Mon, 05, 21
The finance ministry babus and other government officials must be holding meetings behind closed doors in Islamabad to firm up proposals for the budget for FY 2021-22.
The finance ministry babus and other government officials must be holding meetings behind closed doors in Islamabad to firm up proposals for the budget for FY 2021-22.
The government has not yet announced the date for the laying of the budget before the National Assembly, but most probably it will be announced in the first half of June.
It would be the fourth budget of the PTI-led coalition and the first by the Finance Minister Shaukat Tareen in the present government.
No tax increase for salaried class in budget, says Tarin
Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin said on Sunday that income tax rates for the salaried class will not be increased in the upcoming budget and vowed to bring legislation to put tax evaders behind bars.
While addressing a virtual press conference, the minister also downplayed the controversy over the provisional economic growth rate of 3.94%, saying that the growth was the result of prudent policies of Prime Minister Imran Khan. He hoped that in the next fiscal year 2021-22 the government can achieve 5% economic growth rate.
The government will end harassment by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) but people, who would not declare their incomes under the self-assessment scheme, will be put behind the bars, said Tarin.
Three cops martyred, four injured by dacoits in Khanpur
Bandits attacked an armoured personnel carrier with rockets, anti-aircraft guns
HYDERABAD:
Three policemen were martyred and four others were injured on Sunday in an ongoing operation against dacoits in the riverbed area in Khanpur, Shikarpur district, Sindh.
The outlaws attacked an armoured personnel carrier (APC) with rockets and anti-aircraft guns, killing the policemen.
Shikarpur SSP Ameer Saud Magsi confirmed the casualties in the operation. But, he claimed that six dacoits have also been killed. We won t stop at any sacrifice. Until we don t recover all the kidnapped people, we will continue the operation, he said while talking to the media.
May 23, 2021
SHIKARPUR: A rocket attack on a police armoured vehicle in the Garhi Tegho area of Khanpur Tehsil by a group of alleged dacoits has Sunday left at least three personnel dead and six with injuries, ARY News reported.
The attack on the police vehicle came amid an ongoing operation against the bandit group’s seige of uninhabited Katcha area where police fought off the alleged bandits’ footprint in the area.
The personnel who died in the sudden rocket strike have been identified by local police as Munawwar Jatoi, Saeed Mehar and Hafeez Shaikh.
On the other hand, casualties are suspected on the other side as well after the police’s operation.