Pakistan
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Pak PM announces relief package of Rs 50bn for domestic electricity consumers
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday announced a relief package of Rs 50 billion for millions of domestic electricity consumers as his cash-strapped government was battling to push back the…
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Pak SC reserves judgment in opposition party’s petition about reserved seats allotment
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its judgment in a key petition by the opposition Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) party about getting its due share in the reserved seats in Parliament…
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Army troops fire at Pakistani drone along LoC in J-K’s Poonch
Mendhar: Army troops fired a few rounds to shoot down a Pakistani drone along the Line of Control in the Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said…
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Pakistan will continue to seek IMF bailouts if it fails to boost tax revenue
Islamabad: Pakistan Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has warned that the cash-strapped country will continue to seek IMF bailouts if it fails to boost tax revenue, according to a media report on Monday.…
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Counter-terrorism officer killed in terrorist attack in Karachi
Islamabad: A Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) officer was killed in a terrorist attack in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, police officials said. CTD Deputy Inspector General Asif Aijaz Shaikh told the…
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Had NDA won with 400 seats, POK would be integrated with India: Union Minister
Akola: Integrating the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) into India and reclaiming the land captured by China in 1962 would have become feasible had the NDA won 400 plus seats in Lok Sabha elections,…
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New era of Pakistan-China cooperation has dawned: PM Shehbaz Sharif
Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said a new era of Pakistan-China cooperation in the information technology (IT), communication, mining, and energy sectors has dawned and will lead to economic development and…
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Ex-Pak PM Imran Khan demands fresh elections under ‘new & impartial’ EC
Lahore: Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has demanded fresh elections under a “new and impartial” election commission, saying the whole country knows the 2024 election was the biggest fraud in…
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Pak PM Shehbaz Sharif to decide fate of social media platforms during Muharram
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would decide the fate of social media platforms such as YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok during the Muharram festival as the Punjab government sought a…
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Imran Khan threatens hunger strike over lack of confidence in Pakistan SC
Islamabad: Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday threatened to go on hunger strike if the Supreme Court Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa failed to deliver justice in his cases…
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Pak to ban social media for 6 days to control ‘hate material’ during Ramadan
Lahore: After successfully blocking X, formerly Twitter, for over four months, the Pakistan government is now set to ban all social media platforms — YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok — for…
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UN chief wants to see Imran Khan’s current situation ‘evolve’ in positive way
Islamabad: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wants to see Imran Khan’s current situation “evolve in a much more positive way”, his spokesperson said, days after a UN panel termed cases against Pakistan’s jailed…
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Pakistan holds ‘good’ meeting with Taliban in Qatar amid strained ties
Islamabad: Pakistani diplomats held a “good” meeting with the representatives of Afghanistan’s Taliban-led interim government in Qatar this week during which they discussed bilateral and regional issues, in what was seen as…
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Pak court grants pre-arrest bail to Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi in corruption case
Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-corruption court on Tuesday granted pre-arrest bail to jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan’s wife and former first lady Bushra Bibi in a case of alleged corruption. Khan and Bibi,…
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Imran Khan should be released immediately; detention ‘politically motivated’: UN group
Islamabad: A UN group has demanded the immediate release of Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, saying at least two cases slapped on him were “politically motivated” and aimed to exclude…
