Pakistan
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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman will be released on Friday as a "peace gesture". Khan made the announcement at the joint session of the Pakistan parliament on Thursday.
"We have decided to release the captured Indian ...
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GIVING A BIG relief to former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam; the Islamabad High Court on Wednesday suspended their sentences in the Avenfield corruption reference case and ordered their release from a high security prison. The trio of Sharif, his daughter and ...
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FORMER PAKISTAN PRESIDENT Pervez Musharraf on Friday resigned from the chairmanship of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML). Party president Dr. Mohammad Amjad said Musharraf has sent his resignation letter to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
Dr. Amjad was quoted by the Dawn, as saying that ...
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IN A MAJOR BLOW to Nawaz Sharif's political career, Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday disqualified the ousted prime minister as the chief of his own party and struck down all decisions taken by him as the party head.
Sharif, 68, was disqualified as the prime minister ...
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16.09.17 - PT Foreign Desk
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ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has cracked the whip and ordered the Islamabad police to arrest rising superstar of Pakistani politics, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan, and produce him before it on September 25.
Imran Khan has been charged with committing contempt against the Election ...
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GAMA PEHALWAN’S GRANDDAUGHTER IS IN FRAY
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16.09.17 - Barkat Lahori*
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PUNJAB KNOWS LITTLE what is happening in Punjab. No wonder, Punjabis in India are not looking forward with any amount of anxiety to what will happen in Lahore on Sunday.
This Sunday, Punjabis in Lahore will go to polling stations to vote to elect their representative ...
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A Pakistani man decapitated his wife for not quitting her job as a labourer, the media reported on Monday. According to police, Nasreen, 37, who lived in an area of Shamke Bhattian in Manga Mandi, 41 kilometres from Lahore, was found dead by her children and ...
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The Pakistan government website was on Thursday reportedly hacked briefly by unknown hackers who posted the Indian national anthem and Independence Day greetings on the web page. Reportedly, the website opened with a hacker message which celebrated India’s Independence day with the national anthem playing in ...
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Another Sharif in the office
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Shahbaz Sharif, younger brother of ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, will become the new premier of Pakistan, according to ANI. To become the Prime Minister, Shahbaz would have to first resign from his present position as Punjab chief minister. He would then have to contest ...
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13.04.17 - observer with opinion
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THIS IS important, India. This could well be a doomsday scenario for us. This deserves national attention, immediately.  About 4 years ago , an alliance of 39 Islamic countries was formed, with Saudi Arabia at its forefront, and quite obviously with Western backing, ostensibly to fight ISIS. This ...
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A Pakistan International Airlines plane from Chitral to Islamabad crashed near Havelian in Abbottabad district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday. According to the passengers list, 47 people were on board the aircraft, including five crew members. It had taken off from Chitral around 3:00 pm but reportedly communication ...
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Hours after the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani slammed Pakistan for its export of terror, Pakistan said to not "blame one country" for the terror.
"We need to have an objective and holistic view rather to blame one country", said Pakistan Prime ...
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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today hit back at his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, saying poverty cannot be eradicated by "driving tanks on farmlands" and once again needled India by calling Hizbul commander Burhan Wani a "son of the Kashmiri soil".
Sharif attempted to respond to ...
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Following Indian claims of "surgical strikes" at the terror launch pads in Pakistani Kashmir, Pakistan opposition party leader Imran Khan said he will show his Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif how to react to such "aggressions". "Initially I had to give a message to Nawaz Sharif, but ...
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At least 63 people including lawyers and media men were killed and dozens injured in a suicide blast at the Civil Hospital in southwestern city of Quetta in Pakistan on Monday morning.
Graphic video footage from the scene showed bodies strewn on the ground, some smoking, ...
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An American citizen who was deported from Pakistan and blacklisted years ago has been arrested upon returning to the country, officials said Saturday.
Matthew Barrett was expelled from Pakistan in 2011, the ministry said in a statement. But he somehow managed to whisk in through the ...
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Renowned Qawwal Amjad Sabri was shot dead in Karachi Wednesday afternoon, after unknown assailants fired at his vehicle in the city's Liaquatabad area.
Additional Inspector General Mushtaq Mehar told Dawn that two men riding a motorcycle fired shots at the car, terming the incident as "targeted ...
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21.04.16 - MATEEN HAIDER*
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In an unprecedented move, Chief of Pakistan Army Staff General Raheel Sharif dismissed 12 army officers, including a three-star general, from service over alleged corruption on Thursday.
A major general, lieutenant colonel, five brigadiers and a major are among those dismissed from service, said an intelligence ...
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16.04.16 - AMJAD MAHMOOD*
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Lahore: Revealing the sorry state of affairs in the health department, the Punjab Assembly was told on Thursday that a sham doctor continued to conduct brain surgeries in the government’s flagship tertiary care hospital in the provincial metropolis.
Through an adjournment motion, treasury MPA Amjad Ali ...
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Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbhandhak Committee (PSGPC) president Sardar Sham Singh, who put the Sikh shrines and their upkeep on world front, breathed his last on Sunday at the Combined Military Hospital in Lahore.
He was not well for the last one month and admitted in the ...
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