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Economic challenges exist but situation not as bleak as being portrayed: Bilal Azhar

Coordinator to the Prime Minister on Economy and Energy Bilal Azhar Kayani has said the incumbent government has successfully averted the looming default and made significant progress towards stabilizing and rebuilding the national economy on a sustain…

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Two soldiers embrace martyrdom in IED explosion in Khyber district

Two soldiers have embraced martyrdom in an improvised explosive device explosion in Bara, Khyber district.According to the ISPR, IED exploded on vehicle of Security Forces resultantly, Naib Subedar Hazrat Gul (age 37 years, resident of Lower Dir) and S…

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Pakistan Says Top Baluch Rebel Commander Captured

Pakistan announced Friday its intelligence operatives had captured a “hardcore” separatist militant commander plotting terrorist attacks in southwestern Baluchistan province.An army statement identified the detainee as Gulzar Imam, also known as Shamba…

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Why Two Ailing Democracies Missed US Democracy Summit

It was an international summit of democracies, but several democratic countries in Asia and Africa were absent; some were not invited and some turned down the invitation.Pakistan declined to attend, giving no excuse except that Islamabad will engage Wa…

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Forcibly Returned to Pakistan, Journalist Now Fears for Life

It is a flight he will never forget. Flanked by two Pakistani intelligence officials, Syed Fawad Ali Shah was forced onto a passenger jet headed from Malaysia to Islamabad.Having fled Pakistan more than a decade earlier, the journalist says he dreaded …