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Pakistan gets Saudi’s approval for USD 2 billion funding to secure IMF bailout
Islamabad: Cash-strapped Pakistan has received the nod for funding of up to USD 2 billion from Saudi Arabia, a move that will help the country secure the much-required bailout from the IMF,…
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Maryam Nawaz snipes at Chief Justice of Pakistan
Rawalpindi: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice-President Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday blasted Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial for his remarks on the parliamentarians during a hearing of the Punjab…
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Pakistan vs UK on ‘grooming gangs’ abusing white English girls
Islamabad: Condemning UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s “discriminatory and xenophobic” remarks against Pakistani men, the Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) on Tuesday warned of the serious repercussions of such comments, media reports said.…
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Pakistan cabinet rejects top court’s verdict in election delay case
Islamabad: The Pakistan Federal Cabinet on Tuesday rejected the Supreme Court’s unanimous verdict on the case pertaining to the postponement of elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The development came during…
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Martial law in Pakistan? Bilawal Bhutto expresses apprehension
Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has expressed his apprehension about emergency or martial law in the country if a larger Supreme Court bench was not constituted to hear the case…
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Pakistan denies reports of trade relations with Israel
Islamabad: Amid reports of an exchange of goods between Pakistan and Israel, the Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) and the Ministry of Trade and Commerce denied on Sunday having made any trade with…
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Pakistan to place order for Russian oil next month: minister
Islamabad: Cash-strapped Pakistan plans to place its first order for Russian crude oil next month and it will take about four weeks for the commodity to reach the country, Minister of State…
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Karnataka: Muslim cattle trader told to ‘Go back to Pakistan’; killed
A cattle trader named Idrees Pasha on Saturday was allegedly killed by a group of Hindutva members in Karnataka’s Ramanagara district. The event has sparked agitation among locals and family members of…
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Four Pak soldiers killed in terror attack along Iran border
Karachi: At least four Pakistan Army soldiers were killed on Saturday in a terror attack along the Pakistan-Iran border in Balochistan’s Kech district, according to the military’s media wing. “On April 1,…
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Pakistanis drown under cost of living as inflation hits all-time high
Islamabad: Pakistans monthly inflation blew past forecasts in March and soared to a nearly all-time high level — 35.4 per cent — from a year earlier, with people feeling more pain from…
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Stampede at food distribution centre kills 11 in Pakistan’s Karachi city
Karachi: At least 11 people, including women and children, were killed and several others injured in a deadly stampede at a Ramzan food distribution centre in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi on…
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Pakistan: Sikh businessman shot dead by unknown gunmen in Peshawar
Peshawar: A Sikh businessman was shot dead on Friday by unknown assailants here, in the latest incident of targeted attacks against minority communities in Pakistan. The incident took place at 3 pm…
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Pakistan court strikes down colonial-era sedition law
Lahore: A high court in Pakistan on Thursday struck down a colonial-era sedition law that criminalised criticism of the federal and provincial governments, terming it inconsistent with the Constitution. Justice Shahid Karim…
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Saudi Arabia signals readiness to provide more credit to Pakistan
Islamabad: Pakistan claimed that it received an indication from Saudi Arabia for additional loans that may help to break gridlock with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). “We have received an indication from…
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EU removes Pakistan from list of ‘High-Risk Third Countries’
Islamabad: The EU has removed Pakistan from its list of “High-Risk Third Countries” that do not have a robust anti-money laundering and countering terrorist financing regime, a move welcomed by Prime Minister…