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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MUZAFFARABAD: Sardar Masood Khan, President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), said that after reluctantly accepting independence from Pakistan, India adopted a secular doctrine, an insincere attempt to hide nationalism Hindu dominant under the guise of secularism. He made these remarks at two separate web conferences organized by the Institute of Policy Studies on the
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Listen to the article The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Negotiating Committee was allowed to meet former Prime Minister Imran Khan at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi today. According to sources, the meeting is expected to take place this afternoon with the delegation scheduled to visit Adiala jail at 2 p.m., Express News reported. The development followed a
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Listen to the article Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief and former National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser has accused senior government officials Maryam Nawaz and Khawaja Asif of deliberately trying to derail ongoing negotiations . Responding to the two leaders’ recent comments, Qaiser claimed that their statements were part of an attempt to sabotage the dialogue process.
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SIALKOT: Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said the government neither suggested declaring ex-PM Imran Khan’s personal residence in Bani Gala as a sub-jail nor under pressure from anyone or to free the founder of the PTI. “The decision regarding the release of the PTI founder from prison must be taken by the courts. I have no
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KARACHI: Emir Maulana Fazlur Rehman of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) has lashed out at the establishment, accusing it of prioritizing its own hold on power while ignoring the principles of good and bad. “Their only concern is maintaining their power. The establishment ridicules the people’s vote, so why shouldn’t the public mock the establishment in
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ISLAMABAD: The Afghan Taliban government did not send its special envoy on Saturday to a global summit on the education of Muslim girls which was also attended by Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai. The two-day conference hosted by Pakistan brought together education officials from dozens of Muslim countries, but without Afghanistan, the only country in the
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Listen to the article Federal Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has categorically rejected the allegations made by Acting Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Stanikzai, calling them baseless, concocted and contrived attempts to shift blame. The minister referred to a recent report by a United Nations monitoring team that identified more than two dozen terrorist groups, including
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