Azerbaijan-Iran raedy to enhance customs checkpoints working around clock
BAKU: Azerbaijan and Iran have agreed to switch the customs checkpoints in Azerbaijan’s Astara and Bilasuvar districts to the around-the-clock ...
Year: 2015
FBR seeks tax proposals for budget 2016-17
KARACHI: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has asked all the stakeholders, including chambers and associations to submit their proposals related ...
Interpol police seize 4.5 tons of smuggled ivory
LYON: A huge international police operation has seized 4.5 tons of elephant and rhino tusks, leading to 376 arrests, Interpol ...
110 textile mills closed operations in 12 months
KARACHI: As many as 110 textile mills have shut down during the last year mainly to due to the high ...
Indian authorities seize red sanders worth Rs. 30 million
CHANDRAGIRI: The forest officials seized 80 red sanders logs worth Rs. 2 crore during a combing in the forest abutting ...
Branchless banking accounts up by 44.4% to 10.8m in Q2
KARACHI: The country’s branchless banking is expanding as the number of such accounts increased by 44.4 per cent to 10.8 ...
UK Border Force seized 12.3m illegal cigarettes in past two months
HARWICH: One million cigarettes were seized at the Port of Harwich last week – bringing the total number of illegal ...
SBP launches videos, app to aware public of banknote security features
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has launched five videos and a smartphone application to enhance public awareness and ...
US court sentences man to 5-years jail for smuggling cigarettes
WASHINGTON: A judge sentenced a northern Virginia man to five years in federal prison for trafficking $13 million in cigarettes ...
UAE authorities seize smuggled drugs from Iranian ship
UAE: An Iranian ship smuggling in drugs and two people has been seized by the UAE’s Ministry of Interior. The ...
KSE opens positive
KARACHI: The stocks Wednesday opened with positive note, gaining 31.24 points to reach 32672.33 level, with the volume of 6,252,090 ...
Pakistan Stock Exchange to be inaugurated on Jan 11
KARACHI: The merger of all three stocks of the country, Pakistan Stock Exchange will be launched on January 11 next ...
FBR Chairman Nisar Mohammad convinces Senate body on Income Tax (Second Amendment) Bill 2015
ISLAMABAD: The forceful arguments by the Chairman Federal Board of Revenue Nisar Mohammad Khan on Tuesday successfully grabbed support from ...
Customs Air Freight Unit foils bid to smuggle antiques worth $10 million out of country
KARACHI: Chief Collector Enforcement South Zahid Khokhar has stated that the staff of the Air Freight Unit AFU has recovered ...
Dar to lay SBP Annual Report on national economy in Senate today
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar will present the Annual Report for the year 2014-2015 of the State Bank of Pakistan ...
Customs ASO impounds Indian saries, laces worth Rs10 million
LAHORE: Customs Lahore Preventive Anti-Smuggling Organization has seized Rs 10 million smuggled Indian saries and laces, sources told Customs Today. ...
DG Imtiaz Ahmed Khan to supervise promotions
KARACHI: Director General, Intelligence and Investigation – FBR, Islamabad Imtiaz Ahmed Khan has been assigned to supervise the promotions in ...
70 percent taxes being collected by assistance of lawyers, says president MTBA
MULTAN: The Multan Tax Bar Association President A Moeed Khawaja, after meeting with Inland Revenue Operations (IR-Ops) member of the ...
Coal-based power project and global warming
According to newspaper reports, the federal and the Sindh governments have jointly envisaged coal mining and power generation projects involving ...
IR-Intelligence arrests CDA official on tax evasion
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Inland Revenue (IR) Intelligence and Investigation has arrested a senior officer of Capital ...
