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  • Bol News ‘off air’ for live coverage of PTI-police clashes

    ISLAMABAD: The electronic media regulator has slapped a ban on Bol News for the live coverage of clashes between law enforcement personnel and the PTI workers in the federal capital...

    As the situation intensified, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) directed all news and current affairs channels to stop live coverage from outside the Judicial Complex, the scene of unruly clashes...

  • Pemra seeks ARY News response to IB complaint against 'fake news'

    The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Saturday directed ARY News to respond to a complaint filed by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) against its report on a list of lawmakers suspected of links with banned militant groups allegedly compiled by the IB...

    The list first came to light when ARY News programme 'Power Play' aired a report on Sept 25 claiming that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif had directed the IB on...

  • Pemra serves notices to ARY, Bol News over 'fake' news regarding cabinet reshuffle

    The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has issued show-cause notices to ARY News and Bol News for airing news items regarding a reshuffle in the federal cabinet and change in the portfolios of some federal ministers, it emerged on Tuesday...

    The two media outlets had aired the news on Monday morning about a possible reshuffle in the posts for Minister for Finance and Minister of State for Interior held by Asad Umar...

  • Lebanon facing severe power crisis

    BEIRUT: Four decades ago, Lebanon used to export power to its larger neighbour Syria...

    Outages have plagued Lebanon since its own 1975-1990 civil war and the power crisis is a legacy of that conflict, with the country now shackled by paralysis in government and widely perceived corruption that has put a brake on development...

  • Multiple suicide bombings kill five in eastern Lebanon

    BEIRUT: At least five people were killed in multiple suicide bombings early Monday in eastern Lebanon near the border with Syria, officials said...

    Lebanon's national news agency said the blasts struck at 10 minute intervals and also wounded three Lebanese soldiers stationed in the area...

  • Suicide bombers kill five in Lebanon near Syria border

    The National News Agency said the blasts occurred in the predominantly Christian village of Qaa, only few hundred metres away from the border...

    ” Lebanon has in recent years faced deadly spillovers from the Syrian civil war next door, and Lebanese authorities have been on high alert, tightening security in recent days...

  • Arab League chief says Lebanon should be 'spared'

    Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit said on Monday Lebanon should be “spared” from spiralling regional tensions, during a visit to Beirut a day after Arab diplomats blasted Lebanese movement Hezbollah...

    “Arab countries understand and take into account the situation in Lebanon and want to spare it...

  • Lebanon's Hariri says Damascus wants him killed

    He cited Iran's "grip" on his country through Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah and threats to his life as causes of his resignation which he has suspended pending political negotiations in Beirut...

    The premier, who has called for Hezbollah to "disassociate" itself from conflicts such as Syria where it has fought alongside Assad's forces, said: "It is in Lebanon's interest that these (Hezbollah's) arms not be used elsewhere...

  • Lebanon's PM Hariri says resignation on hold pending talks

    Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Wednesday he had agreed to suspend his surprise decision to resign, at the request of President Michel Aoun, pending talks on the political situation...

    The new decision came hours after the premier landed back in Lebanon for the first time since announcing his resignation in a statement from Saudi Arabia on November 4...

  • Lebanon's 'detained' premier to travel to France

    Lebanon's premier Saad Hariri will travel to France "in the coming days", a French presidential source said Wednesday, after Beirut accused Saudi Arabia of detaining him following his shock resignation...

    Speculation has swirled around the fate of Hariri, who is a Saudi citizen and grew up in the kingdom, with Lebanon's President Michel Aoun accusing Saudi Arabia of "detaining" him...

  • In Lebanon, ex-PM Hariri's resignation raises spectre of fresh war

    Saad Hariri's resignation from Lebanon's premiership has raised fears that regional tensions were about to escalate and that the small country would once again pay a heavy price...

    Analysts said the politician's move on Saturday to step down from the helm less than a year after forming a government was more than just the latest hiccup in Lebanon's notoriously dysfunctional politics...

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