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Pakistan: President Alvi proposes November 6 as election date
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
In a major development, Pakistan President Arif Alvi on Wednesday, in a letter to a letter to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja, proposed November 6, as the date of national elections, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: SC upholds convictions of ex-army officers guilty of plotting to
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The Pakistan Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed pleas filed by two ex-army officers — for plotting to overthrow former PM Benazir Bhutto’s government in 1995 — calling them “without merit”, Pakistan-based Dawn reported on Tuesday.
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Pakistan: Protests in Sindh as govt fails to rescue victims of abduction
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The organisers of the Minority Rights and Aurat March held their second protest at Teen Talwar in Karachi’s Clifton on Monday to condemn the failure of the police and the caretaker Sindh cabinet in ensuring the recovery of kidnap victims, Sagar Kumar and Priya Kumari, Dawn reported.
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Pak: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Chitral region under massive cross-border tensio
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The Chitral region in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has recently made headlines owing to a fatal cross-border incursion on September 6, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: Lawyers' body call for nationwide strike over poor economy
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan called on bar associations to participate in a nationwide strike on Saturday, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: Heavy rains flood low-lying areas in Islamabad, Rawalpindi
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
In the early hours of Tuesday, a long spell of heavy rain and high winds in Rawalpindi and Islamabad inundated low-lying sections of the twin cities, destroyed trees, and elevated the water level in Nullah Leh by at least seven feet, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: Thousands including minority Hindus protest against "dacoit rule
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Thousands of citizens took out a peace procession and staged a sit-in at Ghantaghar Chowk in Kandhkot town on the second consecutive day in protest against police’s failure to recover the hostages, including several members of the minority Hindu community in Pakistan’s Sukkur, Dawn reported
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Pakistan: Islamabad police rearrest Chaudhry Parvez Elahi after court orde
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad police on Friday rearrested Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, Pakistan-based Dawn reported. His arrest came hours after the Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered his release.
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Pakistan: Senior police official found involved in cross-border drug smugg
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
A senior official of Lahore police has been found to be allegedly involved in the smuggling of drugs across the border via drones, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan caretaker Finance Minister rules out relief in power bills
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Pakistan caretaker Finance Minister Shamshad Akhtar on Wednesday told senators and the electricity consumers to “manage (their) expectations” raised by caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar for relief in excessive power bills, saying the country’s fiscal space did not permit any subsid
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Karachi police registers FIR after pickup truck runs over four of a family
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The Karachi police on Thursday registered a first information report (FIR) of an incident in which a pickup truck ran over four members of a family in the Gulshan-i-Iqbal area, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan caretaker govt hikes petrol price by nearly Rs 15, HSD by Rs 18
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The Pakistan caretaker government has hiked petrol price by Rs 14.91 per litre and high-speed diesel (HSD) price by Rs 18.44 per litre, Dawn reported.
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