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Permanent status for military courts will be Pak Govt.'s failure on N
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Dec. 30 (ANI): Jamiat Ulema-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that if military courts were given a permanent status, it would tantamount to confessing that the government has failed to achieve the targets of the National Action Plan (NAP) which was set up t
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Pak military courts to get permanent status
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] Dec. 29 (ANI): The Pakistan Interior Ministry has decided to grant permanent status to military courts in the country which were initially setup for two years following the December 2014 Peshawar Army Public School attack that killed 132 children.
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Sit-ins destructive for Pakistan, Sharif tells Imran, other politicians
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Dec.29 (ANI): Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has told political leaders of various parties, including Imran Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) that constant and repeated sit-ins will be destructive for Pakistan, and urged politicians not to create hurdles in the nat
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Sharif inaugurates 340 MW Chashma-III nuclear power plant
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Dec.28 (ANI): Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday inaugurated the power production from 340 MegaWatt Chashma-III nuclear power plant 'C-III' near Mianwali,in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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Pak army chief attends 2nd anniversary of Peshawar school attack, promises
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec. 16 (ANI): Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen. Qamar Jawed Bajwa laid a wreath and offered Fateha on Friday as he attended the second anniversary of the Taliban claimed Peshawar Army Public School attack that took 144 lives, including 132 children.
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Army will work with govt. for development of FATA, says General Bajwa
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Dec.13 (ANI): Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said that the army will work with the government to ensure equitable development in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
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Senior Pak police officer escapes unhurt in Peshwar blast
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec.2 (ANI): A senior police officer has escaped unhurt after a roadside bomb exploded near the police van in which he was travelling on the Northern Bypass in Peshawar on Friday.
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Nat Geo's 'Afghan girl' imprisoned, fined for forgery
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov.4 (ANI): A special anti-corruption and immigration court in Peshawar on Friday sentenced National Geographic famed Afghan woman Sharbat Gula to 15-days of imprisonment and levied a fine of Rs. 110,000 for forgery.
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Nat Geo's famous 'green-eyed' Afghan girl arrested in Pesha
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Oct. 26 (ANI): The famous green-eyed 'Afghan girl' Sharbat Bibi who was immortalised in the 1985 National Geographic magazine was arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Peshawar on Wednesday for living in the country with fraudulent identity pape
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Pak Army has never pointed finger at anyone without evidence: DG ISPR Bajw
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Sept. 27 (ANI): Director General of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Asim Bajwa on Tuesday said that the Pakistan Army has never pointed finger at anyone without concrete evidence, while also maintaining that its military is prepared to respond to any attack.
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Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa set to table Women Protection Bill again
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Sept. 23 (ANI): Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani, the advisor to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, has said that the province is still considering tabling the Women Protection Bill which was rejected by the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII).
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ISIS claims responsibility for killing three Pak soldiers in Peshawar
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Sept. 19 (ANI): Three Pakistani soldiers were killed in an ambush in Peshawar city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province yesterday in an attack, for which both the Islamic State and Jamaatul Ahrar, a Pakistani Taliban faction, have claimed responsibility.
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