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Pakistan: PML-N criticises Imran Khan's cabinet reshuffle, says PM has "fa
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 17 (ANI): Opposition party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has criticised Prime Minister Imran Khan's decision to reshuffle the federal cabinet on Friday, saying it proves that the premier has "failed at his job."
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Pakistan's COVID death toll crosses 16,000
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 17 (ANI): Pakistan's death toll from the coronavirus has reached 16,094 after 112 more people died from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. It also marked the fifth straight day the country reported more than 100 daily fatalities, reported Dawn.
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Pakistani passport fourth worst in the world
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 16 (ANI): The Pakistani passport has been ranked as the fourth weakest passport in the world behind only war-torn Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, according to the Henley Passport Index.
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Kulbhushan Jadhav case: IHC asks Pak Foreign Ministry to seek Indian respo
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 16 (ANI): The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday asked Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (FO) to seek Indian response on the appointment of a lawyer in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case in order to implement the directives of the International Court of Justice (
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Pakistan: Aurat March organisers booked over blasphemy by Peshawar police
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], April 16 (ANI): Aurat March organisers and participants on Thursday were booked by Peshawar police in Islamabad on the orders of a local court on the charge of committing blasphemy.
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Social media suspended in Pakistan, interior ministry says without citing
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 16 (ANI): Social media platforms Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and Instagram have been suspended in Pakistan from 11 am till 3 pm, the interior ministry said on Friday.
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Pakistan bans radical Islamist party TLP, to move SC for its dissolution
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 16 (ANI): After banning the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), under the country's anti-terrorism law, the federal government of Pakistan is now set to move to Supreme Court for dissolution of the radical Islamist party that caused violent protests this week follow
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196 people in Pakistan lost lives to violence in first quarter of 2021: Re
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 15 (ANI): Nearly 200 people in Pakistan have lost their lives in Pakistan due to violence in the first quarter of 2021 with 70 per cent of all fatalities reported in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
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Imran Khan, cabinet approve ban on Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan amid protest
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 15 (ANI): Pakistan has blacklisted radical Islamist Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), whose supporters and workers have been carrying out violent protests across the country for three days after the arrest of their chief.
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'War-like situation in Pakistan', protest continues over arrest of Islamis
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 15 (ANI): Violent protests continued in Pakistan on Wednesday for the second day against the arrest of radical Islamist party leader as demonstrators blocked roads in several major Pakistani cities, including the country's largest city of Karachi, Al Jazeera re
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Indian Sikh pilgrims stranded in Lahore amid violent protests in Pakistan
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 15 (ANI): A group of Sikh pilgrims who left Amritsar to pay obeisance at Gurdwara Panja Sahib in Hasan Abdal on the occasion of Baisakhi, are stranded in Lahore amid rising violence in Pakistan.
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Pakistan to ban radical Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP)
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 14 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Wednesday said that the government has decided to ban the radical Islamist Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), whose supporters and workers have been carrying out violent protests across the country for thr
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