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FBR extends Income Tax Returns filing deadline till October 31

ISLAMABAD – Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has extended the deadline for filing of Income Tax Returns/Statements against the Tax Year 2019 till October 31, 2019.

According to a notification issued by the FBR, the individuals and associations of persons are allowed to file their tax returns by the end of next month.

The companies are also allowed to file their returns by 31st of October.

According to media reports, 378,000 taxpayers have filed income tax returns till September 30, 2019.

 

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Bilawal Bhutto Zardari meets Shehbaz Sharif today to discuss ‘Azadi March’

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will meet Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad today (Tuesday).

According to media reports, the meeting between the two leaders will take place at 2 pm at Shehbaz’s residence where both the party leaders are expected to exchange views on the current political situation in the country.

The PPP and PML-N leaders will also discuss opposition’s march against the government in the meeting.

Yesterday (Monday), PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal had urged Jamiat Ulema-e Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman to postpone the Azadi March to Islamabad to November.

Citing time required for preparation, the PML-N leader said that the former ruling party required more time to mobilise for the march to Islamabad.

He also requested that an All Parties Conference (APC) be called to set the action plan for the JUI’s Azadi March.

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China marks 70th-anniversary celebrations of the founding of People’s Republic today

BEINJING – The 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China is being celebrated today (Tuesday).

The Communist state of the People’s Republic of China was established as a revolutionary state on this day in 1949 under the leadership of Mao Zedong.

The main feature of the day grand military parade at Qianziwen Square held in Beijing which was addressed by the President Xi Jinping, who is also the chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, the Radio Pakistan reported.

On the occasion Xi said on state television that the country’s military should resolutely safeguard China’s sovereignty, security, and development interests, and firmly uphold world peace.

“No force can ever shake the status of China, or stop the Chinese people and nation from marching forward,” Xi said fom the Gate of Heavenly Peace, where Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China on this day in 1949.

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Taiwan shrugs as communist China hails 70th anniversary

TAIPEI – Communist China’s creation seven decades ago irrevocably changed Taiwan, but Beijing’s huge celebrations this week will be met with a collective shrug on an island where people increasingly see themselves as distinct from the mainland.

After the People’s Republic of China was declared on October 1, 1949, its rival, the Republic of China, set up in Taiwan — the island Chiang Kai-shek’s defeated nationalists fled to and imposed their will upon.

Taiwan remains a sore point to this day among party leaders in Beijing — viewed as a missing piece of a geographical puzzle that must one day be completed, regardless of what the island’s 24 million inhabitants want.

But for younger Taiwanese people such as Doris Cheng, the idea that her homeland is a part of mainland China is anathema.

“Taiwan is a country,” the 16-year-old told AFP while taking a break from practising hip-hop dance moves with friends in Taipei’s Liberty Square. “Taiwan has the autonomy, a government, our own people and territory.”
Fellow dancer Stephanie Fu, an 18-year-old college freshman, agreed. “I think it is natural that we see ourselves as Taiwanese, we were not born in China after all,” she said.

“There’s no sense of belonging to China,” she added. “Culturally we maybe Chinese and similar, but there are still differences.”

The Chinese communist party has never controlled Taiwan and historically mainland governments have exerted nominal control for only a fraction of the island’s history.

But Chinese President Xi Jinping has made no secret of his desire to see Taiwan brought into the mainland’s fold.

In a January speech that rattled nerves in Taiwan, he described the island’s absorption as “inevitable” and said the “problem” must not be put off for the next generation to handle.

But that increasingly assertive rhetoric from Beijing has done little to win over the Taiwanese, who have now experienced more than two decades of democracy.

According to a regular poll by Taipei’s National Chengchi University, those who identify as solely Taiwanese has rocketed from 18 percent in 1992 to 55 percent last year.

Those who see themselves as “Taiwanese and Chinese” has hovered around the 40 percent mark while those who identify as Chinese only has plummeted from a quarter of the population to just four percent.
The emergence of a growing Taiwanese identity is a headache for Beijing’s plans.

But much older Taiwanese still see themselves as part of a wider Chinese family.
On the other side of Liberty Square, 56-year-old David Chang was teaching a martial arts class, a ROC flag bandana on his head.

“We have been taught where we came from, where our blood flowed. Your nationality can change, but our blood flows from China,” Chang said.

But he said being Chinese did not mean belonging to Beijing. “To my generation, the concept of a country is stronger. We see the Republic of China as our country. This was how I was taught,” Chang added.
Hsiang Pi-Chien, 100, is one of a dwindling number of people who remember the birth of the PRC.
At his retirement home for KMT veterans in the city of Tainan, he recalled how he and his fellow soldiers had spent weeks in retreat to Mao’s communist forces.

It would be 39 years before he returned to his home village when relations between the two sides finally began to thaw. Almost all his family were dead.
“Back then China was so poor,” he recalled. “Compared to Taiwan it was like heaven and earth, there’s no comparison.”
Taiwan had undergone an economic miracle and was emerging from decades of repressive martial law towards the vibrant democracy it would become.
But China has since transformed itself into the world’s second-largest economy and global military power, the one-party state as repressive and more in control than ever.

It is a remarkable transition Beijing will place front and centre at this week’s celebrations.

Taiwan heads to the polls in January and the relationship with China will dominate campaigning.
But whoever wins, it’s clear party leaders will have an increasingly tough time persuading sceptical younger generations of Taiwanese — especially as Beijing takes a hardline to pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

“I feel it is the freedom of speech,” said Fu, when asked to describe what separates the two neighbours.
“Unlike us, they are unable to express themselves freely with some things, especially when it comes to politics.” And with that, she returned to her dance class.

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Pakistan all set to take on Sri Lanka in Karachi today

KARACHI – The second game of the three matches ODI series between Pakistan and Sri Lanka will be played at National Stadium on Monday (today).

On Friday, the first match between the two teams was called off due to rain without a ball being bowled, making the series virtually a two-match encounter.

The visiting side is without their ten main players in the series, but Ratnayake feels that this factor doesn’t make the visitors any less important team and the players know what is expected from them.

Pakistan, on the other hand, will look forward to continuing its good run against Sri Lanka in white-ball cricket.

The weather for Monday is forecast to be dry and bright. The match is scheduled to start at 3pm.

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