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ISLAMABAD, June 17: Urging jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s party to quit its “anti-state activities and propaganda”, the government has warned that it would clamp down on those involved in running anti-state smear campaigns on social media in a bid to damage the country’s ties with friendly ...

  By Manish Rai Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan has been the scene of a low-level insurgency and a brutal military crackdown for decades. However, the vast and resource-rich province has witnessed a surge in deadly attacks in recent times. Pakistan’s largest province recently witnessed a drastic increase in ...

ISLAMABAD, Apr 6 : Pakistan on Saturday said it stands resolute in its intent and ability to safeguard its sovereignty, a day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made it clear that India will enter Pakistan if terrorists run away to the neighbouring nation after carrying out terror strikes in ...

ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: Pakistan’s election commission has released the final list of nearly 18,000 candidates for the February 8 general elections.Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s name is not on the list of candidates. Nomination papers for the 71-year-old former cricketer-turned-politician and a number of his party leaders were ...

Picture used for representational purposes. Islamabad, Dec 28: A Pakistan High Court on Thursday halted until January 11 the ongoing trial of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his close aide ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the cipher case for allegedly leaking state secrets and violating the ...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: A top Pakistan high court on Thursday warned the police against the illegal arrest of any Baloch protestor in the capital against the forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in the restive province, underlining that a peaceful demonstration was a constitutional right of every citizen. The Islamabad ...

Islamabad, Nov 11: In a temporary relief to Nawaz Sharif, an accountability court in Pakistan has ordered authorities to release all movable and immovable properties seized from the former prime minister in 2020 in connection with a corruption case.Judge Muhammad Bashir of the Islamabad accountability ...

ISLAMABAD, Nov 2:Pakistan’s general elections will be held on February 11 to elect a new Government, the top electoral body today told the Supreme Court, ending uncertainty over the polls and strengthening the country’s position in review talks with the IMF for the release of ...

Islamabad, Aug 9: Pakistan Railways has suspended six officials, including a divisional engineer and a works manager, for their alleged negligence that led to a major train accident in the country’s Sindh province that killed at least 34 people.Speaking in the National Assembly, Minister for Railways and Aviation Khawaja ...

ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said he would write to President Arif Alvi on Wednesday to dissolve Pakistan’s National Assembly prematurely, a move aimed at getting extra time for holding the general elections scheduled for later this year.“After completing our (government’s) term tomorrow, I will ...