US, Pakistan called off military talks
due to protests: US
WASHINGTON: A planned meeting between US and Pakistani military
chiefs was postponed this week due to a wave of violent anti-American protests,
the top-ranking US officer, General Martin Dempsey, said on Thursday.Dempsey revealed at a news conference that he had scheduled a discreet trip to Pakistan to meet chief of the army staff, General Ashfaq Kayani, but the two agreed to call off the talks amid unrest on the streets of Pakistani cities.
“I was originally planned to go to Pakistan to meet with General Kayani, and because of some of the issues related to that film, he and I discussed postponing that visit — mostly so that I would give him the time to deal with the issues he was dealing with internally,” said Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Pakistan has been rocked by days of violent protests in its major cities as demonstrations have swept Muslim countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia over an anti-Islam film, a crude production by American amateurs.
Instead, Dempsey said he extended an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, visiting the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand.
The general did not take reporters with him and his office made no public announcement about his Afghan trip.
Dempsey has adopted a lower profile than his media-friendly predecessor, Admiral Mike Mullen, who at times publicly diverged from the White House’s stance on some issues.
Unlike the previous chairman, Dempsey has taken a number of overseas trips without any press documenting his visits, including a meeting of Nato officers in Romania last week.
The general denied that he had kept the trip under wraps because of any doubts about the war effort in Afghanistan, where a rise in insider attacks by Afghan forces has caused concern at the Pentagon.
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FBR urged to extend
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KARACHI, Sept 27: The Karachi Tax Bar Association (KTBA) has urged
the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to extend the last date for filing of tax
returns for the tax year 2012. The last date announced is September 30, 2012.The tax bar submitted that taxpayers and tax consultants are facing multiple problems in preparing tax returns on the e-portal of the FBR which is not only consuming a lot of time but there is a major hassle in respect of filing of the returns.
The KTBA gave a long list of problems and irritants being faced by the taxpayers and tax consultants while filing income tax returns for the year 2012.
Most of these problems and irritants are related to FBR’s e-portal which is not functioning properly and dose not follow the Income Tax Rules 2002, governed under Income Tax Ordinance 2001.
Iqbal Ahmad Abdan general secretary of the KTBA pointed out that the issues related to tax return form IT-2 and IT-4 were raised before the FBR, but so far no solutions have been forwarded by the board.
He complained that when data is filled by a taxpayer in annexure “G” of the return form IT-2, all the data disappears when main IT-2 form is opened for making any correction. As a result taxpayer has to fill the whole annexure again to make even a minor correction.
Highlighting another problem, he said in the same annexure if a taxpayer has no business name, his/her name on the NTN should be taken as the business name in the tax return which the annexure does not entertain.
This irritant needed to be resolved at the earliest, he asserted. Similarly, he said in the tax form IT-4 which has to be filled by the retailers, its contents could not be saved until and unless the CPR number is inserted which in the opinion of the tax bar should be taken care of.
Mr Abdan stated that wealth statement form is not operative and is lengthy and cumbersome as taxpayer has to give the particulars of each and every entry under each item along with the description of the same.
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