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Cash-strapped Pakistan requests another year to pay back Chinese loans
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 14 (ANI): A debt-ridden Pakistan has requested its all-weather ally China that it needs another year to pay back a billion dollars Islamabad had borrowed from Beijing last year.
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Pakistan continues unprecedented assault on civil liberties by attacking j
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 14 (ANI): As Pakistan continues to stifle freedom of speech, the country is pursuing an unrelenting assault on journalism as scribes are fired, harassed and assaulted for their critical reporting.
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Pakistan will not take responsibility if things go wrong in Afghanistan, s
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 14 (ANI): A few months ahead of the September 11 deadline of US drawdown from Afghanistan, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday said that his country would not take responsibility if it was blamed for the downturn in the Afghan peace process.
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56 COVID-19 patients die in Pakistan in last 24 hours
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 14 (ANI): Fifty-six coronavirus patients died during the past 24 hours, 52 of whom were under treatment in the hospitals and four out of the hospitals perished in their respective quarantines or homes, according to latest update issued by the National Command and O
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10 killed due to heavy rains, strong winds in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 13 (ANI): At least ten people have lost their lives due to heavy rains and winds in different areas of Pakistan.
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Pakistan puts travel restrictions on people from 26 countries including In
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 13 (ANI): Pakistan has placed strict restrictions on travellers from 26 countries including India to contain the spread of COVID-19 cases in the country.
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Pakistan: Protest erupts in Islamabad after custodial death in Counter Ter
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 13 (ANI): Protest erupted in Islamabad on Saturday after the custodial death of a suspect in the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD).
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Protest in Islamabad over custodial death of suspect, kin demand inquiry
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 13 (ANI): A protest erupted in Islamabad over the death of a suspect in the custody of the Pakistan Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) with relatives of the deceased demanding an inquiry into his death and "justice".
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Bilawal slams Imran Khan-led PTI's budget, calls for greater increase in s
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 12 (ANI): Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari lashed out at the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) over issues of price hike, unemployment and poverty in the country and called for increased salaries.
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Thousands of 'invisible children' in Pakistan still susceptible to polio:
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 12 (ANI): George Laryea-Adjei, the Regional Director of United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said there are still hundreds of thousands of 'invisible children' who are susceptible to polio and must be vaccinated.
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More efforts needed to end polio in Pakistan, says Polio Oversight Board
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 12 (ANI): More efforts are needed to reach the levels of government leadership, drive, and use of real-time data to beat Polio in Pakistan, believed the disease monitoring body of Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).
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Pakistan's stringent new media law stirs controversy
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 12 (ANI): Pakistan is trying to bulldoze through a new press law intended to consolidate government oversight of the media, raising concerns about further degradation of press freedom in the country, reported Nikkei Asia.
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