Police, Khan supporters clash near Adiala jail; sisters detained, released

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RAWALPINDI: Police briefly detained former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s sisters and arrested dozens of his party supporters on Tuesday during a clash outside Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail, where authorities barred the incarcerated leader’s family from meeting him for the third consecutive week, officials and party leaders said.

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US scraps Pakistan undergraduate exchange programme after 15 years

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ISLAMABAD: The United States has discontinued its Global Undergraduate Exchange (Global UGRAD) Pakistan Programme after 15 years, the United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) announced on Tuesday, ending a US-funded initiative that allowed Pakistani students to study at American universities.

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Military pledges to thwart foreign proxies in restive Balochistan

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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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A river divided: Ally Bhutto-Zardari leads charge against government’s Indus canals plan

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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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