In a hand-grenade explosion that occurred near a seminary in the Kharotabad area on Thursday, three teenage boys died and two others suffered injuries. The officials of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) said that the boys, aged between 13 and 18 years, were passing through a graveyard while on their way home when they […]
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Pakistan’s Punjab Governor Sarwar humiliates his nation in US
Pakistan Punjab Governor Chaudry Muhammad Sarwar who was on a visit to the US humiliated Pakistan and made huge money to the tune of 40 thousand dollars for his NGO, Sarwar Foundation. Chaudry roamed around the country asking Pakistani American businessmen to write bank cheques on the name of the governor’s wife, as per The Frontier Post. […]
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Pakistan court returns desperate Imran Khan govt’s ‘curative review’ plea on Isa verdict
Pakistan Supreme Court on Wednesday returned a “curative review petition” by the Imran Khan government challenging the apex court’s judgement on a plea to review the Justice Qazi Faez Isa case. The apex court registrar’s office, while returning the government’s “curative review petition” in the case said that a second review petition could not be filed […]
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Pakistan FM Qureshi rules out providing military bases to US in future
Foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday said in the Senate that Pakistan would not provide its military bases to the United States for future counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan and also not allow drone attacks inside Pakistan. The foreign minister also rejected as unfounded the reports of providing the US, bases in Pakistan, making it clear that Prime […]
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Pakistan increases tariff on power by Rs 1.72 per unit
Already overburdened by inflation, increased oil prices, food items, Pakistanis were in for a shock when Federal Cabinet on Friday decided to increase the power tariff in three quarterly adjustments. Citing a private TV channel, The News International reported that the Cabinet approved the summary through circulation, told the sources of Cabinet Division. […]
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UK puts Pakistan in list of 21 Terror Financing Countries
In a move that could impact Pakistan’s chances of getting off the FATF’s grey list, the United Kingdom (UK) on Sunday added the country to its list of 21 “high-risk countries” over money laundering and terror financing charges. The UK added Pakistan in ‘Amendment of the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing […]
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Violence in Pakistan, 800 Indian Sikhs stranded in Lahore
Violent violence erupted in neighboring Pakistan on Tuesday. During this time, clashes between police and activists of Islamic fundamentalist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) took place in many cities. Actually, the TLP has been demonstrating for the last several months demanding the expulsion of the French ambassador from Pakistan. On Tuesday, […]
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Pakistan: 7 injured in blast at football ground in Karachi
Seven people were injured in an explosion during a football match on Tuesday at a sports ground in Karachi’s Hub area. According to the police, the final of a football tournament was taking place at a ground in Hub’s Allahabad neighbourhood when the explosion occurred, reported Geo News. The wounded were taken […]
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3 killed in Pakistan over clash between demonstrators and Police
Two demonstrators and a policeman were killed Tuesday in violent clashes between Islamists and police in Pakistan, hours after authorities arrested the head of an Islamist party in the eastern city of Lahore, a senior official and local media reported. The policeman was killed in overnight clashes with the supporters […]
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US report reveals troubling human rights abuses in Pakistan
US State Department has issued its report on human rights condition in different countries across the world. It has also discussed Pakistan, in terms of different issues including human rights violation, freedom of expression, the plight of minorities, militancy, and other issues. In the chapter on Pakistan, the report has mentioned “threats of violence, […]
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Pakistan aiding Turkey’s nuclear ambitions and assert control over Kabul
Pakistan is helping Turkey to develop nuclear weapons and control Afghanistan by expanding Recep Tyyip Erdogan’s Caliphate expedition to the country. As per an article by Paul Antonopoulos in Greek City Times, Pakistan’s Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), General Nadeem Raza, visited Turkey from March 27th to […]
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Pakistan not ready to combat Covid-19 third wave: Bilawal Bhutto
Pakistan is not sufficiently ready to combat the ongoing third coronavirus wave due to the country’s government’s “refusal” to purchase vaccines for every citizen, said Pakistan opposition leader Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. Addressing a press conference in Jacobabad after meeting local Pakistan Peoples Party leaders and workers, Bilawal, PPP’s chairperson, said the “stubbornness” of the government in refusing to purchase […]
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Pakistan restarts import of sugar & cotton from India
In a sign of further thawing of diplomatic ties, Pakistan today approved the resumption of cotton and sugar imports from India. Its newly appointed Finance Minister Hammad Azhar announced the Pakistan Economic Coordination Committee’s (ECC) decision to import 0.5 million tonnes of white sugar and cotton from India. Pakistan Prime […]
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Rights report highlights unlawful killings and forced disappearance of Baloch activists in Pakistan
In its 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights, the US State Department has highlighted significant human rights issues in Pakistan, including unlawful or arbitrary killings by the government and forced disappearance of Pashtun, Sindhi, and Baloch human rights activists. The report, released on Tuesday, said that there was a lack of government accountability, and abuses often […]
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Bangladeshi Americans recall horror of March 25, 1971, demand apology from Pakistan
A US-based Bangladeshi organisation, Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM), held a car rally on Thursday, followed by a protest outside the Pakistani Embassy in Washington DC demanding an apology for the 1971 genocide named ‘Operation Searchlight’. The protestors observed ‘Genocide Day’ recalling the horror of one of the worst genocides in modern history committed […]