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Experts warn against Pak PM's push for EVMs
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 3 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's push for electronic voting machines (EVMs) has met huge opposition from experts and insiders in the country citing huge costs of the transition, along with technical and trust issues in the election results, which are
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COVID-19: Pak minister irked over Britain's travel ban on its nationals
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 3 (ANI): A cabinet minister of the Imran Khan government on Saturday expressed displeasure at Britain's decision to place four more nations, including Pakistan, on the "red list" of countries whose nationals are not allowed to enter the United Kingdom.
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Imran Khan 'puzzled at cacophony' over Pak's omission from climate meet
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 3 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said he cannot understand the reason why there is a "cacophony" over Islamabad's omission from the upcoming climate conference, to which world leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have been invite
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Pakistan postpones cards renewal to Afghan refugees
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 3 (ANI): The renewal and verification of documents of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan have been suspended temporarily in view of the third wave of coronavirus in the country.
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Pakistan Democratic Movement suffers split as Bilawal's PPP, ANP leave all
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 3 (ANI): An alliance of Pakistan opposition parties, also known as the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), has suffered a major split, just six months after it was founded to fight the "selected" government of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
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Religious minorities in Pakistan treated as non-citizens: report
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 2 (ANI): Revealing the ongoing human rights abuses in Pakistan, yet another rights group has disclosed how the lives of minority communities in the country are perpetually under siege, and religious minorities are treated as "non-citizens", one without a voice and
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Imran Khan chairs meeting to review Pakistan's ties with India
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 2 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday convened a high-level meeting with country's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and senior officials of the Foreign Office to review Pakistan's ties with India, local media reported.
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Pak SC rejects Imran Khan govt's appeal against ECP's decision to hold re-
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 2 (ANI): The Pakistan Supreme Court on Friday rejected the ruling government's appeal against the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) directives to conduct re-polling in the entire NA-75 Daska constituency.
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Pakistan records highest inflation in months at 9.1 pc
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 2 (ANI): In wake of a surge in prices of food and electricity, especially in the rural areas of the country, inflation in Pakistan jumped to over nine per cent in March, the highest rate in several months, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Th
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Grappling through third COVID-19 wave, Pak records over new 5000 cases
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 2 (ANI): Pakistan has registered over 5,000 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, the highest number of cases so far this year.
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Pakistan textile sector disappointed with Imran Khan govt's u-turn on Indi
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 2 (ANI): Pakistan's textile sector is "disappointed" by the government's decision to not allow the import of Indian cotton and has said that buying cotton from the neighbouring country is the need of the hour to avert big loss to textile exports.
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Imran Khan to chair key meeting on Pak-India relations today
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 2, (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will preside over an important meeting on Friday attended by several cabinet ministers which will decide the level of relations with India.
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