Pakistan
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Pakistan: 21 killed, 46 injured in railway station blast
Islamabad: At least 21 people were killed and 46 others injured on Saturday in a powerful bomb explosion at a crowded railway station in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province, officials said. The explosion…
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India votes against Pakistan resolution on conventional arms control
United Nations: India voted against a resolution by Pakistan on ‘Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels’. The resolution by Pakistan and Syria on ‘Conventional arms control at the regional…
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Islamabad HC to hear Imran Khan’s bail plea in Toshakhana-II case today
Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) is set to hear Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan’s bail plea in the Toshakhana-II case on Monday. The court had previously removed objections to former…
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Sikhs pilgrims from UK, US and Canada to get free online visas in Pakistan
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has said that Sikh pilgrims from the US, UK and Canada will receive free online visas within 30 minutes upon arrival in the country to pay…
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Pakistan: Balochistan blast kills 9 including 5 school children
Islamabad: At least nine people, including five children, were killed and 27 others were injured as an autorickshaw carrying schoolchildren bore the brunt of a bomb blast targeting a police mobile van…
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Qatar pledges to invest USD 3 bn in Pakistan during Shehbaz Sharif’s visit
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Friday announced that Qatar pledged to invest USD 3 billion in Pakistan during the visit of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. The prime minister returned home…
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Pakistan: 4 killed, 15 injured in bomb explosion
Islamabad: Four people, including three school children and a policeman, were killed and 15 others injured when a bomb went off in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province on Friday morning, official sources said.…
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Pak MPs condemn letter from US Congress members seeking Imran Khan’s release
Islamabad: Pakistan’s more than 150 lawmakers joined hands to condemn a letter from 62 US Congress members urging President Joe Biden to pressurize Islamabad into releasing jailed former premier Imran Khan, a…
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Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif arrives in Riyadh for FII conference
Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Riyadh on Tuesday, October 29, leading a delegation to participate in the future investment initiative (FII) conference. Upon arrival at King Khalid International Airport,…
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Polio vaccinators attacked, held hostage in 2 separate incidents in Pakistan
Peshawar: Three terrorists were killed in a gunbattle when they attacked a polio vaccinators’ team in Pakistan’s restive northwestern province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday, October 29. In another incident, unknown militants took…
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Pakistan starts new polio vaccination drive as virus detected in 16 district samples
Islamabad: Pakistan on Monday started its third nationwide polio campaign to vaccinate 45 million children against the crippling disease as the virus was detected in the environmental samples from 16 districts. Prime…
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UK parliamentarians call for release of Imran Khan
Islamabad: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has been behind bars for over a year for multiple cases of corruption and sedition, is getting open support from parliamentarians from countries like…
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Pakistan: ATC grants bail to Imran Khan’s sisters
Islamabad: A Pakistan court on Friday, October 25 granted bail to jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s two sisters, who were arrested during a protest here earlier in the month in alleged…
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Pakistan religious leader expresses concern at Zakir Naik’s remarks
Sahiwal: Reverend Azad Marshall, President Bishop of the Synod, the Church of Pakistan, Reverend Azad Marshall, in a recent letter to President Asif Ali Zardari, expressed his concern regarding the remarks made…
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Pakistan: Lahore HC denies bail to prime suspect in attack on Imran Khan
Lahore: A high court in Pakistan has rejected a bail petition of a prime suspect in an attack on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and former prime minister Imran Khan during a road…
