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Pak's new government fails to run National assembly due to lack of quorum
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 18 (ANI): The newly-appointed coalition government under Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif failed to run the first sitting of the Pakistan National Assembly on Tuesday, due to the lack of quorum. The house was adjourned five minutes after Holy Quran recitation, playing
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Lord Rami Ranger slams Pakistan in British Parliament over religious perse
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
London [UK], May 18 (ANI): Lord Rami Ranger raised the issue of persecution of minorities in Pakistan in the British Parliament in view of the recent killing of Sikh traders in Peshawar.
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Shehbaz Sharif orders tightening of security for Chinese nationals
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday ordered the tightening of security for Chinese nationals working on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects.
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Imran Khan accuses Shehbaz-led govt of 'stifling' voices of critics
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has accused Shehbaz Sharif-led government of using means to "stifle the voices" of its opponents.
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Pakistan: Rupee witnesses sharp decline due to dwindling foreign reserves
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): In the wake of the dwindling foreign reserves and the inflows taking more than expected time to support the exchange rate, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chaired a meeting with the Exchange Companies Association of Pakistan (ECAP) on Monday to h
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Pakistan: Police registers FIR in Sikh traders' killing in Peshawar
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): Amid severe backlash over the persecution of the minority community in the country, Pakistan's counter-terror department has registered an FIR into the targeted killing of two Sikh traders in Peshawar.
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Pakistan: Climate change deepens water crisis, worries mount amid droughts
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): Pakistan's Federal Minister for Climate Change, Sherry Rehman, on Monday raised the issue of water scarcity while Pakistan is designated as one of the three most water-stressed countries in the world as the intense water crisis in the country has led to se
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Pakistan: Former Punjab governor seeks treason trial of Shehbaz Sharif
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): Amid the ongoing political crisis in Pakistan's Punjab province, PTI leader and former Punjab governor Omer Sarfraz Cheema has announced that he is approaching the court for a high treason case against Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
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Chinese PM presses Shehbaz Sharif to punish Karachi university blast culpr
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday talked over the phone with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and repeated his government's demand for punishment for those involved in the attack on Chinese teachers at Karachi University.
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Pakistan: MQM-P fully prepared for fresh elections, says Khalid Maqbool Si
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) chairperson, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, affirmed on Monday that his political party is fully prepared for the fresh elections, ARY News reported.
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Pakistan: Sit-in protest against killing of Sikh shopkeepers in Peshawar
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], May 16 (ANI): Many people from the Sikh community in Pakistan staged a sit-in on the Grand Trunk Road outside the historic Qilla Bala Hisar to protest against the murder of two Sikh men, who were gunned down in the city of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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Former Pak PM Nawaz Sharif to decide next election dates, claims PML-N's M
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Punjab [Pakistan], May 16 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz on Sunday said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif will decide when the next elections in the country would be held, and asked PTI chief Imran Khan how would he face the people in the polls
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