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Pakistan: After Sindh and Punjab, Islamabad opts to limit business hours
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 19 (ANI): After Sindh and Punjab provinces, Pakistan's capital Islamabad had also decided to limit the operational hours of markets, shopping malls, wedding halls, and restaurants amid the energy crisis in the country.
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Three Afghan provinces suffer simultaneous explosions, four hurt
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 13 (ANI): As blasts become a new normal in the country, three simultaneous explosions took place in Afghanistan's Badakhshan, Kunduz and Kunar provinces on Sunday morning, reported Khaama Press, citing sources.
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Pakistan: Sindh accused of stealing Balochistan's water
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 11 (ANI): Blaming the Indus River System Authority (ISRA) for its failure in ensuring a fair distribution of water among Pakistan's provinces, lawmakers of Pakistan's Balochistan have accused Sindh province of stealing water share.
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Pakistan's Punjab gets lion's share in budgetary distribution
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 11 (ANI): Pakistan's Punjab province got a huge share of 51.74 per cent in the budgetary distribution of resources among the federation and provinces, depicting the favourable behaviours of Shehbaz Sharif-led country's government as his son Hamza Shahbaz is the Chi
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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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Pak: Blame game between Punjab, Sindh continues amid water crisis
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad [Pakistan], June 2 (ANI): Amid the rising water crisis in the provinces, the blame game between Punjab and Sindh continues as Sindh officials accuse their counterparts in Punjab of not agreeing to an independent evaluation by the Wapda's International Sedimentation Research Institu
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Pak: Punjab blames NA's body for wrong evaluation of water flow in Sindh
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], May 29 (ANI): National Assembly members of standing committee on water resources, Khalid Magsi and Riazul Haq on their recent visit to Taunsa and Guddu in Pakistan's Sindh to address the water dispute between the two provinces have been blamed for their wrong evaluation of
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Pakistan Minister 'criticizes' Imran Khan's party for severe water crisis
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], May 28 (ANI): As Pakistan's provinces of Sindh and Balochistan continue to bear a heavy brunt of reduced water supplies due to climate changes, falling economy and political instability, Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has sought to put the blame on the p
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China activates Level-IV emergency response for flooding in southern provi
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 28 (ANI): The Ministry of Water Resources on Saturday activated a Level-IV emergency response for flood control over forecasts of heavy downpours in seven provinces in southern China.
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Irrigation water shortgae in Pak rises to 45pc, IRSA tells provinces to pl
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 25 (ANI): Pakistan's Indus River System Authority (IRSA) urged the Pakistan provincial governments to plan the utilization of water and use it efficiently as the irrigation water shortage in the country surged close to 45 per cent on Tuesday.
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Sindh human rights group to protest outside UN office over water crisis
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New York [US], May 19 (ANI): Amid the ongoing water shortage in Pakistan leading to a tense standoff between the provinces of Punjab and Sindh, a human rights group, Jeay Sindh Freedom Movement (JSFM) has called for protests against the crisis in front of the UN office in New York.
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Former Afghan politician urges probe for mistreatment of locals in three p
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 15 (ANI): Former Afghan politicians have urged an investigation into the reports of torture and mistreatment of the citizens in the country’s three provinces.
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