After the opposition kept calling Prime Minister Imran Khan a leader “selected” by the country’s military, the deputy speaker banned the description. The debate is not over.
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Pakistan’s War on Polio Falters Amid Attacks on Health Workers and Mistrust
Pakistani officials had hoped that 2019 would be the year they declared victory against the disease. But attacks and mistrust of vaccinations make that goal unlikely.
China Blocks U.N. Vote to Blacklist Pakistani Militant Leader
It was the country’s fourth block in a decade on a Security Council effort to blacklist Masood Azhar, the founder of a militant group that nearly brought South Asia to the brink of war last month.
Pakistani Woman Accused of Blasphemy Will Remain Free, Supreme Court Rules
A three-member panel dismissed a challenge to the top court’s October decision to free Asia Bibi, a Christian farmworker who had spent eight years on death row.
Pakistani Christian Freed After Being Cleared in Blasphemy Case
Asia Bibi, who had been on death row for eight years, was released from a women’s prison in central Pakistan and flown to Islamabad late Wednesday.