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Pakistani prime minister to grant citizenship to 1.5 million Afghan refugees
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said in a surprise announcement that he would grant citizenship to the roughly 1.5 million Afghan refugees who were born in Pakistan. Khan made the pledge during a public event in Karachi on Sunday, The Guardian reported. “Afghans whose children have been raised and born in Pakistan will be granted citizenship inshallah (God willing) because this is the established practice in countries around the world,” Khan said. “They are humans. How come we have deprived them and have not arranged for offering them national identification card and passport for 30 years, 40 years?”
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US bars Pakistani military officers from training programs
The Trump administration has barred scores of Pakistani military officers from coveted training and educational programs that have been a staple of bilateral relations for more than a decade. The move is one of the first known steps from Trump’s decision this year to suspend security assistance to Pakistan to compel it to crack down on Islamic militants.
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Kashmir’s war gets smaller, dirtier and more intimate
Decades-long dispute between India and Pakistan is collapsing into itself. By Jeffrey Gettleman.
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New leader of terror-torn Pakistan plans to plant 10 billion trees
Pakistan is one of the world’s most dangerous countries, grappling with terror attacks, poverty, religious extremism and crumbling public services. But its new government is aiming to tackle a different problem by planting 10 billion trees within five years to fight the effects of global warming by restoring the country’s depleted forests.
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12 Girls' Schools Burnt Down Overnight In Pakistan
Twelve girls' schools have been burnt down by unidentified persons in coordinated attacks in Pakistan's restive Gilgit-Baltistan, triggering protest by local residents who sought safety for educational institutions which are often attacked by the militants, a media report said on Friday.
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8-year-old girl burnt alive after rape in Pakistan
n eight-year-old girl was burnt alive after being raped in Pakistan's Punjab province, a brutal incident which triggered protests in the province. A large number of people of Chichawatni, Sahiwal district, some 200-km from Lahore, held a demonstration and blocked the main GT Road for several hours to lodge their protest against the brutal incident. After the assurance of police that claimed to have arrested a suspect, the protesters dispersed.
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Pakistan has just planted over a billion trees
Pakistan hit its billion tree goal in August 2017 – months ahead of schedule. Now, the hills of the country’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are alive with newly planted saplings. The massive reforestation project – named the Billion Tree Tsunami – added 350,000 hectares of trees both by planting and natural regeneration, in an effort to restore the province’s depleted forests and fight the effects of climate change.
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Pakistani student stabbed 23 times, fights back after her attacker walks free
A Pakistani law student has emerged as a women’s rights crusader after she was stabbed 23 times in a busy street only to see her alleged attacker walk free, igniting outrage across the deeply patriarchal country. Khadija Siddiqui, 23, survived the frenzied attack in broad daylight outside her sister’s school on a busy thoroughfare in the teeming eastern city of Lahore, Pakistan’s cultural capital, in May 2016.
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Unlucky in love, Pakistani man walks to Indian border 'to get shot'
Heartbroken over not being able to marry his lover, a Pakistani man decided to walk up to the Indian border, hoping a BSF bullet would kill him. Instead, Mohammad Asif (32) landed behind bars. He was caught by 118 Battalion of the Border Security Force on Monday near the Mabboke border post and handed over to the Mamdot police, BSF officials said on Wednesday.
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Man’s eyes ripped out by his dad for asking to marry girl of his choice
A YOUNG Pakistani man’s eyes were gouged with a SPOON by his own father because he wanted to marry a woman of his own choice. Abdul Baqi, 22, from Nasirabad, in the Balochistan region of the country, told his parents on Saturday that he wanted to propose to his girlfriend.
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Masherbrum mountain range, Karakoram, Pakistan
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Pakistan convicts man over child pornography for first time
A man in Pakistan has been jailed for seven years for child pornography offences - the first conviction of its kind in the country's history. Sadat Amin was found guilty by a court in Sarghoda, a small city in the Punjab province, according to the district police chief Suhail Chaudhry. During the trial, he reportedly confessed to luring children in to produce porn videos, according to prosecutors.
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An Ancient Juniper Forest and its Living Fossils
Mature trees at Ziarat in Balochistan are often thousands of years old, but many end up as firewood.
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Malala makes first trip to Pakistan since Taliban attack
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan on Thursday, officials said, in her first visit to her native country since she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for advocating education for girls in 2012.
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Pakistan under pressure to rein in blasphemy law
One of the most frightening things about Pakistan's blasphemy law is that the simplest act can spiral into charges that can bring the death penalty. In the case of Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman, it started when she brought water to her fellow women workers on a farm.
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Secret al-Qaeda memo: We must recruit and manipulate ‘ignorant’ Muslims
In the series of Abbottabad files, discovered in Osama bin Laden's house which was raided by the US military in Abbottabad, northern Pakistan in 2011, one document has exposed particularly sensitive information. It reveals that al-Qaeda targeted “common” and “ignorant” recruits worldwide, as stated by the group’s Libyan military commander Abu Yahya al-Libi. Abu Yahya was al-Qaeda’s second-in-command after Ayman al-Zawahri and was killed in a US drone attack in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan.
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Pakistan celebrities break taboo to reveal child sexual abuse
Three Pakistani celebrities have become the first women in the conservative nation’s history to publicly reveal that they were sexually abused as children, amid a national furore over the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl. The actor Nadia Jamil, designer Maheen Khan, and PR guru Frieha Altaf shared their stories on social media.
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Over 1,800 Muslim clerics in Pakistan issue fatwa against suicide bombings and label them un-Islamic
More than 1,800 Muslim clerics in Pakistan have jointly issued a fatwa against suicide bombings in the country and labelled such attacks "un-Islamic". All the clerics or ulemas belong to various Islamic schools of thought.
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It's time Pakistan banned the two-finger test for decoding consent in rape trials
2017 will go down in history as the year mainstream discourse on sexual violence was finally forced to confront the universal impunity enjoyed by perpetrators of assault. Unfortunately, these global developments have failed to trigger any corresponding debate on the inability of Pakistan’s criminal justice system to provide redress to survivors.
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Rape and murder of 7yo girl sparks deadly riots in Pakistan
Two protesters have been killed in riots over the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in Pakistan, as public anger intensifies over a failure to stem a spate of abductions and killings. The body of Zainab Ansari was found in a garbage bin on Tuesday, four days after she was abducted from her home in Kasur district. It was the twelfth case of a girl being abducted, raped and killed in the past year in the district, police said.
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