a constitutional amendment bill to the National Assembly Secretariat seeking to ban alcohol nationwide, including for non-Muslims, by removing the existing religious exemption from the Constitution. According to details, JUI-F’s Naeema Kishwar Khan moved an amendment to Article 37 of the Constitution, which currently
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Government says it urged Afghan Taliban to stop cross-border attacks, but no action taken A Pakistani soldier watches over the border fence with Afghanistan. PHOTO:AFP/FILE ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has carried out intelligence-based strikes on seven terror camps along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border following a series of recent suicide attacks, including an attack on an imambargah in Islamabad
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Green light for Rs500 million project on Pakistan’s founding fathers to showcase nation’s ideological heritage globally Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal chairs a consultative meeting in Islamabad on the production of two historical historical web series on Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Muhammad Iqbal. SCREENSHOT The federal government on Saturday announced plans to produce two
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Setting the minimum Zakat al-Fitr and Fidya at Rs 300 per person, with the rich being asked to pay according to their means A file photo of renowned religious scholar and former Chairman of the Ruet-i-Hilal Committee, Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman. Renowned religious scholar Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman on Saturday announced the minimum amounts for Zakat al-Fitr (alms), Fidya
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