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Pakistan's support to China's clampdown on Uyghurs continues to grow
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): In recent years, Pakistan's support to Chinese actions near the border has evolved from counterterrorism measures taken against Uyghur-origin militants affiliated with South Asian jihadist outfits to lifting individuals at the behest of the Chinese govern
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Honour killings continue in Pakistan as man brutally killed after asking f
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): So-called honour killings in Pakistan continue to plague the nation, the latest victim being a man in Gujranwala, who was killed for expressing a desire to marry a woman and asking her family for her hand.
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Hafiz Saeed was inside when bomb went off near his home last week, reveals
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Days after a powerful explosion took place near UN-designated terrorist Hafiz Saeed's residence in Lahore, a Pakistani journalist has revealed that Saeed was indeed at home when the bomb went off and was the target of the attack.
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Pak's amended social media rules again fuel tensions with internet compani
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Internet companies in Pakistan have once again protested against the government's amended social media rules, stating that the most problematic provisions remain unchanged in the latest draft that they say has in fact 'regressed' in comparison with previo
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Days after confession, former Pak cleric denies sexually assaulting studen
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): In a dramatic U-turn, former Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and Pakistani cleric Mufti Azizur Rehman on Monday denied sexually assaulting one of his students and told a judicial magistrate that he was being pressurised by the police to admit to the cri
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Families of Taliban live in Islamabad, says Pak minister
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Amid the escalating violence in Afghanistan, Pakistan's interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has admitted that families of Afghan Taliban reside in his country, including in the capital city of Islamabad.
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Pak ulema support Imran Khan's remarks on women's dresses, says his aide
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's special aide on religious affairs has said ulema (body of Muslim scholars) fully support the statement of the country's Prime Minister regarding women's hijab and dress.
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Pak court orders suspension of TikTok for spreading 'immorality, obscenity
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): A Pakistani court on Monday once again ordered the suspension of Chinese video-sharing application TikTok, nearly three months after the ban was lifted from the popular app.
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Attempt to pressurise Pakistan's Lahore HC Bar Association to speak agains
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 28 (ANI): The Lahore High Court Bar Association Secretary Khawaja Mohsin Abbas claimed on Monday that there was an attempt by Law Ministry to exert pressure on the bar to pass a resolution against Justice Qazi Faez Isa in exchange for grant-in-aid cheques.
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Altering the boundaries of GB- A sinister design by Pakistan government
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 28 (ANI): In a notification dated June 14, 2021, issued from Khyber Pakthunkhwa (KPK) Culture and Tourism Authority on the Shandur Polo Festival- 2021, KPK informed that the annual Polo festival stands cancelled for this year.
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Pakistan: PML-N lashes out at Imran Khan govt over looming energy crisis
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 28 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former finance minister Miftah Ismail on Sunday lashed out at Prime Minister Imran Khan-led government for a looming energy crisis in the country and delays in the dry docking of liquified natural gas (LNG)
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Pak journalists' union seeks Imran Khan's clarification after official's r
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 28 (ANI): A journalists' union has sought to know from Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan his position on free speech after his Special Assistant on Information Shehbaz Gill announced that the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government would control all the c
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