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Investors to gain access to Pakistan with imminent fund launch
The first Pakistan fund, the Melchior Selected Trust Pakistan Opportunities Fund (MSTPOF), will be launched on 19 June by Dalton Strategic Partnership LLP, advised by KASB Funds in Karachi. At launch, it is believed that MSTPOF will be the only Luxembourg UCITS Fund dedicated to investing in Pakistan equities. Dalton Strategic Partnership LLP believes that Pakistan warrants particular ...
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Pakistan holds news conference to say cant end power blackouts
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Two Pakistani ministers in charge of water and power explained what can be done to end power cuts of up to 20 hours a day in parts of the country enduring temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius and above - absolutely nothing, it seems, except raise prices. The power shortages have sparked violent protests and crippled key industries, costing hundreds of thousands of jobs in a ...
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Pakistan Gunmen attack polio team kill policeman
Local government administrator Faramosh Khan says the gunmen attacked the team on Monday in the town of Mamound in the Bajur tribal area, just as it had started a vaccination ...
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Protests and poll re-runs in Karachi
Protests have taken place in the city of Karachi in Pakistan, the day after a senior politician from the country’s third largest party was killed in a drive-by shooting. It is not clear who was behind the death of Zara Shahid ...
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I should have quit presidency to lead PPP in polls Zardari
Asif Zardari has said that he should have quit his position and led the Pakistan People's Party's campaign in order to ensure a better performance in the just concluded general election. Zardari made the remarks while interacting with a delegation of ...
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Pakistani health officials blamed for measles outbreak
Hundreds of Pakistani children have died of measles in the past year because Pakistani health officials have incompetently handled vaccination programs, according to a new government ...
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Imrans party wins revote in Karachi
Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf party won a revote in an upmarket constituency of Karachi on Sunday, unofficial results showed, a day after gunmen killed a party leader, setting the stage for protests and counter-protests. Khan blamed the killing ...
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Go slow on India Gen Kayani tells Sharif
The report said Kayani called on Sharif to congratulate him on the PML-N's success in the general election and informally talked "about all national security ...
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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai seeks Indian military aid amid Pakistan row
Kabul: Afghan President Hamid Karzai will seek increased military aid from India during a three-day visit starting Monday and will discuss recent cross-border clashes with Pakistan, India's archrival, an aide said.The comments follow a weekend report that said Afghanistan's ambassador to India had said the country needs India's help with "equipment and weapons to fight." ...
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Pakistan repeats vote despite killing
KARACHI, Pakistan -- Pakistan held a repeat election on Sunday in an upscale area of the southern city of Karachi that was plagued with allegations of vote-rigging, despite the shooting death of a senior member of former cricket star Imran Khan's ...
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Pakistanis cast votes after killing
NEW: Family and friends bury Zahra Shahid Hussain The Pakistani political leader was killed outside her home in Karachi The rival MQM party denies responsibility and condemns the killing A revote is held in parts of Karachi after vote-rigging ...
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Scotland clash with Pakistan abandoned
Scotland's second One-Day International with Pakistan was abandoned without a ball being bowled on Sunday.Misbah Ul Haq's men were due to play the second of two warm-up games ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy, which starts on June 6, but the game was called off after heavy rain forced the umpires to rule that no play would take place.The match had been due to start at 10.45 (British ...
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Pakistan army will be watching Sharifs cozying up to India
Nawaz Sharif, incoming prime minister and leader of political party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), smiles as he talks to journalists after visiting Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician and chairman of political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), outside the Shaukat Khanum hospital in Lahore May 14, ...
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First Pakistani woman atop Everest
Mirza Ali , who becomes the third and youngest Pakistani male to scale the mountain. Nepal mountaineering department official Tilak Padney said 35 foreigners accompanied by 29 Nepalese Sherpa guides reached the peak after climbing all night from the highest camp on South Col - the pass between Everest and a neighbouring ...
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Killing of Pakistani Politician Shakes New Voting Round
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Pakistan holds repeat poll despite killing of politician
KARACHI -- Under tight security, Pakistani officials Sunday held a repeat election in a district of violence-plagued Karachi, despite the killing of a senior politician in the city the day ...
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Funeral Held for Slain Pakistani Politician
Zahra Shahid Hussain was killed late Saturday after being approached by two unknown gunmen outside her home in Karachi. Pakistani politician and former cricket star Imran Khan, leader of Pakistan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, blamed Saturday's slaying of Zahra Shahid Hussain on the rival Muttahida Qaumi Movement party, or MQM. The party has denied any ...
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Color nostalgic scenes make Pakistans trucks rolling works of art
Pakistan -- Here, trucks rule the road. Whether by blaring their horns at pedestrians or blocking a narrow street with an awkward parking job, Karachi's trucks always get the right of way. But aside from being a nuisance to already harassed drivers, the trucks add a welcome splash of color to a remarkably bleak city. The images they bear, often whimsical, adorn every possible surface of ...
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Karachi Holds Repeat Vote Despite Killing
Voters in Pakistan's port city of Karachi have cast ballots in a partial rerun of the country's general election. The May 19 vote in the constituency known as NA-250 was held amid tight security, after a senior woman politician from Imran Khan's party was killed on the eve of the fresh voting. There was no official estimate of voter turnout. Khan's Pakistan Movement ...
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Gunmen Kill Khans Senior Official Ahead of Pakistan Recount
was shot dead on Saturday outside the gates of her home in Karachi, Pakistan, hours before several re-elections were scheduled to take place in the country on ...
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Nawaz Sharifs party gets majority in Pakistan parliament
Several independent candidates belonging to influential political families of Punjab and Sindh provinces are among those who have joined the PML-N, which emerged the single largest party in the May 11 general election by winning 124 ...
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Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio is endemic
Pakistan: Doctors wanted the family to pay a bribe to get into the Intensive Care Unit – corrupt system contribute to unnecessary ...
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Pakistan heads back to the polls senior politician killed
A bloody campaign season in which about 150 people were killed nationwide ended with the death of Zara Shahid Hussain, a top politician in Pakistan's Tehrik-i-Insaf party. On Sunday, some constituencies accused of vote-rigging voted ...
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Pakistan killing overshadows Karachi poll
Pakistani voters have cast their ballots in a partial re-run election in Karachi a day after a local political leader was gunned down outside her ...
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Senior Pakistani politician shot dead
Gunmen in Pakistan have killed a senior member of Imran Khan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party outside her home in Karachi. Zahra Shahid Hussain, 60, was shot twice in the head, outside her home in Karachi by two men on motorcycle, police said on ...
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Pakistan's darkest hour
What began as the normal monsoon season has turned into the greatest disaster, the greatest humanitarian crisis and the worst floods ever seen in the history of Pakistan. According to the UN, the disaster in Pakistan from 2010 floods is now worse than the 2005 earthquake in the country and the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia combined.
It is a catastrophe of mammoth proportions and the challenge faced by a centrally weak government is how to get food aid to the some 6 million in need of help and provide relief facilities to the 20 million people impacted by the disaster. Read more
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