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Here's why US put Pakistan on Special Watch List for 'severe violations of religious freedom'
The US State Department on Thursday, January 4, announced that it had put Pakistan on a Special Watch List for "severe violations of religious freedom." An official statement from department spokesperson Heather Nauert also said the country had "re-designated Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan as Countries of Particular Concern on December 22, 2017."
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How Pakistan is failing its child brides
Umerkot is famous. Mughal Emperor Akbar was born here in 1542. His parents – dethroned Emperor Humayun and his child-bride Hamida Banu Begum – were then staying here in exile in a 14th century fort.
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Nikki Haley: Pakistan playing 'double game' for years
Pakistan has been accused of playing a "double game" and harbouring "terrorists" by Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, as the war of words continues between the two countries over military aid. Haley's comments come a day after President Donald Trump threatened to cut aid to Pakistan for allegedly lying to the US and offering "little help" in hunting "terrorists" in neighbouring Afghanistan.
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Pakistan has given U.S. nothing but lies and deceit, says Donald Trump
Pakistan was U.S. President Donald Trump’s target of ire on 1st January as he threatened to stop American financial assistance to Islamabad. “The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!,” the President said on Twitter on Monday morning.
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Pakistan unveils world's oldest sleeping Buddha from 3rd century
Pakistan unveiled the remains of a 1,700-year-old sleeping Buddha image on Wednesday, part of an initiative to encourage tourism and project religious...
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Destroy terror 'safe havens' or else US will: CIA tells Pakistan
In a stern warning to Pakistan, the CIA chief has said if Islamabad does not eliminate terrorist "safe havens" in its territory, the US will do "everything" it can to destroy them. The statement by CIA Director Mike Pompeo came ahead of US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis's visit to Islamabad where he will persuade Pakistan to support the new US strategy on Afghanistan. The Trump administration is sending mixed signals to its estranged ally, Dawn reported.
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Sucking Up to the Saudis
The rosy scenario of a Saudi-led moderation is belied by the recent protests led by Islamic militants in Pakistan. By Rafia Zakaria.
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Alleged terror mastermind with $10M U.S. bounty on head is freed
Pakistani authorities released the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks from house arrest, but he still has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head. Hafiz Saeed, whose arrest in January was seen as a signal of a broader shift in Pakistan’s treatment of extremists, was freed before dawn Friday local time in the city of Lahore, according to Hafiz Abdul Rauf, a spokesman for the Islamist cleric's charity. "I’m happy that no allegation against me was proved, which could have done damage to me, or my country’s interests," Saeed later told supporters. "Thank God, we were vindicated."
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Top US general says Taliban 'living in comfort' in Pakistan
It's been nearly 100 days since President Donald Trump announced his new strategy for Afghanistan and the wider region, a strategy that demanded Pakistan do more to fight the Taliban, but Pakistan has yet to take significant action against the Taliban, according to the commander of US and international forces in Afghanistan.
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Police arrest 40-year-old man attempting to marry minor girl
Police have claimed to have taken into custody a 40-year-old man who had been attempting to marry a minor aged 10-year-old here in Quaidabad area. As per reports, the police conducted a raid at the wedding ceremony on a tip-off where the minor was being forced into marriage with Abdul Khaliq. The police took Abdul Khaliq and the nikhakhwan (cleric) into custody, reports confirmed.
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Islamic Republic of Pakistan Child Marriages: 7.3 Million
According to a Gallup survey, approximately 7.3 million people in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan were married before the age of 16, and an additional 15.5 million Pakistanis got married before they were 18. Gallup calls this "child marriage" for its survey purposes. Gallup focused on three countries -- Paksitan, Myanmar (Burma), and Cambodia -- and "asked people aged 15 and older what age they were when they started living with their first spouse or partner."
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Bride trying to poison husband accidentally kills 17 of her extended family members
A Pakistani bride was arrested after milk she had poisoned in order to kill her husband was made into a yogurt drink that inadvertently killed 17 of her extended family members, according to the Associated Press. District police chief Sohail Habib Tajak said that Aasia Bibi, 21, was married against her will in September in a village near the remote town of Ali Pur in Pakistan.
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Man rescued from Taliban: I thought my captors were kidding when they said Trump was president
A Canadian man who was recently freed after being held in Afghanistan by Taliban-tied kidnappers for five years said he thought his captors were joking when they told him Donald Trump was president.
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Pakistan Tells Doctors Without Borders to Pull Out of Tribal Areas
Pakistan on Wednesday told the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders to stop its work and leave the country’s impoverished tribal areas that border Afghanistan, the organization said, ending its 14-year stay in the volatile region. Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières, works out of two health facilities in the Kurram district of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas region in Pakistan, which has been plagued by militancy over the past decade and was the location of many American drone strikes targeting commanders from Al Qaeda and other militant groups.
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Man kills two daughters for 'honour' in Peshawar
Two young women were killed by their father "in the name of honour" in Peshawar's Achar Kali area on September 20, police said on Saturday. According to Bala Mani Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Fazal Wahid, Abdul Gani killed his daughters — 20-year-old Shamim and 10-year-old Noreen — and confessed to the crime upon his arrest.
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Pakistan's biggest bank kicked out of US, fined over terror financing charge
US banking regulators ordered Pakistan's Habib Bank to shutter its New York office after nearly 40 years, for repeatedly failing to heed concerns over possible terrorist financing and money laundering, officials said Thursday. Habib, Pakistan's largest private bank, neglected to watch for compliance problems and red flags on transactions that potentially could have promoted terrorism, money laundering or other illicit ends, New York banking officials said.
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Here's A Bunch Of Times The US Has Called On Pakistan To Stop Harboring Terror Suspects
The US president said there would be a new approach to dealing with Pakistan in a speech on Monday evening. "New" is a bit of a strong word. "No partnership can survive a country’s harboring of militants and terrorists who target US service members and officials," Trump said. "It is time for Pakistan to demonstrate its commitment to civilization, order, and to peace."
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50 Million in Pakistan Are at Risk of Arsenic Poisoning
A new study has found some 88 million people are living in high-risk areas.
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PRIME Institute (Policy Research Institute of Market Economy)
PRIME Institute is an Independent, non partisan, economic research think tank committed to build an Open, Free, and Prosperous Pakistan Market Economy.
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Debt Clock | debtclock.pk
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