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US-based advocacy group urges Imran Khan to reopen Khokhrapar border cross
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Nov 27 (ANI): A US-based advocacy group has urged Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to reopen the Khokhrapar-Munabao border with India so as to facilitate the travel of, both, the Muslim pilgrims from Pakistan to Dargah Ajmer Sharif in Rajasthan, and Hindu devotees from
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Dehradun: Plastic banks established to collect waste from grass root level
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], Nov 18 (ANI): A state-based environmental action and advocacy group has established 'Plastic Banks' in capital city Dehradun in order to effectively deal with the plastic waste that is getting generated at grass root levels.
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US: Voice of Karachi writes to UN, seeks justice for Mohajirs against Pak'
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [US], Sept 28 (ANI): Highlighting the "gross human rights violations" of Mohajirs in Pakistan, Voice of Karachi, a US-based advocacy group, has urged the United Nations to intervene and save the community from the "systematic persecution" by the establishment.
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'Justice for Karachi' campaign to be launched ahead of Imran Khan's addres
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [US], Sept 24 (ANI): Ahead of Prime Minister Imran Khan's address at the United Nations General Assembly's session, US-based advocacy group, Voice of Karachi (VoK), said it will launch a major campaign to highlight the atrocities and gross human rights violation by Pakistan's state
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Restructure Pak into autonomous states or face existential threat, warns V
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 6 (ANI): Chairman of the US-based advocacy group, Voice of Karachi, Nadeem Nusrat has warned Pakistan that "it is facing a potentially existential threat and restructuring Pakistan into multiple autonomous states is the only viable solution to save it."
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Pakistan 'successfully' tests Ghaznavi ballistic missile
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Aug 29 (ANI): Pakistan has "successfully" carried out a night training launch of 290-km range surface-to-surface ballistic missile Ghaznavi, its military said on Thursday.
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VoK demands Parliament for 'Greater Karachi'
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Aug 13 (ANI): US-based advocacy group Voice of Karachi (VoK) released the main features of the proposed constitution for 'Greater Karachi', demanding the formation of a Parliament for the region, amongst other things.
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Pak's outcry over Kashmir height of hypocrisy, shamelessness, says Baloch
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Frankfurt [Germany], Aug 13 (ANI): Pakistan's outcry over the developments in Kashmir and its advocacy for the human rights of Kashmiris shows the height of hypocrisy and shamelessness when compared to the 72 years of their illegal occupation of Balochistan, said Hammal Haider, foreign sp
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Bring to justice murderers of Mohajirs: Mohajir leader Nadeem Nusrat to Im
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], July 25 (ANI): A Mohajir leader and the chairman of US-based advocacy group Voice of Karachi, Nadeem Nusrat, has urged Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to investigate and bring to justice the murderers of Mohajirs.
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Pompeo reduces funding to OAS following its advocacy for abortion
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], Mar 27 (ANI): US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo on Tuesday (local time) announced that he is cutting off funding to the Organisation of American States (OAS) after it advocated for abortion.
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GLAAD, The Black List join forces to promote LGBTQ screenplays
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 28 (ANI): GLAAD, a LGBTQ media advocacy group has partnered with The Black List, the annual survey of Hollywood executives' favorite unproduced screenplays, to create The GLAAD List, a new curated list of the most promising unmade LGBTQ-inclusive scripts in Hollywo
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Voice of Karachi unveils plan for creating 'Greater Karachi' region
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Jan 23 (ANI): The Voice of Karachi, a US-based advocacy group for the rights of Urdu-speaking people of Karachi, has demanded the Pakistan government to declare Karachi and other urban areas of Sindh province as an autonomous region within Pakistan.
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