SHELL COMPANIES: Delaware is famous for allowing anonymous ‘shell companies’ that are used for tax evasion, money-laundering and such other things. Recently, the US government finally changed the law and now all such companies have to declare the name of their owners. But this information is only be available to governments. Pakistan should request access to such information about Pakistani citizens so that they may be duly taxed.
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A DANGEROUS CHOWK: The China Chowk in Lahore is a dangerous roundabout as it is in the middle of everything, and, to add to the trouble, there stands a dummy aircraft in the middle of the roundabout which attracts many families to the area. People park their vehicles randomly when they take their children to visit the roundabout. The authorities concerned should shift the aircraft to some safe place, such as Bagh-i-Jinnah.
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Administrator of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Laeeq Ahmed and civil society organisation members also planted trees.
The tree plantation campaign is being launched under the KMC.
Speaking to the participants of the ceremony, the LG minister said that over 100,000 environment-friendly and indigenous plants would be used in the tree plantation campaign, adding that the KMC’s parks department had developed some 70,000 indigenous saplings in their own nurseries, while memorandums of understanding had also been signed with civil society organisations to seek their cooperation in making Karachi a green city.
The provincial minister said the forest department had launched various projects in the province, including Green Sindh, Urban Forest and Mangroves Project, on directives of PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.