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Pakistan firing at LoC Day 4: Over 10,000 people in Kashmir affected

Pakistani troops continued overnight shelling along the LoC in three belts of Rajouri district

Pak terror cause of Kashmir's plight: India blasts Islamabad at UNHRC

India also reminded Pakistan of its obligation under UN resolutions to withdraw forces from PoK

Do not interfere: India slams Pakistan's comments on Kashmir

Speaking on behalf of Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation, Pakistan blamed India for denying right of self-determination to Kashmiris

Pakistani court indicts Hafiz Saeed on terror financing charges

Saeed-led JuD is the front organisation for the LeT which is responsible for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people

Lawyers storm hospital in Lahore; 12 patients dead, 25 doctors injured

Patients, some in ambulances, were unable to reach the hospital while those receiving treatment were left unattended due to the chaos

First test match underway in Pakistan in a decade, heavy security in place

Visiting skipper Dimuth Karunaratne, one of several players who opted out of Sri Lanka's limited-overs tour of Pakistan in September and October, said he was keen to get the game underway

Pakistan PM urges global community to press India to lift J&K restrictions

Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari also tweeted that while the world marks Human Rights Day, "it cannot ignore the massive human rights violations...and continue the restriction for over 4 months.

Former Pak cricketer Nasir Jamshed pleads guilty in UK bribery case

Jamshed, 33, had originally denied being involved in a plan focused on the Pakistan Super League but changed his plea during a court hearing in Manchester.

Imran urges overseas Pakistanis to invest in Pak, says learn from Indians

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday urged the Pakistani diaspora to emulate overseas Indians and Chinese who have invested heavily in their motherland while assuring them a corruption-free environment to boost the cash-strapped country's economy. Addressing a ceremony here to mark the Anti-corruption Day, Khan said Pakistan was facing an existential threat due to rampant corruption. "The money that we had to spend on the education of youth, research and higher education, has been spent to make palaces across the seas and fill hefty bank accounts," he said. He lamented that Pakistani people were unaware of the dire consequences corruption could have on their lives. "People don't understand the relation between corruption and their lives corruption badly affects them," Khan said. "Overseas Chinese invested in China, & overseas Indians invested in India; their economies boomed," Khan was quoted as saying by the official Twitter account of the ruling Tehreek-e-Insaf ...

Pakistan believes in effective, result-oriented regional cooperation: Imran

Khan said Pakistan was a firm believer in the strength and potential of regional cooperation for individual, national and regional development

ADB clears $1-bn emergency loan to Pakistan for supporting public finance

Back in July this year, the IMF had approved a three-year $6 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) to finance the government's economic reform program

Pak security agencies foil ISIS plot to attack intelligence agency offices

The trial of such suspects is held in anti-terrorism courts

Where's it written Kashmir is Pakistan's? asks Pok leader Tauqeer Gilani

Said, 'This is nonsense and is a propaganda by Muslim Conference and their paid stooges'

Internet curb in Kashmir due to Pakistan's anti-India campaign online: Govt

In view of the aggressive anti-India social media posts being pushed from across the border, certain restrictions on internet have been resorted to: Govt

Old mindset won't work in 'Naya Pakistan': Imran Khan to bureaucrats

Khan said a capable bureaucracy has an important role in the economic development of the country

Twitter defends suspending 200 Pakistan accounts posting about Kashmir

Pakistani government on Monday complained to Twitter about 200 accounts that have been suspended for posting about the Kashmir issue

FATF notice against N Korea, Iran: Sebi informs capital market stakeholders

It has previously also issued such warnings for risks attached with Iran and North Korea, and the subsequent caution notices have been issued by Sebi and the Reserve Bank of India.

A different fundamentalism

Our Constitution has been reformed 104 times in just 70 years

Former Pak PM Nawaz Sharif leaves for London in air ambulance

Pakistan's ailing former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday left for London in an air ambulance for medical treatment for multiple diseases after the Lahore High Court allowed him to travel abroad for four weeks and rejected the Imran Khan government's condition of furnishing an indemnity bond. Sharif, 69, is accompanied by his younger brother Shehbaz Sharif and his personal physician Adnan Khan. He left for London via Qatar in a "high-end" air ambulance which arrived from Doha. PMLN spokesperson Marriyum Auranzeb tod PTI that Sharif would be taken to Harely Street Clinic upon arrival in London for his treatment and if required he may be shifted to the US (Boston) for further treatment. She said that before the departure the doctors examined Sharif at his Jati Umra residence in Lahore and gave him a heavy dose of steroids and medicines to ensure that his condition remains stable during the travel. "Former PM Nawaz Sharif will depart for London, UK via Doha, Qatar in an Airbus .

Pak successfully test fires Shaheen-1 surface-to-surface ballistic missile

The Shaheen-1 missile is capable of delivering all types of warheads up to range of 650 KMs, the Inter-Services Public Relations