Pakistan
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Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Beijing on Wednesday. Xi said China and Pakistan enjoy ironclad friendship and are all-weather strategic cooperative partners. In recent years, the two countries have provided firm political support for each other, maintained close high-level exchanges, and advanced the construction of the China-Pakistan…
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Mourners have gathered in Baghdad, Iraq, to hold a symbolic funeral for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The militant group chief was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon earlier this week. People carried flags and signs as they marked Nasrallah’s death, and a mock coffin was paraded through the crowd. Four killed in Israeli strikes…
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At least three cases of mpox have been detected in two days in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a health official told Xinhua on Friday. The director of public health at the provincial directorate-general health services, Irshad Roghani, said that one case was detected in a 34-year-old male on Thursday and two others were confirmed…
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Pakistan has earned 15.241 billion U.S. dollars through textile products exports in the first 11 months of the ongoing fiscal year starting from July 2023 to June 2024, officials from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said on Sunday. The exports of textile products increased by 1.41 percent during July-May of the current fiscal year…
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One of the two Japanese climbers who were climbing a northern mountain in Pakistan has been found dead, local authorities told Xinhua. The two climbers were attempting to scale the 7,027-meter Mount Spantik in the Karakoram range before they went missing last week, Wali Ullah Falahi, deputy commissioner of Shigar district in Pakistan’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan…
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Pakistan’s Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) conducted multiple operations in different areas of the country, recovering over 280 kg of drugs and arresting 16 drug traffickers, the ANF said on Monday. The ANF said in a statement that the force conducted 10 separate operations and seized 287 kg of drugs, including hashish, opium, heroin, methamphetamine, and intoxicated…
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Iran’s president has arrived in the Pakistani capital for a three-day visit. Major highways in Islamabad have been blocked as part of security measures for Ebrahim Raisi’s arrival, while the government declared a public holiday in Karachi. The visit, which Pakistan’s foreign office said will run until Wednesday, comes as the two Muslim neighbours seek…
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Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was sworn in on Monday, three weeks after the Feb. 8 elections. President Arif Alvi administered the oath to Shehbaz at a ceremony at the President’s Office. Shehbaz, the younger brother of three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and president of his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N, was elected to…
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Amjad Ayub Mirza, a political activist from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) has shown anger against Islamabad over the challenges faced by the people under its forceful occupation. He has announced a ‘Day of Resistance’ on March 5 urging the people to stand against Islamabad, condemning its oppressive policies, and excessive taxes levied on the people in…
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Jailed former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has claimed victory for his supporters in the country’s general election – via a video generated using artificial intelligence (AI). The clip of the former cricket star was uploaded on social media on Friday just hours after his rival Nawaz Sharif also claimed to have won despite vote counting continuing. Many…
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The caretaker prime minister of Pakistan has told reporters there is no attempt to “target a specific party or group” amid claims of pre-poll rigging and candidate harassment. Speaking on the eve of the election, Anwaar ul Haq Kakar did acknowledge they couldn’t totally guarantee free and fair elections. “Absolute is a very relative term…
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Rising Iranian and Pakistani tensions appear to have eased after Tehran’s top diplomat visited Islamabad today. Tit-for-tat airstrikes threatened to escalate tensions in the Middle East, leading Iran to send Hossein Amirabdollahian for “in-depth” talks with his counterpart Jalil Abbas Jilani in the Pakistani capital this morning (see 8.16am post). After the meeting, the pair…
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In a surprising turn on January 16, Iran launched missile strikes into Pakistan’s Baluchistan province, claiming it had hit two strongholds of anti-Iran insurgent group Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice). Iran announced the attack in Pakistan concurrent to its strikes in Iraq and Syria. Less than two days later, Pakistan hit back with not only missiles but also fighter jets in…
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Pakistani President Arif Alvi said that general elections in the South Asian country “seem difficult” to be held in January next year. During an interview late Wednesday with a local news channel, Alvi called for free and fair elections. “I don’t believe the elections (will take place in the last week of January). I think…
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The general elections to elect a new government in Pakistan will be held in January next year, the country’s top electoral body announced on Thursday. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), in a statement, said that the much-awaited polls will be held in the last week of January. It, however, did not give a specific…
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan met with his attorney in jail on Monday after a local court directed the prison administration to permit the meeting. Earlier on Monday, attorney Naeem Haider Panjhuta filed a petition with the Islamabad High Court asking it to order the jail administration to permit a legal team to consult…
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