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PTI chief calls for compensation to US drone strike victims

Edit Dawn 07 Mar 2016
ISLAMABAD. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday said that he would seek compensation for victims of a controversial US drone strike programme, vowing to take their cases to the parliament and the courts ... Imran ... Speaking on the occasion, SDPI Executive Director Dr Abid Qaiyum Suleri said South Asian women parliamentarians could play a major catalyst role in bringing about a change in the political mindset ... ....

‘Time running out for carbon emission control’

Edit Dawn 22 Dec 2015
ISLAMABAD. The global community has 10 to 20 years left to find a solution to the carbon emission issue. Otherwise it will become difficult to continue life on the planet. This was stated by founding executive director Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) Dr Tariq Banuri on Monday ... Executive director SDPI Dr Abid Suleri said time was very short for Pakistan and we have to think to protect the environment ... ....

Political fortunes change fast with surveys

Edit Dawn 27 Oct 2015
Suleri releasing the findings of the survey on Monday which was sub-titled ‘Socio-political preferences of people of Pakistan’. Dr Suleri informed mediapersons inquisitive about the popularity graph that the SDPI’s survey was “a perception-based survey and perceptions can change any time.” ... Dr Suleri said a majority of people think that the security ......

‘Restaurants in Margallas, new Parade Avenue violate master plan’

Edit Dawn 22 Oct 2015
The commission, appointed by Justice Athar Minallah on February 20, 2015, consisted of senior counsel Dr Parvez Hassan, Climate Change Secretary Arif Ahmed Khan, Cabinet Division Secretary Raja Hasan Abbas, IUCN Country Representative Mahmood Akhtar Cheema, WWF DC Hammad Naqi Khan, Advocate Saima Amin Khawaja, SDPI Director Abid Qayyum Suleri, CDA ......

The mystery that shrouds Liaquat Ali Khan's murder

Edit Dawn 16 Oct 2015
On October 16, 1951, Pakistan’s first prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated in Rawalpindi's Company Bagh (also known as East India Company Garden) during a public meeting of the Muslim City League. He was a close aide to the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and it was during his rule that religious parties begin to take foothold in Pakistan ... S ... M. S ... Suleri was being heard by a Lahore High Court bench....

Pakistan to take on sustainable development goals on its own

Edit Dawn 06 Oct 2015
ISLAMABAD. Federal Minister for Planning and Development Prof Ahsan Iqbal on Monday said the government had decided to take over the responsibility for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He said the international community had not given any assurances about funding for the goals ... Suleri said some of the millennial development goals were contradicting each other, which made achieving them all the more harder ... Google Play....

Pakistan’s national climate plan — neither 'ambitious' nor 'imaginative'

Edit Dawn 03 Oct 2015
That was about two weeks ago ... Why the INDCs are important? ... Even Abid Qayyum Suleri, executive director at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and a member of the National Economic Advisory Council, sees "huge room for improvement" in the INDCs ... "All these game changers would bring new economic growth opportunities coupled with new vulnerabilities for climate change," Suleri says ... ....

Iran nuclear deal: What they're saying

Edit Syracuse 14 Jul 2015
President Obama today announced a diplomatic agreement with Iran that he says will dismantle that country's nuclear program in exchange for relaxing economic sanctions. RT the news. We just reached a deal to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon ... Here are the president's remarks in full.. Full video ... There are many skeptics in Congress. ... Thnx @POTUS & @HassanRouhani— Abid Qaiyum Suleri (@Abidsuleri) July 14, 2015 ... ....

Setting home-grown sustainable development goals

Edit Dawn 13 Jul 2015
At the root of the new rethinking is how to ‘localise’ the SDGs ... But it is undoubtedly ‘financing’ development that is the biggest challenge facing Pakistan ... Sustainable Development Policy Institute’s (SDPI) Chief Executive Dr Abid Suleri said the country had signed the MDGs without assessing its capacities or needs ... Dr Suleri said Pakistani authorities need to learn from these mistakes and do their homework for the SDGs ... Apple Store ... ....

‘Pakistan must reduce indirect taxes’

Edit Dawn 04 Jul 2015
ISLAMABAD. Pakistan must stop tax dodging through better policy implementation to move forward on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), says Penny Lawrence, Deputy Chief Executive, Oxfam GB ... Executive Director of SDPI Dr Abid Suleri in his talk said the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were thrown as a blanket across the board, and individual needs of the groups were not regarded into the strategy ... Published in Dawn, July 4th, 2015 ... ....

Focus on increasing economic growth in budget

Edit Dawn 19 May 2015
ISLAMABAD. The focus of next year’s budget would be on increasing economic growth, the government announced on Monday ... It was deliberated that tax recovery needs to be further improved while ensuring facilitation for the tax payers ... Khan, Dr Abid Qaiyum Suleri, Sakib Sherani, Qazi Azmat Isa, Abdul Razak Dawood, governor State Bank of Pakistan and chairman, Federal Board of Revenue and Chairman, Board of Investment ... Apple Store ... ....

Literary Notes: Anti-ghazal, meta-ghazal, free ghazal and English ghazal

Edit Dawn 11 May 2015
GHAZAL, the most popular genre of Urdu’s lyrical poetry, has not only survived attacks from critics but has in fact grown in popularity. Originating from Arabic ‘qaseeda’, or panegyric ode, ghazal became popular as a poetic genre unto itself in Persian, Turkish and Urdu ... real ghazals in English, the anthology was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2000 with an afterword by Sara Suleri Goodyear ... The question is ... Apple Store ... ....

Politicians seek tax reforms

Edit Dawn 26 Mar 2015
ISLAMABAD. Major political parties on Wednesday sought effective taxation reforms to bring the rich into the tax net ... The government has constituted a Tax Reform Commission, but opposition parties are not optimistic about much improvement ... Value-added tax (VAT) was being implemented in the name of GST, he added ... Dr Abid Qaiyum Suleri and Dr Vaqar Ahmad of the SDPI made presentations on the current tax system and how it can be improved ... ....
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