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PTI trashes reports of Chaudhry Nisar meet with party members
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Apr 9 (ANI): The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has denied reports of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar of meeting top officials, including party chief Imran Khan.
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Pak summons US Ambassador over road-crash incident
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 8 (ANI): Pakistan's Foreign Office on Sunday summoned the American ambassador to Pakistan David Hale to lodge a formal protest after a Pakistani motorcyclist was killed by the US Defence Attache in a road-crash.
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US Defence Attache runs down 3 in Pak, relations set to sour
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 8 (ANI): A United States Defence Attache has run down three persons in Daman-e-Koh, north of Islamabad, ratcheting up the ongoing visa/diplomatic rift between the two countries.
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Pak's news channel goes off air, military's role suspected
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 7 (ANI): Pakistan's largest television network Geo, has said that it has been forced to go off air in most parts of the country, apparently on the orders of the military, "as it flexes its authority over civilian institutions".
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Pakistan's first school for transgenders to open on April 15
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 7 (ANI): Walking on the path of social reform, Pakistan is to inaugurate country's first ever institute for educational and vocational training for transgender community.
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US airport security check did not reduce my status as PM: Abbasi
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Apr 6 (ANI): Breaking his silence on his frisking at a US airport last month, Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday said that he was neither ashamed at the process, nor did it reduced his status as the country's prime minister.
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Pak minister trolled for giving communal colour to Salman's conviction
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Apr 5 (ANI): Twitterers were up in arms on Thursday after Pakistan Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif linked the sentencing of Salman Khan in the blackbuck case with the actor's religion and said he has been sentenced "because he's a minority".
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PTI leader threatens action against Sharif, Maryam over live transmission
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Apr 5 (ANI): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday threatened action against Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz for broadcasting live the corruption proceedings against them.
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Shahbaz Sharif heaps praises on Pak Army chief
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 5 (ANI): In what can be dubbed as the first move, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has openly come to the fore and has backed the Pakistan Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa, calling him
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Sharif, Imran playing politics to make money: Zardari
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Apr 4 (ANI): Pakistan People's Party (PPP) co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday claimed that former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan were "belittling each other" in order to "win electi
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Sharif's daughter calls for live broadcast of corruption case hearing
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Apr 4 (ANI): Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday called for the live broadcast of the proceedings of the corruption case against the Sharif family at the accountability court in Islamabad so that the "country could know what
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Pak PM Abbasi vows to raise Kashmir issue on international forums
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Apr 4 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Wednesday said that he will raise the Kashmir issue on all international forums.
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