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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States pledged on Monday to expand cooperation on trade, counterterrorism, and regional security during the first phone call between Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Foreign Office (FO) said.
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KARACHI: The provincial Sindh High Court on Monday suspended a water allocation permit issued by federal regulators to Punjab province for constructing irrigation canals in the Cholistan region, apparently intensifying a water rights clash between the two provinces.
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QUETTA: The Balochistan government on Saturday offered the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) permission to march to Quetta’s Shahwani Stadium but warned of legal action if the party breaches the city’s Red Zone.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will dispatch a high-level delegation to Washington to contest a looming 29 percent US tariff on its goods, a policy threatening the nation’s fragile export-driven recovery, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said on Saturday.
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RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s military’s top leadership pledged on Friday to counter foreign proxies and hostile internal actors destabilising the southwestern Balochistan province, a region plagued by a decades-long separatist insurgency, saying it would eradicate terrorism in all its forms, regardless of the cost.
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GARI KHUDA BAKHSH: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and a key government ally, demanded Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday abandon plans to build six canals on the Indus River, warning the project threatens national unity and risks inflaming inter-provincial water disputes.
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KARACHI: Pakistan’s exports to the US are poised to take a hit after President Donald Trump unleashed a 29 percent tariff on Pakistani imports, part of a broad salvo hitting dozens of countries as he ramps up a global trade war.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan began the second phase of its Afghan refugee repatriation programme on Thursday, targeting holders of Afghan Citizen Cards (ACC) after a government deadline expired, despite international pleas for leniency and conflicting reports over possible delays.
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QUETTA: Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal announced on Wednesday that he would unveil plans for new demonstrations on April 3, as his party’s sit-in protest against the arrests of Baloch rights activists entered its sixth day.
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KARACHI: President Asif Ali Zardari has tested positive for Covid-19 and is in isolation, the presidency said on Wednesday, adding that his condition is improving under medical supervision.
