ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday appointed Lt-General Zahirul Islam as new director general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), bringing to a halt the rumours about the extension in the tenure of the incumbent chief of the country’s top intelligence agency.A brief notification issued from the PM’s Secretariat stated, “Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has appointed Lt-General Zahirul Islam, Corps Commander Karachi, as new director general Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). ...

ISLAMABAD – The PPP government has offered a lucrative scheme to ‘swindlers, plunderers, smugglers and corruption monsters’ to whiten their black money, the sources said on Friday.As per the economic observers, the plan is simple enough: invest in stocks, pay tax and get your black money legalised. This scheme in the garb of generating more funds through levying of Capital Gains Tax on the stocks – is yet another feather in the cap of the ruling federal government, which in its four-year rule ...