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Pakistan: Formation of Punjab's new cabinet held up till removal of govern
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 2 (ANI): After weeks of delay in the swearing-in of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hamza Shehbaz as the Chief Minister of Punjab, the formation of a new provincial cabinet is also likely to be delayed till the removal of incumbent Governor Omar Sarfa
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Pakistan: Shehbaz regime considering quashing ex-PM Nawaz Sharif's graft c
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 2 (ANI): With Shehbaz Sharif as the country's Prime Minister, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is considering quashing or suspending the punishment of his brother and former prime minister Nawaz Minister in alleged corruption cases, local media reported.
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Pakistan: Governor terms PM Shehbaz's son swearing-in as Punjab CM illegal
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 2 (ANI): Calling the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's son, Hamza Shehbaz a "fake chief minister", Punjab Governor Omer Cheema on Sunday said that his official residence was "captured" on Saturday to hold Shehbaz's oath-
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Several injured in blast in south-west Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 1 (ANI): Several people were injured in a blast in Pakistan's southwest Quetta city of Balochistan province on Sunday evening, rescue and police officials said, Xinhua reported.
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'They want to kill me': Pakistan's former minister Rasheed accuses Sharif
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 1 (ANI): Former Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed made a shocking revelation that his life was in danger and accused the Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif and his extended family of plotting an attack on the Islamabad march in the last week of May
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People facing inflation, unemployment due to Imran Khan's incompetence: Ma
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 1 (ANI): Pakistan's Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb on Sunday said people in the country are facing inflation and unemployment due to former Prime Minister Imran Khan's incompetence.
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Pak Ombudsman orders probe as overseas travellers face mismanagement at Is
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 1 (ANI): Federal Ombudsman of Pakistan Ejaz Ahmad Qureshi constituted a team of senior officials to investigate complaints of mismanagement at the Islamabad International Airport where overseas passengers, sometimes along with their children, had to wait for hours i
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Pakistan: Imran Khan breaks silence on corruption charges against wife's f
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 1 (ANI): After evading the question several times, Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan finally broke his silence on Farah Khan, a close aide of his wife Bushra Bibi, and called the charges on her a "political vendetta" against him.
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Pakistan: IHC seeks report on 'enforced disappearances'
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 1 (ANI): After hearing the case of a missing journalist, Mudassir Naru on April 22, the Islamabad High Court Chief Justice released a written order to seek a report from the government on enforced disappearances of people, administering the deputy attorney general t
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Ex-Pak PM Imran Khan among 150 booked for 'hooliganism' in Masjid-e-Nabawi
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 1 (ANI): Pakistan police on Sunday booked 150 people including former Prime Minister Imran Khan in connection with sloganeering against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his delegation at the Masjid-e-Nabawi.
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Pakistan's press crackdown continues, reports 86 cases of attacks on media
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Karachi [Islamabad], May 1 (ANI): 2021-2022 was a year of deadly attacks on media personnel and journalists in Pakistan as nearly 86 cases of attacks and violations against media and its practitioners took place in the nation over the course of one year.
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Pakistan: Imran Khan demands probe in 'foriegn conspiracy' charge
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 1 (ANI): Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan on Saturday sent letters to President Arif Alvi and Umar Ata Bandial, the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), demanding the constitution of a separate judicial commission to probe his "foreign conspiracy" allegation
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