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Pak Passes Law That Paves Way For Exiled Ex PM Nawaz Sharif's Return
Pakistan's national assembly has passed legislation limiting how long lawmakers can be disqualified from office, a state spokesman said Tuesday, paving the way for exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's return to politics.
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Pakistan Abolishes Colonial-Era Law On Suicide
Decriminalisation may help to get the true picture of the annual suicides in the country
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Pakistan Minister Resigns After Violent Islamist Protests: State Media
Pakistan's law minister Zahid Hamid has resigned, state media reported Monday, meeting a key demand of Islamist protesters who have clashed violently with security forces and blockaded the capital Islamabad for weeks.
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'Last Jew In Pakistan' Allowed To Profess His Religion
Pakistan has allowed a 29-year-old Jewish activist to change his religion from Islam to Judaism, an unusual move by authorities in the country. In normal circumstances, it would have been a normal practice to let Fishel Benkhald get religion of his choice in the column of religion for the forms filled to get national identity card and passport.
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Oppressed Transgenders In Pakistan In Pursuit Of A Reformation
Farzana draws all eyes when she dances, but today she is above all the voice of a Pakistani community with an ambiguous status: the khawajasiras.
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Pakistani Man Kills Sisters In Suspected Dishonour Killing
Pakistani police are hunting a 29-year-old man who shot his two sisters dead in a suspected dishonour killing, officials said today, two days after a Pakistani filmmaker won an Oscar for a documentary on such murders.
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Pakistan Province Passes Landmark Law Protecting Women Against Violence
Lawmakers in Pakistan's largest province on Wednesday gave unprecedented protection to female victims of violence, in a bid to stem a rising tide of gender-related abuse in a country ranked as the world's third most dangerous place for women.
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Worries Grow as New Courts Hand Pakistan Army More Power
Weeks after Taliban gunmen massacred 134 pupils at an army-run school, Pakistani lawmakers significantly expanded the power of military courts by allowing them to try civilians accused of terrorism.
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Sex-Trafficked Pakistani Despairs of Justice, Shot in Legs
For the poor in Pakistan, justice is hard to obtain. For a young woman scarred by the sex trade, it is even harder.
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Pak Passes Law That Paves Way For Exiled Ex PM Nawaz Sharif's Return
Pakistan's national assembly has passed legislation limiting how long lawmakers can be disqualified from office, a state spokesman said Tuesday, paving the way for exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's return to politics.
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Pakistan Abolishes Colonial-Era Law On Suicide
Decriminalisation may help to get the true picture of the annual suicides in the country
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Pakistan Minister Resigns After Violent Islamist Protests: State Media
Pakistan's law minister Zahid Hamid has resigned, state media reported Monday, meeting a key demand of Islamist protesters who have clashed violently with security forces and blockaded the capital Islamabad for weeks.
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'Last Jew In Pakistan' Allowed To Profess His Religion
Pakistan has allowed a 29-year-old Jewish activist to change his religion from Islam to Judaism, an unusual move by authorities in the country. In normal circumstances, it would have been a normal practice to let Fishel Benkhald get religion of his choice in the column of religion for the forms filled to get national identity card and passport.
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Oppressed Transgenders In Pakistan In Pursuit Of A Reformation
Farzana draws all eyes when she dances, but today she is above all the voice of a Pakistani community with an ambiguous status: the khawajasiras.
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Pakistani Man Kills Sisters In Suspected Dishonour Killing
Pakistani police are hunting a 29-year-old man who shot his two sisters dead in a suspected dishonour killing, officials said today, two days after a Pakistani filmmaker won an Oscar for a documentary on such murders.
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Pakistan Province Passes Landmark Law Protecting Women Against Violence
Lawmakers in Pakistan's largest province on Wednesday gave unprecedented protection to female victims of violence, in a bid to stem a rising tide of gender-related abuse in a country ranked as the world's third most dangerous place for women.
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Worries Grow as New Courts Hand Pakistan Army More Power
Weeks after Taliban gunmen massacred 134 pupils at an army-run school, Pakistani lawmakers significantly expanded the power of military courts by allowing them to try civilians accused of terrorism.
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Sex-Trafficked Pakistani Despairs of Justice, Shot in Legs
For the poor in Pakistan, justice is hard to obtain. For a young woman scarred by the sex trade, it is even harder.
