Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) Chairman Mustafa Kamal complained on Tuesday that provincial chief ministers have started acting like “dictators” and do not disburse funds to local bodies for needed projects. Kamal, who was speaking to the media outside an accountability court in Karachi, alleged that the chief ministers hoard funds allocated by the National Finance […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MOREKARACHI: Two terrorists were killed on Tuesday in joint operation carried out by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and Sindh Rangers on Wednesday. In-charge CTD Mazhar Mashwani said that a raid was carried out after information was received about the presence of the alleged militants in the area. The suspected terrorists were killed when they allegedly […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s financial hub, Karachi, would have progressed if not for the ethnic politics of the 1980s, Prime Minister Imran Khan said Tuesday, in a wide-ranging interview with Dunya News talk show host Kamran Khan. Earlier today, Khawaja Izharul Hassan, a leader of the ruling PTI’s coalition partner, the MQM-P, had said a committee to resolve Karachi’s […]
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ISLAMABAD: Women journalists should provide proof of alleged harassment, human rights minister Shireen Mazari said Tuesday during a session of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Human Rights chaired by PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. Mazari’s comments came after a number of leading Pakistani women reporters and commentators accused Twitter accounts affiliated with the ruling PTI […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday said the historic UAE-Israel deal has “far-reaching implications” and its “approach” will be guided by Palestinian aspirations. The Foreign Office (FO) in the statement said: “We have noted the Joint Statement announcing agreement of UAE and Israel to have full normalization of relations. This is a development with far-reaching implications.” “Pakistan […]
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Pakistan will confer civil awards on four Chinese nationals including philanthropist and founder of e-commerce giant Ali Baba, Jack Ma, for their services towards the country. The cabinet secretariat on Friday released the names of 184 Pakistani and foreign nationals who will be conferred civil awards for showing excellence and courage in their respective fields, […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MOREKARACHI: Freedom is a great blessing for anyone and there are some people who have witnessed the fulfillment of this blessing with their own eyes. Mohammad Niaz, 79, is one such individual who saw his family members being killed during the partition of India. Geo.tv asked him about his experience during the migration. A retired […]
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Google on Friday marked Pakistan’s Independence Day by sharing a doodle of the iconic Khojak Tunnel, located in Balochistan’s Qilla Abdullah district. The construction on the historic Khojak Tunnel — one of the country’s oldest and longest underpasses — began in 1888 to extend the area’s railway through the Khojak pass of the Toba Kakar […]
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ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Thursday condemned the government for hastily getting the FATF-related bills passed through the parliament and said it was due to weak governance and failed foreign policy that the government could not withstand the pressure of the FATF. Speaking to media after a two-day meeting of JUI-F lawmakers and […]
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Prime Minister Imran Khan, in a televised addressed to the nation on Independence Day, said that the past two years were difficult, but things were now “improving”. “We had a very difficult two years. We didn’t have foreign exchange and couldn’t pay our debts,” he said on Friday. “We have avoided a huge crisis because we didn’t […]
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