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Pakistan: Karachi faces 'return to ethnic violence' over Sindh local govt
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], January 30 (ANI): Pakistan's largest city, Karachi has witnessed "fear of return to ethnic violence" in the third-largest province of Pakistan over the passage of the Sindh Local Government Amendment Act by the provincial government.
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Pak opposition to resist Imran Khan's visit to Lower D
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], January 26 (ANI): Pakistan opposition parties will resist the expected visit by Prime Minister Imran Khan to the country's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, ahead of local government elections scheduled to be held on March 27, local media reported on Wednesday.
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China's Xi'an lifts COVID lockdown imposed in December
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Xi'an [China], January 24 (ANI): The city of Xi'an in the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi on Monday lifted the lockdown imposed in late December due to a coronavirus outbreak, the local government said, reported Sputnik.
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Jamaat-Islami protests against Sindh local government law
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], January 16 (ANI): Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Sunday has announced to stage its sit-in against Sindh local government (LG) law, at Shara-e-Faisal in front of the Awami Markaz.
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USAID partners with local governments and the private sector to launch 90+
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], January 12 (ANI/NewsVoir): India is undertaking one of the world's largest vaccination campaigns and has made tremendous progress, with nearly 150 crore doses administered to date, and several million more each day.
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China: Outcry over Xi'an lockdown as residents struggle to meet daily need
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Xi'an [China], January 4 (ANI): People living in China's northwestern city of Xi'an are anxious and frustrated at the local government over the growing challenge facing Beijing's zero-Covid policy, which relies on mass testing, extensive quarantines and snaps lockdowns amid a resurgence of t
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Employees of Pakistan's Federal Directorate of Education to go on strike a
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 31(ANI): The teaching and non-teaching staff of Pakistan's Federal Directorate of Education has called out to go on strike from January 10, 2022 against the Imran Khan government over the controversial clauses of the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Local Gove
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Pakistan: Traders at MQM conference deplore treatment meted out to Karachi
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], December 29 (ANI): The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM) party organized a traders' conference in Sindh province to discuss the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party's (PPP) new local government act, which they say is stopping Karachi's economic growth.
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Pakistan: Sindh CM requests election commission to hold local body's polls
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], December 27 (ANI): Chief Minister of Pakistan's Sindh province Syed Murad Ali Shah on Sunday said that the provincial government had requested the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to hold local government polls in Sindh in February or March 2022, local media reported.
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After PTI's defeat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's local body polls, Imran Khan fo
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 24 (ANI): After the defeat of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in its stronghold of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to wrong selection of candidates, Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed the Punjab government and party leadership to select candidates on merit for the up
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'Wrong candidate selection,' says Imran Khan after being defeated in KP po
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 21 (ANI): After defeat in the local government polls in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan admitted that the wrong candidate selection was a major cause for the recent elections.
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Imran Khan's party lags behind in local body's election in Khyber Pakhtunk
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 20 (ANI): The opposition parties in Pakistan are celebrating their victory after the ruling Imran Khan's party Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf failed to retain its popularity during the first phase of the local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reported loca
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