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Pakistan: Imran Khan’s spokesperson resigns over difference on 'Machh incident'

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s spokesperson Nadeem Afzal Chan has resigned from his position, media reports said on Friday.

Hazaras targeted in Pakistan due to govt's anti-Shia militancy

Islamabad: The targeted killing of Hazara community members in Pakistan is a reflection that the state was simultaneously allowing anti-Shia hysteria to be propagated across the nation, The Diplomat reported.

PTI foreign funding case: PDM to march to ECP's office in Islamabad on Jan 19

Putting pressure on the Pakistan government, PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb has said her party, under the umbrella of the 10-party opposition alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), would take out rallies from different areas of Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Jan 19 that would merge into one big rally before heading towards the office of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in the capital.

Illegal funding: Imran Khan's PTI blames its agent in US

Islamabad: Pakistan's ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has moved away from its initial stance of denying any illegal funding from the United States and said that if any funds were collected illegally through two US companies registered after Imran Khan’s written instructions, the responsibility lies with their agents managing the two limited liability companies.

Pakistan: Minister directed to stop seminary students from joining PDM's rally

Islamabad: Pakistan's Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has been directed to prevent  the students of religious seminaries from participating in the opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) march on Islamabad next month, media reports said.

Pakistan's power transmission company blames human error for recent power outage

Islamabad: National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) has said the massive power outage that was reported in Pakistan on Saturday was caused by poor maintenance of transmission circuitry.

Pakistan is witnessing worsening crackdown on dissent: HRW

New York: Pakistan’s government intensified its crackdown on the media, political opponents, and civil society in 2020, while failing to stem violence against women and minorities, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2021.

Pakistan PM Imran Khan is visionless: Maulana Fazalur Rehman

Islamabad/UNI: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazalur Rehman on Wednesday called Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led government a "rigged" and said Prime Minister Imran Khan has no vision.

Pakistan: Cop escorting polio workers shot dead 

Islamabad: A cop, who was escorting a team of polio health workers, has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region on Tuesday, media reports said.

PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman calls its struggle against govt ‘jihad’

Islamabad/UNI: Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Monday termed the opposition’s struggle against the government a 'jihad' and claimed that the nation is ready to offer any sacrifice for this cause.

Pakistan Army rejects allegations of meddling in country's political affairs

Islamabad/UNI: Pakistan Army has rejected the opposition’s criticism of its meddling in the country's political affairs and said there is no reason for the opposition alliance — Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) — to march to Rawalpindi, where the military headquarters are located.

Pakistan: Two minor girls set ablaze over marriage dispute

Muzaffargarh: A marriage dispute in Leshariwala locality in Pakistan turned violent when minor girls were set ablaze, media reports said on Sunday.

Pakistan: Blast hits Balochistan, four injured

Quetta: An explosion hit Turbat's Cinema bazaar in Balochistan region of Pakistan and left at least four people hurt on Sunday, media reports said.

Protests in Bangladesh against atrocities against minorities in Pakistan

Dhaka: A large section of people recently protested  in Bangladesh capital Dhaka against the ongoing atrocities on minorities in Pakistan, which had once unleashed horrors in the people of Bangladesh during its independence movement that culminated in the birth of a new nation in 1971.

Blackout: Major power outage hits Pakistan 

Islamabad: Pakistan plunged into darkness after a major power breakdown occurred in the country.