Due to indifferent attitude of the incumbent government towards its basic responsibilities, people in Pakistan are suffering from energy crisis, which is proving to be unbearable. Power crisis is also affecting. Lopsided priorities, poor management… Read More »Pakistan’s Energy crisis and remedy: suggestions and proposals
By AFP
THOUSAND OAKS: Google chief Eric Schmidt declared war on international criminals Tuesday, vowing to harness technology to battle “illicit networks” around the world.
At a two-day summit including Interpol, government ministers and victims of forced labor and child slavery, Schmidt said the Internet can help fight traffickers of drugs, sex workers and organs.
International police body Interpol used the conference to unveil a pioneering initiative to crack down on trade in fake goods, using an app developed with the help of search giant Google.Read More »Google declares war on illicit networks
Land mafia has been putting hindrance in the inquiry of fraudulent allotment of 20 plots in Sector I-14 of the federal capital.
Capital Development Authority (CDA) sources said that the scandal was surfaced in April 2012 and affectees of Sector E-12 were allotted plots through fraud in Sector I-14 while CDA Board in 2009 had banned plot allotment to affectees of Sector E-12 unless they give the possession of land. Sources said that 18 out of the 20 affectees are from Sector E-12 while two are not from the said sector.Read More »Islamabad: Land mafia hinders inquiry of plot allotment in Sector I-14
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Tuesday held the balloting of residential plots of the Park Enclave Housing Project. CDA Chairman Engineer Farkhand Iqbal conducted the balloting by punching the key of a computer at CDA Headquarters. A large number of allottees were present on the occasion.
As many as 613 residential plots were allotted through the computerised balloting. The CDA chairman, while addressing the ceremony, said that development work in the scheme would be completed as per commitment.
Read More »Islamabad: Balloting of Park Enclave Housing Project held
* Study shows 48 percent non-credible applicants granted visa in Pakistan
By Asif Mehmood (Daily Times)
LONDON: Getting a UK visa is going to become an up-hill task for Pakistani students, as they would have to go through assessment interviews in the future, Daily Times has learnt. The decision was taken after a British Home Office study found out that 48 percent of those granted visas in Pakistan were not credible applicants.Read More »UK to interview Pakistan students seeking visa
BY PROFESSOR DR-ING JAMEEL AHMAD KHAN
If the president of United States complains that the growing number of attacks on their cyber networks has become “one of the most serious economic and national security threats their nation faces,” it certainly carries lot of weight. It reflects the stark truth that when technology is available, it could be used by anybody.
By Muhammad Yasir (Daily Times report)
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has revised the limit for purchase of SIMs from 50 to five for one individual in its amended Subscribers Antecedents Verification Regulations.
According to the new rule issued on Tuesday, an individual can get subscription of five SIMs – prepaid or postpaid—on one Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) from different or one cellular phone companies.
Read More »KARACHI: PTA restricts SIM purchase limit up to 5 per CNIC
FBR introduces IT-5 form for immovable property sellers
* Buyers, sellers will be required to pay
* 0.5 percent WHT on sale of immovable property
By Sajid Chaudhry (Daily Times)
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has made it mandatory for the sellers of immovable property including plots, flats, buildings, agricultural land, etc, to ensure submission of income tax (IT) -5 return form to provincial registration authorities along with the registration documents upon sale or transfer of the immovable property.
Read More »ISLAMABAD: Documenting real estate transactions
NA body takes notice of extraordinary cost estimates
* Committee members asks when one solar tube well available at Rs 1.5m, why is Planning Commission estimating Rs 3m
By Sajid Chaudhry (Daily Times)
The National Assembly’s (NA) Standing Committee on Textile Industry was shocked to know the exorbitant price estimates of up to Rs 3 million each as estimated by the Planning Commission for installation of one solar tube well in the country.
The members of the committee challenged these estimates and were of the view that when this technology is available in the market at Rs 1.5 million as maximum price, then why the Planning Commission has fixed these estimates so high. Read More »ISLAMABAD: Installation of solar tube wells
* Immigrants wanting to live in UK will have to learn first verse of UK national anthem
By Asif Mehmood (Daily Times)
LONDON: The British government is planning to make changes in the citizenship test according to which immigrants wanting to live in the UK will have to learn the first verse of the national anthem, the UK Home Office has announced.
Citizenship test known as “Life in the UK”, introduced by the Labour government in 2005, is compulsory for everybody who wants to become a British citizen. Read More »UK planning changes to citizenship test