Pakistan

Astronomers say the sun will align in position exactly above the Holy Kaaba at the Grand Mosque on Thursday at 2:18 pm PST time. The disc of the sun will be positioned immediately over the Kaaba and it will lose its shadow for a brief…
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Pakistan has opened registrations for citizens aged 19 and above for the coronavirus vaccination on Thursday. National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) chief Asad Umar, Yesterday, tweeted about the government's move to open…
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Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and President of United Nations General Assembly Volkan Bozkir on Thursday in a meeting held here discussed matters of international and regional importance, including the Palestine and Jammu and…
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Sindh Chief Secretary Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah, in a meeting at the Sindh Secretariat, announced that the Sindh government has warned all businesses and factories that they will be shut down if their workers are not vaccinated. Provincial…
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Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) MPA Syed Abdul Rasheed submitted a draft of "The Sindh Compulsory Marriage Act, 2021" to the Sindh Assembly Secretariat on Wednesday which seeks to make marriage compulsory for people aged 18 years. The…
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The Taliban warned Afghanistan's neighbours Wednesday against allowing the United States to operate military bases on their soil, saying they would thwart such a "historic mistake". Washington is in the final stages of withdrawing its…
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Prime Minister Imran Khan held a telephone conversation with the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. He appreciated the important role played by Egypt and its leadership for cessation of hostilities in…
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President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday issued a new plea for Russians to get vaccinated against the coronavirus but stressed that the jabs would not become compulsory. Russia registered the world's first coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V in…
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday wrapped up a Mideast tour to bolster an Egypt-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, calling for regional cooperation to avoid more "harrowing violence".…
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Journalist and blogger Asad Toor was brutally assaulted by unidentified men at his home in Islamabad Tuesday night. Toor was later shifted to the hospital after attackers broke into his house and roughed him up. The Islamabad police…
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US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, days after an Egypt-brokered truce halted fighting between the Jewish state and the Gaza Strip's Islamist rulers Hamas. Blinken, who said earlier his trip would aim to…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported around 2,253 fresh Covid cases and a daily positivity rate of 4.82 per cent in the last 24 hours, The daily positivity rate has fallen below the 5 per cent mark (4.82%) for the first time in months.…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's ministry of foreign affairs has rebuffed "baseless and irresponsible" reports about the presence of a US military base in Pakistan. In a statement on Monday evening, Foreign Office spokesman Zahid Chaudhry wrote:…
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(AFP) -A Suspect stabbed two young Israeli men before being shot dead by police at a tram station in Jerusalem on Monday, Israeli police told AFP. "Attacker shot and killed," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Hadassah medical…
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LAHORE: Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar will take oath as a Punjab parliamentarian today, after remaining aloof from Pakistani politics for a period of three years. As per sources close to the former PML-N stalwart, the move has…
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