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.
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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