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COVID-19 cases cross 26,000 mark in Pakistan, death toll reaches 611
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 9 (ANI): The number of coronavirus cases in Pakistan have surged past 26,000 even as the provinces announced partial easing of lockdown measures.
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Pakistan 'rejects' India's action to broadcast PoK weather reports
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 9 (ANI): Pakistan on Friday said it "rejects" Indian move to broadcast weather reports of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan.
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MEPs, activists lambast Pakistan for silencing dissidents amid Covid-19 ou
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], May 8 (ANI): The members of the European Parliament, experts and political activists from Pakistan have strongly criticized Islamabad for making full use of world's Covid distraction to silence the dissident voice.
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100,000 Pakistanis stranded abroad wish to return, lack of quarantine faci
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 8 (ANI): Around 100,000 Pakistanis, stranded abroad, want to return, but the their country lacks quarantine facilities, Dawn quoted Foreign Office Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui, as saying.
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Pakistan to lift coronavirus lockdown on May 9
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 08 (ANI): Pakistan on Thursday announced a gradual exit from countrywide lockdown from March 09, despite the number of coronavirus cases continue to rise.
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Situation on LoC discussed during meeting between DG ISI and Pak PM
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 7 (ANI): India's robust retaliation to the ceasefire violations along the Line of Control seems to have unnerved the Pakistani civilian and military leadership.
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Khalilzad meets Jainshankar, Doval, provides update on US peace efforts in
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 7 (ANI): US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad on Thursday met External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and provided an update on the US peace and reconciliation efforts in Afgh
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ISI under-cover agent in Ukraine exposed after sexual misconduct
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 7 (ANI): Waqar Ahmad, an undercover agent for Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) as BS-2 officer at his country's embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, has been reprimanded after his cover was blown when he was caught in an act of sexual misconduct.
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Pakistan's Edhi Foundation chief recovers from COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 7 (ANI): Faisal Edhi, the head of Edhi Foundation and son of late philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, has tested negative for coronavirus after being diagnosed with the virus last month.
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Pakistan becomes 29th country with over 500 COVID-19 deaths
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 6 (ANI): With a surge in the number of COVID-19 related cases and deaths in the past week, Pakistan has now become the 29th country in the world where more than 500 deaths have been reported due to the novel coronavirus.
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Amid COVID-19 outbreak, Pak govt prepares to tackle locust crisis
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 4 (ANI): Amid the measures taken to curb the surging infection rates related to COVID-19, the Pakistan government has started preparing to tackle the issue of desert locust which, if not controlled, will endanger food security in the country.
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India lodges strong protest over Pak SC's order to bring 'material change'
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI): India on Monday demarched a senior Pakistan diplomat and lodged a strong protest against its Supreme Court's order to bring 'material change' in the so-called Gilgit Baltistan region, asking Islamabad to immediately vacate all areas under its illegal occupatio
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