The government has fixed Nisab for Zakat deduction from saving and profit and loss-sharing bank accounts for the current lunar year at Rs103,159. The Ministry of Poverty Alleviation and Social Security has issued notification for 1443-44 Hijri for deduction of 2.5 percent Zakat from accounts ...

ISLAMABAD – Rice charity by Saudi Arabia has drawn the ire from political and social activists as critics are viewing it as an outcome of what the PTI incumbent government has been calling a highly successful visit to the Kingdom. The controversy started with the distribution of charity on ...

ISLAMABAD – People maintaining a minimum of Rs80,933 balance in savings, profit and loss sharing or similar bank accounts on the first day of Ramadan will be liable to pay 2.5 percent Zakat on the total balance. A notification issued by the Administrator-General Zakat for the lunar year 1441-42 ...

ISLAMABAD: A sum of Rs 7,377.678 million had been collected from across the country as Zakat during Financial Year 2017-18, reveals Economic Survey 2018-19. According to survey released here, the bulk of the amount had been distributed among provinces/ federal areas during the FY 2018-19. ...

*LAHORE: The government has imposed a ban on the collection of Fitra and Zakat by the outlawed groups.* The government has imposed a ban on 75 banned groups to collect donations in the name of Zakat and Fitra during upcoming holy month of Ramazan. It is to mention here that extending financial ...

KARACHI: Zakat Nisab 2019 for deductions from Bank accounts has been notified. The State Bank of Pakistan has fixed the Nisab for Zakat deduction on bank accounts at Rs44,415 for the ongoing year. Zakat will be deducted from saving accounts, profit and loss sharing accounts and other similar ...

LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Zakat and Ushr Shaukat Laleka Friday said that Zakat funds worth millions of rupees were used by the PML-N government over the past 10 years for political purposes and it did not reach the deserving in any district of the province. Responding to a question by PML-N ...

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has fixed the Nisab for Zakat deduction on bank accounts at Rs 38, 000 for the current Islamic year. The SBP said in a statement on Monday that Zakat will be deducted from saving accounts having a balance of Rs 38,000 or above, on the first ...

MUZAFFARABAD:Prime Minister AJK Raja Farooq Haider khan says the government is drafting legislation to provide Zakat, donations and alms to the deserving people and institutions of the state. He was addressing a seminar titled “Right to right people” in Muzaffarabad today (Thursday). It ...

Minister of State for Information says Imran Khan should present himself in the court to end his status as a proclaimed offender.Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has said that PTI Chief himself is puppet of Umpire's finger, therefore he also views others like ...