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    Cambodia Election 1997 In Pakistan

  • THE DAWN OF PAKISTAN 1906-1948 : LAHORE 1997: AN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE PIONEERS

    This photograph taken by the prominent photographer of the Pakistan Movement, Faustin Elmer Chaudhry, shows Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in animated conversation with a group of students on the lawns of the University of Punjab, Lahore, on January 7, 1946 (top row)...

    The elections are vital for the Muslim League because failure to win the Muslim seats will mean that further discussion on the demand for Pakistan will be dismissed...

  • Pakistan to play home leg of football World Cup qualifier against Cambodia in Doha

    KARACHI: Qatar will get the first action of the FIFA World Cup it hosts in about three-and-half years’ time on June 11 after it was announced that Pakistan will play the home leg of its first-round qualifier for the 2022 showpiece against Cambodia in Doha...

    The announcement came in the early hours of Thursday by the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) faction that is recognised by global football body FIFA...

  • Cambodia’s main opposition party dissolved by court

    PHNOM PENH: Cam­bodia’s Supreme Court dissolved the main opposition party on Thursday, leaving authoritarian Prime Min­ister Hun Sen clear to extend over three decades in power in a general election next year...

    The government had asked the court to dissolve the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), whi­ch was accused of plotting to take power with help from the United States after the arrest of party leader Kem Sokha on Sept 3... ...

  • China backs Cambodia over crackdown on opposition

    CAMBODIA has received support from China for its crackdown on political opposition, after the only real electoral rival to Hun Sen’s regime was disbanded last Thursday...

    The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) was dissolved in a widely condemned court ruling for allegedly trying to topple the government...

  • Russian tycoon in custody after deportation from Cambodia

    MOSCOW: A Russian tycoon accused of embezzling tens of millions of dollars in a real estate scam was taken into custody in Moscow on Sunday after being deported from Cambodia, officials said...

    Sergei Polonsky, who is in his 40s, was detained on an island off the southwestern town of Sihanoukville in Cambodia on Friday for overstaying his visa...

  • Syria rout Cambodia 6-0 in World Cup qualifying

    TOKYO: War-torn Syria’s national football team won their third straight World Cup qualifying match on Tuesday, routing Cambodia 6-0 in Phnom Penh while the game between Malaysia and visiting Saudi Arabia was suspended three minutes from the end after fans hurled flares onto the field...

    Japan, who previously defeated Cambodia 3-0 and drew against Singapore in the same group, recorded a 6-0 win over another war-torn country,...

  • Doctor jailed for 25 years for infecting patients with HIV in Cambodia

    PHNOM PENH: An unlicensed Cambodian doctor was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday after he was found guilty of infecting more than 200 people with HIV, including some who later died...

    The case has shone a spotlight on the chronically underfunded healthcare system in the impoverished nation where many have to rely on self-taught or unlicensed medics to receive treatment
  • Wild elephants rescued from muddy bomb crater in Cambodia

    PHNOM PENH: Eleven wild elephants, including a baby, were rescued from a mud-filled bomb crater in Cambodia on Saturday after languishing in the swampy waters for four days, an environmental official said...

    There are believed to only several hundred of the endangered Asian elephants in Cambodia, according to conservation groups...

  • Committee proposes relocation of Kavaan to sanctuary in Cambodia

    ISLAMABAD: An eight-member committee of experts on Friday recommended sending Kavaan the elephant to the 25,000-acre wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia...

    Complying with the direction of Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Athar Minallah, IWMB notified the committee which comprised WWF-Pakistan’s senior director programme Pakistan as chairman and biodiversity specialist Z...

  • Decades of zoo joy end as Kaavan flies to Cambodia

    ISLAMABAD: Kaavan, the lone elephant, embarked on a mammoth journey from Pakistan to Cambodia in the wee hours of Monday morning on a specially chartered cargo plane from Russia...

    Their veterinarians went to work early in the morning and sedated Kaavan before shifting him into a special cage in which the elephant would be transported to a sanctuary in Cambodia...

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