Pakistan has implemented a measure to combat the illicit importation of goods into the country. Under the Afghan transit trade agreement, a processing fee of 10 percent has been levied on specific imported items, as per a customs department notification issued by the Federal Government. This fee, ...

In Islamabad, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and the Ministry of Commerce have recently implemented a more stringent policy regarding Pakistan's role as a transit country for commercial imports heading to Afghanistan. Under SRO 1397(1), the Ministry of Commerce has prohibited the transit ...

Concerned about smuggling, the federal government has taken a significant step by imposing a 10% processing fee on income generated under Afghan transit trade. According to media reports, a series of actions and measures are underway by the vigilant federal government to combat smuggling. A 10% ...

Islamabad: The federal government has decided to impose restrictions on the imports of luxury items through Afghan transit trade. According to details, it has been revealed that the national treasury has incurred an annual loss of more than 185 billion rupees from Afghan transit trade, prompting ...

QUETTA – PTI leader Hassaan Niazi remained imprisoned despite getting bail, and now he has been handed over to the Lahore police on a seven-day transitory remand. Reports in local media said a local court in Balochistan's capital approved the transitory remand of Hassan Niazi, and a team of ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan and Uzbekistan on Monday finalised agreements to further enhance investment and increase the bilateral trade volume to $1 billion. Commerce Minister Syed Naveed Qamar and Uzbek deputy Prime Minister Sardor Umurzakov signed the Preferential and Transit Trade agreements, ...

The Punjab cabinet approved an underground mass transit system for Lahore this Friday, as well as the inclusion of subterranean blue and purple line mass transit projects as a part of the Annual Development Program. The decision was taken at the sixth cabinet meeting, which was chaired by the ...

Pakistan and Uzbekistan have agreed to finalize the Transit Trade Agreement (TTA) in March. This was decided during bilateral meetings between the visiting Uzbek delegation headed by Uzbekistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov and ...

ISLAMABAD - The federal cabinet has extended the Pak-Afghan transit agreement for six months on Tuesday. Briefing the journalists about the decisions taken in the cabinet meeting held today under the chair of Prime (PM) Minister Imran Khan, Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhary said that the ...

First transit consignment to Central Asia passed through Pakistan-Afghan border point link — Ghulam Khan Crossing — which was opened in June last year to promote business activities among the regional countries. Pakistan’s Special Representative to Afghanistan Mohammad Sadiq said in a tweet ...