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Pakistan bans 'bed scenes' and 'intimate moments' from TV
Pakistani dramas and soap operas, many of which seek to challenge the deeply patriarchal country's conservative taboos, are immensely popular.
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Proteas take lead over Pakistan at end of Day 2
Together with Temba Bavuma, Faf du Plessis made up one half of the bedrock of the South African innings.
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South Africa and Pakistan face selection posers
South Africa's six-wicket win in the first Test at Centurion was set up by the bowling of Duanne Olivier, who had match figures of 11 for 96.
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Ousted Pakistan PM Sharif jailed for seven years for graft - Pakistan TV
A Pakistani anti-corruption court on Monday jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for seven years on graft charges he says were politically motivated.
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Pakistan plans to relax visa policy in bid to revive tourism
Potentially restarting tourism has been one of the most talked about parts of new Prime Minister Imran Khan’s push to create an Islamic welfare state in Pakistan.
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BA to resume Pakistan flights decade after hotel bombing
It will be the first Western carrier to restart flying to Pakistan, where a new airport in the capital has helped ease congestion and concerns about air travel security, since its pullout in 2008.
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Pakistani held as teacher stabbed to death at French university
The 66-year-old teacher was stabbed repeatedly in front of the private Leonard-de-Vinci university in Courbevoie, northwest of Paris.
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IS claims deadly attack on tribal region in Pakistan
The blast happened during a regular Friday bazaar in Kalaya, a town in a Shiite-dominated area of Orakzai tribal district.
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Gunmen attack China's consulate in Pakistan as violence flares across region
The attack, claimed by separatist insurgents from the impoverished southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan, killed four people, including two police.
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Blast at market in northwest Pakistan kills at least 25
The blast occurred at around the same time that three attackers tried to storm the Chinese consulate in the southern city of Karachi. Two policemen and the three attackers were killed.
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China 'strongly condemns' Pakistan consular attack
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said all consular staff and their families were safe following the shooting, which was claimed by a separatist group.
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5 freed Iran troops flown home from Pakistan
The Pakistani foreign ministry announced on 15 November that police and troops had secured the release of five of the captives and were still trying to free the others.
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Pakistan summons US envoy to protest Trump's criticism
The friction threatens to further worsen already fragile relations between Islamabad and Washington.
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Pakistani Christian woman freed after blasphemy death sentence reversed
The release of Asia Bibi, a mother of five, prompted immediate anger from a hard-line Islamist party that has threatened to paralyse daily life countrywide with street protests if her acquittal is not reversed.
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Pakistan's Azhar Ali retires from one-day internationals
The 33-year-old averaged 36.90 with the bat in his 53 one-day appearances for Pakistan, the last of which was against New Zealand in Dunedin in January.
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Saudis offer Pakistan $6bn rescue package to ease economic crisis
Finance Minister Asad Umar this month requested talks with the IMF for the country’s second bailout in five years.
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Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan to attend controversial Saudi conference
The decision comes a day after US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and senior ministers from Europe announced plans to skip the conference.
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Pakistan's Azhar sees lighter side of brain-fade run-out
Azhar and his batting partner Asad Shafiq suffered a collective brain-fade only six runs into their partnership at Abu Dhabi on Thursday, convening for a mid-pitch chat after Azhar sent a shot racing past gully toward the boundary.
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Pakistan hangs child killer after death sparked riots
Chilling CCTV footage broadcast on television following the killing purportedly showed the young girl, Zainab Fatima Ameen, walking hand-in-hand with an unidentified man, in what may have been her last moments.
