Tue 08 August 2023: In a major blow to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday disqualified PTI chief and former Prime Minister Imran Khan for five years following his conviction in the Toshakhana case last week, Dawn News reported. An Islamabad trial court on Saturday sentenced Imran — who was […]
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Tue 08 August 2023: An Indian court has asked whether days of demolitions of homes and businesses of mainly Muslim residents in the northern state of Haryana were “an exercise of ethnic cleansing”. Ordering a halt to four days of bulldozing of properties in the state’s Nuh district, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on […]
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A bulldozer demolishes the allegedly illegally constructed Sahara hotel, in Nuh, Haryana, on Sunday. Pic/PTI Mon 07 August 2023: Residents in BJP-ruled state’s only Muslim-majority district say more than 300 properties have been demolished in four days. Nuh, India – Abdul Rasheed says police locked him in a bus as a bulldozer demolished his shops […]
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Mon 07 August 2023: Islamabad, Pakistan – Jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party says it is concerned about his safety and security in prison, where “his life is under threat”. Khan, 70, was arrested and sent to jail for three years following his conviction in a corruption case by a court in capital Islamabad on Saturday. […]
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Thu 03 August 2023: The interim government in Afghanistan Tuesday called on World Bank to resume incomplete projects in the war-torn country. Welcoming the latest World Bank report on Afghanistan, the Taliban-led interim Economic Affairs Office said in a statement that the comprehensive economic development and progress in Afghanistan “can be achieved through constructive engagement […]
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Sun 06 August 2023: At least 22 people were killed and 80 were injured in Pakistan, after 10 bogies of the Rawalpindi-bound Hazara Express overturned as the train derailed. The accident happened near the Sahara Railway Station, located between Shahzadpur and Nawabshah on Sunday, reported Geo TV. The Hazara Express was headed to Rawalpindi from Karachi. […]
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Sun 06 August 2023: AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday raised concerns regarding the aftermath of the controversial survey at Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque that the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) is currently conducting. He said that the Supreme Court’s observation regarding the Places of Worship Act in the landmark Ayodhya judgment must not be dishonoured. […]
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Sat 05 August 2023: The authorities demolished scores of houses, shops and other structures of Muslims in Haryana’s Nuh district, days after the violence broke out in the state killing six people, including two home guards and a mosque imam. The demolitions come after the Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had indicated that bulldozer […]
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Sat 05 August 2023: Police in Pakistan detained former prime minister Imran Khan in the eastern city of Lahore, after a Pakistani trial court sentenced him to three years in prison for Toshakhana corruption case (illegally selling state gifts). The 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician was accused of misusing his premiership minister from 2018 to 2022 to buy […]
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Fri 04 August 2023: Indian drug manufacturer Riemann Labs has been asked to halt production after its cough syrup was linked to a string of deaths among children in Cameroon. In a written response to a lawmaker’s question read out in parliament, the Indian Health Ministry said the World Health Organization (WHO) had issued alerts […]
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