Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said as around one billion people – almost 15 percent of the world’s population – survived in poverty, lacking the income and capabilities to live with dignity, his government was committed…
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REUTERS: A second night of anti-racism rallies got off to a peaceful but tense start in Louisville, Kentucky, on Thursday a day after two policemen were shot during protests sparked by a grand jury decision not to bring homicide charges…
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Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday hit out at the army leadership, urging them to "stop this game" as he reacted to the Mohammad Zubair and army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa meeting. Taking to Twitter, the former prime…
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KARACHI: Children remained confused on Thursday as Sindh's ministers for education and health issued conflicting statements on the novel coronavirus, with one saying they had doubled while the other said that cases of the infection had…
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REUTERS: Two police officers were shot and wounded late on Wednesday in Louisville, Kentucky, during protests of a grand jury ruling decried by civil rights activists as a miscarriage of justice in the fatal police shooting of Breonna…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the past two weeks, according to data available from the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC). On Thursday, the NCOC reported that 799 people tested positive…
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ISLAMABAD: Federal Science Minister Fawad Chaudhry has been vehemently criticizing senior journalist Ansar Abbasi for his myopic view f Islam. "It is not a matter of Islamic or non-Islamic, you want to Talibanize Pakistan where…
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ISLAMABAD: Federal Planning Minister Asad Umar has said that the ratio of Coronavirus in educational institutions continues to be stable below two percent. Taking to Twitter on Thursday, Asad Umar wrote: "A significant build up in covid…
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will address a high-level panel of the United Nations on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity on Thursday, Radio Pakistan reported. The forum was formed to help address…
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RAWALPINDI: Pakistan army chief spokesman Major General Babar Iftikhar disclosed that PML-N leader Muhammad Zubair had twice met with Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa in the last few weeks. The DG ISPR told a news…
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ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis and HRD, Sayed Zulfikar Abbas Bukhari asked the Saudi Vice Minister for Labor H.E Abdullah bin Naseer Abuthnain to further extend the iqama expiration date to 30 October…
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz on Wednesday called for a comprehensive solution on Iran and disarming its affiliate Hezbollah in Lebanon, and expressed support for U.S. efforts to start talks between Israel and the…
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ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday said the disputes of Jammu and Kashmir, and Palestine were the UN’s “most glaring and longstanding failures”. “The people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir still await fulfillment…
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RAWALPINDI: Two soldiers of Pakistan Army embraced martyrdom after an unprovoked ceasefire violation (CFV) by Indian troops along the line of control (LOC) in Dewa Sector on Wednesday. According to ISPR, the media wing of Pakistan Army,…
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Saudi Arabia will gradually resume the year-round umrah pilgrimage for Muslims from October 4, the interior ministry said Tuesday, seven months after it was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic. The kingdom had suspended the…
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