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Pakistan: Jamaat-i-Islami party to hold long march to Islamabad
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 27 (ANI): Pakistan's Islamist political party Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) has announced that it will hold its own "decisive" long march on Islamabad in March amid continuing price-hike and inflation in the country.
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Pakistan crosses 90,000 COVID-19 cases mark
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 27 (ANI): Amid the spread of the Omicron variant, Pakistan's active COVID-19 case count crossed the 90,000 mark, local media reported citing National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) on Thursday.
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No chance of reduction in inflation for another three months: Pak Finance
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 27 (ANI): Pakistan Federal Minister of Finance Shaukat Tarin has said that there will be no decline in the price-hike in the country for the next three months.
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Imran Khan govt has made Pakistan hotbed of corruption: Opposition leader
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 27 (ANI): Chaudhry Qamar Zaman Kaira, the leader of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party has said that Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government had made the country a "hotbed of corruption".
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Pak Finance ministry says debt burden is Rs 11.8 trillion higher than lega
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 26 (ANI): A report prepared by the Pakistan's Ministry of Finance showed that the federal government's burden was Rs11.8 trillion higher than legally allowed limit set by parliament and that some targets fixed under the debt management strategy were also breache
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Musaddiq Abbasi replaces Shahzad Akbar as Imran Khan's accountability advi
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 26 (ANI): Pakistan has appointed the former director-general of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Brigadier (Retd) Musaddiq Abbasi as the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Accountability.
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Pak: Perception about graft worsens in Imran Khan's rule
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 26 (ANI): The perception of corruption in Pakistan has worsened under the Imran Khan-led PTI government. The country has lost 16 places to rank 140th out of 180 countries surveyed by watchdog Transparency International (TI).
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Ahead of China visit, Pak PM convenes meetings with COAS Bajwa, ISI chief
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 26 (ANI): Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa and Director General (DG) ISI Lieutenant General Nadeem Anjum on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Imran Khan ahead of the head of state's visit to China in first of week of February, rep
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Opposition PPP plans massive protest against urea shortage
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 26 (ANI): Amid urea shortage and other economic hardships faced by the farmers in the country, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Wednesday announced a massive protest against the Imran Khan government.
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Pakistan Interior Minister warns opposition leaders of political defeat, h
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 26 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has warned opposition leaders of political defeat and humiliation over their planned protest in March on the occasion of Pakistan Day, reported local media.
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Rising attack on journalists in Pakistan reminds old fact of their insecur
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 26 (ANI): The recent broad daylight murder of a crime reporter in Lahore in front of the press club has once again established the grim fact that journalists in Pakistan are getting increasingly prone to losing their life amid rising threat against them, reporte
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Imran Khan's bid to collect relief fund for new govt in Afghanistan faces
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 26 (ANI): The Imran Khan government's recent bid to raise funds for the new rulers in Kabul has been shot down by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) amid fears that financing of the Taliban regime could invite international sanctions, according to a media report.
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