The capacity of a country to repay its domestic debt lies in its ability to raise revenues from different sources. Pakistan is wrangling with rising domestic debt, which underscores the need to expand the tax base in order to repay the domestic debt. Talking to WealthPK, Nadeem ul Haque, former chairman of the Planning Commission […]
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BEIJING: Economic and trade cooperation is the foundation for the sound and steady development of China-UK relations, Chinese Vice President Han Zheng said on Wednesday. Han made the remarks when meeting with James Cleverly, the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom, in Beijing. Han said China and the […]
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Australians will vote in a historic referendum on 14 October to decide whether to enact an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. If approved, the vote would recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the country’s constitution, and establish a permanent body for them to give advice on laws. The proposal is the subject of fierce […]
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LONDON/NAIROBI: The five Kenyan police officers, who were involved in the killing of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif, have quietly resumed their official duties without any action being taken against them, according to an investigation by The News and Geo. Nine months after the killing of Arshad Sharif at a roadblock in a remote part of […]
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Elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina – an EU candidate country – are undemocratic and entrench the privileged position of dominant ethnic groups, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday. The legal case was brought to the Strasbourg-based court by Slaven Kovačević, a political scientist and adviser to a member of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s […]
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India said on Tuesday that it had lodged a strong protest with China over a new map that lays claim to India’s territory, the latest irritant in testy ties between the Asian giants. The protest by New Delhi followed reports in the Indian media that Beijing had released an official “standard map” showing the Indian […]
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ANKARA: India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the federal government to indicate if there is a time frame to restore the status of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK) as a full-fledged state. The remarks by the top court came as it heard petitions challenging legislation that stripped IIOJK of its statehood and special […]
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Hundreds of thousands of people are being trafficked by criminal gangs and forced to work in scam centres and other illegal online operations that have sprung up across Southeast Asia in recent years, the United Nations said in a report on Tuesday. The report cited “credible sources” estimating that at least 120,000 people across Myanmar […]
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US President Joe Biden said Monday it is time for all Americans to speak up because “diversity is being attacked” after a white man fatally shot three Black people over the weekend at a store in Florida. “Now is the time for all Americans to speak up when history’s being erased, books are being banned. […]
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The Islamabad High Court (IHC) suspended PTI Chairperson Imran Khan’s sentence in the Toshakhana case on Tuesday and ordered his release. A division bench of the IHC, comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Tariq Mehmood Jahangir announced the much-anticipated reserved decision. The court said that the copy of the judgement will be available shortly. A […]
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