PESHAWAR: Many were injured on Friday when police and protesters clashed in the Tehkal area of the provincial capital as the latter demonstrated against the former’s excesses. The clashes came even as the government wrote to the provincial judiciary asking it to investigate reports of police detaining an Afghan national, stripping and parading him naked […]
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HARIPUR: After Peshawar, a case of police excesses has emerged from Haripur, where a senior police officer allegedly beat up a petrol station clerk for refusing to serve his son. A report submitted to the District Police Officer (DPO0 office stated that the son of Additional SHO SI Muhammad Nawaz had gone to a petrol
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MUZAFFARABAD: Sardar Masood Khan, President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), has said that after reluctantly accepting Pakistan’s independence, India adopted a secular doctrine, a disingenuous attempt to hide widespread Hindu nationalism under the guise of secularism. He made these remarks while addressing two separate web conferences organized by the Institute of Policy Studies on
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto on Saturday called Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) chief Akhtar Mengal and discussed the current political situation in the country. According to details, both leaders agreed on a joint strategy for the next year’s fiscal budget. They also exchanged views on the 18th constitutional amendment and government measures
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KARACHI: The Sindh government on Saturday issued directives to all government hospitals to get their staff tested for Covid-19 as well as resume coronavirus contact tracing. In a letter issued by the Director of Health in Sindh, Dr. Irshad Ahmed Memon, a copy of which is available with The Express Pakinomist, the heads of all
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QUETTA: The first construction phase of the Hinglaj Mandir Link Road project has been successfully completed with the special funds of Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal. The Hindu community of Lasbela has expressed gratitude to the Balochistan government, according to official sources, as 90% of the engineering work on the temple stands has been completed.
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ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Saturday asked Balochistan parliamentarians and public representatives to propose solutions to the socio-economic problems facing the province and its people. Chairing the maiden meeting of the Special Parliamentary Committee on Balochistan in the Parliament House, Qaiser said that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) started from Gilgit-Baltistan and culminated
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PESHAWAR: In a bid to boost the tourism sector, which has been hit hard by the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the provincial chief executive has requested to speed up efforts to open the newly established provincial tourism authority. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan issued these orders while presiding over the 22nd board meeting of
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ISLAMABAD: The Balochistan government has collected Rs2.5 billion from the mineral sector during the current financial year despite the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent lockdown imposed to curb virus spread. The government has collected the huge amount from the mining sector and deposited in the provincial treasury, said a Balochistan government official. Computerized scales have
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MIANWALI: A mother of seven children ended her life by consuming poisonous pills along with her two daughters over a domestic dispute in Mohalla Selwan, Kundian on Saturday. A sense of shock and sadness spread in the neighborhood after the incident. According to details obtained by The Express Pakinomist, Muhammad Tahir Qureshi, son of Allah
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