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Exiled former Pak PM Nawaz likely to return, lead poll campaign: Minister
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
In exile since 2019, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) supremo Nawaz Sharif is likely return to Pakistan, Geo News reported, adding that once back, he may chair the party's parliamentary board for finalising candidates for the upcoming provincial elections in the country.
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Pakistan: Azam Khan takes oath as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa caretaker CM
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Khan's name for the provincial caretaker role was finalised after consultation between outgoing chief minister Mahmood Khan and Leader of the Opposition Akram Khan Durrani
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Pakistan: Protests erupt in Karachi over recounting of votes in local poll
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The ECP took over 36 hours to announce the results of Karachi's 236 union committees, as the opposition accused the provincial government of "rigging and managing things".
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Pakistan: KP CM Mahmood Khan signs summary to dissolve provincial assembly
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The PTI chairman had announced the dissolution of the assemblies -- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab -- in November last year. However, the plans were delayed due to consultations with allies and countermeasures adopted by the ruling allies in the centre.
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Taliban publicly flog nine convicted of robbery and "sodomy"
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Local authorities and Kandahar residents were in attendance during the lashing. The spokesman for the provincial governor, Haji Zaid, said the convicts were lashed 35-39 times.
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Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly to be dissolved on Tuesday
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
As directed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Mahmood Khan, has decided to dissolve the provincial assembly on Tuesday, the Geo News reported.
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PML(N) chief Nawaz Sharif directs party to prepare for Punjab provincial p
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chairman Nawaz Sharif on Saturday directed party leaders to start preparing for provincial elections in Punjab with full force, the Express Tribune reported, adding the decision was conveyed by the former PM.
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Pakistan: Punjab Assembly stands dissolved as governor refuses to sign sum
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A notification posted on his Twitter handle read that the Provincial Assembly of Punjab and the Cabinet stand dissolved under Article 112(1) of the Constitution of Pakistan. It calls for the appointment of a caretaker Chief Minister in consultation with the outgoing Chief Minister and the Le
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Pak: Sindh High Court directs provincial home secretary to deploy commando
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
This statement came after the leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly, Haleem Adil Sheikh filed a petition in court asking for proper security as he was reportedly under threat.
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Pakistan: Imran Khan scores win in Punjab as federal govt fails to prevent
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
On Thursday, Punjab CM Parvez Elahi signed the summary for the dissolution of the provincial assembly. "I Parvez Elahi, chief minister of Punjab, hereby advise you to dissolve the provincial assembly," he said in a brief one-line advice addressed to Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman, as quoted
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Pakistan: Punjab CM Elahi signs summary for dissolving provincial assembly
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
"I Parvez Elahi, chief minister of Punjab, hereby advise you to dissolve the provincial assembly," he said in a brief one-line advice addressed to Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman, Elahi, as quoted by Dawn newspaper.
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Cases of mental illness on rise in Afghanistan's Herat, incidence highest
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Afghanistan has witnessed a surge in cases of mental illness in recent months of which 80 per cent of the patients are women from nearly 100 people who visit the hospital on a regular basis, TOLOnews quoted Qadem Mohammadi, head of the mental health ward in Herat's provincial hospital as say
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