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Pakistan extends detention for ethnic Baloch activist

Pakistan extended the detention of the most prominent rights activist of the Baloch minority for 30 days on Monday after she was charged with ‘terrorism’, ‘sedition’ and ‘murder’, her lawyer said.

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Bangladesh women qualify for ODI World Cup

Bangladesh secured their place in the ICC Women's ODI World Cup for the second consecutive time despite suffering a crushing seven-wicket loss to Pakistan in their final qualifier match in Lahore on Saturday.

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Pak FM visits Kabul amid rising Afghan deportations

Pakistan’s foreign minister arrived Saturday in Afghanistan to meet Taliban officials after his country expelled more than 85,000 Afghans, mostly children, in just over two weeks...

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Pak mob kills Ahmadiyya man

A mob beat to death a member of the persecuted Ahmadiyya minority on Friday after hundreds of radical Islamists surrounded their place of worship in the port city of Karachi, police said.

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Analysts await Dhaka-Islamabad FOC follow up at political level

Foreign relation analysts in Dhaka have said they would await the follow up developments of the official level foreign office consultation (FOC) between Bangladesh and Pakistan at the political level as the issues of apology for 1971 genocide and asset sharing came up in the talks.

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Bangladesh presses Pakistan for apology over 1971, asset share

Dhaka on Thursday in a meeting with Islamabad once again called for a formal apology for atrocities perpetrated by the Pakistani occupation forces during the War of Independence in 1971 and return of Bangladesh’s due share of its pre-independence assets and...

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Pakistan FM to visit Dhaka April 27-28

Pakistan’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar is scheduled to come to Bangladesh on April 27 on a two-day visit...

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60,000 Afghans return from Pakistan in 2 weeks: IOM

Nearly 60,000 Afghans have been forced to leave Pakistan since the start of April, the International Organisation for Migration said Tuesday, after Islamabad ramped up a campaign to deport migrants to Afghanistan.

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8 Pakistanis killed in Iran

Separatists killed eight Pakistanis in Iran, Islamabad said on Sunday, across the border from Pakistan’s Balochistan province where there are regular deadly attacks.

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Pakistan's Engro keen to invest in Bangladesh

Abdul Samad Dawood, CEO of Engro Holdings of Pakistan, on Thursday called on chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna in Dhaka to discuss investment opportunities in Bangladesh.

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Thousands of Afghans depart Pakistan

Thousands of Afghans have crossed the border from Pakistan in recent days, the United Nations and Taliban officials said, as Islamabad ramped up pressure for them to return to their country of origin...

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Women strangle blackmailing Pakistan faith healer

Two women have been arrested for murder after strangling a Pakistani faith healer with a scarf after years of being blackmailed over videos he took of them, police said on Monday...

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Rishad, Nahid vow to play well in PSL

Leg-spinner Rishad Hossain and pacer Nahid Rana vowed to thrive in their franchise league debut after granting No Objection Certificates for the forthcoming Pakistan Super League.

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Hay shines as NZ seal Pakistan ODI series

Mitch Hay’s rollicking 99 not out backed by some feisty seam bowling steered New Zealand to an 84-run win over Pakistan on Wednesday to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the one-day international series...

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11 killed in drone strikes against Taliban in Pakistan

At least 11 people were killed Saturday in northern Pakistan when the army launched a series of drone strikes against the Taliban -- losses which the provincial government called ‘deeply regrettable’....

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11 dead in drone strikes in Pakistan

Eleven people were killed in drone strikes in northern Pakistan on Saturday launched by the army against the Taliban, who had killed seven soldiers a day earlier, police told AFP.

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Liton, Rishad granted full NOC for PSL; Nahid partial

Liton Das, Rishad Hossain, and Nahid Rana have been granted No Objection Certificates to participate in the forthcoming Pakistan Super League for various time periods by the Bangladesh Cricket Board.

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Eight killed in several attacks in southwest Pakistan

At least eight people have been killed in multiple attacks in southwestern Pakistan, police said on Thursday, with assailants targeting bus passengers based on their ethnicity and security forces.

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Independence Day celebrated across Bangladesh

The nation on Wednesday celebrated the 55th Independence and National Day paying tributes to the freedom fighters who made supreme sacrifice in the War of Independence in 1971 to free the country from the Pakistani occupation forces...

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Nation recalls today horrors of March 25

The nation is observing Genocide Day today, recalling the horrors of the genocide on March 25, 1971 committed by the Pakistani occupation army against the unarmed people of Bangladesh.

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