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Islamabad: After suffering a massive setback in the Senate election, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is set to face a vote of confidence in the National Assembly has threatened his party lawmakers to follow the party line or face action. This comes after Khan said that he will ...

Measures that grant workers paid time off when they become parents have not always benefited the lawmakers who have created the rules.In Britain this week, Parliament updated the law so that senior government officials could take paid maternity leave without needing to resign their posts.Only a few countries, including ...

Criminal cases against lawmakers: SC concerned over ‘pressure’ on police As 4,859 cases remain pending against sitting and former lawmakers across India, the Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed serious concern over political pressure on police in such cases.   “We have also been told that police sometimes do not ...

File photo of Indian and US flags. India, she said, is an important global power, the world’s largest democracy, one of the world’s largest economies, and an increasingly important regional security provider and strategic partner of the United States. PTI Last Updated: September 22, 2020, 8:47 PM ...

There is documented history of Pakistan-based terrorists active in Indian-administered Kashmir, she said. There is documented history of Pakistan-based terrorists active in Indian-administered Kashmir, and Kashmiris and the Indian government continue to face a difficult challenge of border security and terrorism in this region, Aryes said. PTI Washington ...

Indian government continue to face a difficult challenge of border security, says Barrack Obama-era diplomat Alyssa Ayres Pakistan has used terrorist groups to change the status quo in Jammu and Kashmir, which has undermined every peace effort and impacted human rights negatively, a Barrack Obama-era diplomat has told US ...

ISLAMABAD - In rare testimony Tuesday, two dozen female Pakistani journalists complained that they have encountered “coordinated” vicious social media campaigns to harass, discredit and intimidate them for their work. The highly emotional testimonies before a parliamentary committee on human rights brought some of the journalists from various Pakistani ...

Two top American lawmakers have said that close partnership between the US and India assumes significance in view of the "aggression" that New Delhi faces from Beijing. Writing jointly to demonstrate the strong bipartisan support for the US-India relationship, the Chairman and Ranking Member of ...

Washington: People and the media in Pakistan are scared of speaking against the multi-billion-dollar China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as critical voices are being suppressed, treated as anti-national or branded as terrorists, a former Obama Administration official has told US lawmakers. "Rarely will you read an article that's critical ...