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PARIS: Europe and the Mediter­ranean basin has been hit by a long-lasting drought covering over 45 percent of the region ...
They will be loaned to museums in Caen and Rouen in northern France under the arrangement, two regional French newspapers ...
THIS is with reference to the report ‘At least 10 killed as Karachi apartment building collapses’ (July 5). The tragedy in ...
There certainly is something sinister about the federal government rethinking ex-Fata’s reforms and the revival of the jirga ...
RECENT commemorations of the Emergency Indira Gandhi imposed on India in 1975 are frequently fraught with warnings about how ...
In his parliamentary address Macron called it “a burden for our two countries”, stressing the need for better “cooperation” ...
According to Topline Securities Ltd, the market remained highly volatile throughout the session, swinging between an intraday ...
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Property tax rates
The imposition of property tax at such inflated rates will discourage investment in real estate. Urban centres, like Lahore, Rawalpindi and Multan, as well as smaller cities, like Dera Ghazi Khan, are ...
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Wasting funds
The Sindh government must conduct a social audit of endowment funding, and, on the basis of it, use these massive funds in different livelihood and employment generation initiatives, like in ...
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Killing fields
House on Monday, Israeli forces were busy doing what they have been doing in the killing fields of Gaza for the past 21 months: murdering and pillaging. And perhaps the most unfortunate development ...
BEIRUT: Lebanon said three people were killed on Tuesday in a strike near Tripoli that the Israeli military said targeted a Hamas fighter, the first on the north since a November ceasefire with ...
ISLAMABAD: A Senate panel on Tuesday considered a bill proposing amendments to blood money (diyat) law including the one to fix the minimum blood money at two kilograms of gold.