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Chinese social media app blocked for failing to filter out ‘immoral and indecent’ content, Pakistan’s telecommunications authority says.Pakistan has banned Chinese social media app TikTok for failing to filter out “immoral and indecent” content, the country’s telecommunications authority said. The decision came after a number of complaints from different ...

The infestation had forced the government to declare a national emergency as the invading insects ravaged crops.Pakistani officials have claimed the country has eradicated swarms of desert locust, months after declaring a national emergency to battle the infestation. “By the grace of God and efforts of all, we can ...

Police in northwestern Pakistan have launched a manhunt for suspects, including a Muslim professor, accused of killing a colleague from the minority Ahmadiyya sect following arguments on religion, officials said. On Monday, two men in Peshawar city shot dead Naeemuddin Khattak, who held a doctorate in zoology and was ...

A Pakistani court has formally charged former President Asif Ali Zardari in two corruption cases, while a provincial government has admitted a case of sedition against three-time former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and 40 others, including the premier of Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The cases against these high-profile names come as ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan and Afghanistan have reaffirmed their commitment to closer ties and the Afghan peace process, as the chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah, continues his tour of his country’s eastern neighbour. Speaking at an event in the capital, Islamabad, on Tuesday, Abdullah ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistani authorities have arrested Shehbaz Sharif, leader of the opposition and president of the country’s main opposition party, on corruption charges, the latest high-profile arrest of an opposition figure by Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government. Sharif was arrested from the premises of the high court in ...

A court has ruled that Pakistan's deadliest industrial fire, which killed over 260 factory workers in 2012, was a case of arson and not an accident, as it sentenced two men to death. The Anti-Terrorism Court found on Tuesday that the men, formerly members of the Muttahida Quami Movement party (MQM), set ...

Al Jazeera meets families of girls kidnapped in Pakistan who are forced to marry and convert to Islam. Source link

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for public hangings and chemical castration of rapists as authorities reported arresting a second man in connection with the rape of a woman on a popular highway in Punjab province last week. The woman was raped in front of her children after her car ran ...

Pakistani police say they have arrested one of two suspects in the rape of a woman who was dragged from her car and attacked after her car broke down on a desolate highway in central Punjab province. The woman, who police say is in her early 30s, was driving ...