08 Khalilzad starts new trip Zafar for change in social for Afghan peace process behaviours to defeat virus ISLAMABAD: US Special Representative for ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to PM on Health Dr Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has started a The Zafar Mirza said on Saturday that people have to change new trip to Qatar, Pakistan, and Afghanistan on the Afghan their ways of lifestyle to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Ad - peace process. The US Department of State said in a state - dressing the media persons in Islamabad, he said that the pro - ment that Khalilzad left Washington for travel to Doha, Is - tection of the lives of health professionals was a top priority of lamabad, and Kabul. “The primary focus of Ambassador the incumbent govt. He said that the govt was providing PPE Khalilzad's trip is to obtain agreement between the Afghan to more than 450 hospitals weekly. “One of the problems we parties on the practical next steps necessary for a smooth are facing is hospitals are not assessing and distributing the start to intra-Afghan negotiations," the statement said. — BLahore,u Sunday,s Junei 07,n 2020 Sheawwals 15, 1s 441 PPEs to hospitals given to them by the govt,” he added. — NCOC firm to Moin holds virtual meet provinces’ meeting with requirements Kashmiris, others ISLAMABAD: A major step has been PARIS: The Ambassador of Pakistan to taken by National Coordination and Opera - France Moin-ul- Haque held a virtual meeting tion Centre (NCOC) to enhance capacity today with Kashmiri and Pakistani diaspora in and meet requirements of provinces includ - France on the Kashmir issue, on Saturday. ing AJ& K, GB & ICT. He apprised them of recent developments in According to detail, NCOC has allocated Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir ( IOJK) and issued 250 additional ventilators over including illegal Indian actions to change the last one week to overcome challenges in crit - demography of the region. He told them that ical care. The distribution of latest issued the Government of Pakistan under the leader - ventilator is as under. In Punjab total new ship of Prime Minister Imran stand by the peo - ventilators have been issued 72 which in - ple of Kashmir, and Foreign Minister Shah cluded Faisalabad, Multan Rawalpindi, La - Mehmood Qureshi has raised the Kashmir hore. In Sindh total new vents issued 52 for issue with the United Nations and his coun - Karachi & Sukhar. For KP total new vents terparts in all important capitals. issued 52 for Peshawar & Abbotabad. He also informed them of the positive role For Balochistan total new vents issued 20 being played by the various human rights or - for Quetta GB total new vents issued 10, 10 to ganizations, parliamentarians including mem - PIMS. Total new vents issued 24 Poly Clinic bers of the European Parliament, and LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar inaugurates the E-Challan system and driving license time schedule. 10. As of today previously state of various journalists around the world in condemning health facilities. Total no of hospitals with the Indian excesses in IOJK and raising their covid isolation cases management facility is voice for the fundamental rights of the people 747. Total no of beds allocated for Covid-19 Ease cost of doing business across borders of Kashmir. While appreciating the efforts patients were 22589. Total patients have been made by Kashmiri and Pakistani diaspora in admitted 5060. Total no of beds with oxygen France for the Kashmir cause, the Ambassa - facility for Covid patients was 5060. Total dor urged to intensify them and not to forget ventilators available for Covid are 1400 avail - their Kashmiri brothers and sisters at a time ability of vents. Only 32 percent allocated for when the world’s attention is focused more Covid occupied till date. Punjab, Faisalabad towards the coronavirus pandemic . —DNA total 150, allocated-for covid 57. —Online PAJCCI for reducing PM calls NEC NAB facing dependence on meeting tomorrow problem in probing ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has called National Economic Council Sarwar’s case (NEC) meeting on Monday. The Business Report During the meeting annual development single tracking Co program for the fiscal year 2020-21will be ap - By Our Staff Reporter ery of traders. He further instated that vi - would suffer impacting employment and ISLAMABAD: The National Accounta - proved. Sources said PM AJK, all the four sion of Prime Minister to support businesses in our border areas as well. chief ministers, chief minister Gilgit-Baltistan, bility Bureau (NAB) is facing some difficul - LAHORE: The procedural hindrances, Afghanistan amid COVID 19 was very Motiwala strongly sought intervention ties in its investigations against Aviation respective ministers and members of NEC will slow processing across border, limited well received, however, these procedural of Honorable Imran Khan to look into this participate in the meeting. The meeting will Minister Ghulam Sarwar as Revenue Depart - working days at Pak-Afghan border amid issues and bottlenecks have limited reap - matter on urgent basis and facilitate reso - ment has not yet handed over record to the bu - accord approval to development framework COVID 19 has caused a significant back - ing of the b enefits and raised a lution of this misery for eliminating the proposed by annual planning coordination reau. log that not only led to deterioration of crucial situation that is not only financially deadlock at port and border and save NAB has decided to write another letter to committee and micro economic indicators. consignments of perishable items but also dreadful but also deteriorating the socioe - traders from incurring further losses re - The approval in respect of annual develop - the Revenue Department seeking record of enhanced distress of businesses involved conomic ties between the two countries. sulting due to shortage of tracking equip - properties of Aviation Minister. ment programme of federation and provinces due to increasing cost of doing business. Zubair Motiwala sought Honorable is also part of agenda of the meeting. It is pertinent mention here that NAB Despite agreement, border agents have re - Prime Minister Pakistan’s support in re - Rawalpindi has launched assets beyond The annual development program will stand ported that not even 100 trucks are pass - ducing the dependence on a single tracking Pak-Afghan Chaman at Rs 1500 billion. Over 900 billion will be means investigations against the minister. The ing cross-border on a daily basis which is company keeping in view the vast require - bureau on April 22 wrote a letter to Revenue provided to the provinces and there is proposal further exacerbating the situation. To ments of the businesses involved and also border reopened to allocate over Rs 600 billion for federal an - Department and sought record of properties make the matters worse, the only company in order to ease the cost of doing business of Ghulam Sarwar, his wife and children. CHAMAN: The Chaman border has nual budget. GDP target for the next fiscal year responsible for issuance of trackers has this monopoly should be eliminated to been reopened and Pakistanis stuck in is proposed to be set at 2.3 percent. Approval shown its inability in making the tracking make the regime competitive and more in - Afghanistan have started returning to in this regard will be obtained from NEC. The equipment available readily and also the dustrious. He emphasized that current un - the country on foot. approval for economic survey regarding cur - Corruption is rates are highly fluctuating making it dis - availability of trackers and undue high According to media reports Afghan rent fiscal year will also be obtained. The coun - turbing for the businesses involved. costs are immensely disturbing the mo - nationals who are stuck in Pakistan can cil will also be informed about the targets root of all evils, The Pak-China Joint Chamber of Com - mentum and consignments are being de - also go back to their country which have not been achieved. —Online merce and Industry (PAJCCI) members layed further to cross border, mainly those The people returning are being says NAB Chief across the border have been raising hue which were even aimed for Ramazan and screened and tested for the novel coro - and cry, keeping that in context Chairman Eid. This gridlock can only be resolved by navirus and then quarantined at isola - ISLAMABAD: Chairman of National Ac - PAJCCI, Zubair Motiwala urged Prime opening up avenues for other competitive tion camps set up by the army in Another photo of countability Bureau (NAB) has said that cor - Minister Imran Khan to intervene on an entities to enter the landscape which would Chaman. Two weeks back, the Afghan ruption is root of all evils and NAB is urgent basis to save the businesses from make the mechanism more productive and government had refused to reopen the Nawaz surfaces working very sincerely against this menace. incurring significant losses which have would facilitate businesses to opt out of border for people crossing on foot. They also resulted in loss of confidence across varying alternatives. He also pinpointed LONDON: Another photo of Quaid of Chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal has then changed their minds and agreed to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) said that destination of corruption free Pak - the border. Motiwala stated that the agita - that in case if this measure is not under - it on Saturday. This border was closed tion shown by entities involved is justified taken Pakistan would not only lose an op - has surfaced online in which he can be seen istan has been determined and any sort of earlier following upsurge in coron - taking a walk with his son. bulling and intimidation will not affect his and despite communication the tracking portunity of extending its competitive avirus-infected people in both countries company, which has a monopoly in this portfolio in the long run, but also both trade The former prime minister of Pakistan’s pic - resolve. He asked, “Doesn’t the people of of Pakistan and Afghanistan. —Online ture was captured while he was taking a stroll Pakistan want to live in sovereign country? segment, does not pay any heed to the mis - and transit businesses with Afghanistan with his son Hasan Nawaz in Hyde Park. As Isn’t it the right of our people to get good ed - per reports, doctors have recommended Nawaz ucation and health facilities?” He further said that critics claim that NAB makes retal - Sharif take an hour-long walk every day. iatory cases but courts have rejected bails of Earlier, another photo of former Prime Min - accused in those cases. —Online ister Nawaz Sharif, in which he was seen sit - PHMA wants crucial ting with his family members, went viral on social media igniting a new debate about health of the three-time PM. According to CAA closes Sharif family sources, this was the first time relief taxation measures that Nawaz had left his apartment to go out in Nawabshah By Our Staff Reporter have received just 30-40 percent of claims is 11 percent customs duty, five percent public after the coronavirus outbreak hit Lon - payment, while rest of the refund claims regulatory duty, and two percent addi - don. Nawaz took a walk from Park Lane flats LAHORE: The Pakistan Hosiery Man - are stuck up with the government, which tional duty on import of the cotton yarn. to the office — ten minutes away. —DNA airport runway ufacturers and Exporters Association accumulate to a huge amount of exporters' This has created artificial shortage of KARACHI: The Civil Aviation Authority (PHMA) has asked the government to take running capital. Due to availability of liq - availability of yarn, rendering the value- (CAA) has decided to close runway of the crucial relief measures in taxation with a uidity and smooth cash flow, the confi - added textile exporters uncompetitive in Nawabshah airport amid presence of locusts view to tackle economic challenges, uplift - dence of exporters will be boosted to the global market against regional com - Alvi asks people in the area. ing exports and sustaining the employment enhance their exports and cement their peting countries. “The runway of the Nawabshah airport will in the country. The government should also business ties with the foreign counterparts This will lead to decline in exports as to implement SOPs remain close for landing of the flights”, the look into the ways of reducing cost of doing to capture true business potential. local industries are hurting and closing NOTAM released by the CAA reads. The de - business and energy cost for the industry. Currently, the WHT is charged at vari - down. Further, garment stitching units are ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi Sat - cision has been taken to avoid incidents as the In the budget proposals for 2020-21 ous levels and items such as import of raw not allowed to import yarn under Duty and urday urged the countrymen to believe in and number of locusts are present in Nawabshah submitted to the federal government, material, registration of new vehicles etc, Tax Remission for Exporters (DTRE). implement the anti-COVID 19 SOPs, just like and its adjoining areas. The CAA has in - Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers and Ex - which is adjusted or refunded later. Ex - The PHMA proposed that whenever the way they believed that the virus was not formed Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) porters Association vice chairman Shafiq porters fall under final tax regime u/s govt desires to impose regulatory duty on spread deliberately. and others airlines in this regard. According But said that the Association has pro - 143(b) and should be exempted from pay - import of cotton yarn, the government In a tweet, the president shared a survey re - to the National Disaster Management Au - posed the government to restore zero-rat - ment of the WHT and be given exemption should also impose regulatory duty on ex - port published in the British weekly The thority (NDMA) 62 districts of the country ing of sales tax, reduce withholding tax certificates. This will greatly benefit them port of cotton yarn, and there should be Economist showing that Pakistanis were the have been affected by the swarms of the lo - and impose regulatory duty on cotton and also lower workload on the Federal time limit/duration of imposition of duty. highest believers in the world that coronavirus custs. yarn export to create job opportunities. Board of Revenue (FBR) who is busy in a Shafiq Butt said that exporters have been was not being spread deliberately. According Earlier, on May 20, a spokesman of the He said that the PHMA has proposed to futile exercise, For exporters fall under given incentives on their exports by the to the survey conducted in March this year, NDMA had said in a statement that both aerial revive SRO 1125 in its true spirit and rein - final tax regime withholding tax should be government in shape of Duty Drawback around 72pc of the Pakistani samples believed and ground spray of various districts was being troduce system of no payment and no re - reduced from one percent to 0.50 percent. on Taxes (DDT) and Drawback of Local that no foreign force was spreading the virus conducted. Sharing the details of the spray, he fund of sales tax for the five Shafiq But said that this would help ex - Taxes and Levies (DLTL). Currently, the deliberately rather it was something that had said the spraying of 5,100 hectare areas of export-oriented sectors. He said that ex - porters in using the cash liquidity for en - government is providing Duty Drawback emerged naturally. Only 23pc believed in the Balochistan, 1,900 of Punjab, 700 of KP and porters, who have filed their refund claims, hancement of the exports. Currently there of Taxes on garment, home textile and fab - deliberate spread of the coronavirus. —DNA China starts importing frozen fish from Pakistan BEIJING: China has started im - ernment removed the restriction on then kept the fish under refrigera - porting frozen fish from Pakistan as fishing, they are gradually resum - tion to go through the customs”, a standard sized container of silver ing supplying seafood to China. Asimabrarb said. “Our seafood is croaker fish set off from Karachi Because of the strict lockdown of high quality and we supply in Port via a cargo ship of COSCO imposed by Sindh government dur - large quantity. Every year orders Shipping Corporation Limited. ing COVID-19 spread, fishermen from China just pour in.” Now, the Chinese importer Xu cannot go fishing at sea, which af - The official data shows that in Zhenwei is looking forward to the fected the implementation of many the first seven months of FY arrival of the fish and expects to re - international contracts. Moreover, 2019/20, Pakistan’s export of ceive them in the end of June, ac - the months of annual restriction goods and service to China rose cording to China Economic Net. from June to July due to the breed - 1.8% while frozen fish exports in - “Gutted silver croaker and ing season of the marine species creased from US $ 40.253 million golden threadfin bream without would put great extra pressure on last year to US $ 73.947 million head and fins, hair tail and squid the livelihood of people associated during the current fiscal year, from Pakistan are very popular with the profession. Therefore, showing growth of 83.70 percent. with Chinese people. We are im - Sindh government has decided to Although novel coronavirus is porting about 150 containers of offer relief to the fishermen com - still wreaking havoc at present, frozen seafood from Pakistan an - munity by allowing them to fish in Asimabrar brims with confidence nually,” he said. Asimabrar, person the sea in June this year. with the Chinese market and Sino- LAHORE: A view of an empty road during the complete lockdown in charge of the fish processing “As soon as the ban lifted, we Pak trade. He is longing for a fa - on Saturday and Sunday amid corona virus outbreak. plant Sea Green, said as the gov - contacted fishermen to go fishing vorable turn. —DNA PRINTED AT TIJARAT PRINTERS FOR TIJARAT PUBLICATIONS AND PUBLISHED BY IRFAN ATHAR FROM TIJARAT HOUSE, 14-DAVIS ROAD, LAHORE.