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Pakistan to adopt a ‘comprehensive' strategy to stop mob lynchings; concern over nation's image being hit

Pakistan will adopt a "comprehensive plan" to stop the rising incidents of mob lynchings, the government has said after holding a high-level meeting, attended by both Prime Minister Imran Khan and Army Chief Qamar Javad Bajwa, days after a Sri Lankan expat was lynched in Sialkot district by a frenzied Islamist mob

Pakistan not heading towards destruction; lynching result of 'heightened emotions' of youth, says Pakistan Defence Minister

The barbaric Sialkot lynching incident by an Islamist mob should not be linked to Prime Minister Imran Khan's decision to lift the ban on the hardline Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), said Defence Minister Pervez Khattak while blaming the emotions of young people as a reason for such incidents

Sialkot lynching: New video shows colleague tried to save Sri Lankan factory manager from mob

A new video of the barbaric Sialkot lynching incident in Pakistan has surfaced showing that a colleague had tried to save the Sri Lankan manager from the Islamist mob that was baying for his blood

Pakistan receives $3 bn bailout from Saudi Arabia

The State Bank of Pakistan has received a much-awaited $3 billion deposit from the Saudi Fund for Development

Pakistan's 'day of shame': Sri Lankans leaders seek justice, concern expressed over free rein to 'extremists forces'

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he was deeply concerned by the lynching of a Sri Lankan man in Pakistan but expressed faith in Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s commitment to "ensure justice" in the case

Islamist mob in Sialkot lynches Sri Lankan factory manager, burns his body

In a gruesome incident that showed the vice-like grip of Islamists on Pakistan's body politic, a  mob in Sialkot, in Pakistan's Punjab province, Friday attacked a Sri Lankan factory manager and burnt his body after surrounding and killing him

Imran Khan's pet project, Billion Tree Tsunami, comes under radar of corruption watchdog

An anti-corruption watchdog has started an investigation into Billion Tree Tsunami, a pet project of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, who often highlights it to show his government’s commitment to the climate crisis

Religious diplomacy: After Sikhs, Pakistan issues visas to 136 Indian Hindu pilgrims

Pakistan has issued visas to 136 Indian Hindus and Sikhs pilgrims for visits to revered Hindu religious sites in the country, the Pakistan High Commission informed issuing a statement

Samsung starts producing mobile phones in Pakistan

Samsung, the South Korean electronics and white goods major, has started production in Pakistan, lifting hopes of the authorities and the industry that this would cut down the import bill of the country in the months to come, local media said

Pakistan imports hit $8.01 billion in November; records all-time high trade deficit $5.1 billion

Pakistans recorded a whopping $5.1 billion trade deficit in November—the highest for a single month—as imports continued their surge, touching around $8 billion, an increase of about 94 percent in comparison to the same month last year

Women, children join protests in strategic Pakistani port town, seek rights over resources in Balochistan

Women and children joined the continuing protests in Pakistan's port town of Gwadar seeking increased rights over local resources in the region which has witnessed growing Chinese footprints through a range of projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)

Pakistan seeks to host OIC foreign ministers’ meet on Afghanistan

Days after Saudi Arabia, the chair of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), took the initiative to call the extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers of the OIC on Afghanistan, Pakistan has offered to organize the meet in Islamabad

Pakistan insists on transporting Indian wheat to Afghanistan using Pakistani trucks under UN banner

Pakistan appears to have put conditions on the transportation of India’s humanitarian assistance offered to Afghanistan as Islamabad has been insisting on transferring wheat consignments using Pakistani trucks under the UN banner

Mob sets fire to police station in Pakistan after mentally challenged man burns page with Quranic verse

An enraged mob of Islamic fanatics set fire to a police station in Charsadda in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after police refused to hand over for mob justice a mentally ill man who had burnt a page with a Quranic verse inscribed on it, local media reports was quoted by UNI news agency

Record sale of bikes in Pakistan as rural areas thriving, claims minister, blaming inflation, not poverty, for citizens' affordability problems

Pakistan's rural areas are "thriving" due to bumper crops leading to "record sales of motorcycles", said Shaukat Tarin, Advisor to Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue, citing World Bank's latest data showing a drop in Pakistan's poverty level by 1 per cent