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Days after confession, former Pak cleric denies sexually assaulting studen
Updated : 4 years, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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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FM Qureshi bemoans FATF's decision to retain Pakistan on its grey list
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 28 (ANI): Deploring FATF's decision to retain Pakistan on its grey list, the country's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday said that if it was a technical decision then the country would have been added to the white list.
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Pakistan anti-graft body introduces new legal amendments to access tax rec
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 27 (ANI): National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Sunday asked the Pakistani government to allow the anti-graft body to access local and offshore tax records of all politicians, bureaucrats and their families by introducing new legal amendments before approval of t
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Three out of five Pakistanis sceptical of getting any benefit from Budget
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 27 (ANI): A survey by a global market research firm has revealed that three out of five Pakistanis are sceptical of getting any benefit from Budget 2021-22.
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Imran Khan's remark calling Osama bin Laden 'martyr' was 'slip of tongue',
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 27 (ANI): Pakistan Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan had a "slip of the tongue " when he called slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden a martyr.
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