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202 women murdered in the name of honour during 2013
ISLAMABAD: As many as 202 women were murdered in the name of Karo-kari (honour killing) in Sindh during 2013, while honour killing cases during the current year amounted to 28, Special Home Secretary...
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Violence against minorities rose alarmingly in 2013: HRCP
ISLAMABAD: Sectarian killings rose by more than a fifth in Pakistan last year, a leading rights group said Thursday, warning of an alarming increase in violence against religious minorities. Rights...
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Dar’s 2013 budget speech – the highs and the very low lows
ISLAMABAD: It would not be an understatement to call the economy a weakened one when the Pakistan Muslim League-N government came into power. It, however, managed to arrest the decline and instill...
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2013 election ‘rigging’: Imran Khan calls for ‘trial of troika’
FAISALABAD: The head of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan on Sunday called for the trial of a powerful troika comprising Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N), former chief justice Iftikhar...
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Story of addiction: ‘6.7 million people in Pakistan used addictive substances...
PESHAWAR: For the 1.6 million drug users in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) last year, only 16 centres offered treatment and rehabilitation, states a survey report titled Drug Use in Pakistan 2013. The...
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Hajj scam 2013: Parliamentary panel finds misappropriation in Hajj quotas
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Sub-Committee on Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony has found gross misappropriation and violations of the Hajj Policy 2012 in the allocation of quotas to hajj...
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Imran Khan calls for complete audit of 2013 elections à la Afghan polls
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairperson Imran Khan has altered his demand for thumb verification of votes in four constituencies polled during the May 2013 elections and has asked for a...
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Diplomatic immunity: 2 Pakistani diplomats accused of serious crimes in UK in...
UK: United Kingdom foreign and Commonwealth (UK FCO) office has prepared a list of law offending diplomats including two Pakistanis associated with the High Commission in London who were accused of...
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Ombudsman’s office decides complaints pending since 2013
FAISALABAD: The regional office of the wafaqi mohtasib (ombudsman) has decided all pending 9,113 complaints it received by 2013. Talking to reporters on Sunday, Dr Tariq Sardar, the Wafaqi Mohtasib’s...
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May 2013 elections were ‘better’ than previous polls: PILDAT
ISLAMABAD: The overall quality percentage of pre-poll phase of the general elections held in May 2013 has been rated at 62.35% as compared to 30.59% and 32.94% during the general elections in 2002 and...
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Beyonce and Jay Z’s 2013 Cuba trip declared legal
Beyonce and Jay Z don’t have to be “On the Run” anymore.
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Spilling the beans: 2013 polls massively rigged, claims former ECP official
A former additional secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Afzal Khan has claimed that the 2013 parliamentary polls were massively rigged. “I had doubts, but now I’m convinced that...
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Hajj scam 2013: Parliamentary panel finds misappropriation in Hajj quotas
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Sub-Committee on Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony has found gross misappropriation and violations of the Hajj Policy 2012 in the allocation of quotas to hajj...
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Imran Khan calls for complete audit of 2013 elections à la Afghan polls
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairperson Imran Khan has altered his demand for thumb verification of votes in four constituencies polled during the May 2013 elections and has asked for a...
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Diplomatic immunity: 2 Pakistani diplomats accused of serious crimes in UK in...
UK: United Kingdom foreign and Commonwealth (UK FCO) office has prepared a list of law offending diplomats including two Pakistanis associated with the High Commission in London who were accused of...
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Ombudsman’s office decides complaints pending since 2013
FAISALABAD: The regional office of the wafaqi mohtasib (ombudsman) has decided all pending 9,113 complaints it received by 2013. Talking to reporters on Sunday, Dr Tariq Sardar, the Wafaqi Mohtasib’s...
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General elections 2013: ECP snubs rigging allegations
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Wednesday rebutted rigging allegations of its former additional secretary and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf deeming them ‘baseless’. A meeting of the...
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US still believes May 2013 elections were free, fair
WASHINGTON: As Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan reiterated his belief that the May 2013 general elections were rigged on the 20th day of his protest in Islamabad, the US said their view...
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Story of addiction: ‘6.7 million people in Pakistan used addictive substances...
PESHAWAR: For the 1.6 million drug users in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) last year, only 16 centres offered treatment and rehabilitation, states a survey report titled Drug Use in Pakistan 2013. The...
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Follow-up September 2013: One year on, over 160 deaths remain unsolved
PESHAWAR: Two catastrophic Sundays and one equally horrific Friday gave September 2013 the distinction of being one of the bloodiest months the city has seen in recent memory. Over 160 people died in...
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