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Protest erupts at Balochistan University over alleged harassment of students by varsity officials – Pakistan

Several student organizations organized demonstrations inside Baluchistan University on Tuesday, protesting the harassment scandal discovered by the Federal Research Agency (FIA) a day earlier. The students marched inside the campus to pressure the authorities to punish the culprits allegedly involved in the harassment of women and men. The case had come to light about a […]

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‘Don’t look towards govt for jobs,’ Fawad Chaudhry tells nation in a U-turn – Pakistan

Receding from a key promise of Pakistan's Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) manifesto, the Minister of Science and Technology, Fawad Chaudhry, on Tuesday asked the public not to seek employment in the government. Addressing the second International Conference of Deans of Engineering Institutions in Islamabad, the minister said the government could not provide jobs to the public. "Instead,

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Plea seeking Zardari’s transfer to hospital rejected – Pakistan

An accountability court in Islamabad on Tuesday rejected a request to transfer the head of the PPP and former president Asif Ali Zardari from jail to a hospital. The former president is currently in pretrial detention until October 22 in the case of false accounts. Zardari had moved the court on October 4 to declare

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CTD says splinter group of outlawed AQIS regrouping in Karachi – Pakistan

KARACHI: The Department of Fight against Terrorism (CTD) suspects that al-Qaeda's ban on the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) is "regrouping" in the city to carry out terrorist attacks, emerged Monday. The CTD also claimed to have busted two other teams whose members had been actively involved in sectarian killings and police killings. "We have received reports

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Dengue cases surpass all-time record in the country – Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Dengue cases exceeded the previous record in the country amid better surveillance and follow-up of officials' claims. At least 47 people have died and more than 30,000 have contracted the virus so far this year, according to official figures. But the disease is not as deadly as in 2011 when 370 people died. According

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15 of 33 accused in Ziarat Residency attack case acquitted – Pakistan

QUETTA: An Antiterrorist Court (ATC) here on Monday acquitted 15 defendants in the case of a terrorist attack by the Ziarat Residence. ATC judge Rahim Daad Khilji delivered the verdict by acquitting 15 of the 33 people nominated in the first information report (FIR) for lack of evidence against him. Lawyers Mumtaz, Shoukat Rakhshani and

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