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PTI to go ahead with Islamabad march after govt-opposition talks end in deadlock
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday announced that it will go ahead with its long march on Islamabad after government-opposition talks ended in deadlock early Sunday, with the two sides failing to reach an agreement on key issues. The negotiations, held at the National Assembly speaker’s chamber and chaired by Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, continued…
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UN agency says more than 60pc of Pakistanis cannot afford a healthy diet
ISLAMABAD: The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has called for an urgent overhaul of Pakistan’s agrifood system, saying major gaps in the supply of vegetables, fruits, pulses and other nutritious foods are undermining efforts to improve access to healthy diets. More than 60 per cent of Pakistanis cannot afford a healthy…
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Minister warns of winter gas shortage amid Qatar supply disruption
LAHORE: Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik has warned of a possible gas shortage in Pakistan during the coming winter due to disruption in LNG supplies from Qatar, saying the government is considering measures to provide relief to consumers. Addressing a public gathering in Lahore, Malik said that the government was taking steps to ensure adequate…
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Why did govt-PTI talks fail? Here’s what both sides say
ISLAMABAD: The government and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have offered sharply different accounts of what brought their two-day marathon negotiations to a deadlock. The breakdown, after talks continued until around 2:30am on Sunday, has revived the political confrontation that the negotiations were intended to defuse, with counterterrorism policy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and access to PTI…
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Sohail Afridi sets six conditions to call off PTI’s Islamabad march
ISLAMABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi has laid out six conditions for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to call off its planned long march on Islamabad, hours after government-opposition talks ended in deadlock. Afridi made the demands public in a post on X, saying the draft he had sent to the opposition negotiating committee contained…
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Talal Chaudhry links PTI march to banned JKJACC protest
ISLAMABAD: ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry on Sunday drew a parallel between the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) planned long march on Islamabad and the protest movement of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JKJACC). Speaking at a press conference in Islamabad, Chaudhry said the JKJACC had also set the same…
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Kundi says PTI exposes itself as facilitator of terrorism
ISLAMABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi on Sunday accused the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of backing away from commitments on counterterrorism, saying its actions had raised questions about whether the party was facilitating an environment in which terrorists could operate freely in the province. Kundi said this in a post on X in response to…
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Naqvi says Sohail Afridi sabotaged ‘win-win’ deal with PTI, vows to counter long march
LAHORE: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Sunday blamed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi for the collapse of government-Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) talks, claiming that both sides had reached a “win-win” agreement before the chief minister sought changes to the finalised draft. Addressing a press conference in Lahore following the deadlock in negotiations, Naqvi said the…
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All roads in Islamabad are open, declares Atta Tarar
Federal Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Saturday said that no road in Islamabad had been closed. In his post on X, he said the purpose of placing containers on roads was to protect the lives and properties of citizens and was in light of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) order. “The purpose of placing…
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Parents can neither refuse nor reduce financial support for their underage kids, rules LHC
Giving an important decision, the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday said that parents could neither waive nor reduce the maintenance support of their underage child or children. Ruling that a family court could not fix the underage children’s maintenance after an agreement was reached between their parents, the high court declared that the agreement…
