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Pakistan opposition parties to boycott meeting on Gilgit Baltistan polls
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 27 (ANI): Pakistan opposition parties have decided to boycott a meeting of the country's parliamentary leaders convened by their National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Monday to discuss the impending elections in the military occupied region of Gilgit-Baltis
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Pak to change Gilgit Baltistan's status in response to scrapping of Art 37
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], September 26 (ANI): In a "belated response" to India's moves to nullify Articles 370 and 35A in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan is turning Gilgit Baltistan into a province by giving it representation on all constitutional bodies, according to the European Foundation for
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Pak assembly panel calls for thorough investigation into Karachi plane cra
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Rawalpindi [Pakistan], Aug 19 (ANI): The National Assembly's Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat has called for a detailed probe into the crash of a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight in Karachi, which killed 97 people in May.
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Pakistan Govt presents bill to give right of appeal to Kulbhushan Jadhav u
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 27 (ANI): Pakistan government on Monday presented a bill in the National Assembly to give the right of appeal to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is on the death row in Pakistan, in regard to the International Court of Justice's ruling.
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S. Korean National Assembly Speaker invites Pyongyang to hold inter-parlia
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], July 17 (Sputnik/ANI): South Korean National Assembly speaker Park Byeong-seug during his address in the parliament at the ceremony on the 72nd Day of the Constitution of the South Korea on Friday invited North Korea to hold talks between the parliaments of the two count
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8 lakh Indians may be forced to leave after Kuwait approves Expat quota bi
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Kuwait City [Kuwait], July 6 (ANI): The legal and legislative committee of Kuwait's National Assembly has approved the draft expat quota bill which could result in 8 lakh Indians leaving the country.
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Osama a 'shaheed': Not Imran Khan's 'slip of tongue' but allegiance to Tal
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], June 26 (ANI): Taliban Khan does it again. In another 'historical' speech on the floor of the National Assembly, the prime minister of Pakistan calls Osama bin Laden a shaheed, a martyr. And not for the first time.
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Imran Khan calls Osama bin Laden 'Shaheed' in Pak National Assembly
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 25 (ANI): Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday raked up yet another controversy by calling a slain terrorist and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden a "shaheed" (martyr) while addressing the National Assembly.
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Pashtuns in Pakistan continue to face torture by Pak Army
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], June 12 (ANI): A video is doing the rounds on social media showing the brutal torture by Pakistan Army on civilians in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that has raised concerns over growing human rights violations in the region.
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Nawaz Sharif's brother Shehbaz Sharif tests positive for COVID-19, party b
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 11 (ANI): PML-N President and leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif has tested positive for coronavirus, party spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb confirmed on Thursday to Dawn.
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Pashtuns pay tributes to Kharqamar martyrs while criticising Pakistan Army
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
North Waziristan [Pakistan], May 27 (ANI): Amid COVID-19 pandemic, central leaders of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) including Member of National Assembly Mohsin Javed Dawar visited the graves of Kharqamar martyrs on Tuesday to mark the first anniversary of the barbaric incident in which 14
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Killing of Pashtun rights activist Arif Wazir shows worst form of state te
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], May 3 (ANI): Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain has expressed grief over the killing of Arif Wazir, first cousin of Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) leader and member National Assembly (MNA) from federally administered tribal area (FATA), Ali Wazir, in an arme
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