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Islamabad: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the Imran Khan government were seen bickering on the internet on Saturday (May 22) regarding the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the upcoming general elections. Pak election commission`s tweet on EVMs drew flak from the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ...

Some context.There was a big terrorist attack in Indian Kashmir. 40 paramilitary lost their lives, three months before the national elections.Modi responded by airstrikes on the purported base in Pakistani Kashmir where the attack was supposedly organised from. India claimed to have killed 300 terrorists. It was basically an ...

Pakistan rights campaigners have accused Prime Minister Imran Khan of “baffling ignorance” after the former playboy cricketer blamed how women dress for a rise in rape cases.In a weekend interview on live television, Oxford-educated Khan said an increase in rapes indicated the “consequences in any society where vulgarity is ...

#Pakistan News Pakistan on Thursday made a swift U-turn on plans to allow limited imports of sugar, cotton and wheat from India in a bid to rein in rampant inflation, a move which was thought to have signaled a further thaw in relations between the two arch-foes. The reversing ...

Organisers and participants in women’s rights marches across Pakistan are facing a sustained campaign of misinformation, blasphemy allegations and threats, an escalation of the conservative response to the country’s feminist movement in recent years. On March 8, for the fourth consecutive year, thousands of woman across the South Asian ...

ISLAMABAD - Afghanistan's Education Ministry is facing fierce criticism for banning girls over 12 years of age from singing the national anthem in mixed gender gatherings. The order, dated March 6, came to light Wednesday when someone took a picture of the notice circulated to educational institutions and posted it ...

Disha Ravi has been remanded to police custody for five days by a Delhi CourtNew Delhi: Three-time BJP MP PC Mohan has likened Disha Ravi, a 21-year-old climate activist who was arrested in the ''Toolkit'' document case related to the farmers' protest, to terrorists -- Ajmal Kasab and Burhan ...

 Rawalpindi: Days after the Pakistan police fired tear gas on protesting government employees for salary hike, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed made light of the incident, stating that it was "necessary to test the tear gas as it had been unused for a long time".  Addressing a ceremony in Rawalpindi, ...

ISLAMABAD - The United States Embassy in Pakistan drew strong backlash Wednesday for retweeting a political statement critical of the host government, prompting the diplomatic mission to apologize for what it said was an "unauthorized post." The controversy stemmed from comments on Tuesday tweeted by an opposition lawmaker, Ahsan ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron continues to face backlash from the Muslim community across the world. Videos have begun to surface of thousands of protestors gathering against the President in countries like Pakistan, Lebanon and Bangladesh. Many of them brandishing beaten effigies, flags and signs calling for the boycott of ...