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Safety, security of women is a fantasy in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 29 (ANI): Amid a rise in gender-based violence, the safety and security of women is a fantasy in Pakistan.
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157 women kidnapped, 112 assaulted last month in Pakistan: Report
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 14 (ANI): A total of 157 women were kidnapped, 112 women were a victim of physical assault and 91 women were raped across Pakistan in the month of June, according to a report.
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Atheists in Pakistan fearful as crackdowns on digital blasphemy continue
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 23 (ANI): Blasphemy arrests and mob violence continue to escalate in Pakistan as blasphemy laws are leading to the erasure of atheist identities.
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Political intolerance has polarised Pakistan society to extreme levels
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 19 (ANI): While religious intolerance has been deeply entrenched in Pakistan society for decades, the recent wave of political intolerance where the public appears to have developed a blind faith in their leaders, making them into some cult figures, has polarised
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PML-N leader suggests Shehbaz Sharif led govt to seek fresh mandate to ave
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 19 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) leader Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Monday suggested the coalition partners in the Shehbaz Sharif government to seek a fresh mandate from the masses to avert a civil-war like situation in the country, reported local media.
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Pakistan: Intelligence agencies fear political violence on no-trust vote d
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 1 (ANI): The intelligence agencies in Pakistan have sounded a state of high alert amid fears of political violence involving clashes between the workers of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Opposition on the day of voting on the no-confidence motio
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Religious violence on rise in Pakistan: Report
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 22 (ANI): With the Imran Khan government's inability to curb religious violence in Pakistan, the cases of such incidents have risen to an alarming level in the country in recent years, according to a media report.
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Pakistan: Opposition accuses Imran Khan of coercive measures ahead of no-t
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 12 (ANI): The use of force by deploying a heavy contingent of police commandos and the anti-terrorist force to expel volunteers of Ansarul Islam from Parliament Lodges shows how the Imran Khan government has now resorted to violence to suppress opponents, reported
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Violent tendencies in Pakistan's youth show extremism rooted deep within s
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 26 (ANI): The participation of Pakistan's youth in acts of violence demonstrates how extremism exists deep within the heart of Pakistani society, local media reported.
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Lynching of Sri Lankan national points to rise of religion-based hatred vi
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 14 (ANI): The lynching of Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara in Pakistan over blasphemy allegations by a hardline mob has signalled the rise of religion-based hatred violence in the country, according to a report.
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Minorities facing systematic discrimination, violence in Pakistan, say exp
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], November 23 (ANI): Religious and sectarian minorities suffer systematic discrimination and violence in Pakistan, an expert panel said during a seminar in Lahore.
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American weapons looted by Taliban likely to be first used for violence in
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), August 24 (ANI): Amid inputs that the Taliban was supplying a huge quantity of American weapons captured by it from the Afghan Army to Pakistan, top military officers in India feel that these weapons would be first used for violence in Pakistan itself by the ISI-bred terro
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