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Pakistan’s short-term inflation rises 27.5 pc
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Pakistan’s short-term inflation has risen 27.57 per cent on a year-on-year basis for the week ending on August 17 largely due to a surge in petroleum prices, showed the official data released on Friday, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: Imran Khan’s nephew to be tried in military court over May 9 vio
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s nephew Hassaan Khan Niazihas been handed over to the military for trial over his alleged involvement in the May 9 violence, Dawn reported on Friday.
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Pakistan: Traders, transporters in KP demand caretaker PM to withdraw hike
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Traders, transporters in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have rejected the unprecedented increase in prices of petroleum products and have demanded the caretaker prime minister, Anwarul Haq, to withdraw the decision, Dawn reported.
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Afghanistan: Taliban imposes ban on all political parties
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The Afghan Taliban has imposed one more ban, this time on political parties in Afghanistan. Interim Minister for Justice, Shaikh Maulavi Abdul Hakeem Sharae said there was a complete ban on activities of political parties in Afghanistan, the Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: Hindu man arrested for alleged blasphemy
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The complainant alleged that on August 11, the accused arrived at the village roundabout and started making objectionable comments, which, the complainant said, he could not repeat in the FIR because that would be considered blasphemy, the Dawn reported.
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Outgoing Pakistan government overlooks 41 bureaucrats eligible for promoti
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
However, the establishment division was apparently not prepared to complete the hectic exercise, which officials said ordinarily takes months to plan, and hence could not complete the paperwork in time, the Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: President Alvi asks PM Shehbaz, Raja Riaz to propose caretaker P
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Pakistan President Arif Alvi on Friday asked Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and outgoing Leader of the Opposition Raja Riaz to propose the name of caretaker premier by tomorrow, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: At least two injured in explosion at Quetta cracker shop
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
At least two people were injured in an explosion at a cracker shop in Quetta’s Moti Ram Road, Dawn reported citing the police on Thursday.
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Pakistan: Kukikhels tribesmen in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to observe August 14 a
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The matter pertains to the uprooting of the protest camp at the historic Bab-i-Khyber in Jamrud after the imposition of Section 144 by the administration over the “deteriorating law and order” in the district. Reacting sharply to the midnight action, Kukikhel elders threatened to register a
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Speakers at training session raise issue of child abuse in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Twelve children are sexually abused every day, according to speakers who raised the issue during a training session on child abuse prevention in Pakistan on Sunday. The session was organised by the German nonprofit Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF), Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: Teacher shot dead on blasphemy allegation in southern Balochista
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
On the allegation of blasphemy, a teacher was shot dead by unknown men in Kech district in southern Balochistan, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: 8 Imran Khan's supporters arrested as Section 144 extended in Ra
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
At least eight Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) supporters were arrested and 20 more were booked for allegedly blocking roads and staging protests in Rawalpindi against the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, Dawn reported on Monday.
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