Foreign tourists to Pakistan more than triple since 2013
Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) data showed that international tourists have more than tripled since 2013 to 1...
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WorldJapanese reporter died in 2013 after 159 hours of overtime
NHK reporter Miwa Sado, 31, who had been covering political news in Tokyo, was found dead in her bed in July 2013, reportedly clutching her mobile phone...
Sato covered Tokyo assembly elections for the broadcaster in June 2013 and an upper-house vote for the national parliament the following month...
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PakistanECP rejects PTI claim of manipulation of 2013 polls
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan rejected on Wednesday Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s claim that the 2013 general elections were systematically manipulated or influenced by design...
Fafen also accepted its mistake and issued a clarification on May 14, 2013, and never repeated the claim in its final report on the general elections...
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PakistanECP asked to provide details of ballot papers printed for 2013 polls
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Ombudsman’s Secretariat has taken notice of the refusal by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to provide record pertaining to ballot papers printed for 2013 general elections to an applicant, observing that it was not justified and amounted to a violation of spirit of the Freedom of Information Ordinance (FIO) 2002...
2013 by the federal Ombudsman’s institutional reforms act, 2013,” the communiqué sent to...
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ArchiveTurkey acquits all 26 leaders of 2013 protests
ISTANBUL: A Turkish court on Wednesday acquitted more than two dozen activists who helped launch mass protests in 2013 against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after a trial slammed by rights campaigners...
The 26 suspects are all leaders of Taksim Solidarity, an umbrella group of civil society, union and political groups at the forefront of the May-June 2013 demonstrations that marked the biggest challenge yet to the dominance of the...
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PakistanECP rejects ex-official’s allegations of rigging in 2013 polls
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has dismissed allegations levelled by its former additional secretary Mohammad Afzal Khan that the 2013 general elections were massively rigged and said that no proof exists to substantiate his claims...
Afzal Khan claimed in a television interview that people’s mandate was stolen in the 2013 elections and he accused former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry of being involved...
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ArchivePundits predict repeat of voting patterns from 2013 election
RAWALPINDI: The results of the cantonment board elections are likely to be a reflection of the results of the 2013 elections with Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N and Imran Khan’s PTI emerging as the two strongest parties...
In the 2013 general elections, PML-N won NA-52, where Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was the successful candidate, and NA-54 where Malik Abrar was victorious...
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BlogsI'm a Pakistani inmate at Guantanamo and here's why I'm on hunger strike since 2013
I began my hunger strike on May 9, 2013 which means that I have now been on strike for four years and four months...
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PakistanMost voters stay loyal to their 2013 favourites
LAHORE: Despite being witness to so many tumultuous political happenings since the last time the nation went to polls, a good number of voters in NA-120 still side with the party on the polling day they had voted for in 2013...
Ali Sufian of Mozang Adda said he voted for the PTI candidate in 2013 and did so again on Sunday...
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PakistanGen Kayani influenced 2013 election, says PTI's Naeemul Haque
On the show, Haque said a "grand scheme" had been hatched between Pakistan, the United States, Saudi Arabia and Kayani to make Nawaz Sharif win the 2013 election...
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PakistanCall to probe release of Rs480bn for clearing circular debt in 2013
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Monday adopted a special report by a house committee recommending a probe by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) into the dubious release of Rs480 billion to independent power producers (IPPs) to clear the circular debt in 2013...
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ArchiveRs55m farm tax recovered in 2013-14
HYDERABAD: The Sindh government received Rs55 million of agriculture tax from 2,918 agriculturalists and account-holders in Hyderabad division during 2013-14...
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Pakistan‘E-tabulation failed in 2013 polls due to lack of legal cover’
ISLAMABAD: An automated Results Management System (RMS) is the best way to ensure better electoral practices, but Pakistan’s experience with using such a system in the 2013 general elections was not completely successful because it lacked legislative cover, an electoral expert told Dawn on Wednesday...
While most lawmakers, and even the CEC, agreed that the RMS was the best idea moving forward, nobody seemed to dwell on the reason for...
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PakistanPML-N calls for probe into award of pre-2013 LPG quotas
ISLAMABAD: Lawmakers of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have called for investigating the award of a quota for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) covering a period when the party was not in power...
With the anticipation that the proposed probe may reveal names of opposition figures and anti-PML-N personalities as the contracts were awarded during the rule of retired General Pervez Musharraf and the Pakistan Peoples Party, a... -
PakistanGhosts of 2013 still haunt PML-N ahead of Islamabad LG polls
Since losing the NA-48 seat in the federal capital, the PML-N has not yet recovered from the internal divisions within its local cadres that cost it the 2013 elections, and similar trends are visible in their preparations for the LG polls...
“I lost the general elections not because the PTI candidate was on sound footing, but because of backstabbers within my own party,” Ashraf Gujjar, the PML-N candidate from NA-48 for the August...
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