Standard Procedures

How to renew or get driving license in minimum time in Punjab Pakistan

Recently I have gone through the process of renewing my driving license from Rawalpindi Traffic Police office. During the process, I took time and tried to figure out how can this process be followed in a way that in minimum time one can renew or get new license. One thing is important here, although I had gone through the process of getting my driving license renewed, however, in same queues there were people who were following exact same process to get new driving license. So basically, the process of renewing driving license is exactly same as process of getting new license, after the driving license test have been passed. Also, although I have followed the process in Rawalpindi Office, the […]

Finance

Income Tax Rates for Salaried Income for fiscal Year 2018-19 in Pakistan

As this year the government in Pakistan have been changed and power have been transferred from Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), so two budgets were presented. One from the leaving government and one from new PTI Government. So there was a lot of confusion regarding the income tax rates for upcoming tax payment for fiscal year 2018-19, the tax which will be due for payment just after June 2019. So to clear this we have done some research and here is what FBR have to say about the tax rates for salaried income for Fiscal Year 2018-19. # Income Category Yearly Tax Amount 1 Taxable Income below 400,000 0% 2 Taxable Income between 400,000 and […]

Traffic and Laws

Islamabad Traffic Violation Fines in Detail, imposed by Islamabad Traffic Police

Currently following fines are being imposed by Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) on anyone driving/using the roads of Islamabad city for the traffic violations listed below.  Exceeding prescribed Speed Limit (Rs. 200) Carrying Passengers in public service vehicle exceeding permissible limits (Rs. 200) Violation of manual traffic signals (Rs. 200) Disobeying traffic signals Amber Flashing (Rs. 100) Red Thinking (Rs. 200) Red Light (Rs. 500) Overloading by public transport (Good Carrier) (Rs. 300) Driving a vehicle exceeding prescribed weight limits or overloading of goods 15% in excess of Limits (Rs. 500) Overloading of passengers 30% in excess of permissible limits (Rs. 200) Overloading where prohibited (Goods) (Rs. 300) Overtaking where prohibited (Rs. 200) Failure to yield the right of way to […]

Occasions

Google Goes Green with its Waving Pakistani Flag Doodle on Pakistan Independence Day 2018

As, always what Google does is, it cares for its audience from different countries and localities. So Google changes its logo in accordance with special occasions of certain locality. So they always call those modified logos depicting those special occasions ‘Doodle’. Enough of the background on Google doodles, Google have recently launched one such doodle to be part of Pakistan’s Independence Day celebrations in 2018. They did this many times on our Independence days, other occasions and their logo changed many times to remember people who had contributed to Pakistani society or the ones who have had a great following in Pakistanis, for whatever but good reason. 2018’s Pakistan Independence Day Google Doodle shows a Pakistani flag flying high under […]

General Elections

ECP Releases Official Pakistan General Elections 2018 Results, PTI leads with 115 NA Seats

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) finally released the official results of the 11th General election of Pakistan which held on 25th July 2018. It almost took 56 hours to announce the final stats in which ECP confirms the victory of Pakistan Threek-e-Insaf and the overall figure showed that this political party is the largest political party in Pakistan right now. According to the official announcement of ECP, out of 270 seats, Pakistan Threek-e-Insaf has won 115 seats of National Assembly. To make the government PTI still relay on independent seats because according to law one member can only take one seat and has to give up other seats. Few of the members contested from multiple seats but they need to […]