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LAHORE: Three ETOs suspended over absence from duty

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LAHORE, Aug 16 (APP): Three Excise & Taxation Officers (ETOs) of the Excise and Taxation Department were suspended over absence from duty on Wednesday. According to the Excise Department spokesperson, a general hold-up is conducted against delinquent vehicles every Wednesday. DG Excise Muhammad Ali has […]

Caretaker Prime Minister Kakar unable to form his cabinet

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Islamabad, Aug 16 (Online): Caretaker Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar could not form his cabinet three days after assuming office and in this regard he continued consultations on Wednesday. Sources privy to the development said that the Caretaker Cabinet will take oath in two stages. In […]

Social media app TweetDekh placed behind paywall

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ISLAMABAD Aug 16 (Online): Social media app TweetDeck began going behind a paywall on Tuesday, with users of platform X, formerly known as Twitter, being diverted to a paid-subscription sign-up page when they tried to access it. X announced in July that TweetDeck, a popular […]

Syria doubles pay for civil servants, military personnel

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Damascus, Aug 16 (AFP/APP): Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has decreed a 100-percent pay rise for civil servants and pensioners while fuel subsidies were lifted in a country ravaged by 12 years of war. The Syrian economy has been battered by the conflict that has killed […]

Moscow shows off seized Western military equipment

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Kubinka, Russia, Aug 16 (AFP/APP): In the Moscow region’s Patriot Park, dedicated to the achievements of the Russian army, an officer wearing a green cap stood in front of a captured US MaxxPro armoured vehicle. “It was abandoned on a battlefield because it stopped working,” […]

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