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Police close to arresting Lahore blast culprits: Pakistan interior minister

Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Thursday said police were close to arresting the culprits responsible for the bomb blast close to proscribed Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed’s residence in Lahore, the capital city of Punjab province, that claimed three lives

Pakistan’s nuclear institute gets International Atomic Energy Agency and FAO award

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have jointly conferred awards on Pakistan’s Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB) and five of the country's scientists, according to a statement issued by the country’s foreign affairs ministry

Pakistan endorses China’s declaration rejecting 'vaccine nationalism'

Pakistan has endorsed a declaration made by Chinese President Xi Jinping rejecting “vaccine nationalism” and dispelling notions of stigmatization, according Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi

Sindh presented highest number of Covid-19 infections, deaths in Pakistan: HRCP

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s (HRCP) annual report on the state of human rights in 2020 indicates that, by the end of last year, Sindh province presented the highest number of Covid-19 infections and deaths in the country, with a death toll of 3,560

Former JUI-F leader Mufti Azizur Rehman, arrested in sexual abuse case, undergoes medical examination

Pakistani Islamic cleric Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman, who was arrested for sexually abusing a minor, has undergone a medical examination, media reports said

No justification to keep Pakistan in FATF grey list: Foreign Minister

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has no justification to keep Pakistan on its 'grey list' as his country has completed all technical requirements prescribed by the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog

Pakistan now a net food importer: Finance Minister

Pakistan has become a net importer of food, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin has told the National Assembly

Three dead, 21 injured in blast near Hafiz Saeed’s house in Pakistan

At least three people died and 21 were injured on Wednesday after a blast near the residence of banned Jamatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed in Lahore, officials said

Qureshi’s refusal to call bin Laden terrorist sent a wrong message to the global community: Pakistan media

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s recent refusal to call Osama bin Laden a terrorist in an interview with an Afghan media outlet is perplexing and defies logic and sends a wrong message to a global audience, leading Pakistani newspaper Dawn said in an editorial

Pakistan inks deal with Pfizer for 13 million vaccine doses

Pakistan has signed an agreement with Pfizer Pakistan for 13 million doses of the American vaccine

Scantily clad women would have an impact on men: Pakistan PM Imran Khan

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has courted controversy over his comments on rape during a television interview, where he said a scantily clad woman would have an impact on men “unless they’re robots”

Pakistan foreign minister refuses to call bin Laden a terrorist

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has refused to call slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden a terrorist

Pakistan-Iran goods train service suspended after freight train derails in Balochistan

Following the derailment of a freight train,  goods train service between Pakistan and Iran was suspended on Saturday. The freight train derailed in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province

Clerics involved in hate speeches, provocative religious debates banned in Pakistan’s Khyber district

Islamic clerics involved in hate speeches and provocative religious debates in the mosques and seminaries have been banned from entering the tribal-dominated Khyber district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, close to the country’s border with Afghanistan, in what is seen as a crackdown on radical elements in a province ruled by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan PTI party

Balochistan Assembly chaos: Opposition PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto calls it 'unfortunate'

PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari expressed displeasure over the  "scenes of violence inside and outside Balochistan Assembly" and called the incident as 'unfortunate'