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- BISE Bannu, DI Khan Postpone Matric Exams Amid Security Concerns
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Opinion · Intellectual Voices
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The Word That Was Dropped
On 21 September the government said it had struck "the border region". On 24 September it said it had struck 10 locations in Afghanistan. Nothing was debated in between. A column on a two-word change that nobody voted for.
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Two Traders
The FBR offered shopkeepers a one-page return, no audit, no machine and one per cent of turnover. Two traders who were not already filing signed up. A column on what that result actually proves.
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As and When Needed
On 16 September Pakistan told the Security Council it would respond in self-defence as and when needed. On 18 September fifteen policemen were killed in Kohat. By the 21st, aircraft were over the border area. A column on a doctrine executed within five days.
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Four and Six
Two children, aged four and six, were taken from a house in Lahore with their father on Monday morning and later found safe. A thousand containers of food are rotting outside Rawalpindi. A column on who pays for a political confrontation.
Business
Salaried Class Paid Rs144bn in Tax, Rs90bn More Than Shops and Property
Salaried employees paid Rs144 billion in income tax in the first quarter. Real estate and retailers together paid Rs54 billion, with property collection down 38 percent after tax rates were halved.
Pakistan Holds 48pc of the Region’s Poor, World Bank Reports
Almost half the people living on under $3 a day across the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan are Pakistani — a share matched only by the region's three war-torn states combined.
