Former prime minister Imran Khan arrives at an Islamabad court for a hearing in this file photo. —AFPISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court Tuesday reserved its verdict on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan's bail petition in the £190 million National Crime Agency settlement......Read more: IHC reserves verdict on Imran Khan's bail plea in £190m reference
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Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Omar Ayub is addressing NA session on May 14, 2024. —Screengrab/ YouTube/ PTV ParliamentISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Omar Ayub Khan on Tuesday slammed Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on "personal remarks", saying that......Read more: Omar Ayub slams Khawaja Asif on 'personal' remarks
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CJP Qazi Faez Isa-led five-member SC bench hears federal government's on apex court's verdict on NAB amendements in Islamabad on May 14, 2024. — Screengrab/YouTube/Supreme Court of Pakistan Live ProceedingsISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan Tuesday directed the federal and Punjab......Read more: NAB amendment case: Govt directed to ensure Imran Khan's appearance via video-link
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People displaced by floods stand outside temporary tents set up along a road in Sukkur, Sindh province in 2022. — AFP/FileOwing to rise in conflicts and climate change-induced disasters across the world, nearly 76 million internally displaced people have left their homes to find refuge and......Read more: [Pakistan] - '76m IDPs' taped worldwide as conflict, disasters require displacement
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A representational image showing SIM cards being reflected on a monitor showing binary digits in this photo illustration. — Reuters/FileThe Islamabad High Court on Tuesday ordered the federal government to refrain from blocking SIMs of non-filers.The order was issued during a hearing of a......Read more: [Pakistan] - IHC remains stopping of non-filers' SIMs
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday broadened the government's privatisation plan as he announced to make all the state-owned enterprises private with the exception of strategic entities. The announcement came after PM Shehbaz chaired a review meeting on matters......Read more: [Pakistan] - PM Shehbaz announces privatisation of all SOEs apart from tactical ones
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An AAC member announces calling off the protests in AJK. — Screengrab/ReporterMUZAFFARABAD: A day after Prime Minsiter Shehbaz Sharif announced provision of grant for relief against inflation, the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee Tuesday called off the ongoing......Read more: AJK protests called off day after govt's announcement of relief against inflation
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Iranian flags flutter during an inauguration ceremony for new equipment and infrastructure on February 25, 2019 at the Shahid Beheshti Port in the southeastern Iranian coastal city of Chabahar, on the Gulf of Oman. — AFPAfter India signed a 10-year agreement with Iran to operate the Chabahar......
PTI leader Dr Yasmin Rashid can be seen in the picture uploaded on her social media account on May 3, 2023. —X/ @Dr_YasminRashidLAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf leader Dr Yasmin Rashid on Tuesday appealed to Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa to form a judicial commission to probe May 9 cases as......Read more: [Pakistan] - Yasmin Rashid seeks judicial commission on May 9
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders Shibli Faraz , Sher Afzal Marwat and Asad Qaiser. — Facebook ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Asad Qaiser and Senator Shibli Faraz engaged in a war or words over Sher Afzal Marwat's expulsion from party's political committee,......Read more: [Pakistan] - Distinctions deepen among PTI leaders as Qaiser, Faraz argue over Marwat
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Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir and PTI founder Imran Khan. — ISPR/Facebook/Imran Khan official/File Incarcerated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan has said that he will write a letter to Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir on the worsening economic and political......Read more: Will pen letter to Gen Munir on situation in crises-hit country: Imran Khan
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Image taken during a country-wide blackout, on January 10, 2021. — AFPAfter mercury rose from 35°C to 37°C in Karachi, prolonged power outages added to the miseries of residents of the port city as some areas faced over &12-hour loadshedding& amid extremely hot......Read more: [Pakistan] - Karachi suffers extended loadshedding amidst incredibly heat
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Taliban fighters pose with weapons in an undisclosed location. — Reuters/ FilePakistan and the United States have termed the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and Daesh as &most pressing challenges& to regional and global security while underlining the importance of bilateral......
An anti-terrorist force personal uses a metal detector to check the area of the Election Commission of Pakistan in Islamabad on August 26, 2008. — AFPISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has shown dissatisfaction over the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf&s documents related to the......
Picture from the meeting between FM Ishaq Dar and Chinese FM and officials on May 13, 2024. — APPBEIJING: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar reaffirmed Pakistan's unwavering support to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Charter in a meeting with the regional......Read more: [Pakistan] - FM Dar declares unwavering dedication to SCO Charter
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COAS General Asim Munir heartens an attendee at the GHQ Investiture ceremony on May 13, 2024. — X/@PakistanFaujChief of Army Staff General Asim Munir on Monday heaped praise on the martyrs, saying that the country owed its freedom and security to the virtue of the soldiers of armed forces,......Read more: Nation owes its freedom, security to 'valiant warriors': COAS Gen Munir
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LAHORE: In the backdrop of the Lahore High Court&s ruling in connection with the bike scheme for students, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on Monday pleaded with the court not to interfere in the executive&s affairs.Her remarks came after the LHC last week barred the provincial......Read more: Bike scheme: Punjab CM wants LHC not to 'interfere' in executive's affairs
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PTI Secretary-General Omar Ayub is addressing the National Assembly session on May 13, 2024. — Screengrab/PTVParliamentOpposition Leader and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Secretary-General Omar Ayub has reiterated the demand to form a judicial commission on the May 9 riots, saying that his party......
PTI founder Imran Khan and MNA Sher Afzal Marwat. — Facebook/Imran Khan/ Sher Afzal Khan Marwat/FileIncarcerated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan on Monday said that MNA Sher Afzal Marwat was asked several times not to violate the party's policy before he was expelled from the......Read more: [Pakistan] - Imran Khan acknowledges Marwat's 'contributions' to party
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A volunteer showers a woman with water during a heatwave in Karachi. — AFP/FileMeteorologists outlined the science behind varying actual and 'feels like' temperatures as Karachiites braced for a cycle of heatwaves amid predictions of high mercury hovering between 35°C and 37°C which......Read more: What are environmental factors behind 'feels like' temperatures
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Hazim Bangwar seen in eccentrict outfit at a local event. — Instagram/hazimbangwar/FileThe latest attire showcased by former assistant commission Karachi Hazim Bangwar, who is known for his eccentric dressing sense, at a recent fashion event did not sit well with ex-federal minister Fawad......Read more: [Pakistan] - Hazim Bangwar bugs Fawad Chaudhry with his 'off-centre clothes'
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AJK Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq addresses the press conference in Islamabad on May 13, 2024. — Screengrab/Geo NewsAzad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq has announced that the government accepted &all demands of Awami Action Committee & and......
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif waves at the crowd during a PML-N gathering. — X/@CMShehbazPrime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has resigned from the post of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president, party infromation secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb confirmed on Monday.Aurangzeb shared the......Read more: [Pakistan] - PM Shehbaz steps down as PML-N president
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A security personnel stands guard at the headquarters of Election Commission of Pakistan in Islamabad on September 21, 2023. — AFPISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Monday suspended the lawmakers elected on the reserved seats that were denied to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ......Read more: [Pakistan] - ECP suspends legislators elected on reserved seats denied to SIC
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif presiding over the high-level meeting in Islamabad over unrest in AJK on May 13, 2024. —PMO ISLAMABAD: Participants of Awami Action Committee -led protest on Monday refused to end demonstration despite Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif okayed a Rs23 billion......Read more: Protesters refuse to go home despite PM Shehbaz's approving Rs23bn for AJK
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PML-N Senator Irfan Siddiqui can be seen talking to the host in a Geo News programme on December 16, 2023. —Screengrab/ Jirga with Saleem SafiISLAMABAD: Citing the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf 's desire to hold talks with the military establishment, Senator Irfan Siddiqui Monday said the......Read more: Senator Siddiqui says PTI only interested in Imran Khan
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Defence Minister Khawaja Asif addresses a press conference in Islamabad on May 9, 2024. — OnlineThe government is set to tighten the noose around social media users in Pakistan with Defence Minister Khawaja Asif asserting that strict notice has been taken against the "unauthorised......
A large number of people are marching towards Muzaffarabad in Aza Jammu and Kashmir on April 13, 2024. — Screengrab/ X/ @upuknews1MUZAFFARABAD: The Awami Action Committee -led long march on Monday left for Muzaffarabad, capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir , as the shutter-down strike against......Read more: March heads toward Muzaffarabad as strike against inflation enters fourth day
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A large numbers of people are enjoying and cooling themselves during hot weather at the Seaview beach in Karachi on April 28, 2024. — PPIKARACHI: The summer season's feel-like temperature in the port city to fluctuate between 40 to 42 degrees Celsius as residents will experience......Read more: Beware Karachiites! A hotter day ahead with 'feels like' temperatures as high as 42°C
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A video of a senior superintendent of police went viral on social media on Sunday in which he was seen serving tea to some political leaders during a ceremony. Sindh Inspector General Ghulam Nabi Memon took action against the SSP's action, labelling it as "very wrong". He added that a......Read more: Video of SSP serving tea to political leaders goes viral
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