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No Pakistan-Russia diplomats meeting at SCO raises eyebrows: Report
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 30 (ANI): No bilateral meeting with Russia during the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tashkent on Friday, have raised an eyebrow over the Shahbaz Sharif-led Pakistan government as Islamabad relations with Moscow have been discussed sever
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Pakistan: Punjab Assembly speaker's elections to be held today
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], July 29 (ANI): The election for Punjab Assembly speaker will be held on Friday at 4 pm through a secret ballot. Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) have jointly fielded Sibtain Khan whereas Mali
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Pakistan: Tribal elders threaten to block roads, boycott polio vaccination
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 27 (ANI): A jirga of tribal elders in North Waziristan has warned the Pakistan government that it will launch a strong protest movement against target killings in the region.
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Shehbaz government expresses lack of confidence in Pakistan SC bench
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 26 (ANI): Shahbaz Sharif-led Pakistani government has expressed its "lack of confidence" in the three-member Supreme Court bench and announced a boycott of the proceedings related to the Punjab Chief Minister's election after the court turned down their request for
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Pakistan: Govt to move SC requesting full court bench to hear cases relate
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 24 (ANI): The ruling coalition of Pakistan has decided to file a petition in the Pakistan Supreme Court (SC) for the formation of a full court bench to hear cases related to the interpretation of Article 63-A of the Constitution, Pakistan Information Minister Ma
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Pakistan forms panel to probe 'harassment' charges against former NAB chie
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 24 (ANI): Pakistan government has constituted an inquiry commission to probe into the sexual offence against former National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal, according to local media.
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Pakistan appoints former IB chief as anti-graft body chairman
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 22 (ANI): Shahbaz Sharif-led Pakistan government has appointed former Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief Aftab Sultan as the new chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), local media reported.
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Families of students killed in 2014 Peshawar army school attack move court
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], July 15 (ANI): Families of five students and teachers killed in the December 2014 attack on the Peshawar Army School have moved the Peshawar High Court against the ongoing negotiations between the Pakistan government and proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
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Hurting Sikh sentiments, hundreds of Gurudwaras in Pakistan ruined, desecr
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Punjab [Pakistan], July 14 (ANI): The Pakistan government is misleading Sikhs and the international community by maintaining only a handful of Gurudwaras in the country, whereas there are hundreds of such structures of historical significance that are being ruined and defiled, media reports
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Pakistan government's debt up by more than 15 per cent: Report
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 9 (ANI): Amid the worsening economic situation in the country, the Pakistan government's total debt has increased by 15.3 per cent in the first 11 months of the fiscal year FY22.
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Pakistan gas tariff surges by a staggering 235 per cent
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 9 (ANI): The Shehbaz Sharif government has approved an increase in natural gas prices in the range of 43 per cent to 235 per cent with effect from July 1 to recover 660 billion Pakistani rupees (Pkr) from the majority of domestic and all other categories of consume
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Pakistan politicians weigh civil-military imbalance in the country
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 8 (ANI): Former Pakistan Foreign Minister and PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said all three major parties in the country had suffered from the imbalance in the relationship with the military and urged efforts to rectify the past mistakes.
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