Zafar Khan Safdar
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Yet instead of closing that gap, governments keep cutting - Pakistan Today (opens the original)
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Pakistan’s real estate sector has discovered something ordinary taxpayers rarely experience: a government willing to listen when it asks for relief. Ahead of the June 2026 budget, the Association of Builders and Developers argued that lower taxes would attract investment and raise real estate’s contribution to GDP from 2.5 percent to 15 percent. The government responded. Withholding tax on property purchases by filers was cut from 2.5 percent to 1.25 percent, Federal Excise Duty on commercial pr
And young people are watching. - Pakistan Today (opens the original)
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The greatest danger to a country is not a shortage of capable people. It is a system that teaches capable people to stop using their capabilities. When taking initiative becomes risky, questioning an established practice is treated as disloyalty, difficult decisions become a source of personal danger and those who go beyond their assigned duties discover that responsibility can be punished more severely than inaction. Gradually, people learn the lesson the system is teaching them. Do only what i
Pakistan has collected Rs 1.9 trillion through electricity - Pakistan Today (opens the original)
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Putting the burden on those already paying Pakistan’s economy may be stabilising, but for millions, stability feels like another bill to pay. Inflation has eased, reserves have recovered and the IMF programme remains on track. Yet recovery cannot be measured by better aggregates alone. The real question is who is paying for that stability and whether the burden is shared according to the capacity to pay. In Pakistan, the pattern is familiar. The heaviest burden falls on salaried workers and docu
The PIMS tragedy - Pakistan Today (opens the original)
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At 6:45 last Wednesday morning, 15 newborns lay inside the nursery of PIMS Hospital in Islamabad. They could not walk, cry for help or escape. Then, reportedly, an air-conditioning compressor exploded and the room caught fire. Fourteen of those babies would never leave it alive. One was carried out by a doctor who happened to be present. Outside, parents waited, not knowing that their children, some in incubators, some on oxygen, some only hours old, were trapped inside a burning room. They had
Pakistan recorded 1,045 terrorist incidents - Pakistan Today (opens the original)
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A state does not collapse when a militant seizes a police station. It begins to collapse when ordinary citizens stop believing the state can protect them. That is the uncomfortable question Maulana Fazlur Rehman has posed before Pakistan. Speaking in Parliament, the JUI(F) chief described parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan where the state’s authority has, in his words, been severely weakened. His warning may be politically inconvenient, but the right response to an uncomfortable claim i
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