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Pak SC orders release of prime suspect in journalist Daniel Pearl's murder

Pearl was abducted and beheaded while he was in Pak, investigating a story in 2002 on the links between ISI and al-Qaeda

Pak sacks 12 police officials over negligence in temple vandalisation case

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government in Pakistan has dismissed 12 police officials following an enquiry report that found them guilty of "negligence" in protecting a Hindu temple in the province, which was torched by a mob led by members of a radical Islamist party. The government also forfeited one-year service of 33 police officials in connection with the incident. The temple in Terri village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Karak district was attacked on December 30 by the mob after members of the Hindu community received permission from local authorities to renovate its decades-old building. The mob demolished the newly constructed work alongside the old structure. Deputy Inspector General of Police, Kohat Region, Tayyab Hafeez Cheema had appointed Superintendent of Police (Investigation Wing) Zahir Shah as enquiry officer to probe the incident and submit its report within a week's time. Shah conducted the probe against 73 police officials and recommended to dismiss 12 of them f

Mumbai blasts perpetrators enjoying 5-star hospitality: Jaishankar at UNSC

The crime syndicate responsible for the 1993 Mumbai blasts is given not just State protection but enjoying 5-star hospitality, said Jaishankar at UNSC

No backdoor dialogue with India underway: Pak foreign minister

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that there can be no talks with India under the current deteriorating situation between the two countries

Imran Khan govt focusing on false propaganda, not real issues: Nawaz Sharif

Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif said the incumbent PM Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government was solely focusing on false propaganda while choking the poor and their jobs

Johnson urges Pakistan govt to guarantee fundamental rights of citizens

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, during a Parliament session, urged Pakistan to guarantee the fundamental rights of its citizens

Pakistan may return $2 billion Saudi Arabian loan, media report says

Pakistan may return $2 billion loan to Saudi and the cash-strapped country is looking for various options to secure more lending aimed at retaining gross official forex reserves at current level

Pakistan govt inaugurates its first transport project under CPEC

The overhead Lahore Orange Line Metro Train will operate between Lahore's Dera Gujjran to Ali Town on 27Km stretch from Monday

Pakistan's Opposition alliance all set to hold anti-govt rally in Quetta

A grand alliance of Pakistan's major Opposition parties decided to go ahead with an anti-government rally on Sunday Quetta city as part of a campaign to oust Prime Minister Imran Khan

Police chief kidnapped by paramilitary, inflaming crisis for Pakistan govt

While Khan's pro-military government has not yet addressed the issue, army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa ordered an inquiry

Pakistan removes names of over 5,000 individuals from travel blacklist

Interior Minister Ijaz Shah, in a meeting held recently, directed the review committee of the Directorate General of Immigration and Passports to meet biannually to review cases of blacklisted individ

Maulana Fazlur Rehman appointed as head of Pak's new anti-govt alliance PDM

Iqbal said the Opposition had decided to launch the movement for the supremacy of the Constitution, democracy, the independent judiciary and for the security of the rights of Pakistanis

Pakistan's central bank in wait-and-see mode to spur growth: Governor

After reducing by 625 basis points since March, the State Bank of Pakistan this week kept its policy rate unchanged at 7 per cent

Political decisions should be taken in Parl, not army HQ: Maryam Nawaz

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz vice president Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday said political decisions should be made in Parliament and not at the army headquarters.

Opposition parties in Pakistan launch alliance to oust PM Imran Khan

At a joint press conference after the end of the multi-party meeting, JUI-F chief Mualana Fazl ur Rehman read out the resolution

Pakistan govt sends arrest warrants for Nawaz Sharif through UK mission

Sharif, 70, has been in London since November last year after the Lahore High Court granted him permission to go abroad for four weeks for treatment

Pak court gives 'last chance' to ex-PM Sharif to surrender before Sept 10

A Pakistani court gave a "last chance" to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to surrender and appear before it on September 10 for hearing in a corruption case against him, according to media reports.

Jeopardising govt's efforts, Pak senate rejects two FATF-linked bills

Senate has rejected two bills related to the tough conditions set by the FATF, jeopardising efforts to escape from being blacklisted by the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog.

Pakistan govt declares Sharif an absconder, approaches UK for extradition

According to Akbar, Nawaz Sharif was supposed to keep the court and the Punjab government updated about his treatment by sharing the details of the process of his treatment

Kulbhushan Jadhav case: Pak court appoints 3 senior lawyers as amici curiae

India approached the International Court of Justice against Pakistan for denial of consular access to Jadhav and challenging the death sentence