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Pakistan: PML-N demands release of Auditor General's report on misappropri
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 8 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Saturday demanded to make public the Auditor General's report on misappropriation of Covid relief package.
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Afghan NSA Mohib 'brothel house' remarks spark diplomatic row with Pakista
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 8 (ANI): Afghan National Security Adviser (NSA) Hamdullah Mohib levelled serious charges against Pakistan and called it a "brothel house" that has sparked a diplomatic row, evoking a strong reaction from Islamabad.
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Unemployment in Pakistan rising amid COVID-19 despite projected economic g
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 7 (ANI): The number of unemployed people in Pakistan has increased during the COVID-induced lockdowns, indicating that millions are still out of work despite a projected 3.9 per cent GDP growth.
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Protest against 'land grabbing' in Pakistan's Karachi turns violent, polic
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 7 (ANI): A protest in Bahria Town Karachi (BTK) against land grabbing turned violent as fast food franchises, several vehicles, a showroom and two offices of estate agents were set ablaze and police resorted to teargas shelling and firing rubber bullets.
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'World knows who has really continued war,' Afghanistan to Pakistan offici
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Kabul [Afghanistan], June 7 (ANI): Afghanistan's foreign ministry has hit back at Pakistani officials for their recent insinuating remarks and pointed out that the world was aware of who really continued the war in Afghanistan to keep its pace and that a blame-game will not be helpful at thi
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Pakistan: JI leader slams Imran Khan-led govt for making Islamabad insecur
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], June 7 (ANI): The head of Jamaat-e-Islami's (JI) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa unit, Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan has alleged that the Imran Khan-led government had turned Islamabad into a second Guantanamo Bay for journalists, who have spoken out about feeling insecure ins
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Pakistani PM orders probe into deadly Sindh train collision
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 7 (ANI): Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered a probe into railroad safety after a train collision on Monday left several dozens dead in the country's Sindh province.
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Imran Khan 'personally looking into' Chinese COVID vaccine's non-acceptanc
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 6 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is "personally looking into" Chinese COVID-19 vaccine's non-acceptance in Saudi Arabia and some other countries in the Middle East, said the country's Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid on Sunday.
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Pakistan slams Afghan top advisor's 'brothel house' remark, asks him to "c
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 6 (ANI): Pakistan's foreign ministry has launched a scathing attack against Afghanistan's National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib and called on him to reflect on his statement in which he termed Pakistan a "brothel house".
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Pakistan's under-trial prisoners seek rights and better living conditions
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 6 (ANI): Undertrial prisoners incarcerated in the Camp Jail Lahore have appealed to Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar to ensure the provision of the "very few rights guaranteed to prisoners under the outdated British prison manual".
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US withdrawal sparks new wave of violence in Balochistan by Pakistan Talib
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 6 (ANI): The US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan has led to increased violence in Balochistan by Pakistan Taliban.
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Pakistan: Maulana Fazl will soon lead funeral prayers of 'puppet govt', JU
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Islamabad [Pakistan], July 6 (ANI): After Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry took a jibe at Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leader Hafiz Hamdullah on Saturday said that his party chief will "soon lead the funeral prayers of this "puppet" government, apparently r
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