Peshawar—Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR),
Abdullah Yousaf has said that reforms process to
continue for making the tax submission process
more simple and for ensuring provision of
maximum facilities to the tax payers. This was
said by him while addressing a workshop of
Employees at Custom House Peshawar on Saturday
evening, said a press release issued here on
Sunday.
Islamabad — The weekly inflation in Pakistan
increased to 23.93 per cent during the week
ended on April 30 due to rising food and oil
prices over the corresponding period of last
year.
THE region’s energy and petroleum ministers in
their meetings in Islamabad, last week,
completed their negotiations and readied the
agreements for constructing two transnational
gas pipelines.
Karachi—Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME)
has called upon the authorities concerned to
allow shipments of rice cargo below minimum
export price (MEP) for all contracts concluded
before April 30, 2008 with or without letter of
credits (LCs). President UNISAME Zulfikar Thaver
said many SMEs have in hand firm orders and have
signed contracts with their buyers. In fact the
contracts are under lien with bankers who have
financed them against it, he said.
Faisalabad—The Second National Conference on
Cotton will be held on May 5-6, 2008 to prepare
action plan and appropriate recommendations for
nation-wide application for the cotton crop.
