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Pak opposition terms Budget 2021-22 'illegal', alleges Imran govt robbed m
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 30 (ANI): Pakistan opposition parties on Tuesday slammed the passing of the federal budget for the financial year 2021-22 and said that it is "illegal" and has "robbed the members' right to vote in the National Assembly.
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Pakistan's external debt likely to increase as dependence on foreign loans
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 30 (ANI): Pakistan's external debt is likely to increase in the near future as it is under compulsion to borrow more and more every year to repay its outstanding external loans, finance its current account and build its forex reserves.
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Terrorists from Afghanistan posing threat to our security, says Pakistan F
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 30 (ANI): Amid the recent surge in violence in Afghanistan, Pakistan has said that some 5,000 terrorists belonging to the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were posing a threat to its security from their "sanctuaries" in the neighbouring country.
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Prices of petroleum products in Pakistan likely to increase from July 1
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Amid high levels of inflation in Pakistan, the country's Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) has suggested hiking the price of petroleum products in the country from July 1.
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Pakistan Opposition leader Bilawal slams Imran Khan-led government's 'ill
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday that the budget for the fiscal year 2021-22 has "no legal standing" as it has been passed "illegally".
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1,000 Schengen visa stickers stolen from Italian embassy in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Around 1,000 Schengen visa stickers were stolen from the Italian embassy in Islamabad this month, according to Pakistan's ministry of foreign affairs which directed relevant departments to take "appropriate action" on the theft, local media reported.
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Pakistan could face 'blowback' of dangerous situation in Afghanistan: ex-p
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Pakistan could face the "blowback" of dangerous situation erupting in Afghanistan due to the ongoing Taliban offensive, said former Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari.
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Pakistan National Assembly passes fiscal year budget 2022
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Pakistan's National Assembly on Tuesday passed the budget for the fiscal year 2022 in presence of Prime Minister Imran Khan with a majority vote amid a dismal showing by the opposition.
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Pakistan's support to China's clampdown on Uyghurs continues to grow
Updated : 4 years, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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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