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Bilawal slams Imran Khan, says PM's claim of refusing US military bases in
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 9 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples Party Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday slams Prime Minister Imran Khan over his claims of taking a stand against allowing military bases in Pakistan.
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'Women's safety', a growing concern in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] July 8 (ANI): The safety of women has become a growing concern in Pakistan, which has in the recent past witnessed several instances of crimes against women, including rape and other crimes.
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Pakistan: Balochistan's travails continue amid Islamabad's tall promise
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], July 8 (ANI): Despite recent overtures by the Pakistan government for holding dialogue with the Baloch people to resolve their problems, there remains widespread scepticism about the initiative.
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China-Pakistan Economic corridor's degrading effect on Gilgit-Baltistan
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] July 8 (ANI): China's Belt and Road Initiative, aimed at renewing the country's historic trade routes in the coastal countries of south-east Asia, Eurasian mainland and big sweeps of the Indian Ocean if it is finished as intended could have lasting consequences for China
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UN must recognise 1971 Bangladesh genocide by Pakistan forces: Exiled Kash
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 8 (ANI): Exiled Kashmiri leader Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri has urged the United Nations and other international institutions to recognise Pakistan's genocide during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence and called Islamabad to apologise for the war crime.
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Pakistan unsafe for women journalists
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 8 (ANI): Pakistan is one of the most dangerous places for journalists and the conditions for women scribes are even more appalling due to widespread online abuse, hatred and physical violence.
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Fate of Russian gas line project in doldrums as Pakistan looks at alternat
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 7 (ANI): The fate of Pakistan Stream Gas Pipeline (PSGP), also known as North-South Gas Pipeline, is in the doldrums as the Petroleum Division has started finalizing an alternate gas pipeline project by mid-July putting in jeopardy the ties with Russia, local media
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Pakistan seems rudderless as situation in Afghanistan deteriorates: PPP
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 7 (ANI): The Pakistan People Party (PPP) ripped into the Prime Minister Imran Khan-led government as the security situation in Afghanistan deteriorates, saying Islamabad has the highest stakes in Afghan peace but it appears 'rudderless'.
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Only 3.5 pc of Pakistan's population vaccinated so far: Report
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 7 (ANI): Despite the Prime Minister Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government's campaign to vaccinate as many people as possible against COVID-19, only 3.5 per cent of the population in the country has been inoculated so far.
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Pakistan to emulate Iran model to contain refugees coming from Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 6 (ANI): Pakistan may emulate the Iran model to contain refugees coming from Afghanistan by closing the border as the US, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) troops withdrawal progresses amid the rise in violence by the Taliban.
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Fourth wave of COVID-19 likely to hit Pakistan by July end
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 6 (ANI): Amid the worsening situation of COVID-19 in Pakistan, medical officials have warned about the fourth coronavirus wave which is likely to hit the country by late July or early August and raised his concern over the increasing figures of infections once agai
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HRCP report rings alarm over plight of women in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 6 (ANI): The annual report of State of Human Rights in Pakistan released by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) for the year 2020 has set alarm bells ringing over the plight of women in the country.
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