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Pakistan: Punjab CM summons Cabinet session today
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 23 (ANI): A day after Pakistan's Punjab assembly passed the Punjab Finance Bill 2022-23, Chief Minister Hamza Shahbaz convened the fourth session of the cabinet on Thursday to discuss an 11-point agenda, which includes a budget allocation for the most populous prov
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Pakistan's Punjab imposes 'emergency' due to rise in rape cases
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): Pakistan's Punjab province has decided to declare an "emergency" amid a rapid increase of reported cases of sexual abuse against women and children.
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Pak's poll body seeks army's help after PTI, PML-N workers clash leaves se
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 21 (ANI): Pakistan's election commission has sought the army's assistance after an 'armed clash' between workers of the PML-N and PTI during the by-poll campaign in Johar Town in Punjab province which left several people injured on Sunday.
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Pakistan: After Sindh and Punjab, Islamabad opts to limit business hours
Updated : 3 years, 9 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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Pakistan: Hindu girl rescued from Punjab province, a week after she was ab
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 14 (ANI): A Hindu girl who was kidnapped in the Jhelum district of Pakistan's Punjab province was rescued on Monday, a week after she was abducted while returning from work.
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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 sets aside PKR 1.52 trillion for defence spending
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 11 (ANI): Pakistani government has proposed an allocation of PKR 1.523 trillion for defence services for the fiscal year 2022-23, with an increase of 11.16 per cent over the initial allocation for the outgoing year (2021-22), according to local media.
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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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Pakistan's anti-terror court issues arrest warrants against dozen PTI lead
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Punjab [Pakistan], June 10 (ANI): An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan's Punjab province has issued arrest warrants against a dozen leaders belonging to the party of former prime minister Imran Khan.
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3 killed, 10 injured in truck-bus collision in Pakistan's Punjab
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 9 (ANI): At least three people were killed and 10 others injured after a truck collided with a passenger bus in Pakistan's Punjab province, the country's state media reported on Thursday.
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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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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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