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Caretaker Government: Pakistan dissolves parliament as election-delay speculation mounts
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Caretaker Government: Pakistan dissolves parliament as election-delay speculation mounts

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan dissolved the national parliament as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif moves to hand over power to a caretaker government to lead elections while his…

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Pakistan PM Shehbaz writes to President for dissolution of NA, blames ex-PM Imran for his govt’s failures
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Pakistan PM Shehbaz writes to President for dissolution of NA, blames ex-PM Imran for his govt’s failures

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif wrote to President Arif Alvi on Wednesday night calling for the dissolution of the National Assembly three days before…

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Pakistan: Pakistan PM announces to auction Toshakahana gifts
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Pakistan: Pakistan PM announces to auction Toshakahana gifts

ISLAMABAD: A few days after the verdict on the Toshakahana case, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced an auction of all the gifts kept in…

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Pakistan poll panel disqualifies Imran from electoral politics for 5 years
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Pakistan poll panel disqualifies Imran from electoral politics for 5 years

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan disqualified former prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday from electoral politics for five years following his conviction last week…

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Polls unlikely this year: Pak ministers
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Polls unlikely this year: Pak ministers

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s home and defence ministers spoke on Tuesday — a day before the dissolution of the National Assembly by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif —…

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Pakistan's poll panel disqualifies jailed former PM Imran Khan for 5 years
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Pakistan’s poll panel disqualifies jailed former PM Imran Khan for 5 years

NEW DELHI: In a fresh setback for Imran Khan, Pakistan‘s top election body on Tuesday disqualified the jailed former prime minister for five years after…

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Over 200 Imran Khan supporters arrested from Pakistan's Punjab since his arrest: Police
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Over 200 Imran Khan supporters arrested from Pakistan’s Punjab since his arrest: Police

LAHORE: More than 200 supporters of Imran Khan, including those who resisted the former prime minister’s arrest in a corruption case, have been arrested across…

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Pakistan extends visa of Indian woman who crossed border to marry her Facebook friend
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Pakistan extends visa of Indian woman who crossed border to marry her Facebook friend

PESHAWAR: Pakistan has extended by one year the visa of a 34-year-old Indian mother of two children who travelled to a remote village in the…

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Imran Khan: Imran Khan wants a transfer from his ‘tiny, dirty’ jail cell
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Imran Khan: Imran Khan wants a transfer from his ‘tiny, dirty’ jail cell

ISLAMABAD: Jailed former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said he’s been kept in a jail cell meant for terrorists and is seeking a court order…

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Pak ex-PM Imran Khan kept in bug-infested jail cell, given C-class facilities: Report
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Pak ex-PM Imran Khan kept in bug-infested jail cell, given C-class facilities: Report

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has been kept in a small bug-infested cell with an open washroom in the high-security Attock jail after…

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