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Pakistan is no stranger to military strongmen. Since its creation in 1947, the country had been under off and on direct military rule for over 33 years. Gen. Ayub Khan seized power in 1958, and remained at the helm for 11 years. He was followed by Gen. Yahya Khan. After Yahya’s fall, the country entered…
After the deadly bomb blast in Delhi, a blast in Islamabad. Six months after Operation Sindoor was launched, are tensions in South Asia rising again? And what are the diplomatic impacts of the investigation’s international trail? Source link
The National Assembly on November 12, 2025) approved all 59 clauses of the 27th Constitutional Amendment Bill amid opposition’s boycott, completing the clause-by-clause voting process | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan’s National Assembly on Wednesday (November 12, 2025) passed the controversial 27th Constitutional Amendment Bill with a two-thirds majority during a ruckus-marred session, aiming to create…
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Nazra Jahan, an SPARC protection officer, said that in the poorest households, 33.7% reported having at least one child engaged in work. Representational image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Over 1.6 million children are engaged in child labour in Pakistan’s Sindh province, a senior official said on Sunday (November 9, 2025), citing a recent survey….
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Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Pakistan on Saturday (November 8, 2025) brought in a Constitutional amendment to create a new post of chief of defence forces to ensure greater coordination and unified command among the three services. The 27th Constitutional Amendment bill presented in parliament proposes changes to Article 243 of…
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Thick black smoke clawed at the sky last week over the industrial zone in Pakistan’s largest city as firefighter Syeda Masooma Zaidi raced toward the raging blaze in Karachi. The storage facility was packed with truck and car tires, and the flames leapt hungrily, black plumes twisting skyward. Heat shimmered off the asphalt, turning the…
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Pakistan claimed that at least 206 Afghan Taliban and 110 Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan operatives were killed, while Pakistan suffered the loss of 23 soldiers. File | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban were set to resume peace talks in Istanbul on Thursday (November 6, 2025), aiming to tackle the issue of cross-border terrorism and avoid…
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Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Launching a fresh attack on Pakistan Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan has described him as the “most oppressive dictator” in the country’s history and a “mentally unstable” man. The 73-year-old former cricketer-turned-politician has been in jail since August…
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Trucks loaded with goods are parked near the closed Spin Boldak border crossing with Pakistan, after the border was shut for nearly two weeks following clashes between Afghan and Pakistani forces, in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on October 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP “Officials of Pakistan and Afghanistan are set to hold the second round…
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Pakistan’s Babar Azam. File. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan has recalled Babar Azam and fast bowler Naseem Shah to the Twenty20 squad after nearly a year for the next week’s home series against South Africa and a subsequent tri-series involving Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. Babar, the world’s second leading scorer in T20 internationals, is back…
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