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Sikh hakeem shot dead in Peshawar


October 1, 2021

PESHAWAR: Unknown assailants gunned down a Sikh hakeem near Charsadda Bus Stand here on Thursday, police said. The police identified the victim as hakeem Satnam Singh who was attacked in his clinic here in the limits of Faqirabad police station. A police official told that unknown assailants, whose number could not be ascertained, opened fire on Satnam Singh and managed …

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Protesting students demand retaking of MDCAT on a single day


October 1, 2021

ISLAMABAD: While the Medical and Dental Colleges Admission Test (MDCAT) concluded after one month on Thursday, a large number of students have been protesting against the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) across the country, demanding retake of the exam on a single day to ensure transparency and merit. A delegation of students met with Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) …

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Conservation of Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor’s ancestral homes in Peshawar begins


October 1, 2021

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa directorate of archaeology and museums has formally begun the conservation of the ancestral homes of Bollywood legends Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor located inside the walled city of the provincial capital by documenting their details. The government had taken the possession of the two properties, including Dilip Kumar’s in Mohallah Khudadad area and Kapoor Haveli in Dhaki …

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PML-N assails questions over road projects transparency


October 1, 2021

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has said that by questioning the transparency of highway and motorway projects undertaken during the party’s previous term in government, Prime Minister Imran Khan has in fact accused China or Pakistan Army of doing corruption as most of these projects were completed under the China-Pakistan Economic Corri­dor (CPEC) and by the Frontier Works Organisation …

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Looming cyclone threat upends life in Sindh’s coastal belt


October 1, 2021

KARACHI: With the weather system getting stronger and strengthening further into a cyclonic storm, the city life remained on the edge witnessing stronger winds that uprooted several structures, including poles, and scattered drizzling on Thursday as authorities warned that Karachi and other coastal cities of Sindh and Balochistan were expected to be buffeted by gusty winds and heavy showers when …

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More curbs for unvaccinated people from today


October 1, 2021

ISLAMABAD: With only 20 per cent vaccine-eligible people fully vaccinated in Pakistan, mobility is going to become difficult for non-vaccinated people from Friday (today). According to data shared by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Thursday, 1,742 new cases of Covid-19 and 39 deaths caused by the disease were reported in a single day. The number of active …

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Petrol prices in Pakistan still cheap compared to rest of the world, says finance minister, day after price hike


October 1, 2021

Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Friday said petrol prices in Pakistan were cheaper than the rest of the region and the world, adding that only 16 countries had lower prices — all of them being oil producers themselves. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad with Minister of State for Information Farrukh Habib, Tarin said: “There are only 16 other countries …

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Scattered rain predicted in Karachi as cyclone likely to move towards Makran coast


October 1, 2021

The Pakistan Meteorological Department on Friday said that the deep depression over the northeast Arabian sea had intensified into a cyclonic storm — Shaheen — and the system was likely to move west-southwestwards towards Oman/Makran. In the latest update, the department said that the storm was at a distance of 280km southwest of Karachi, 230km from Ormara and 470km southwest …

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Shehbaz Sharif’s wife Nusrat indicted in money laundering case


October 1, 2021

An accountability court in Lahore on Friday indicted Nusrat Shehbaz, the wife of Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif, in a money laundering reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). In December last year, Nusrat was declared absconder by the accountability court for her persistent non-appearance in the money laundering reference. During Friday’s hearing in the court of …

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Sirbaz Khan becomes first Pakistani to scale 9 of world’s 14 highest peaks


October 1, 2021

Mountaineer Sirbaz Khan became the first Pakistani on Friday to climb nine of the world’s highest 14 peaks — each of which has a height of more than 8,000 metres — after he scaled the 8,167-metre-high Dhaulagiri mountain in Nepal, said Alpine Club of Pakistan Secretary Karrar Haidri. Sirbaz was part of the 19-member ‘SST-Dhaulagiri I Expd. 2021 Autumn’ expedition …

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