Pakistan

The United States has surpassed 2.5 million coronavirus cases, as efforts to reopen the world's economic powerhouse were dramatically set back by a surge of new infections in states such as Florida. Infections are also up in some other…
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India reported over 17,000 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, pushing the country’s total above 500,000, federal health ministry data showed on Saturday, with infections surging in major cities including the capital New Delhi.…
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REUTERS: A bomb attached to a vehicle killed two members of Afghanistan’s independent human rights commission in Kabul on Saturday, the group said, as violence in the country rises despite a U.S.-brokered peace process. The Afghanistan…
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A day after the government announced its decision to increase prices of petrol by almost Rs26, Twitter slammed Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government for undertaking the measure. Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday approved a summary…
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A gas tank explosion rocked Tehran overnight near a military complex that had come under scrutiny five years ago from the UN nuclear watchdog, Iran's defence ministry said Friday. The tanks blew up at around midnight, with Fars news…
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KARACHI: Former Jamaat I Islami chief Syed Munawwar Hasan passed away on Friday after a protracted illness. He was 78. According to the party, Syed Munawwar Hasan was under treatment in a Karachi hospital, where he breathed his last.…
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has called on the international community to hold India accountable for its human rights abuses in the Indian-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Taking to Twitter on the International Day in Support of…
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At least 107 people died from lightning strikes in northern and eastern India Thursday, officials said, during the early stages of the annual monsoon season. Some 83 people were killed in the impoverished eastern state of Bihar after…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday voiced disappointment at US State Department's report on terrorism for 2019 describing it self-contradictory and selective in its characterization of Islamabad’s efforts for countering terrorism and terrorist…
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A preliminary study of patients hospitalised with COVID-19 has found the disease can damage the brain, causing complications such as stroke, inflammation, psychosis and dementia-like symptoms in some severe cases. The findings are the…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has called the 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden a ‘shaheed’ (martyr) while speaking in the country’s Parliament. Imran can be heard as saying, "We were very embarrassed when Americans came…
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Islamabad: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari challenged prime minister Imran Khan to have a debate on his policies either in the House or if he wants, then any of the television channels. Bilawal speaking after prime…
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Lahore: Rafiullah alias Amir, who was beaten and paraded naked in Peshawar two days ago, is not the first victim of police brutality. Unfortunately, this is yet another glimpse of the policing culture in Pakistan that manifests itself in…
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Authorities in Lahore imposed smart lockdown in another seven city areas at 12:00 midnight in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The areas area: Defence Housing Authority (DHA), Gulberg, Gulshan-e Ravi, Garden Town, Faisal…
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Recently, 2020 has been a series of one horrible thing after another, and this recent incident has been incredibly horrifying and saddening. Recently, ACF (Ayesha Chundrigar Foundation) founder Ayesha Chundrigar posted a video on…
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