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Pakistan: Human rights activist under attack after receiving international
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): Gulalai Ismail, a leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) and women rights activist, has come under severe criticism in Pakistan after receiving an award for human rights.
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Pakistan chairs at 14 universities abroad left vacant for years
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): In a worrying scenario for Islamabad, all Pakistan chairs in 14 universities across the world have been left vacant for years.
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Poverty in Pakistan rises to over 5 pc in 2020, estimates World Bank
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): The World Bank (WB) has estimated that poverty in Pakistan has increased from 4.4 per cent to 5.4 per cent in 2020, as over two million people have fallen below the poverty line.
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Imran Khan's latest remarks on sexual violence cause furore on social medi
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's latest controversial remarks on sexual violence against women has led to an outpouring of furious comments on social media as netizens termed his comments as 'victim-blaming'.
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Pakistani cleric confesses to sexually assaulting student during interroga
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): A day after his arrest from Mianwali along with his sons, Pakistan cleric and former Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl's (JUI-F) leader Mufti Azizur Rehman on Monday confessed to sexually assaulting a student during interrogation, police informed.
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Pak govt's national curriculum threatening doctors' medical knowledge
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): As part of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) Single National Curriculum, religious scholars appointed as members of the SNC Committee are supervising the content of schoolbooks and have warned textbook publishers not to print any diagram or sket
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Pakistan should look at alternatives to China, G7 initiative on global inv
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): Pakistan should look at alternatives to its alliance with China and not miss a historic opportunity of 'Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative' launched at the G-7 June 2021 Summit and which aims to influence, broadly within a decade, 40 trillion dollar
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Pakistan's opposition alarmed over disappearance of key rights bills
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 21 (ANI): Pakistan's opposition in the upper chamber of the bicameral legislature has expressed alarm over its key human rights (HR) bills disappearing in a black hole to emerge in the form of government bills.
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'If you raise temptation, young guys have nowhere to go', Imran Khan's tak
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 21 (ANI): Barely two months after Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's comments on sexual violence drew severe backlash, he again invited trouble by suggesting that avoiding "temptation in society" is the way to prevent sexual violence against women.
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Pak-China trade border closure leads to huge loss, Pakistani traders prote
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 21 (ANI): The closure of Pakistan-China trade border for the past 20 months due to COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in huge loss for Pakistani traders leading them to start protest in Islamabad.
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Unknown gunmen fire on school van, injure 4 teachers in SW Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 21 (ANI): Unidentified gunmen on Saturday fired on a school van in the Mastung district of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province, injuring four teachers.
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Pakistani cleric, sons arrested in sexual assault case
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 21 (ANI): Pakistan cleric accused of sexually assaulting one of his students, was arrested by a team of the Crime Investigation Agency, along with his two sons during separate raids, officials confirmed.
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