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December 10, 2025

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IMF urges Pakistan to maintain tight monetary policy and expand tax regime

This picture shows the seal for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, DC on January 26, 2022. — AFP— AFP Efforts should be focused on improving the business environment: formal. Nigel Clarke says the reforms have helped macroeconomic stability. Advises SBP to allow exchange rate flexibility to absorb shocks. ISLAMABAD: After approving two tranches of a loan totaling $1.29 billion, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged Pakistan to continue a tight monetary policy, expand and simplify its tax regime, adjust electricity and gas tariffs and continue structural reforms to fix the troubled economy. The News reported on Wednesday.

November 29, 2025

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The SIFC urges a review of the tax regime, interest rates and exchange rate policy

Warns excessive taxes, high rates hurt investment, calls for export-led strategy instead A view of business offices and residential apartments under construction in Karachi, Pakistan, September 23, 2025 Photo: Reuters Islamabad: Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) National Coordinator Lt. Gen. Sarfraz Ahmad on Thursday unveiled a road map to make the economy competitive by significantly reducing the tax burden on businesses, reducing interest rates and having a realistic exchange rate. In an address to Pakistan’s top businessmen, the SIFC coordinator said the country’s development plan was “lacking”. He urged all stakeholders to agree on an export-led model of economic growth

October 17, 2025

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The Assad regime moved mass graves to hide war crimes

More than 160,000 disappeared under Assad’s rule, believed to be buried in dozens of mass graves, rights groups say A bone fragment, which experts believe is part of a human leg, was found on the surface of the mass grave in the Dhumair desert. PHOTO: REUTERS For nearly two years, the stench of death rose from a Syrian desert highway. Night after night, trucks moved thousands of bodies from one mass grave to another, part of a secret effort ordered by President Bashar al-Assad’s palace to cover up evidence of mass killings. A Reuters investigation revealed how Operation Earth Move

June 1, 2025

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Jamaat-e-Islami regains political regime after Bangladeshi Supreme Court

Listen to the article The Bangladeshi Supreme Court reinstated the political registration of the Jamaat-E-Islami party, overturning a 2013 Supreme Court ruling that had prevented the country’s largest religious party from participating in the elections for over a decade. The decision, issued on Sunday by a four -member passenger section of the department led by Justice Chief Syed Refaat Ahmed, called on the electoral committee to immediately restore Jamaat’s registration and resolve all pending issues, including the allocation of the election symbol. Jamaat had lost his legal regime under the premiership of Sheikh Hasina, who was removed from power after

May 6, 2025

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US Court of Appeal rejects Trump offer to recall thousands of immigrant regime

US border patrol agents gather and classify immigrants who have gathered between primary and secondary walls of the border that divide Mexico and the United States in San Diego, California, USA, June 6th 2024 – Reuters Boston: A Federal Court of Appeal rejected a request by US President Donald Trump on Monday to allow him to recall the provisional legal status of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaragus and Venezueles living in the United States. The 1st US Court of Appeal in Boston refused to order the judge to stop the movement of the Internal Security Department to reduce

April 17, 2025

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The World Bank offends Pakistan’s tax regime to be extremely ‘unfair, irrational’

A worker bends as he carries fabric packages on his back to deliver to a nearby store to a car market. – Reuters/file WB asks to bring the real estate sector to the tax net. It wants the sector to be recorded and accurately taxed. The lender proposes the rationalization of the tariff structure. Islamabad: Completing Pakistan’s tax system extremely “unfair and absurd”, the World Bank said that the increased burden of leased order could only be reduced by expanding the tax base and integrating all incomes into the tax net, The news reported on Thursday. The lender, demanding that

February 9, 2025

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Bangladesh’s repression to the former faithful of the regime

Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus attends the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2025. – Reuters The head of the interior ministry makes it “Devil Hunt”. “It will continue until we uproot the devils,” Chowdhury tells reporters. The protesters break the buildings associated with the Hasina family. Dhaka: Bangladesh launched a major security operation on Sunday, as protesters attacked gangs allegedly linked to former Leader Sheikh Hasina. A government statement said the operation started after gangs “linked to the fallen imperial regime attacked a group of students, leaving them seriously injured.” Jahangir Alam Chowdhury,

January 27, 2025

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Donald Lu, accused by Imran Khan of regime change role, completes diplomatic occupation

Former Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu. – Ministry of Foreign Affairs LU LED Bureau to oversee US ties to Pakistan from September 2021. The top emissary became embroiled in a controversy based on Imran’s allegations. The PTI founder accused Lu of orchestrating his removal as PM in April 2022. The US State Department announced the departure of Donald Lu, assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs, after his term ended earlier this month. The department quietly posted a confirmation on its official website, stating that LU’s term ended on January

December 19, 2024

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Britain sets first codes of practice for tech firms in internet security regime

A man holds his cellphone in downtown Mexico City, Mexico, February 3, 2021. — Reuters LONDON: Britain’s online safety regime came into force on Monday, requiring social media companies such as Meta’s Facebook and ByteDance’s TikTok to take action to tackle criminal activity on their platforms and make them more secure than their design. Media regulator Ofcom said it had published its first codes of practice to tackle unlawful harm such as child sexual abuse and aiding or abetting suicide. Websites and apps have until March 16, 2025 to assess the risks posed by illegal content for children and adults

December 7, 2024

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The US believes the Assad regime could fall within days

Rebel fighters sit in a vehicle in Homs, Syria, on December 7, 2024. — Reuters US officials say the Assad regime could fall from power by next week. The Pentagon is not ready to change its stance, an official says. The fall of the regime is an “increasingly plausible scenario,” says one official. Officials in the Biden administration, closely monitoring the changing situation in Syria with rebels advancing rapidly on Damascus, suggest that President Bashar al-Assad’s regime could collapse within days as rebels have come within 30 kilometers of Damascus . They said Assad’s hold on power was increasingly shaky.

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