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Pakistan National Assembly to pick 18th prime minister today
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 1 (ANI): The National Assembly of Pakistan will pick the country's 18th prime minister on Tuesday, following the July 28 landmark judgement in the Panamagate case, in which a five-judge bench unanimously disqualified Nawaz Sharif from holding any public offi
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Pak's NAB to file references against Sharifs by September 8
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 1 (ANI): Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will file four separate references against the deposed prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, his three children, son-in-law, and former finance minister by September 8.
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Imran pays tribute to Pak SC judges for disqualifying Sharif
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 31 (ANI): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has lauded the Supreme Court of Pakistan for removing Nawaz Sharif from the office of Prime Minister in connection with the Panamagate case.
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Interim Pak PM candidate Abbasi faces NAB inquiry over LNG contract
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 31 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PNL-N) leader and the country's interim Prime Ministerial candidate Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is facing a Rs. 220 billion corruption inquiry by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) over an illegal contract to import Lique
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Photoshop or elitist style: Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid has hi
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 31 (ANI): In an aftermath of Nawaz Sharif standing disqualified by the Supreme Court from holding any public office after the Panamagate verdict, the members of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) were seen celebrating at the Parade Ground in the Shakarparian area o
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Interim Pak PM candidate Abbasi refutes illegal wealth possession claims
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 30 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader and interim Prime Minister candidate Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Sunday dismissed the allegations of possessing illegal wealth and challenged his critics to prove irregularities in his finances.
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Former Pak DAG to file FIR against Nawaz Sharif for 'lying' to P
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 30 (ANI): Pakistan's former deputy attorney-general Muhammad Khurshid Khan will file a first information report (FIR) under Section 22-A against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif for "lying" about his assets revealed in the Panama Papers case while
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Nawaz Sharif proceeds to Muree with family after vacating PM House
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 30 (ANI): Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif, on Sunday, vacated the Prime Minister's House and departed for Punjab province's Murree town along with his family members.
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Pakistani President calls National Assembly session for interim PM electio
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 30 (ANI): After the Pakistani Supreme Court disqualified Nawaz Sharif as the country's Prime Minister, Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain has called a session of the National Assembly on August 1 for the election of an interim prime minister.
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Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to be nominated as interim Pak PM
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 29 (ANI): The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is set to nominate Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the interim prime minister following Nawaz Sharif's disqualification.
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Concerns over CPEC security as violence spreads in Balochistan
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 29 (ANI): Recent violence in Balochistan has again fuelled deep concerns about security for projects of the USD 57-billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) according to a report in the New York Times.
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Pak may block Facebook by 2018 if it does not toe line on 'blasphemer
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 29 (ANI): Social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsAPP and Viber were once welcomed in Pakistan as mediums for engaging in religious debate and afforded a measure of privacy, but today government pressure is building on these platforms to reveal names of individu
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