Folks jostle to purchase sponsored sacks of wheat flour from a sale level in Quetta, Pakistan. Individuals are affected by latest worth hike in wheat-flour in Pakistan. | Photograph Credit score: AP/Arshad Butt Pakistan’s financial system is on the point of collapse. The nation has requested the Worldwide Financial Fund for a …
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Commercial As a substitute of reforming its draconian and harmful blasphemy law, the Nationwide Meeting of Pakistan has passed a bill that additional strengthens and weaponizes it. The invoice, handed on January 17, proposes to extend the punishment in instances pertaining to the blasphemy of Prophet Muhammad’s companions and His …
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Islamabad, Pakistan – A outstanding rights group in Pakistan has expressed “considerable alarm” over the state of non secular freedom within the nation. In its report titled A Breach of Religion: Freedom of Faith or Perception in 2021-22 launched on Tuesday, the Human Rights Fee of Pakistan (HRCP) stated incidents …
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Commercial Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized energy in a cold coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S. warfare in Afghanistan towards the Taliban, has died, officers stated Sunday. He was 79. Musharraf, a former particular forces commando, grew to become president by the final of a …
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Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday condoled the demise of ex-chief of military workers and former President Pervez Musharraf. “I supply my condolences to the household of Common (rtd) Pervez Musharraf. Might the departed soul relaxation in peace!” tweeted Shehbaz. …
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf, 79, has died after a chronic sickness at a hospital in Dubai after spending years in self-imposed exile, Pakistani native media reported on Sunday (Feb 5). Musharraf, the four-star basic who dominated Pakistan for practically a decade after seizing energy in a cold coup in …
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Individuals mild a bonfire to heat themselves throughout a nationwide energy outage, in Muzaffarabad on January 23, 2023. Sajjad Qayyum | Afp | Getty Photos Pakistan’s financial system is on a cliff-edge. The South Asian nation this week suffered a horrific bombing assault on a mosque that took at least …
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Islamabad/London CNN — Muhammad Radaqat, a 27-year-old greengrocer, is apprehensive. He doesn’t understand how a lot an onion will price subsequent week, not to mention how he’ll be capable to afford the gas he must warmth his house and preserve his household heat. “All we’re being told by the government …
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NEW DELHI: Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF) officers landed in Islamabad on Tuesday to start talks with the Pakistan authorities geared toward releasing essential funds from a $7 billion bailout which were stalled since November.Unlocking the funding is crucial for Pakistan, which has sufficient overseas reserves to cowl simply three weeks’ …
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On January 30, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive gadget inside a packed mosque, killing at least 100 people and injuring greater than 225 within the metropolis of Peshawar, in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province close to the border with Afghanistan. The assault, one of many worst to hit Pakistan lately, occurred …
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As dwindling foreign exchange reserves, nationwide energy outages, stampedes at state-run meals distribution centres and a Pakistani rupee, which plunged practically 50 per cent in a yr to 262 to the US greenback on Monday, propels the neighbouring nation in direction of being a global “basket case”, Indian analysts believe …
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NEW DELHI: Not less than 28 folks have been killed and 150 others injured when a suicide attacker blew himself up at a mosque in Pakistan‘s Peshawar on Monday Officers stated the blast occurred close to the Police Strains space round 1.40 pm when the Zuhr prayers have been being …
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