Cutting-edge technology used to eliminate Al-Zawahiri

ISLAMABAD (APP): The cutting-edge technology used to take out top Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri has become a hot topic for defense and intelligence officials across the world, triggering a debate and speculations on how a high-value target was eliminated. President Joe Biden in an address […]

Former British ambassador to Myanmar detained in Yangon: source

Yangon, Aug 25 (AFP/APP): Myanmar authorities have arrested Britain’s former ambassador to the country and her husband, a prominent artist and one-time political prisoner, for allegedly violating immigration laws, a diplomatic source said on Thursday. Vicky Bowman, who served as envoy from 2002 to 2006, […]

Flood washes away historic Rail Bridge in Balochistan

QUETTA, Aug 25 (APP): Continuous downpour and hill torrents on Monday washed away Balochistan’s historic Rail Bridge in Hairak area of Bolan district causing suspension of the train service between Balochistan and rest of the country. Historically famous Mach Bridge had been built during British […]

Rohingya refugees mark ‘Genocide Remembrance Day’

Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Aug 25 (AFP/APP): Thousands of Rohingya refugees held “Genocide Remembrance Day” rallies on Thursday across a huge network of camps in Bangladesh, marking five years since fleeing a military offensive in Myanmar. In August 2017 around 750,000 of the mostly Muslim minority streamed […]

Tunnel installed for research at Ayyub Agricultural Research Institute

FAISALABAD, Aug 25 (APP): Ayyub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad has completed installation of a modern tunnel to conduct research on high value oscillation varieties of vegetables. Assistant Director Agriculture Information Muhammad Ishaq Lashari said here Thursday that this tunnel would help conduct research on high […]

Food Authority recovers 4000kg substandard gur in Mardan

PESHAWAR, Aug 25 (APP): The Food Safety and Halal Food Authority Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday unearthed a fake jaggery (Gur) production unit at Charsadda Road in Mardan district and registered a case against workers and owner of the factory. According to DG Food Safety Authority […]

Traders call for simplifying present taxation system

PESHAWAR, August 25 (ONLINE): Business community in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa blamed the present cumbersome procedures and documentation process as the main hurdle to broadening the existing ‘tax-base’ and urged the government to simplify the taxation system. It is dire need of hour of reforming and simplifying […]

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