Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The government has referred the issue of fund allocation for a Hindu temple in Islamabad to the Council for Islamic Ideology (CII), a top official said. The move came after the Capital Development Authority (CDA) halted the…
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered strict implementation of SOPs to curtail the spread of Coronavirus during Eid-ul-Azha. He expressed these views during his visit to National Command and Operation Centre on the occasion of…
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Etihad Airways is auditing its pilots with Pakistan-issued licenses, the Abu Dhabi airline said on Thursday. Last month, Pakistan grounded 262 pilots amid suspicions they cheated on their examinations to operate aircraft, and the United…
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Islamic religious schools announced that they would resume regular classes and hold annual exams from August 5, a media report said. Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia Pakistan, one of the largest boards of Islamic seminaries, will conduct the…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to India's northern frontier region with China on Friday in his first trip to the area since a deadly border clash last month. The incident in the Galwan Valley saw 20 Indian troops…
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The United States posted a record 53,000 new coronavirus cases as the deadly pandemic accelerated across the Americas, but its slowdown in Europe led Britain to announce Friday the first exemptions to its quarantine rules. With Europe…
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Malaysia’s aviation regulator has temporarily suspended pilots employed by domestic airlines who hold Pakistani licences, after the government of the South Asian nation revealed that many pilots had dubious qualifications. The Civil…
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The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has called on the UN Human Rights Council to equitably address the human rights violations of people in conflict situations that are on the UN and the OIC agenda, including Kashmir and Palestine, as…
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ISLAMABAD: The hashtag #BoycottBakeryChannel was trending on Twitter on Thursday, hours after PPP leader Palwasha Khan was controversially asked by TV anchor Imran Khan to leave his current affairs show on GNN. The clip of the heated…
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Nations who fail to use every mechanism available to combat the still-raging novel coronavirus will struggle to beat it, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. “Some countries ... have taken a fragmented approach. These…
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Hundreds of people in the Indian-occupied Kashmir staged protests on Wednesday, accusing government forces of killing a man during a rebel attack which also left a trooper dead. Rebels opened fire from a mosque attic in the northern town…
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Srinagar: Indian troops in their fresh acts of state terrorism martyred two more Kashmiris in Sopore town and Rajouri district, today, according to Kashmir Media Service. These killings raised the number of martyred youth to 7 since…
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The European Union reopened its borders Wednesday to visitors from 15 countries -- but not the virus-stricken United States, where a top health official warned the country is headed in the "wrong direction" as cases spike in multiple…
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DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has written to the Pakistan government to verify licenses of Pakistani pilots working in different airlines of the Gulf country. In its letter issued on June 29, the Emirati Civil Aviation Authority also…
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Muhammad Iqbal was only 17 years old in 1998 when he was arrested and consequently sentenced to death a year later. In 2000, Pakistan passed the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance (JJSO), making it illegal for juveniles to be handed the…
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