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Pakistan Opposition leader Bilawal slams Imran Khan-led government's 'ill
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday that the budget for the fiscal year 2021-22 has "no legal standing" as it has been passed "illegally".
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1,000 Schengen visa stickers stolen from Italian embassy in Pakistan
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Around 1,000 Schengen visa stickers were stolen from the Italian embassy in Islamabad this month, according to Pakistan's ministry of foreign affairs which directed relevant departments to take "appropriate action" on the theft, local media reported.
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Pakistan could face 'blowback' of dangerous situation in Afghanistan: ex-p
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Pakistan could face the "blowback" of dangerous situation erupting in Afghanistan due to the ongoing Taliban offensive, said former Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari.
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Pakistan National Assembly passes fiscal year budget 2022
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Pakistan's National Assembly on Tuesday passed the budget for the fiscal year 2022 in presence of Prime Minister Imran Khan with a majority vote amid a dismal showing by the opposition.
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Pakistan's support to China's clampdown on Uyghurs continues to grow
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): In recent years, Pakistan's support to Chinese actions near the border has evolved from counterterrorism measures taken against Uyghur-origin militants affiliated with South Asian jihadist outfits to lifting individuals at the behest of the Chinese govern
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Honour killings continue in Pakistan as man brutally killed after asking f
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): So-called honour killings in Pakistan continue to plague the nation, the latest victim being a man in Gujranwala, who was killed for expressing a desire to marry a woman and asking her family for her hand.
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Hafiz Saeed was inside when bomb went off near his home last week, reveals
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Days after a powerful explosion took place near UN-designated terrorist Hafiz Saeed's residence in Lahore, a Pakistani journalist has revealed that Saeed was indeed at home when the bomb went off and was the target of the attack.
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Pak's amended social media rules again fuel tensions with internet compani
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Internet companies in Pakistan have once again protested against the government's amended social media rules, stating that the most problematic provisions remain unchanged in the latest draft that they say has in fact 'regressed' in comparison with previo
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Days after confession, former Pak cleric denies sexually assaulting studen
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): In a dramatic U-turn, former Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and Pakistani cleric Mufti Azizur Rehman on Monday denied sexually assaulting one of his students and told a judicial magistrate that he was being pressurised by the police to admit to the cri
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Families of Taliban live in Islamabad, says Pak minister
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Amid the escalating violence in Afghanistan, Pakistan's interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has admitted that families of Afghan Taliban reside in his country, including in the capital city of Islamabad.
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Pak ulema support Imran Khan's remarks on women's dresses, says his aide
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's special aide on religious affairs has said ulema (body of Muslim scholars) fully support the statement of the country's Prime Minister regarding women's hijab and dress.
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Pak court orders suspension of TikTok for spreading 'immorality, obscenity
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): A Pakistani court on Monday once again ordered the suspension of Chinese video-sharing application TikTok, nearly three months after the ban was lifted from the popular app.
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