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Pakistan: Police registers FIR in Sikh traders' killing in Peshawar
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): Amid severe backlash over the persecution of the minority community in the country, Pakistan's counter-terror department has registered an FIR into the targeted killing of two Sikh traders in Peshawar.
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Pakistan: Climate change deepens water crisis, worries mount amid droughts
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): Pakistan's Federal Minister for Climate Change, Sherry Rehman, on Monday raised the issue of water scarcity while Pakistan is designated as one of the three most water-stressed countries in the world as the intense water crisis in the country has led to se
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Pakistan: Former Punjab governor seeks treason trial of Shehbaz Sharif
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): Amid the ongoing political crisis in Pakistan's Punjab province, PTI leader and former Punjab governor Omer Sarfraz Cheema has announced that he is approaching the court for a high treason case against Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
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Chinese PM presses Shehbaz Sharif to punish Karachi university blast culpr
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday talked over the phone with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and repeated his government's demand for punishment for those involved in the attack on Chinese teachers at Karachi University.
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Pak regulatory body warns TV channels to avoid airing content against army
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): A key Pakistan regulatory authority has issued directives to TV channels across the country to refrain from telecasting content against state institutions, including Army and Judiciary.
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Norwegian investigating Baloch disappearances in Pakistan brutally torture
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): A Norwegian national and Human Rights Activist Ehsan Arjemandi, who went to Pakistan to investigate a large number of enforced disappearances of Baloch people was arbitrarily detained and brutally tortured.
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Imran Khan's erstwhile government procured USD 52 billion in loans
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 16 (ANI): The erstwhile Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government tops the list amongst the last four administrations in the country with the highest external borrowing of around USD 52 billion in its three-year rule, a media report said.
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15,000 more govt schools needed to enrol 4.7 m out-of-school children in P
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 16 (ANI): Pakistan's Elementary and Secondary Education (E and SE) Department needs to establish over 15,000 additional government schools for enrolling a total of 4.7 million out-of-school children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to an internal assessment
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Journalists union calls on Pakistan govt to revoke laws gagging media free
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 16 (ANI): The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) on Sunday called upon the government to revoke the 'black laws' gagging media freedom in the country and also asked it to ensure the complete freedom of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PE
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Chinese firm reluctant to fund CPEC project citing due payments
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 16 (ANI): China Export and Credit Insurance company, also called Sinosure, one of the many Chinese companies that have invested in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), has shown reluctance in funding a hydropower project citing due arrears from the Pakistani
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Pakistan's Sindh province faces 'calamity' like situation due to water sho
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 16 (ANI): Amid the recording-breaking temperature in the southeastern region of Pakistan, Sindh province is staring at a 'calamity' like situation due to a shortage of water.
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Chinese teachers of Confucius Institute leave Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 16 (ANI): China has recalled instructors teaching at the Confucius Institute of the University of Karachi, who left for their country, weeks after the Karachi blast resulted in the death of three Chinese nationals.
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