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It has not been very long that FBR revised the valuation of immovable property in main urban centres of the country. It took a...

As a measure to boost taxation earnings the government has revised upwards the valuation rates in the real estate sector to 90 per cent of the market level for calculation of tax in 40 major cities of the country including Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Islamabad.

Pakistani currency is consistently pounded by hard economic times and any effort to arrest its downward slide has yielded hardly any satisfactory results

A report on water quality in Pakistan’s northern region of Gilgit-Baltistan shows high levels of pollutants in sources of drinking water, with serious implications for the health and safety of residents

Both Pakistan and India regularly forbid rice cultivation to conserve water and prevent land degradation. But with the crop tied to farmers’ livelihoods, a blanket ban is a weak solution

The US-Pakistan relations have bounced back into focus once again opening a new chapter in the fractious relationship spreading over decades

After the Government of India Act of 1858, the higher civil service in India came to be known as the Indian Civil Services (ICS)