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Supreme Court Upholds FBR to Go after Big Tax Evaders PPP Threatens ‘Long March’
Aasia Bibi’s Acquittal to Protect 18th Amendment

Islamabad: The Gambat: Pak-
Supreme Court istan People’s
on Tuesday dis- Party (PPP)
missed a peti- Chairman Bi-
tion seeking re- lawal Bhutto
view of the top warned Tues-
court’s October day that his
31, 2018 verdict party would
of acquitting Aa- not desist
sia Bibi, a Chris- from holding
tian woman who a long march
spent eight years to thwart any
wrongfully accused on death row in a attempt at rolling back the 18th
blasphemy case. Amendment.
“On merit, this petition is dis- Speaking to the media after
missed,” said Chief Justice Asif Saeed inaugurating a medical college in
Khosa, ending Aasia Bibi’s final legal Gambat, Bilawal said his party will
hurdle. The petitioner had failed to appeal against the apex court’s deci-
point out any mistake in the original sion on the 18th Amendment. We
judgment. “will not let them snatch away hos-
After her release from Multan’s pitals from Sindh,” he asserted.
women prison on November 7 last “In Naya Pakistan, I challenge
year, Aasia Bibi was flown to Islam- Prime Minister Imran Khan to
abad onboard a special aircraft. She Addressing the meeting, Prime Minister Imran Khan said the ongoing reforms in the FBR were part of the reforms agenda of the government build a medical college similar to
was then taken to an undisclosed Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Minister Office. detect offshore assets of Pakistani cit- the one inaugurated by me right
place amid tight security. Authorities Khan Wednesday directed Federal Minister for Finance Asad izens and the recovery of taxes under now,” Bilawal said during his ad-
have remained tight-lipped about her Board of Revenue (FBR) to focus on Umar, Minister of State for Revenue the country’s laws. dress to the gathering.
movement and whereabouts for se- tax recovery from the big tax evad- Hammad Azhar, FBR Chairman Jah- Addressing the meeting, the “In the last budget, people such
curity reasons. ers and bring the non-filers into the anzaib Khan and other high officials Prime Minister said the ongoing as Imran Khan’s sister received re-
“I am really gratefully to every- tax net. attended the meeting. reforms in the FBR were part of re- lief but none was given to the poor,”
body, now after nine years it is He was chairing a meeting re- The FBR Chairman briefed the forms agenda of the government. he said. Bilawal said the way Imran
AASIA, P28 garding reforms in FBR a the Prime Prime Minister on the steps taken to FBR, P28 PPP, P28
India Accuses Rahat Fateh Ali of Work on 900 Km Pak-Afghan Border Fence Completed De Kock Assault Sinks Pakistan
Smuggling Foreign Currency in ODI Series Decider
lations (ISPR) Director
General Maj Gen Asif
Ghafoor said work on
about 1,200km chunk —
the most sensitive portion
out of the total 2,600km
border with the war-torn
country — had com-
menced last year.
New Delhi: The Indian authorities He said the project Newlands: Opening batsman
have issued a notice to Pakistani would cost about Rs70 Quinton de Kock launched an as-
singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for al- billion, which included sault on Pakistan’s bowlers to set
legedly smuggling illegal foreign the cost of gadgets and up a series-clinching win for South
currency. surveillance equipment Africa in the fifth and final one-day
The notice was issued by the to keep strict vigil on the international (ODI) at Newlands on
Indian Enforcement Directorate illicit movement from Wednesday.
(ED) on Wednesday under the For- across the border. De Kock slammed 83 off 58
eign Exchange Management Act He said the fence had balls as South Africa chased down a
(FEMA). helped check the move- target of 241 with seven wickets and
The ‘Afreen Afreen’ singer has Pakistani soldiers stand guard near the Afghan border in Ghulam Khan, North Waziristan, on Sunday —AFP ment of terrorists from ten overs to spare to seal a 3-2 series
been accused of smuggling illegal across the border and the win.
foreign currency from India for Ghulam Khan: The army Pak-Afghan border has Sunday at Ghulam Khan, situation would further “Quinny made it easy for the
three years. has said that work on a been completed. a border village in North improve after the comple- rest of the batters,” said South Afri-
According to the media, Khan 900-kilometre-long por- Briefing journalists Waziristan tribal district, tion of the project next can captain Faf du Plessis, who said
RAHAT, P28 tion of fence along the and anchorpersons on Inter-Services Public Re- FENCE, P28 CRICKET, P28

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