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Pakistan: Election Commission issues guidelines as country gets interim go
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The notification states that the ECP is “mandated with the constitutional duty to organise and conduct elections in terms of Article 218(3) of the Constitution and to make such arrangements as are necessary to ensure that the elections are conducted honestly, justly, fairly and in accordance
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Pakistan: Court rejects interim bail extension to Imran Khan in six cases
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The six cases were registered against the incarcerated PTI chief in Karachi Company, Ramna, Kohsar, Tarnool and Secretariat police stations of the federal capital.
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Pakistan's media regulatory authority bans airtime for 11 'proclaimed offe
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Authority took the decision citing the Sindh High Court (SHC) in constitutional petitions, Pemra said that such people cannot enjoy certain rights such as appearing on television.
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Outgoing Pakistan government overlooks 41 bureaucrats eligible for promoti
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
However, the establishment division was apparently not prepared to complete the hectic exercise, which officials said ordinarily takes months to plan, and hence could not complete the paperwork in time, the Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: Court dismisses Imran Khan's interim bail in seven cases
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Special Prosecutor, Farhad Ali Shah, argued before the court that there was no scope in the law to accept the exemption applications of the convicted accused. He implored the court to reject the interim bail of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman. On the other hand, Imran Khan’s counsel ar
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Pakistan: Remove bar on non-Muslims becoming President, PM, demands Minori
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Alliance chairman, Akmal Bhatti, while addressing a 'Jinnah's Pakistan public rally' said misuse of sensitive religious/blasphemy laws should stop in the country and there has to be the provision of free and fair justice to the victims.
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Imran Khan to be provided with “appropriate medical facilities," Islamabad
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad High Court, on Saturday, asked the Attock jail to provide Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan with “appropriate medical facilities" and allow him to have meetings with friends and family.
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Pakistan likely to lose GSP Plus status
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
In 2020, 28 per cent of Pakistan's total exports to the EU were duty-free thanks to its GSP Plus status, and 78 per cent of these exports went to the EU. For the upcoming round, the EU has tightened the requirements for the GSP Plus programme, which grants duty-free access to more than 66 pe
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Pakistan: IHC reserves verdict on plea seeking Imran Khan’s transfer to Ad
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Later, during a press conference, Khan’s lawyers Naeem Haider Panjutha and Ali Ijaz Buttar expressed “serious apprehensions” regarding the safety and security of the PTI chairman.
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Pakistan: Balochistan Assembly to be dissolved today
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Meanwhile, no name has been finalized yet for the appointment of the caretaker chief minister. According to sources, the first round of talks between JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and BNP-M chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal was held in Islamabad on Friday.
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Pakistan: PM Shehbaz Sharif hopeful of finalising caretaker PM today
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
“As provided in Article 224 (1A) of the Constitution of Pakistan, the Prime Minister and leader of the Opposition in the outgoing National Assembly may propose a suitable person for the appointment of care-taker Prime Minister not later than 12th August,” said President Alvi in the letter to
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Pakistan: Imran Khan used US cipher for ‘political gains', discovers probi
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The probe would conclude within a week or 10 days and the investigation so far makes a case against the former prime minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan.
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