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Shehbaz Sharif govt to abolish China-Pakistan Economic Corridor authority:
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 15 (ANI): Pakistan government decided to abolish China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority, local media reported, adding that all the matters of the project will be handed over to the Planning Commission.
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Pakistan: 3 children, soldiers killed in Miranshah explosion
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 15 (ANI): Three children were killed in a blast in Miranshah in Pakistan's North Waziristan district, said Pakistan Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), claiming that three soldiers of the Pakistan Army also lost their lives in the explosion.
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Pakistan: Oil, eatable import bill spiked to USD 24.77 billion
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 15 (ANI): Pakistan's oil and eatable import bill surged by 58.98 per cent to USD 24.77 billion in the months of July and April even the country battles a fast declining economy, owing to an increase in international prices and a massive depreciation of the rupee.
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Pak govt mulls over withdrawing subsidy on petroleum products ahead of IMF
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 15 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led government is likely to gradually abolish subsidies on petrol and with this, there will be an increase in the prices of petroleum products for the next fortnight.
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CNG in Pakistan soars to Rs 300 per Kg, dealers association cries foul ove
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 15 (ANI): The Combined Natural Gas (CNG) price in Pakistan rose to its highest at Rs 300 per kilogram following which the CNG Dealers Association slammed the government for wanting to end the sector and jacking up the prices without consultations.
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Former Pak Defence Minister warns govt of nationwide shutdown if Imran Kha
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 15 (ANI): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) member and Pakistan's former Defence Minister Pervez Khattak warned the government of a nationwide shutdown if any hurdles are created for Imran Khan's Kohat public gathering on May 17.
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Pakistan: Protests erupt over authorities' inaction to tackle Balochistan
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 15 (ANI): Expressing anger over inaction by authorities to contain the alarming rise in cholera cases and demanding access to clean water, Pakistanis staged a protest in Dera Bugti district's Pirkoh tehsil of Balochistan province on Saturday.
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Have recorded video with names of 'all conspirators' trying to kill me, wi
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 15 (ANI): Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said that a conspiracy is being hatched to kill him and that he has recorded a video that has the names of all those people who are involved in the alleged conspiracy to oust his government.
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Suspect's death in 'staged encounter' triggers protest in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 14 (ANI): Following a 'staged' encounter in Pakistan, where a suspect was killed by police, his relatives staged a protest outside the office of the Senior superintendent of police on Thursday night by placing the body of the suspect on the road.
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Taliban's capture of power in Afghanistan is Pakistan's Frankenstein
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 14 (ANI): Grabbing of power by the Taliban in Afghanistan may have brought a sense of gratification to the powerful army-intelligence nexus of Pakistan but it has created rippling effects for which Islamabad might be ill-prepared as it has also damaged the latter's r
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Pakistan Army-Imran Khan tussle continues
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 14 (ANI): Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was ousted from the power last month, has blamed the Army establishment, primarily the Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, for playing an important role in his governm
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Activists raise issue of people's rights being suppressed in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 14 (ANI): Highlighting the suppression of people's rights in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Gilgit-Baltistan, a number of activists from different groups called for drawing the attention of the international community and pressurising the P
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