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India has similar capabilities: IAF Vice Chief on nuclear threat from Isla
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 28 (ANI): Pakistan can keep talking about nuclear retaliation and its capability, India also possesses a similar capability, Vice Chief of Indian Air Force, Air Marshal HS Arora said on Friday.
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Pakistan invites US to invest in CPEC
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb 28 (ANI): A top Pakistani official stated that the United States has been invited to invest in projects of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Beijing's multi-billion dollar project.
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IMF, Pak agree on reviewing reform programmes
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb 28 (ANI): The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said it has reached an agreement with Pakistan "on policies and reforms needed to complete the second review" of the USD 6 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF).
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Pak suspends flight operations to Iran amid coronavirus outbreak
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb 27 (ANI): Pakistan on Thursday announced the suspension of all flights to and from Iran -- the Middle Eastern country which has reported the most fatalities from novel coronavirus outside of China
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Ahead of US-Taliban peace deal in Qatar, Imran Khan leaves for Doha
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb 27 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday left for a one-day visit to Qatar. The trip comes ahead the long-awaited deal seeking an end to decades-old long turmoil in Afghanistan is to be signed between United States and Taliban in Qatari capital Doha.
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Pakistan reports two cases of coronavirus
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb 27 (ANI): Pakistan on Wednesday reported its first case of coronavirus. However, the tally of people infected with the virus soon jumped to two.
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'Pakistan allow media and political freedom' banner displayed outside UN o
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Feb 26 (ANI): A banner bearing the slogan -- 'Pakistan allow media and political freedom' -- was displayed outside the United Nations office here with an aim to highlight Islamabad's crackdown on the press in the past two years.
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Nawaz Sharif declared 'absconder' for violating bail terms
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb 26 (ANI): Islamabad on Tuesday declared former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif an absconder while simultaneously denying extending bail to him.
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US working to crackdown on terrorists in Pakistan, says Trump
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], Feb 24 (ANI): Touching on the issue of terrorism in Pakistan, US President Donald Trump on Monday said his administration is working with Islamabad to crack down on terrorist organisations in the Islamic country.
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FATF jabs Pakistan over lack of action against terror funding
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Paris [France], Feb 21 (ANI): The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Friday expressed concern over Pakistan's failure to complete its action plan in line with the agreed timelines against terrorist-financing (TF) and "strongly urged" Islamabad to complete its full action plan by June 2020
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Pakistan to stay on FATF's grey list till June 2020
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb 21 (ANI): The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will likely give Pakistan some more time until June to achieve full compliance with its 27-point action plan and secure exit from its grey list failing which it could slip into the blacklist.
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Pakistan ranks 152nd in UN's Human Development Index, lower than others in
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb 21 (ANI): Pakistan has been ranked at 152nd position among 189 other countries in the Human Development Index (HDI) 2019, dropping it to the lowest than all other regional countries in South Asia.
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