Indian fishing boat crew hails ?Pakistan Zindabad? after receiving medical aid from Pak Navy

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Navy Ship ‘Alamgir’ (Oliver Hazard Perry Class Frigate) successfully rescued a stranded Indian fishing dhow named ‘St. Marys’ via a rescue operation while conducting Maritime Security Operations (MSOs) in Gulf of Aden. The boat which sailed from Indian port of Colochel had reportedly become non-operational due to loss of engine propulsion in open sea near Salalah (Oman) for last 8 days with 12 crew members on-board. On receipt of information and request for help from the fishing dhow, Pakistan Navy Ship was promptly dispatched which through its technical team repaired the boat, removed its defect and made it seaworthy. The rectification of defect required miscellaneous repairs including gearbox removal and re-fixing followed by alignments and repairs through improvised solutions by technical team on-board the Indian boat.The stranded boat crew was dehydrated and also required medical care and edibles. Pakistan Navy Ship rescue team provided it the necessary edibles and medical care. The master and crew of the stranded boat thanked Pak Navy for its kind gesture and swift response, by hailing 'Pakistan Zindabad' (Long live Pakistan), and thereafter shaped course to Indian port.

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CJP takes notice of hefty salaries at PKLI

LAHORE: Chief Justice Saqib Nisar on Sunday took notice of hefty salaries of employees working at Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute (PKLI).Hearing various cases at the Lahore Registry of Supreme Court, the CJP sought complete report, along with a list of doctors hired by the health facility detailing their salaries and privileges.The apex court also sought details of the service structure of the institute’s employees, further ordering the Chief Secretary to submit the report by evening today.The CJP observed that he was informed about PKLI appointing its doctors at a hefty salary of Rs.1.5 million each. Earlier last month, Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute had come under strict scrutiny after it was observed that the salaries of doctors employed there varied greatly from those of working at government hospitals. Hearing the case, the Chief Justice comparing the salaries of both, remarked that PKLI pays its doctors a high wage of Rs. 1.5 million, as compared to doctors appointed at government hospitals who get paid Rs. 0.2 million.

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Live updates:Thousands converge on Lahore to attend PTI rally

LAHORE : Preparations of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to display a strong show of street power on Sunday (today) at Minar-e-Pakistan are in full swing , as thousands of supporters began arriving in the city amidst party leaders accusing the government of blocking participants from entering Lahore by impounding public and private vehicles on inter-city routes.Addressing a press conference at the venue on Saturday evening, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Vice President MPA Shoaib Siddiqi and other leaders, including Senator Faisal Javed, Iftikhar Durrani and Aisha Chaudhry, alleged that hundreds of vehicles were being impounded by police on the roads leading to Lahore from other districts of Punjab.They warned if the rulers did not desist from obstructing the peaceful holding of the public meeting, entire responsibility of law and order would rest on the shoulders of the rulers.They said they had held several meetings with the district and local administrations, and police, informing them about the complete details of the arrangements at the venue, including stage, entry gates and boundaries of the venue.The PTI leaders claimed to have placed 50,000 chairs, and different sections of district and tehsil leaderships were given targets of bringing maximum participants.They alleged that the ruling party’s 'Gullu Butts' were ruining all of their peaceful arrangements for the public meeting. They said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf had always maintained peace and tranquility, but warned that if their workers were pushed to the limits, no guarantee of peace could be given.They said separate entry gates were set up for men and women, while parking arrangements were made at the bus stand. They said food and water arrangements were made in plenty to maintain peace and discipline among the participants. They said women would reach the venue through the road from the railway station.Meanwhile, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf central Punjab President Abdul Aleem Khan alleged that official machinery was being used to obstruct and harass the PTI workers from peacefully participating in the public meeting.He hoped that Lahorites and the PTI Junoon would defeat all those opposing peaceful political change in the country and the forces of the status quo.Traffic PlanCitizens should make maximum use of Ring Road for their movement: Roy Ejaz AhmedThe way will be kept clear for ambulances and other emergency vehicles: Roy Ejaz AhmedOpen routes for traffic1- Lahore Rung Road, Lower Mall Road, Outfall road are open for all types of traffic2- Mall Road, Jail Road, Canal Road and Ferozpur Road are open for all kinds of traffic.3- The road from Shahdra Chowk to Old Ravi Bridge are also open for traffic.Alternate routes1- Traffic from Mall Road, Secretariat to Shahdra Chowk can now move from Zila Kutchehry Chowk to Outfall Road and from Saggian to Rung Road and AlSaeed Chowk.2- For going from Shahdra Chowk to Lower Mall and Mall Road, citizens can use the routes from Saggian Outfall Road to Kutchehry Chowk via Rung Road.Heavy traffic will be diverted from following points to alternate routes:1-Kala Shah Kaku, 2- Kot Abdul Malik, 3- Faizpur Inter-change, 4- Dosako Chowk, 5- AlSaeed Chowk, 6- Shahdra Chowk, 7- Begum Kot Chowk and 8- Barkat PaliParking arrangementsGreater Iqbal Park, Forests Department Parking, Nasir Bagh Parking, Mochi Gate Parking, Kashmiri Gate Parking, Maulana Ahmed Ali Parking (single lane), Datanagar Parking (single lane)Manpower detail11 DSPs, 48 inspectors, 90 patrolling officers and 710 traffic wardens will perform duty under supervision of SP Traffic Saddar Division Sardar Asif Khan and SP City Division Asif Siddiq.18 folk lifters 2 breakdowns and 4 traffic squads will also be deployed for preventing wrong parking.People will be briefed moment to moment for guidance and felicitation through ‘Apps way’ and City traffic radio FM 88.6.Citizens can contact Police Helpline 15 for alternate traffic plan and guidance.Note: No parking will be allowed elsewhere except the parking.The participants of the rally are requested to cooperate with traffic police.

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Son-in-law faces wrath of Chief Justice Saqib Nisar

LAHORE: Supreme Court Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Sunday summoned his son-in-law Khalid Rehman and forced him to apologize for seeking favour for a police officer.According to Geo News, the chief justice was hearing an application filed by an ex-wife of Deputy Inspector General Police Ghulam Mehmood Dogar who had approached the court after being put on the Exit Control List along with her children. The CJ also reprimanded the DIG for asking his son-in-law for the favour."How dare you think you can get a  favour by involving my family member . Who gave you that advice," he asked the DIG."I am waging a Jihad," he said.Shortly after being summoned, the son-in-law of the top judge appeared before the court  and sought forgiveness."You may be my son-in-law at home, but here you are appearing before Chief Justice of Pakistan," he told Khalid Rehman.Justice Saqib Nisar asked the DIG to disclose the name of the person who advised him to approach his son-in-law.The DIG also  tendered an unconditional apology for involving  the family member of the judge.Dogar said his decision to approach Khalid Rehman   was driven by his desire to meet his children.

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PTI rally at Lahore will be ?mother of all jalsas?, predicts Imran

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan said that the PTI rally, scheduled to be held on April 30 at Minar-e-Pakistan, will witness the mother of all jalsas.He said this while visiting the venue of the event last night. “Never have I witnessed such junoon at jalsagah a night before our jalsa. InshaAllah, tomorrow Minar-i-Pakistan will witness the mother of all jalsas”.

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Traffic Plan for rally at Minar-e-Pakistan Lahore

Citizens should make maximum use of Rung Road for their movement: Roy Ejaz AhmedThe way will be kept clear for ambulances and other emergency vehicles: Roy Ejaz Ahmed Open routes for traffic1- Lahore Rung Road, Lower Mall Road, Outfall road are open for all types of traffic2- Mall Road, Jail Road, Canal Road and Ferozpur Road are open for all kinds of traffic.3- The road from Shahdra Chowk to Old Ravi Bridge are also open for traffic.Alternate routes1- Traffic from Mall Road, Secretariat to Shahdra Chowk can now move from Zila Kutchehry Chowk to Outfall Road and from Saggian to Rung Road and AlSaeed Chowk.2- For going from Shahdra Chowk to Lower Mall and Mall Road, citizens can use the routes from Saggian Outfall Road to Kutchehry Chowk via Rung Road.Heavy traffic will be diverted from following points to alternate routes:1-Kala Shah Kaku, 2- Kot Abdul Malik, 3- Faizpur Inter-change, 4- Dosako Chowk, 5- AlSaeed Chowk, 6- Shahdra Chowk, 7- Begum Kot Chowk and 8- Barkat PaliParking arrangementsGreater Iqbal Park, Forests Department Parking, Nasir Bagh Parking, Mochi Gate Parking, Kashmiri Gate Parking, Maulana Ahmed Ali Parking (single lane), Datanagar Parking (single lane)Manpower detail11 DSPs, 48 inspectors, 90 patrolling officers and 710 traffic wardens will perform duty under supervision of SP Traffic Saddar Division Sardar Asif Khan and SP City Division Asif Siddiq.18 folk lifters 2 breakdowns and 4 traffic squads will also be deployed for preventing wrong parking.People will be briefed moment to moment for guidance and felicitation through ‘Apps way’ and City traffic radio FM 88.6.Citizens can contact Police Helpline 15 for alternate traffic plan and guidance.Note: No parking will be allowed elsewhere except the parking. The participants of the rally are requested to cooperate with traffic police.

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No intention for IMF bailout package, says Miftah

Federal Minister for Finance Miftah Ismail briefs the media persons during post budget press conference. -APPISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance Miftah Ismail Saturday said the federal budget for the year 2018-19 was balanced and focused on maintaining growth momentum gained during last five years, dispelling the impression that the government eyed on the upcoming election in the fiscal plan.Addressing the Post Budget Press Conference along with Advisor to the Prime Minister on Revenues Haroon Akhtar Khan, Federal Secretary Finance Arif Khan and Chairman Board of Revenue (FBR) Tariq Pasha, the minister said the budget was growth and relief-oriented.He said that it was the 6th budget of the incumbent government and efforts were made to provide maximum relief to the people.The government, he said, had proposed several measures for the uplift of industrial sector. Special incentives were provided to the manufacturing sector for enhancing exports, with imposition of duties to discourage import of luxury goods, he added.He said all major micro-economic indicators were showing resilience as exports witnessed about 24 percent growth during the last month and inflation reduced to a single digit. The government was determined to curtail the budget deficit, he added.Miftah Ismail said the government had secured $1 billion financing, which would help raise the level of foreign exchange reserves.The government, he said, had no intention for getting any bailout package from International Monetary Fund (IMF) as an effective strategy had been put in place that would help improve the national economy.“We have no intention to go for the bailout package. Efforts are being made to avoid the same,” he remarked.He expressed the confidence that foreign exchange reserves would further improve in the coming days due to prudent policies introduced by the government.Advisor Haroon Akhtar while speaking at the press conference, said the government had more than doubled the revenue collection, witnessing 20% annual growth rate and contained inflation at 4.5% during its five-year tenure.He said the provincial share from the divisible pool had increased from Rs 1300 billion to Rs 2300 billion.Haroon said the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) had taken visionary measures to facilitate taxpayers. The selection for audit in respect of all three taxes – Income Tax, Sales Tax and Federal Excise Duty – had been made risk-based and a case would not be audited more than once in three years for each tax, he added. The salaried class, he said, had been exempted from audit.He said previously grant of stay by the Commissioner (Appeals) was subject to payment of 25% of tax liability, which had now been reduced to 10%.The advisor said the decision of Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee had been made binding while the powers of commissioners were transferred to the FBR.Talking about promotion of exports, Haroon said the government took several measures for promotion of export of textile and other products. The measures included reduction in mark-up rates of LTFF and ERF to historic lows of 5 percent and 3 percent respectively, duty free import of textile machinery, uninterrupted supply of gas and electricity to the industry, zero-rating of five key export sectors, and introduction of Rs180 billion export package.He said that the government had also proposed steps in the current budget to protect local industry for reducing dependence on imports. Tax relief was given to dairy and agricultural sector, he said, adding that relaxation in taxes were announced to promote film industry.He rejected the misconception that the current budget was not a revenue generating one, saying the government had introduced many initiatives for revenue generation.The advisor said the super tax had been proposed to be continued for the financial year 2018-19, however, its rate might be reduced by 1% for both banking and non-banking companies.The super tax, he said, was imposed in 2015 for the rehabilitation of internally displaced persons, which continued in 2016 and 2017. Currently it was being charged at 4% on banking companies and 3% on non-banking companies, generating over Rs 500 million income, he added.He said the government would impose tax on remittances of more than Rs10 million in case their sources of earning were not justified.He said the FBR had an agreement with NADRA (National Database Registration Authority) for information sharing which would help expand the tax-base.Haroon said Miftah Ismail had given a good vision to take forward economy and also appreciated the team of FBR and other relevant departments for their untiring efforts in preparing the budget document.Replying to a question about the construction of sports stadiums, Miftah Ismail said that it was the project of Planning Commission which had decided in consultation with the ministries concerned the locations for setting up sports facilities in the country. “So, Finance Ministry neither takes any decision nor gives any dictation in this regard.”To a question regarding petroleum levy, the minister said the PML-N government had presented a realistic budget. Petroleum prices in Pakistan were at the lowest level among oil importing countries, he added.Adviser Haroon Akhtar, to a query, said to improve the current account deficit, the government had given an export package in its earlier budget plan that greatly helped in ‘triggering’ the exports. “If exports’ growth continued at the same pace we will have no need to go to anyone for financial assistance. There is no need to get panicked.”Answering a question about increased circular debt, Miftah Ismail said the government had added over 12,000 MW to the national grid during the last five years, which was a record in the country’s history and the increased power generation caused surge in the circular debt.The minister said the government was making efforts to clear the circular debt judiciously. Rs100 billion would be released to the Independent Power Producers (IPPs) soon and the remaining amount would also be cleared at the earliest.Responding to a question, Haroon Akhtar said due to the measures taken by FBR, the illegal trade of cigarettes in the country had declined to 35 per cent from 40 per cent. The government had introduced third taxation tier for the tobacco industry, which had helped increase tax revenues from the industry.“The measure has proved to be very positive as it has started showing results now,” he added.Appreciating the role of FBR in this regard, Miftah Ismail said the Board was doing a fine job in order to curb the illegal trade of tobaco.

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CM Murad accuses FBR of double taxation

KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has accused the Federal Board of Revenue of double taxation after the tax authorities raised a demand of Rs4.32 billion income tax and withholding tax on goods against various departments of the Sindh government. This, he said, while presiding over a meeting today here at the CM House to decide the matter pertaining to FBR, RTO-III, Karachi that has raised a demand of thousands of rupees against various Sindh government departments/offices on account of payment of various taxes. Quoting the case of jute bags for food department, the chief minister said that the FBR has issued notices for recovery of RS260.4 million Income Tax with regard to purchase of jute bags, PP bags and tarpaulin during tax year, 2010-11 to 2015-16.He said that as a matter of fact the Jute industry is exempted from Income Tax according to a SRO issued by the federal government. He said that as regards, the PP bags etc. the Accountant General Sindh, at the time of payments had already deducted the tax. “This is a double taxation against the Sindh government,” he noted. The finance department officers told the chief minister that the principal amount of Income Tax is Rs435.277 million and Rs1.33 million is penalty while Rs3.89 billion is Withholding Tax on goods.During the scrutiny and deliberation in the meeting it was surfaced that the demand raised by FBR was on the basis of total budgetary allocation and blanked calculations without considering real time transactions and at-source deduction of the taxes by the office of the AG Sindh.The chief minister after going through the FBR orders said that the tax officers have passed orders ex-parte without hearing the concerned department. He was informed by different departments that in some cases, orders-in-original, show cause notices and hearing notices were not delivered to the relevant departments due to which the period provided to lodge appeals has become barred by time limitation and therefore they had requested for condonation so that they could lodge appeal to offer their defense at the relevant appellant forum. Chief Secretary Rizwan Memon told the chief minister that he had held a meeting with Chief Commissioner and Commissioner RTO-III on April 19, 2018 wherein the finance department was assigned to complete the reconciliation task with the FBR and other stake-holders. Therefore, he has directed all the departments and AG Sindh to be on board to complete the reconciliation task.The chief minister was informed that on cross verification, the tentative figures given by the AG Sindh indicated that out of total demand of Rs4.328 billion and amount of Rs645.522 million against Income Tax and Rs20.629 million against GST on goods have been deducted at-source by AG Sindh leaving behind a disputed amount of Rs3.662 billion against GST on goods which required reconciliation. The finance department has approached chief commissioner, FBR for withdrawing attachment orders and simultaneously contacted State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and National Bank of Pakistan for not entertaining such attachments made by it.Shah pointed out a letter of SBP to the NBP president dated August 30,2017, which reads as “Under the agency agreement executed between State Bank of Pakistan and National Bank of Pakistan, the NBP is authorized to act as collecting agent of State Bank of Pakistan. NBP is the sole banker. Furthermore, the funds lying in the government banking accounts are part of their consolidated account, out of which money can be withdrawn after due process of appropriation.”The letter further reads as “NBP thus has no authority to appropriate the receipts it is holding on SBP account pursuance of the notice issued by the taxation authorities. It is therefore, requested that all concerned in NBP may be directed not to make any appropriation of money held on principal account.” The chief minister said that the NBP is not authorized to appropriate amount from Sindh government account. He added that he would talk to federal finance minister to direct the FBR to attachment orders. “We would take strict action if the amount is withdrawn from the Sindh government accounts,” he warned. The chief minister directed the chief secretary to provide services of Sindh Revenue Board Tax Consultants to all the provincial governments departments so that they can deal such cases. There is also a need of capacity building of concerned provincial department officers who deal AG Sindh and FBR matters. He constituted a committee comprising SRB Consultant Mushatq Kazmi, Secretary Local Government Ramzan Awan and Special Secretary Finance Shohab to make necessary documentation and reconcile the claims made by the FBR. 

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Two shopkeepers gunned down in Quetta

According to DIG Quetta, the armed men targeted the shopkeepers at electronics market who succumbed to the injuries at the spot.The police official said that the bodies of nephew and uncle were shifted to Civil Hospital for autopsy.A search operation has been launched after the incident. The police said that it could be due to personal rivalry as well but the investigation is still underway and nothing can be said conclusively at the point

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