ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s central bank on Sunday said the Saudi Fund for Development has confirmed it will extend for one year a $3 billion deposit currently placed in the bank’s accounts since 2021.…
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Washington: The Argentine pontiff appealed for “prompt and generous international solidarity”, and said he was praying for the victims. His comments came as he visited the city of L’Aquila in central Italy,…
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Kabul: Afghan defence minister Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid accused Pakistan on Sunday of providing airspace for US drones to enter his country, characterising the incursions as a continuation of Washington’s “invasion”. Mujahid’s comments…
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Islamabad, Jan 13 (PTI) Pakistan’s National Assembly Thursday passed the controversial Finance (Supplementary) Bill, also called the “mini-budget” despite stiff resistance by the opposition parties. The bill aimed to raise more taxes and…
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MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A speeding bus carrying mostly laborers traveling home for a major Muslim holiday rammed into a container truck on a busy highway in central Pakistan on Monday, killing…
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KPK(Xinhua): At least twenty people were killed and 39 others injured on Wednesday when a blast hit a bus in the Upper Kohistan district of Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, media reports…
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Quetta(AFP): Hundreds of Pakistani Hazara women are learning how to deliver sidekicks and elbow blows as martial arts booms within the marginalised community. Hazaras, who are mainly Shia Muslims, have faced decades…
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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan survived a vote of confidence by the country’s parliament on Saturday, days after his party lost a key Senate seat to an opposition candidate. Ruling party and…
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Islamabad(AFP): Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a series of appeals against the acquittal of the British-born militant convicted of masterminding the kidnap and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl, paving the…
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Massive crowds of maskless mourners gathered in Lahore on Saturday for the funeral of hardline Pakistani cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who for years terrorised the country’s religious minorities, incited riots and advocated…
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