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Pakistan: Market timings revised in Islamabad amid austerity driveIslamabad businesses are required to close by 8 pm from Monday. This is part of the government's austerity measures to conserve energy. Res...
Mera Lyari, Pakistan's response to Dhurandhar, sells just 22 tickets; removed from theatres within days as Aditya Dhar's spy thriller crossed Rs 1300 crorePakistani film Mera Lyari has flopped at the box office. The movie sold a mere 22 tickets in some locations. Screenings were reportedly sto...
Why Pakistan backstabs the US, and always gets away with itFor decades, the US grappled with Pakistan's dual role as a terror war ally and a supporter of militant groups. Despite accusations of shel...
Going online helps Pakistan's women doctors back to workThousands of Pakistani women doctors are returning to practice through telemedicine. This initiative connects home-based doctors with patie...
Far too much pride, too much prejudiceIran's envoy to Pakistan, Reza Amiri Moghadam, ingeniously referenced a Jane Austen quote to illustrate the absurdity of negotiating with I...
UN experts slam Pakistan on its lack of protection of Hindu, Christian womenExpressing dismay at the continuing lack of protection for young women and girls from the minority communities, especially Christians and H...
Pakistan minorities at risk due to forced conversions, marriagesQamar Rafiq, writing in Daily Times said that a report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Pakistani Minorities found that arou...
South Asian human rights body slams Pakistan over forced conversion of Hindu girlsSouth Asia Collective's (SAC) "South Asia State of Minorities Report, 2020: Minorities and Shrinking Civic Space" released recently, has de...
European Union MPs raise alarm over treatment of minority girls in PakistanAfter the forced abduction, conversion and marriage of Christian girl Huma Younus, another 14-year-old Catholic girl has been kidnapped in ...
'Husband of Pak Sikh girl member of Saeed's JuD'The girl couldn't be produced in court on Monday and the court fixed September 9 for the next hearing of the case, Pakistan media reports s...
Pakistan's Hindu lawmaker moves 2 bills in Parliament on child marriage, forced conversionDr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani from the ruling PTI submitted Child Marriage Restraint Act (Amendment) Bill 2019 and the Criminal Law (Protection ...
Another underage Hindu girl abducted in Pak's SindhThe victim's father has approached SSP Badin, Sardar Hassan Niazi, to register a case against suspects.
Pak Hindu minor girls approach court seeking protection, man suspected to assist in wedding heldThere were reports that the cleric who performed the minor girls' marriage was arrested from Khan Pur in Sindh.
Pakistan PM orders probe into forced conversion and marriages of 2 teenage Hindu girlsMajority of Pakistan's Hindu population is settled in Sindh province where they share culture, traditions and language with their Muslim fe...
Pak Senate passes landmark Hindu marriage billThe Hindu Marriage Bill 2017 is the first elaborate Hindu community's personal law in Pakistan.
Pressurize Pakistan to drop annulment clause from Hindu Marriage Bill: Shiv SenaSena said Paki should be pressurized to drop a controversial clause in its Hindu Marriage Bill that calls for annulment of marriage if any ...
Sindh becomes first Pakistan province to adopt Hindu Marriage BillPakistan's Sindh Assembly passed the Hindu Marriage Bill making the province the first in the country to allow the minority community to re...
Remove annulment clause in Hindu Marriage Bill: Pak councilA leading Hindu group in Pakistan has demanded the government to remove a controversial clause in the draft Hindu Marriage Bill.
Pakistani Hindu lawmaker Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani demands law against forced conversionVankwani, who is also the patron of the Pakistan Hindu Council, was talking to media after briefing Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) in Is...
UK courts sets aside spouse visa ruleA rule stipulating that non-European Union spouses of British citizens should be at least 21 years of age before being allowed to come and ...