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Pakistan asked to end enforced disappearances; ‘flawed’ legal justice system highlighted in damning Amnesty report

Amnesty International has called on Pakistan to end the practice of enforced disappearances and to disclose, “immediate and “unconditionally” the fate and/or whereabouts of forcibly disappeared people

Government releases over 100 hardened Pakistan Taliban militants amid peace talks

Pakistan has released over 100 militants belonging to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a banned terrorist group also known as the Pakistan Taliban, amid the ongoing peace talks

Balochistan University students in Pakistan re-launch protest over missing students

Students of Balochistan University in Quetta have once resumed their protest after authorities failed to find the two missing students who were allegedly kidnapped from the university premises earlier this month

Ticking bomb: Pakistan minister warns of threat within - of growing extremism; state in 'retreat'

A nuclear Pakistan faces threat,  not from India, but from within due to the growing extremism, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhary said, terming the challenge a “ticking bomb” in what appears a rare admission by a sitting senior minister

Pakistan government capitulation: Militant TLP chief Saad Rizvi released weeks after Imran Khan strikes deal with group

Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) chief Hafiz Saad Hussain Rizvi has been released from Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore weeks after the group reached an agreement with Prime Minister Imran Khan-led government

Pakistan hackers target Afghan government personnel, says Facebook

Facebook has said that hackers from Pakistan targeted people connected to the Afghan government using the social media platform

Pakistan Parliament passes bill to allow Indian spy suspect Kulbhushan Jadhav to appeal conviction

Pakistan’s Parliament on Wednesday passed a bill to give Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is on death row, the right to appeal against his conviction, in accordance with the directive of the International Court of Justice

Two policemen killed, seven injured in two attacks in northwestern Pakistan despite ceasefire

At least two policemen were killed and seven injured in northwestern Pakistan in two separate attacks that came just over a week after the government and a key militant group announced a month-long ceasefire agreement

Two police officers killed in bomb blast in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Two police officers were killed in a bomb blast on Saturday morning in Bajaur of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province

Mysterious virus with dengue-like symptoms creates panic in Karachi

Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, is reporting cases of mysterious fever with dengue-like symptoms but when tested for the vector-borne disease the report is coming negative

Pakistan stares at looming gas crisis, plans rationing usage

Pakistan has been staring at a shortfall in cooking gas supply in the months to come, forcing the government to work on a plan, rationing the domestic usage in residential colonies in the country, media reports claimed

In absence of consensus, Pakistan PM Imran Khan struggles to push electoral reforms

Elections in Pakistan have lately become controversial, amid frequent allegations by political parties of rigging and compromised process, putting the credibility of the elected government in question

Pakistani TV channels asked to flash new political map ahead of 9 pm bulletin

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has directed the country's TV channels to flash the new poilitical map of Pakistan ahead of the primetime 9 pm news bulletin

Pakistan revokes ban on hardliner Islamist group TLP involved in violent protests

Pakistan has revoked the ban on the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a hardliner Islamist group involved in a series of violent protests, citing “larger national interests”, days after the government reached “a secret agreement” with the former on 31 October

Pakistani court acquits six in terror financing case

The Lahore High Court has acquitted six leaders of the banned Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a charity front of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founded by Mumbai attacks' mastermind Hafiz Saeed, in a terror-financing case