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Pakistan Stocks Get MSCI Boost - Wall Street Journal Thu, 16 Jun 2016 23:49:48 GMT

Wall Street Journal
Pakistan Stocks Get MSCI Boost
Wall Street Journal
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Despite its stock market being one-hundredth the size of mainland China's, Pakistan has managed to qualify for the popular MSCI Emerging Markets Index while its larger Asian neighbor has been left out in the cold. The Pakistan ...
Why Pakistan got MSCI's Emerging Markets Index approval and China didn'tCNBC
Govt expects $475m inflow as Pakistan's index upgradedThe Express Tribune
How Do you Define "Emerging"? Pakistan Counts The WaysBarron's (blog)
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Pakistan Wants to Send 1.5 Million Refugees Back in U.S. Spat - Bloomberg Thu, 16 Jun 2016 23:24:45 GMT

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Pakistan Wants to Send 1.5 Million Refugees Back in U.S. Spat
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More than three decades after fleeing Afghanistan, refugee Noor Said struggles to feed his family of eight on less than the $3 per day he earns weaving fabric in northwest Pakistan. Now he's got an even bigger worry: Being forced back amid the worst ...

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Truck queues back up after fighting closes Afghan-Pakistan border - Reuters Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:02:00 GMT

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Truck queues back up after fighting closes Afghan-Pakistan border
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Four people were killed in the fighting on Sunday, an escalation of the dispute over Pakistan's plan to build a barrier at the crossing to stop Islamist militants coming in from Afghanistan. That plan has angered Afghanistan which rejects the colonial ...
Afghans ready to fight Pakistan as tensions mountStars and Stripes
Coalition Concerned Over Afghanistan-Pakistan Border ClashesVoice of America
Pakistan's Crippling Strategic Isolation Is Its Own FaultThe National Interest Online
ABC News -Firstpost -DunyaNews Pakistan
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Pakistani MQM linked to 'dozens of UK bank accounts' - BBC News Thu, 16 Jun 2016 23:44:02 GMT

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Pakistani MQM linked to 'dozens of UK bank accounts'
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UK police documents obtained by the BBC list more than 70 London bank accounts related to a Pakistani party being investigated for money-laundering. Twenty-six are in the name of MQM leader Altaf Hussain. UK-based party officials are waiting to hear if ...

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House Votes Down Amendment To Ban Financial Assistance To Pakistan - Daily Caller Thu, 16 Jun 2016 21:23:14 GMT

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House Votes Down Amendment To Ban Financial Assistance To Pakistan
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The House overwhelmingly rejected an amendment attached to the 2017 defense appropriations bill banning the United States from appropriating funds made available in the act to Pakistan in an 84- 336 vote Thursday. California Republican Rep.
US House rejects amendments to cut CSF for PakistanThe News International

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How Pakistan's military uses media for image making - Deutsche Welle Thu, 16 Jun 2016 12:35:11 GMT

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How Pakistan's military uses media for image making
Deutsche Welle
Prominent Pakistani rights activist Asma Jahangir has raised some pertinent questions about the role of the Pakistani military's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) department. The veteran activist believes that like all other media-related ...

Pakistan woman arrested over 'acid attack' on man - BBC News Thu, 16 Jun 2016 13:43:56 GMT

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Pakistan woman arrested over 'acid attack' on man
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A woman in Pakistan has been arrested after allegedly throwing acid on a man who had refused to marry her. Officials say Momel Mai was in a long-term relationship with Sadaqat Ali, but was angry that he would not marry her. Ms Mai says she acted in ...

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Border guard killed in Pakistan-Afghanistan clashes - Aljazeera.com Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:57:18 GMT

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Border guard killed in Pakistan-Afghanistan clashes
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At least one Afghan border guard has been killed in renewed clashes at a Pakistani-Afghan border crossing, according to an Afghan official. Wednesday's death was the third since Sunday night, when the violence erupted at the Torkham border crossing ...
Pakistan artillery fires at Afghan forces on Khyber Pass borderReuters
Pakistan's Foreign Policy Has Failed, Resulting in Regional IsolationThe Diplomat
More Gunfire at Pakistan-Afghan Border, Afghan Guard KilledABC News
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Nepal Route May Open For Surrendered Terrorists Returning from Pakistan - NDTV Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:31:39 GMT

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Nepal Route May Open For Surrendered Terrorists Returning from Pakistan
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After more than a two-year unwritten moratorium on the return of Kashmiri militants from Pakistan under the "Surrender and rehabilitation policy", the Center and Jammu and Kashmir government are working out the modalities to legalise the Nepal route.

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As India makes advances in defence and security, Pakistan fears possible arms race - Firstpost Thu, 16 Jun 2016 05:38:53 GMT

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As India makes advances in defence and security, Pakistan fears possible arms race
Firstpost
There could be multiple reasons for this — one being a joint China-Pakistan strategy to hype the negatives of rising India, another being of Pakistan deflecting from her own black deeds of promoting terror and shifting focus of the public from selling ...
International community should treat the nuclear status of India and Pakistan equally: AnalystsRadio Pakistan (press release)
India's entry into NSG will break India-Pakistan nuclear balance: Chinese official mediaEconomic Times
New Zealand softens stand on India's NSG membership bid as Pakistan lobbies for its applicationZee News
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