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1 week ago | 
arab.news | Hasaan Ali Khan |Naimat Khan |Saadullah Akhter
ISLAMABAD: Fauji Fertilizer Company Ltd. (FFC), a unit of the Pakistan army-run Fauji Foundation, said on Monday its board had approved submitting an expression of interest to acquire a stake in loss-making national carrier PIA, according to a filing with the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). Islamabad is trying to offload a controlling stake of 51-100 percent in PIA under a $7 billion International Monetary Fund program aimed at overhauling state-owned firms.
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1 week ago | 
arab.news | Ismail Dilawar |Naimat Khan |Saadullah Akhter |Hasaan Ali Khan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Punjab province, the country’s most populous and economically crucial region, will present its budget for the 2025–26 fiscal year today, Monday, with officials promising a “people-friendly” plan, Radio Pakistan reported. Punjab Finance Minister Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman is scheduled to table the budget in the provincial assembly in Lahore after the cabinet’s formal approval.
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1 week ago | 
arab.news | Ismail Dilawar |Hasaan Ali Khan |Naimat Khan |Saadullah Akhter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s defense minister Khawaja M. Asif on Sunday warned Western governments that their support for Israel risked unleashing “catastrophic consequences,” citing concerns over Israel’s nuclear capabilities and regional aggression.
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3 weeks ago | 
arab.news | Fatimah Amjad |Naimat Khan |Saadullah Akhter |Shahjahan Khurram
DERA BAJWA, Pakistan: It was supposed to be the final leg of Amir Ali’s monthslong journey to Europe. But he was nowhere near his destination, with only death in sight. The 21-year-old Pakistani had been promised a visa and a flight to Spain. Yet six months, four countries and $17,000 later, he found himself crammed in a fishing boat in the Atlantic Ocean alongside 85 others, screaming for their lives as seawater sloshed over the gunwales.
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3 weeks ago | 
arab.news | Saadullah Akhter |Naimat Khan |Ismail Dilawar
QUETTA: A blast triggered by an improvised explosive device (IED) killed two tribal leaders and injured seven others on Saturday in a remote mountainous town in Quetta district, located in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan province, a senior police official said. The roadside blast took place in Mangla, an area of the Hanna Urrak valley located some 35 kilometers from the provincial capital of Quetta, when a convoy of tribal leaders was passing through the area.
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1 month ago | 
arab.news | Saima Shabbir |Kashif Imran |Naimat Khan |Saadullah Akhter
Pakistan launches nationwide polio campaign to immunize over 45 million children /node/2602055/pakistan May 25, 2025 07:34 Pakistan launches nationwide polio campaign to immunize over 45 million children Pakistan, Afghanistan are only countries where polio remains an endemic Health officials have confirmed 10 polio cases in Pakistan so far this year ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has launched a third nationwide anti-polio vaccination campaign of this year that aims to inoculate 45 million children under...
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1 month ago | 
arab.news | Kashif Imran |Naimat Khan |Saadullah Akhter |Usama Iqbal Khawaja
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has launched a third nationwide anti-polio vaccination campaign of this year that aims to inoculate 45 million children under five, the country’s polio program said on Sunday. The campaign was formally inaugurated by Ayesha Raza Farooq, the prime minister’s focal person for polio eradication, who administered oral polio vaccine and Vitamin A drops to children under five at the National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) in Islamabad.
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1 month ago | 
arab.news | Saadullah Akhter |Naimat Khan |Usama Iqbal Khawaja
QUETTA: Unknown armed men stormed a house in Balochistan’s Awaran district in the early hours of Saturday and killed a journalist working for a mainstream news channel and a local newspaper, a Levies official said. The killing took place in Mashkay, a remote town in the mountainous Awaran district, regarded as a stronghold of Baloch separatist groups, particularly the Baloch Liberation Front (BLF).
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1 month ago | 
arab.news | Fatimah Amjad |Falak Khan |Saadullah Akhter |Hasaan Ali Khan
ISLAMABAD: Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir arrived in Islamabad on Friday after a visit to New Delhi, as tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan continue to escalate. Al-Jubeir’s visit follows India’s military strikes inside Pakistan in response to a gun attack in the disputed region of Kashmir that left 26 tourists dead, with New Delhi blaming Islamabad for the incident, though Pakistani authorities repeatedly denied any involvement.
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1 month ago | 
arab.news | Hasaan Ali Khan |Falak Khan |Saadullah Akhter |Muhammad Ibrahim
India’s clash with Pakistan sees use of Chinese missiles, French jets, Israeli drones, and more /node/2600107/pakistan May 09, 2025 14:15 India’s clash with Pakistan sees use of Chinese missiles, French jets, Israeli drones, and more Claims on exactly what was hit in latest standoff and where have differed widely, with neither side releasing many specific details Making ongoing conflict even more confusing, the Internet has been “flooded with disinformation, false claims and multimedia...
