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US army general wounded in Afghanistan attack 0
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- October 22, 2018
AFP October 22, 2018 US Army Brigadier General Jeffrey Smiley suffers at least one gunshot wound in the Thursday’s attack.— Courtesy: Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Defence A US army general was among those injured in a Taliban attack on top US and Afghan security chiefs inside a highly secure compound last week in Kandahar province,
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Pakistan to approach IMF for a bailout, Asad Umar announces 0
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- October 8, 2018
AFP | Dawn.com | Sanaullah Khan October 08, 2018 The government has made the “difficult decision” to approach the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout to address the mounting balance of payments crisis faced by Pakistan, Finance Minister Asad Umar announced on Monday. In a video message, the minister revealed that Prime Minister Imran Khan
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Khawaja Asif disqualified under Article 62(1)(f), IHC rules ‘with a heavy heart’0
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- April 26, 2018
Khawaja Asif Dawn.com | Mohammad Imran April 26, 2018 A three-member special bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday disqualified Khawaja Asif as a member of the parliament under Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution for not disclosing his employment in a UAE company as an occupation as well as the monthly salary he was receiving.
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Any US effort to bully Pakistan will be counterproductive: Ahsan Iqbal 0
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- February 14, 2018
Dawn.com February 14, 2018 Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said that any unilateral action by the United States in Pakistan will not only bring the bilateral relations to an irreparable stage but also be counterproductive. During an interview to CNN on Tuesday, he said, “Any unilateral action in Pakistan will be a red line for Pakistan. Pakistanis are dignified people.
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Chinese man shot dead in Karachi attack 0
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- February 6, 2018
Imtiaz Ali February 06, 2018 KARACHI: A Chinese national gives Rangers personnel details of the attack on Monday.—Online KARACHI: A Chinese national, working for a local shipping firm in a senior position, was gunned down in what police described as a targeted attack carried out by an unidentified lone assailant on Monday. Another Chinese man with
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Afghan president slams Pakistan for allegedly harbouring Taliban 0
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- February 2, 2018
AFP | AP February 02, 2018 The Afghan president slammed Pakistan on Friday, blaming it for a wave of massive deadly attacks that have ravaged his nation recently and accusing Islamabad of harbouring the Taliban. The government is under growing public pressure to improve security in the Afghan capital after three major attacks in the past two weeks demonstrated
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Afghanistan says it has ‘undeniable’ proof Kabul attacks were planned in Pakistan 0
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- February 2, 2018
2.2.2018 AFP | AP | Dawn.com | Naveed SiddiquiUpdated February 01, 2018 Afghanistan has handed “undeniable” evidence to Pakistan that it claims shows a recent spate of deadly attacks were planned on Pakistani soil, Afghan officials said on Thursday, amid growing public anger over their impotence to protect civilians. Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, the head of
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Anger on social media after Waziristan man killed in Karachi ‘encounter’0
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- January 20, 2018
Dawn.com | Imtiaz Ali January 18, 2018 A photo of the deceased Naqeebullah.— Photo: Facebook Acquaintances and relatives of a man who was killed in an allegedly staged encounter by police in Karachi last week have disputed the police claim that the deceased was a militant affiliated with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Naqeebullah, a 27-year-old hailing from
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Afghan army to collapse in six months without US help: Ghani 0
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- January 18, 2018
Anwar IqbalUpdated January 18, 2018 WASHINGTON: President Ashraf Ghani has said that the Afghan National Army will not last more than six months without US support and the Afghan government will also collapse. Mr Ghani acknowledged his government’s almost absolute dependence on Washington in an interview to a television show CBS 60 Minutes, broadcast
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Minister for ‘ruthlessly candid dialogue’ with US 0
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- January 16, 2018
Amir Wasim January 16, 2018 ISLAMABAD: Regretting how the United States downplays India’s aggressive posturing along the Line of Control (LoC) and Working Boundary, Defence Minister Khurram Dastagir Khan on Monday called for “ruthlessly candid dialogue” with Washington to remove all types of misconceptions and misunderstandings. “It’s time for a courteous yet ruthlessly candid dialogue between
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Special report: The Breakup of Pakistan 1969-1971 0
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- December 16, 2017
DAWN.COM It was Bhutto, again, who uttered words that led to one journalist coining the famed headline: ‘udhar tum, idhar hum’. The haunting tell-tale image on the top is symbolic of the plight of those who had survived the trauma of the 1971 war, which had led to the dismemberment of Pakistan and the
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Pakistan: Army chief in Tehran, to meet Khamenei 0
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- November 8, 2017
November 06, 2017 ISLAMABAD: Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa reached Tehran on Sunday on a three-day official visit, the first by a Pakistani army chief in over two decades. His arrival in Tehran was announced by military spokesman Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor through a tweet. No formal statement was, however, issued revealing the
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