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Saudi Prince faces heat for human rights violation
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Buenos Aires [Argentina], Nov 27 (ANI): The Argentinean judicial authorities have started examining a submission by Human Rights Watch against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is widely known as MBS, in which the watchdog has alleged war crime charges against the Saudi-led coaliti
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Directed DGCA for strict safety audit of airlines, says Prabhu at launch o
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 19 (ANI): Union Minister of Civil Aviation Suresh Prabhu has ordered the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the aviation safety watchdog, to conduct safety audits of all airlines.
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Irish watchdog investigates Facebook's security breach
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Dublin [Ireland], Oct 4 (ANI): The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has started an investigation into Facebook's latest revelation claiming a security breach that may have affected nearly 50 million accounts.
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RSF asks Maldives' presidential candidates to assure press freedom
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Sep 13 (ANI): Days after the Maldives Broadcasting Commission slapped a hefty fine on a TV channel for allegedly defaming the President and threatening national security, the Press watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF or Reporters Sans Frontieres) sought a firm undertaki
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Imran Khan govt must uphold freedom of expression, says independent watchd
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 31, (ANI): Pakistan's Imran Khan-led new government must uphold the freedom of expression as media is facing severe pressure from state institutions in the country, emphasised speakers at the launch of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan's (HRCP) fact finding
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FATF delegation likely to visit Pak next week
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Aug 9 (ANI): A delegation of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an anti-terror money laundering global watchdog, is likely to visit Pakistan on August 13 to review the implementation of its action plan imposed on Pakistan to tackle terrorism funding.
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China approves $1 billion aid to Pak despite FAFT ban
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] July 03 (ANI): China's one billion dollar loan to Pakistan has come at a time when the South Asian country has been officially placed on a terrorism financing watchdog's grey list.
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NAB chief dismisses claims of targeting PML-N
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman, (Retd.) Justice Javed Iqbal has dismissed Pakistan Muslim League's (PML) allegations of the anti-graft watchdog targeting a single party.
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Nadeem Nusrat welcomes FATF move to keep Pakistan on 'grey list'
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Mohajir activist and the Voice of Karachi chairman, Nadeem Nusrat, has said that the decision of global anti-terror financing watchdog, Financial Action Task Force (FATF), to keep Pakistan on its 'grey list' is a right step in the right direction.
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FATF puts Pak on 'grey list'
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Paris [France], Jun 28 (ANI): Global anti-terror financing watchdog, Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has decided to keep Pakistan on its 'grey list'.
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Amnesty to Pakistan: End alarming poll-linked crackdown
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [United States], June 15 (ANI): New York-based human rights watchdog Amnesty International has appealed to authorities in Pakistan to end what it described as an alarming crackdown on human rights defenders, activists, journalists and other civil society members in the run up to the
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Iran seeks boosting uranium enrichment
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], June 6 (ANI): Iran's atomic energy agency spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi on Tuesday said Iran will inform the United Nations (UN) nuclear watchdog in Vienna of its plan to increase the country's uranium enrichment capacity.
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