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Pakistan: PMLN, PPP to jointly contest Punjab bypolls
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 8 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Pakistan Peoples Party have decided to jointly contest the Punjab by-election which is scheduled on 20 seats of the Provinceial Assembly.
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Afghanistan: Chinese company demands revision of contract in Aynak Logar c
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 8 (ANI): A Chinese company has demanded the revision of the contract in the Aynak Logar copper mining project - at Mes Ayank a site situated 40 km southeast of Kabul in the barren region of Logar Province. The site contains the world's second-largest copper deposit.
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China: Former Communist party official sentenced to death over bribery, in
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Shenzhen [China], June 7 (ANI): Tong Daochi, a former Communist party official of south China's Hainan Province, was recently sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve by a Chinese court for bribery and insider trading.
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Taliban extends bidding period for large-scale metal mines
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 7 (ANI): The Taliban on Tuesday extended the bidding period for the extraction of two large-scale metal mines in western provinces - Herat and Ghor.
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Sindh province has highest suicide rates in Pakistan: Report
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 6 (ANI): Pakistan's Sindh province is a nightmare for Scheduled Castes with the highest suicide rates in the country.
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Pregnant woman gang-raped in Pakistan's Punjab
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 6 (ANI): In a heinous crime in Pakistan, a pregnant woman was gang-raped by five men in the Punjab province, according to media reports.
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Philippines raises alert level at volcano southeast of Manila
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], June 5 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Sunday raised the alert level for Bulusan volcano from zero to one after the volcano in Sorsogon province, southeast of Manila, spewed a grey plume about a kilometer high into the sky.
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Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency seeks arrest of PM Shehbaz, son in
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 5 (ANI): Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) requested the court to allow the arrest of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son and Punjab province Chief minister Hamza Shehbaz in a Rs 16 billion money-laundering case.
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Afghanistan: Forest fire raging for over 10 days not contained yet
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 5 (ANI): Afghanistan's State Ministry for Disaster Management is unable to douse the fire that broke out in the forests in the Nurgram district of Nuristan province ten days ago, reported local media.
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Taliban atrocities on Afghan media continue as TV channel converted to rel
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 4 (ANI): Media watchdogs have called out the Taliban for another crackdown imposed by the organization as TV channel Metra in Balkh province of Afghanistan has been converted into a religious seminary.
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Driver killed, several injured as bullet train derails in China's Guizhou
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Guizhou [China], June 4 (ANI): Two coaches of a bullet train derailed in China's Guizhou Province due to a mudslide killing the driver and injuring 7 passengers, reported local media on Saturday.
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China rejects Xinjiang rights abuses accusations at UN
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], June 3 (ANI): After the US and UK requested Beijing to allow unfettered access to the northwest Chinese province at the UN security council, China rejected the accusations of human rights abuses being levied against the country in the Xinjiang province.
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