Lahore Safe City Launches Investigation Against Huawei For Spying Allegations

A long-running dispute between Huawei Technologies Co. and a small U.S.-based contractor has escalated to U.S. federal court, with the contractor alleging Huawei stole its technology and pressured it to build a “back door” into a sensitive law-enforcement project in Pakistan. The contractor, Buena Park, Calif.-based Business Efficiency Solutions LLC, or BES, says in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in California district court that Huawei required it to set up a system in China that gives Huawei access to sensitive information about citizens and government officials from a safe-cities surveillance project in Pakistan’s second-largest city of Lahore. Muhammad Kamran Khan, chief…

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Jahaan Zaad – A Fashionable Feast

Mohsin Naveed Ranjha outdoes itself as a brand with their latest formals collection, Jahaan Zaad. The conceptualization of the concept is unique and traditionally rooted which gives the pieces an even more attractive aura. Jahaan Zaad, in other words, is a fashionable feast for the eyes and the mind. The Philosophy Behind The Collection The […]

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Ufone Celebrates Independence Day with Feelings of Being Free

Pakistan is known for its rich cultural background from its many provinces come people from various ethnicities and religions whether we have Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus or Chritians among all our other brethren. The country with its diversity brings many definitions of freedom, yet what remains constant is the smile that this freedom brings with it. Although backgrounds and aspirations may vary, but freedom with its many colours and expressions is visible when we smile and it synchronizes us with everything that makes us happy. Pakistani telecom operator, Ufone, has over the years embraced Pakistan’s unity in diversity by celebrating every…

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FBR Extends Deadline for Filing Sales Tax and FED Returns

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has extended the date of payment and submission of Sales Tax and Federal Excise Return for the Tax Period of July 2021. ALSO READ FBR Extends WHT Exemption Period for Selected Imports In its letter to all Chief Commissioners Inland Revenue (IR), the FBR has informed about the extension in date of payment of Sales Tax and FED up to August 23, 2021 which was earlier set as August 15, 2021. Similarly, the date of submission of Sales Tax & Federal Excise Return has been extended up to August 24, 2021 which was earlier…

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Large Scale Manufacturing Growth Surges to 16-Year High of 14.85%

The overall output of Large Scale Manufacturing Industries (LSMI) increased by 14.85 percent for the fiscal year (July-June) 2020-21, compared to the same period (July-June) 2019-20, says Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). According to provisional Quantum Index numbers of Large Scale Manufacturing Industries (QIM), the LSMI output increased by 18.42 percent for June 2021, compared to June 2020, and increased by 4.36 percent, if compared to May 2021. ALSO READ Govt Committed To Provide More Facilities To Pakistani Remitters Abroad The LSMI Quantum Index Number (QIM) was recorded at 148.71 points during July-June 2020-21 against 129.49 points during the same…

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