BusinessEconomic and business experts, at a seminar, stressed the need for consistency in taxation policies, besides broadening the tax-base, cutting expenditures and reducing the fiscal deficit. They were speaking at a pre-budget<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/07/experts-stress-on-a-consistent-taxation-policy/" title="Read more" >...</a>
BusinessThe KSE-100 index recovered initial losses today and closed down 27 points on account of rumored support of large government institutions in the second trading session. NBP stole the show, hitting its<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/07/kse-keeps-head-above-water/" title="Read more" >...</a>
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has ordered the central depositary company (CDC) to terminate and suspend the membership of a number of ‘unregistered’ brokers and ‘inva
Five Shias were killed and nine others injured when militants belonging to the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi fired two rockets followed by intense gunfire at a Shia prayer congregation here on Friday morni
Sri Lanka’s interim coach Stuart Law on Friday said cricket administrators should schedule a window for Indian Premier League fixtures to stop players choosing club over country. Law, who has steppe
NATIONALWater and Power Ministry has issued a notification of 2 percent hike in electricity tariff on Friday. According to a private television channel, 8 paisa increase has been said for the domestic<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/06/2-hike-in-electricity-tariff-notified/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignPresident Barack Obama on Friday will meet members of the secretive team of elite commandos who stole deep into Pakistan in the dead of night and killed America’s top terror target Osama<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/06/obama-to-meet-bin-laden-raid-commandos/" title="Read more" >...</a>
LAHOREThe Environment Protection Department of the City District Government Lahore imposed Rs 13,400 fine on owners of smokey and noisy vehicles on Friday. According to EPD sources, monitoring teams of the department<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/06/noisy-smokey-vehicles-fined/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALHundreds of people took to the streets near the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday to pay “homage” to Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and call for jihad against America, witnesses said.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/06/hundreds-rally-for-bin-laden-in-pakistan/" title="Read more" >...</a>
An industrialist of Daska and his employee died in a road accident near Nandipur at Sialkot Road when their speedy car hit a roadside tree. Reportedly, Mirza Muhammad Younas and his employee Bashir Ah
The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Gujranwala is starting the examination of intermediate Part-II and Part-I from 7th (today) and, in this regard, 271 examination centres for Par
Indian and Pakistani troopers posted along line-of-control (LoC) dividing Kashmir fired on each other’s positions, officials said Friday. The ceasefire violation took place along the LoC in Krishna Ghati area of the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/06/india-pakistan-exchange-fire-on-loc-in-kashmir/" title="Read more" >...</a>
