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Excise and taxation reforms should be replicated: BanuriISLAMABAD

Excise and taxation reforms should be replicated: Banuri

The efforts at introducing reforms in the Islamabad Excise and Taxation Department have taught lessons that have the potential to be replicated to improve the governance crisis in the country. This was<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/02/18/excise-and-taxation-reforms-should-be-replicated-banuri/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Feb 18, 2012
AIOU employees push for regularisationISLAMABAD

AIOU employees push for regularisation

Muhammad Zuhrain, an Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) employee, approached the capital’s courts with a case he registered against the university officials for not regularising him. The Gujjar Khan resident was disappointed<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/02/18/aiou-employees-push-for-regularisation/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Feb 18, 2012
NATIONAL

Attorneys try to save 9/11 Pakistani detainee from death penalty

The nephew of the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks does not deserve the death penalty, his attorneys argue in court documents filed on Friday. Pakistani Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, 34,<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/02/18/attorneys-try-to-save-911-pakistani-detainee-from-death-penalty/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Feb 18, 2012
UN chief makes new call for nuclear test ban implementationNATIONAL

UN chief makes new call for nuclear test ban implementation

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made a new call on Friday for the last countries that have not yet ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to let it enter<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/02/18/un-chief-makes-new-call-for-nuclear-test-ban-implementation/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Feb 18, 2012
Plane carrying marijuana strays into Obama LA airspaceForeign

Plane carrying marijuana strays into Obama LA airspace

A small plane with more than 20 pounds of marijuana strayed into restricted airspace around President Barack Obama’s helicopter in Los Angeles, prompting US F-16 fighters to rush to intercept it, officials<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/02/18/plane-carrying-marijuana-strays-into-obama-la-airspace/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Feb 18, 2012
Textile ministry questions transparency of MFN to IndiaBusiness

Textile ministry questions transparency of MFN to India

Ministry of Textile Industry (MoTI) has proved the government claim false which was about the rigorous consultations with different stakeholders on liberalising trade with India. Textile ministry, in its observations, indicates that<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/02/17/textile-ministry-questions-transparency-of-mfn-to-india/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Feb 17, 2012
Sports

Kinnaird, Garrison in Senior Women Cricket final

Kinnaird Club had moved to the final of the Senior Inter-district Women Cricket Championship to take on Garrison Club today (Friday). In the last league match of the championship, Kinnaid Club thrashed<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/02/17/kinnaird-garrison-in-senior-women-cricket-final/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Feb 17, 2012
26 Shias killed in Parachinar suicide bombingNATIONAL

26 Shias killed in Parachinar suicide bombing

At least 26 people were killed and more than 40 left injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Kurma Bazar of Parachinar, headquarters of Kurram Agency, on Friday. A strict<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/02/17/suicide-bomber-kills-21-in-parachinar/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Feb 17, 2012
NATIONAL

Malaysian clerics forbid forex trading

Malaysia’s highest Islamic body has issued an edict forbidding foreign exchange trading by Muslim individuals, saying such speculation violates Islamic law.The National Fatwa Council ruled forex t

Feb 17, 2012