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ECP allows recount of NA-249 by-poll in Karachi
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 4 (ANI): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday accepted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Miftah Ismail's application for reconting of votes in the NA-249 Karachi by-election.
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Pakistan: Absence of maternity leaves add to women's plight
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 4 (ANI): In most professional fields of Pakistan, the concept of maternity leave for women is almost non-existent, observers have noted, which had added to the plight of the women in the country.
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3 police officials in Pak booked for snatching cash from citizen
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 4 (ANI): Three police officials in Islamabad have been booked by the Industrial Area police station on charges of snatching cash from a citizen.
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COVID-19 aggravated inequalities in Pakistan: Report
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 4 (ANI): The COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated existing inequalities in Pakistan as Balochistan remained especially vulnerable to excesses of power, according to a report.
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Imran Khan govt decides not to compromise on blasphemy law despite Europea
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 4 (ANI): The Pakistan government has decided that there would be no compromise on the country's controversial blasphemy law, days after the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for a review of Islamabad eligibility for the General Scheme of Preference
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11 killed, over 20 injured in bus accident in Pakistan
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 4 (ANI): At least 11 people were killed while over 20 sustained injuries in a bus accident at Hasan Abdal's Burhan Interchange on Monday.
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Pak doctors threaten to suspend services after Peshawar hospital attacked
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 3 (ANI): Doctors' community in Pakistan have threatened to suspend services until the government arrest Pakistan's Peoples Party's (PPP) legislator Nighat Orakzai, who led a mob to attack a COVID-19 hospital in Peshawar.
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Imran Khan govt's claim of Pak press being free is a 'bald-faced lie': Daw
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 3 (ANI): The Pakistan government's claim that the country's press is free is a "bald-faced" lie as journalists continue to face threats from state elements and news editors are coerced into censoring "undesirable" information or giving stories a certain slant, coun
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Imran Khan govt gagging media to hide illegitimacy: Bilawal Bhutto on Worl
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 3 (ANI): On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said that press freedoms in Pakistan has been chained through threats, intimidation, and pressure tactics by the Prime Minister Imran Khan-led regime an
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Pakistan administers only one COVID-19 vaccine jab per hundred people: Dat
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 3 (ANI): Pakistan has administered only one COVID-19 vaccine jab per hundred people while the vaccination drive is picking up pace in other countries.
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Pakistan bans inbound pedestrian movt from Afghanistan, Iran
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 2 (ANI): Pakistan on Sunday banned inbound pedestrian movement from neighboring Iran and Afghanistan in a bid to contain the rising COVID-19 cases in the country.
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'US withdrawal from Afghanistan could lead to designating Pak as terror sp
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 2 (ANI): Following the United States' decision to drawdown troops from Afghanistan, Washington will soon no longer need Islamabad, which could lead to efforts within US Congress to help designate Pakistan a state sponsor of terror, said US-based scholar Michael Rubin.
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