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Covid vaccination rate low in Pakistan due to negative publicity,
Updated : 10 hours, 39 min ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] May 12, (ANI): Pakistan has been able to vaccinate only 0.8% of its total population so far and experts said the reason for this low rate are negative publicity and a shortage of vaccines, DW reported.
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Political leaders in Gilgit Baltistan call out state-sponsored dis
Updated : 13 hours, 45 min ago IST
Ghizar [Gilgit Baltistan], May 12 (ANI): People in Pakistan occupied Gilgit Baltistan recently took to the streets against Islamabad's misrule, which they said has only worsened since the party of Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan got legislative control of the region.
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Rice charity by Saudi Arabia cause political row in Pakistan
Updated : 15 hours, 59 min ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 12 (ANI): Days after Imran Khan's visit to Saudi Arabia, rice charity by the kingdom has triggered a political row in Pakistan as people are viewing it as an outcome of what the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has been calling a "highly successful visit."
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Pakistan's COVID-19 death toll breaches 19,000-mark
Updated : 1 day, 2 hours ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 12 (ANI): Pakistan on Tuesday crossed another grim milestone as the number of COVID-19 deaths in the country exceeded 19,000.
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Pak's provinces reject monopoly to centralise transmission lines o
Updated : 1 day, 5 hours ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 12 (ANI): Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Sindh provinces have rejected monopoly to centralise transmission lines of gas companies in the country terming it as a violation of the 18th constitutional amendment and warned of approching the court against the Imr
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Journalism in PoK: A saga of intimidation, oppression and censors
Updated : 1 day, 13 hours ago IST
Gilgit [PoK]/Bern [Switzerland], May 11 (ANI): Journalists and political activists from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit-Baltistan have blamed Islamabad for subjugating their voice and harassment by using draconian anti-terrorism laws.
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US drawdown from Afghanistan puts CPEC projects at risk: Report
Updated : 1 day, 15 hours ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 11 (ANI): There is a looming sense of fear in Pakistan that the US withdrawal from Afghanistan will increase instability in its neighbourhood, and add security threats in the region while putting China's Belt and Road projects at risk, Nikkei Asia reports.
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Pakistan suffers setback as trade with Afghanistan declines
Updated : 1 day, 23 hours ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 11 (ANI): Pakistan's exports to Afghanistan have declined in the current fiscal year, which is depriving the former country of a major market for its products and dwindling trade with its neighbour.
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Imran Khan govt borrowed USD 33 billion in foreign loans, says Bil
Updated : 2 days, 7 hours ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 10 (ANI): As Pakistan's financial debt continues to mount, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday criticised Imran Khan led-Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government and said that the government has so far borrowed over USD 33 billion
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'Upsurge in police brutality in Pakistan'
Updated : 2 days, 9 hours ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 10 (ANI): Pakistan is witnessing an upsurge in police brutality, said Pakistan daily Express Tribune, adding that cops have either shot dead young men on the slightest suspicion or they have tortured people to death in recent months.
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Imran Khan travelling around world with 'begging' bowl for financi
Updated : 2 days, 9 hours ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 10 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday said Prime Minister Imran Khan has been travelling around the world with a "begging bowl" for financial support.
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In Imran Khan's Pakistan, military is the de facto ruler
Updated : 2 days, 14 hours ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 10 (ANI): Imran Khan once targeted the armed forces for its anti-democratic political interventions when he was deeply involved in a lawyer's movement that aimed to end Pakistan's military dictatorship, but now his elected government is effectively run by ex-soldier
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