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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Imran Ayub |Umair Javed
KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet is set to approve a proposal to amend the provincial agriculture income tax law to revise tax brackets in compliance with the with the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) demand to align the taxation of farm incomes with the federal income tax system, it emerged on Sunday. In this regard, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has called a meeting of the provincial cabinet on Monday (today) to approve the draft of the Sindh Land Tax and Agricultural Income Tax Bill.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Imran Ayub |Umair Javed
KARACHI: Speakers at a seminar on Sunday demanded that the government and the establishment change their policies towards Balochistan and ensure safe return of all the missing persons from the province. The seminar, ‘The Burning Issues of Balochistan and their Solution’, was organised by the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) here at the Karachi Press Club.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Imran Ayub |Zahid Hussain
Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal chairs a meeting with bank presidents in Karachi, on Wednesday. KARACHI: Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal urged banks on Wednesday to establish an “export development window” offering soft loans primarily to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to double exports under the newly launched five-year economic transformation programme, Uraan Pakistan.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Imran Ayub
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday took great pride in the Sindh government’s public-private partnership initiatives especially in healthcare sector and lauded its significant achievements in reducing the child mortality rate in the province.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Imran Ayub |Shahid Mehmood
KARACHI: Amid ongoing unrest in Kurram district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi on Saturday called for urgent intervention from the federal government and armed forces to restore stability attributing the area’s current turmoil to the ‘failure’ of the PTI-led government, which he said had contributed to the escalating crisis.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Imran Ayub
KARACHI: Despite strong reservations from its coalition partner, PPP, the PML-N government appears unwilling to back down from its stance on six new canals on the Indus River in Punjab, insisting that they will not affect Sindh’s share of water. While talking to reporters on Friday, Federal Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal dismissed the concerns raised by the PPP, emphasising stringent oversight of the country’s water distribution system.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Imran Ayub
KARACHI: City Mayor Barrister Murtaza Wahab on Wednesday said he would seek a nod of approval from Islamabad to use the land of Pakistan Railways on I.I. Chundrigar Road to build a car park to ease traffic congestion in the locality. Speaking to journalists, the mayor expressed the hope that funds from the Centre for city development would be released and that the prime minister, Shehbaz Shehbaz, would soon announce funding for the betterment of Karachi.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Imran Ayub |Jawed Naqvi
KARACHI: Amid escalating political tensions at the Centre, the PPP on Monday decided to engage with all parties, including its rival PTI, to foster national consensus on critical issues such as security, digital economy and agriculture. The decision was made during a meeting at Bilawal House, where party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari directed PPP’s Rabta committee to engage with political parties to determine on what issues political consensus can be formed.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Imran Ayub |Farieha Aziz
KARACHI: The Sindh government came under fire from the opposition Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan and Jamaat-i-Islami over its directives to public-sector universities across the province to make only contractual appointments. The parties saw the directives as an attack on the autonomy of institutions of higher learning.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Imran Ayub
• PPP chief says party not consulted on ‘PTI ban, governor’s rule’; calls for NAP 2.0 to tackle security situation as party turns 57• Disappointed with PML-N over its economic, security policies; warns against carving out new canal from IndusKARACHI: In light of disruptive protests and a deteriorating security situation in the country, PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday called for political stability which needed to be achieved whether through “dialogue or force”.
