By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Dec 17, 2023 at 9:08 PMThe Ministry of Border and Tribal Affairs said that the renovation work of border signs with Iran have been fifteen percent completed. The ministry’s spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat told TOLOnews that the work on a plan to renew the border signs with Afghanistan’s neighboring countries, including Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China, is still ongoing. “The process of renewal of border marks with Iran has so far…
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By Yohan Perera in Daily Mirror, Dec 11, 2023Colombo, Dec 11 (Daily Mirror) – The government faced headwinds in Parliament yesterday in its attempt to boost revenue by enacting a piece of legislation to reduce the VAT-exempted list from 138 categories of items to 97, a move that will have a two percent inflationary effect. The House was convened yesterday for a special session despite it being a Sunday, given the urgency to pass the…
By Ansar Abbasi in The News, Sept 28, 2023ISLAMABAD: A public opinion survey done in July this year shows the highest approval rating of 88 percent for the military. The survey, done by Gallup for a political entity that commissioned it for its own assessments, also shows people’s trust in the media and courts with 56 percent approval rating for both. However, the approval ratings for politicians, in general, are 39 percent, parliament 47 percent,…
report in The Daily Star, June 10, 2023Garment exports to the US, the single largest export destination of Bangladesh, declined by 17.88 percent year on year in January-April period. During this period last year, Bangladesh exported goods worth $3.28 billion to the US, but this year it was $2.7 billion, according to data from the Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) of the US Department of Commerce. In 2022, Bangladesh earned $9.72 billion from garment…
report in The Island, Mar 20, 2023The Excise Department says its revenue for the first two months of this year has dropped by 12.2 percent, compared to the income it received during the first two months last year. Excise Commissioner General Saman Jayasinghe said that during the first two months of the year 2022, his department had received Rs 28.6 billion as rupee revenue. This year, its revenue had come down to Rs 25.1 billion,…
By Imran Mukhtar in The Nation, Mar 5, 2023ISLAMABAD – The upward trajectory of anti-state violence continued in February of this year as 32 percent more militant attacks were recorded in the month compared with January 2023. Despite an increase in militant attacks during the last month, the resultant deaths have declined compared with January. Militants carried out 58 terrorist attacks during the past month in which 62 people were killed including 27 civilians, 18…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, January 4, 2023The CPN (Unified Socialist), which was formed in 2021 by a dissident faction of the CPN-UML, failed to cross the three percent vote threshold under the proportional representation system in the November 20 elections. As a result, it lost the national party status. And now 16 months after splitting from the UML, the Unified Socialist is talking about unifying Nepal’s left parties. The party’s politburo meeting,…