Pakistan

KARACHI: While it collects property tax from six major cities of Sindh, the provincial government on Tuesday decided to conduct a property survey only in Karachi in an attempt to increase the tax base by bringing more people into the property tax net. Currently, the Sindh Excise and Taxation Department is collecting property tax from Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Mirpurkhas, Shaheed …

ISLAMABAD: For the last few days, the positivity rate of Covid-19 cases across the country has dropped below seven per cent. However, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Tuesday urged people to get the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine and follow safety protocols as these are the only remedy against the potentially deadly coronavirus. It said in a …

SAHIWAL: Police on Tuesday registered a case and arrested a youth for allegedly throwing acid on an 18-year-old girl over ‘refusal of marriage proposal’ at Nanakpur, Pakpattan tehsil, on Monday night. Chak Badian police registered the case on the complaint of the girl’s father Muhammad Latif under 452, 337-F (i) & 337-A (i) sections of PPC and arrested Fazal Abbas. …

RAWALPINDI: The heavy rain on Tuesday afternoon brought a respite from the sultry and humid weather but inundated low-lying areas in the garrison city besides creating gridlocks on roads. Commuters remained stuck for up to an hour as almost all main roads in the city were flooded with rainwater. Hundreds of vehicles, including public transport, motorcyclists and even ambulances, stranded …

LAHORE: The Punjab government on Tuesday issued a warning to the Aitchison College for non-implementation of the Single National Curriculum (SNC). The government had implemented the SNC for primary classes in all public and private schools and started the new academic session 2021-22 from Aug 2. A letter [available with Dawn] issued to Aitchison College Principal Michael A Thomson by the …

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Information Senator Faisal Javed and the panel’s other members announced on Tuesday that they would reject the Pakistan Media Develop­ment Authority (PMDA) bill if they were not convinced by the government about the need for bringing such a bill. Senator Javed, who is also a leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, and members …

A woman who was harassed by a group of men while travelling in a Qingqi rickshaw in Lahore on Independence Day identified on Wednesday four of the suspects arrested in the case. The suspects were produced before a judicial magistrate, Kamran Zafar, in Lahore for an identification parade, during which the woman identified four men who had harrassed her on …

ISLAMABAD: The daily statistics shared by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) on Tuesday showed that COVID-19 has claimed 98 more lives, during the past 24 hours, pushing the overall death toll to 26,330. According to the latest figures issued by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), 3,316 persons tested positive for COVID-19. STATISTICS 7 SEP 21: TOTAL TESTS …

ISLAMABAD: A workshop was held on Monday to take stock of the Ehsaas programme’s progress, successes and lessons learnt across 14 districts to upscale it nationwide. Representatives from the field teams of Ehsaas Nashonuma in Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, KP, AJK and GB participated in the workshop along with experts from the World Food Programme. Speaking on the occasion, Special Assistant …

PESHAWAR: The proscribed Tehr­eek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has issued a stark warning to national me­dia and journalists, asking them to refrain from calling them a “terrorist outfit” or they will be treated as enemies. In a statement apparently released by the TTP on social media on Monday, its spokesman Mohammad Khurasani reportedly said they were monitoring the media coverage, branding the …