PESHAWAR: A total of 31,545 candidates are running for tehsil mayors and chairmen and village and neighbourhood council members in 18 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including Lower and Upper Chitral, as their nomination papers for the second phase of local body elections on March 31 have been accepted by the returning officers. The nomination papers […]
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Prime Minister Imran Khan, on a two-day visit to Moscow, held a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday during which the premier reaffirmed the importance of the Pakistan Stream gas pipeline as a flagship economic project between the two countries, his office said, according to Dawn.com. The Kremlin issued a brief statement, saying the
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet approved a summary of a five-year sentence for criticising the state institutions including Pakistan army, judiciary and others on electronic media. According to sources, the government has decided to make amendments in the Electronic Crimes Prevention Act. The federal cabinet approved the amendment in the Electronic Crimes Prevention Act through an
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CHITRAL: The communities of two villages have demanded action against a group of people involved in the illegal sale of plots in public land located in the Yarkhun valley of Mastuj and accused the officials of the concerned department in Upper Chitral of not taking action against them. The barren land called Khotan Lasht, which
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Wazir Ali Shah Transparency International (TI) recently released the Corruption Perception Index CPI) ranking the position of 180 countries from the best to worsen level of corruption. According to its report, Finland, Denmark and New Zealand scored 88/100 and clinched the rank of number 1 among these countries. South Sudan scored just 11/100 and became
