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May 16, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Umer Farooq |Qamar Shahzad |Tariq Aqil |Syed Faisal Ali
The possibility that Pakistani society might undergo the process of deindustrialization before being fully industrialized to start with seems to be rising steeply. Deindustrialization is a process that has caused entire American states like Michigan, which was once the industrial and manufacturing heart of the American state, to have been deprived of its industrial base.
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May 11, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Syed Faisal Ali |Raza Rumi |Tahir Imran Mian |Nadeem Paracha
Over 200 people have been killed while thousands have been displaced in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province as flash floods caused by heavy rains, the United Nations said on Saturday. UN's International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said that some 1,500 homes were damaged or destroyed in the Jadid district of Baghlan. At least 100 people had been killed there.
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May 11, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Usman Khan Yousafzai |Syed Faisal Ali |Junaid Jahangir |Tariq Aqil
In an unprecedented criticism of its close ally, one it helped arm, the United States has observed that it was "reasonable to assess" that over the past seven months, Israel used weapons provided by Washington in Gaza in a way that was inconsistent with international humanitarian law. However, the report by the US State Department, released Friday, did not offer any "conclusive findings", essentially nullifying the report and thus failed to block further weapons shipments to Israel.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Pti .. |Syed Faisal Ali |Raza Rumi |Syed Hassan Haadi
The Taliban in Afghanistan have declared plans to limit or fully prohibit access to Facebook, a move denounced by rights activists. Najibullah Haqqani, the Taliban's acting minister of telecommunications and information technology, revealed his intentions in an interview with Kabul's TOLO News last week. Following two decades of siege and conflict, millions of Afghans now have restricted access to cellphone services and internet connections, resulting in a growing information blackout.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Pti .. |Syed Faisal Ali |Sabih Ul Hussnain |Kamran Khamiso Khowaja
After a brief disruption on Tuesday, internet connections were restored nationwide. Although the cause of the brief internet connectivity outage remained unknown, insiders speculated that it may have been caused by a malfunctioning underwater cable. According to sources in the sector, the outage seems to be an internal issue. Users of the internet service provided by Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Pti .. |Syed Faisal Ali |Kamran Khamiso Khowaja |Raza Rumi
The Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) has picked former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani as its candidate for Senate Chairman. Jamil Soomro, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's political secretary, has issued a notification in this regard.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Pti .. |Syed Faisal Ali |Sabih Ul Hussnain
Following some conjecture and murmurs on social media, the federal government officially announced Eid-ul-Fitr vacations on Thursday. According to the Cabinet Division's statement, offices that operate five days a week will have three public holidays from April 10 to 12, while offices that work six days a week will observe four public holidays from April 10 to 13.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Pti .. |Syed Faisal Ali |Raza Rumi
Senator Faisal Subzwari of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) stated on Tuesday that if people in the port city continue to be slain amid an increase in violent crime in Karachi, his party will leave the government. The MQM-P senator lamented the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)'s 15-year control in the province, saying that if such deaths were occurring elsewhere, calls for an operation would have been made.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Pti .. |Syed Faisal Ali |Sabih Ul Hussnain |Raza Rumi
The federal government raised the price of petrol by Rs9.66 per liter for the next two weeks in response to a rise in worldwide crude costs. However, the price of high-speed diesel (HSD) has dropped by Rs3.32 per liter. The higher fuel rates will take effect on April 1, according to a Finance Division statement. "The price of petrol (motor gasoline) has increased in the international market during the last fortnight, while the price of HSD has marginally declined," the statement said.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Pti .. |Syed Faisal Ali |Raza Rumi |Saeed Shafqat
After weeks of speculations about her unexplained absence amid reports of health complications, Britain's Princess of Wales Catherine (popularly known as Kate) announced that she had been diagnosed with cancer. The announcement was made in a short video message released by the Kensington Palace and the British royal family on Friday. Kate said that the diagnosis had caught the cancer and that she was in the early stages of chemotherapy.
