Pakistan

KARACHI: Eminent scholar Mufti Naeem passed away on Saturday in Karachi, a spokesperson of his seminary, Jamia Binoria confirmed. Naeem was on his way to a hospital after his health deteriorated. He passed away from illness on the way to…
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REUTERS: North Korea is gearing up to send propaganda leaflets over its southern border, denouncing North Korean defectors and South Korea, its state media said on Saturday, the latest retaliation for leaflets from the South as bilateral…
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan announced on Saturday that the government will "partially open" its airspace for overseas Pakistanis tomorrow (Sunday) a couple of months after international flight operations were shunned in the country…
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously rejected a presidential reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa. The short verdict was announced by Justice Umar Ata Bandial, leading a 10-judge full court bench hearing the case. The…
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Nobel Prize-winning activist Malala Yousafzai, who moved to Britain after being shot for campaigning for girls' education in Pakistan, described her joy Friday at graduating from Oxford University. Almost eight years after she was…
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ISLAMABAD: At least 136 people have died from the coronavirus across Pakistan in the last 24 hours, taking the overall tally of fatalities to 3, 229. The number of positive cases in the country has surged to 165,062, according to the…
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ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Thursday summoned Indian Charge d’ Affairs Gaurav Ahluwalia to register Pakistan’s strong protest over the ceasefire violations by the Indian occupation forces along the Line of Control (LoC) on 17 June…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan strongly condemned the latest attempt by Houthi militia to target civilians in Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia. In a statement on Thursday, Foreign Office said: "It is commendable that the bomb-laden UAV was successfully…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday confirmed the death of another 118 people due to the coronavirus, taking the nationwide tally of fatalities to 3, 093. According to the latest figures by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC),…
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An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Thursday sentenced three men to life imprisonment in connection with the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Dr Imran Farooq. While announcing the verdict that was reserved on May 21, the…
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Nearly 80 million people have been forced to flee their homes due to violence and persecution, marking a near-doubling of global displacement in a decade, the UN said Thursday. By the end of 2019, one out of every 97 people in the world…
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ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday expressed profound grief over the passing away of renowned television and radio compere Tariq Aziz. In their separate condolence messages, the President and the…
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Pakistan categorically rejected the irresponsible statement and baseless allegations made by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs in the matter relating to the involvement of Indian High Commission’s officials in “hit-and-run” incident…
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The long-running border dispute between Asian nuclear powers India and China turned deadly for the first time in nearly half a century after at least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a "violent face-off", the army said Tuesday. Experts…
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Iran said on Tuesday a third straight day of more than 100 coronavirus deaths took its overall toll past 9,000, attributing the spike to increased travel by its citizens. Health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari warned the bleak…
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