Listen to the article Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai on Sunday urged Muslim leaders to avoid recognizing the Taliban government in Afghanistan and show real leadership by opposing their policies limiting women’s education and girls. Addressing a summit on girls’ education in Islamabad, Malala firmly said: “Don’t legitimize them.” “Simply put, the Taliban do […]
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The 14-year-old boy, a resident of Skardu, was detained in an isolation center where he tested positive for COVID-19. The second coronavirus case in Gilgit-Baltistan emerged on Wednesday, taking the total number of confirmed cases in Pakistan to 20. The 14-year-old boy, a resident of Skardu, was detained in an isolation center where he tested
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It’s a national tragedy and we will give him national hero status, says GB CM GILGIT-BALTISTAN: “We will see again what the problem is and if they [quarantined pilgrims] need further treatment, they will be transferred to DHQ or city hospital, but if they can be treated here, we will provide them treatment here. These
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GILGIT: I lived my worst nightmare. It wasn’t the coronavirus, but the prolonged treatment [read: observation] in isolation, it made it a hellish experience. Imagine being confined to a small room without any social interaction for almost a month. Doctors and nurses were the only visitors, who also checked on me once or twice a
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ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) was informed on Saturday that smart lockdowns were enforced in 1,292 localities across the country in the last 24 hours to prevent the spread of Covid-19. The forum, which is the nerve center of the country’s unified efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, learned
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MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has urged the international community and the United Nations to help end the most “cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment meted out to the people of Jammu -and Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOJ&K) by the occupying forces. “We fully agree with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ statement that
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PESHAWAR: Lawmakers on Friday addressed the issue of poor internet connectivity for students in remote areas of the province, noting that the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic means online classes are now the only way to get an education for students. This was discussed when the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly resumed on Friday to debate the provincial
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PESHAWAR: Dozens of people were injured on Friday during clashes between police and demonstrators in the Tehkal district of the provincial capital, as the latter demonstrated against the excesses of the former. The clashes took place even as the government wrote to the provincial judiciary, asking it to investigate reports that police arrested an Afghan
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HARIPUR: After Peshawar, a case of police excesses emerged in Haripur, where a senior police officer allegedly beat up a gas station attendant for refusing to serve his son. A report submitted to the District Police Officer’s Office (DPO0) said that additional son of SHO SI Muhammad Nawaz had visited a fuel station in Batrassi
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Listen to the article The Anti-Corruption Circle of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested a shipping agent, an accomplice of an FIA officer, in a case involving a $2,000 bribe for authorization of the crew of a foreign ship. The arrested agent, identified as Nadeem Awan, allegedly prepared fake documents, including letters of credit, altered
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