Asking the detractors to stop pointing fingers at judges and the judiciary, Chief Justice link of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Umar Ata Bandial link on Friday urged those finding faults with the Supreme Court (SC) bench link formed to hear the presidential reference, seeking interpretation of Article ...

ISLAMABAD-The government under its Agricultural Fiscal Package has approved Rs 1.5 billion sales tax subsidy on locally manufactured tractors in order to promote mechanization in agriculture sector to enhance per-acre crop output in the country.         The ...

U.S. forces have prepared a plan to evacuate hundreds of contractors of security companies from Balad air base in Salahuddin province. Iraqi Military sources said nearly 400 contractors from the two U.S. companies Lockheed Martin Corp. and Sallyport Global are getting ready to leave Balad ...

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has reportedly unearthed a huge tax fraud scam from the international contractors working on Pakistan. FBR has traced out an organised alleged tax evasion of multi-billion rupees by international contractors in multilateral and bilateral donors ...

ISLAMABAD - Private American contractors in Pakistan were deployed by US Forces .These contractors also perform “intelligence duties” by identifying “appropriate methods for obtaining the necessary in-transit visibility information”. In a notice in The Nation in 2010, the US announced a ...

ISLAMABAD - United States had hired private contractors in Pakistan to perform the intelligence and security duties in Pakistan, a private media report has revealed. The presence of underground American contractors in Pakistan drew little notice until lately when it was reported that 90 of them ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Lahore has registered an FIR against certain contractor firms for misappropriation of funds in a Pakistan Cricket Board project. Some PCB officials are also said to be involved in the wrongdoings. The agency has found forgery in the Garhi Khudabakhsh ...

MOSCOW - About 300 men working for a Kremlin-linked Russian private military firm were either killed or injured in Syria last week, according to three sources familiar with the matter. A Russian military doctor said around 100 had been killed, and a source who knows several of the fighters said ...

KABUL - The US Navy is planning to hire drone-maker General Atomics to fly its own unarmed MQ-9 Reapers in support of US Marines in Afghanistan, American media reported Wednesday. The Drive reported that the contractor-operated drones would provide a "surge" of intelligence, reconnaissance, and ...

MOSCOW - Before he was killed by a sniper in Syria at age 23, Ivan Slyshkin wrote a poignant message on social media to his fiancee: “We will see each other soon and I will hold you as tight as I possibly can.” But Slyshkin's name won't be found among the Russian Defense Ministry's official ...