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The Election Commission of Pakistan today, notified several returned candidates for National and provincial assemblies. According to the notification, a list of seven returned candidates has been published for National Assembly, eighty three for Sind...

The Higher Education Commission has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Commission for Human Rights to jointly work on various academic activities on human rights area in the country. Under the MoU, both organizations will work to ...

Pakistan has called on the UN Human Rights Council to shift its attention to economic, social and cultural rights instead of disproportionately focusing on human rights situations in developing countries. Pakistan's permanent representative to the UN...

Deputy Chief of General Staff Turkish Armed Forces, General Irfan Ozsert called on Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf at the Naval Headquarters in Islamabad. During the meeting, matters of mutual interest including regional maritime secur...

The Election Commission of Pakistan has decided to constitute a high-level committee to investigate allegations leveled by the Rawalpindi Commissioner regarding the general elections. The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the Election...

Minister for Religious Affairs Aneeq Ahmed has expressed gratitude to Saudi's cooperation in Hajj arrangements for Pakistani pilgrims. He was talking to Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Nawaf bin Saeed Ahmad Al Maliky in Islamabad. Aneeq Ahmed said Paki...

The two-day meeting of Special Envoys on Afghanistan begins in Doha on Sunday. Pakistan's Special Representative on Afghanistan Ambassador Asif Durrani will lead the country's delegation at the conference. According to the Foreign Office, the meetin...