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New Delhi announces the long delayed implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act, which sparked violent protests in 2019 when it was unveiled.

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Maritime Security Belt – 2024 is second time China has conducted joint drills in Indian Ocean following Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel and start of Gaza war.

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Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari administered the oath of office to ministers at the presidential office in Islamabad. Sharif previously held the position of PM from April 2022 to August 2023.

Critics fear changes to the 2019 citizenship law, combined with a proposed national register of citizens, can discriminate against the nation’s 200 million Muslims.

He is one of the most controversial political figures of the country who spent more than 10 years in jail before he first became president in 2008.

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A road trip along Pakistan’s 1,300km-long Karakoram Highway promises mind-bending mountain scenery and warm hospitality. But there’s instability here, and not just of the kind that leads to falling rocks.

Analysts say disputed Kashmir remains a sore issue, while new PM Sharif needs a ‘national consensus’ to change China-friendly Pakistan’s policy on India.

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Her uncle Shehbaz, also a previous PM, looks set to rule again after the family’s PML-N party agreed to govern in coalition with the Pakistan Peoples Party.

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Khan had three marriages, to British heiress Jemima Goldsmith, former BBC weathergirl Reham Khan and finally Bushra Bibi, a faith healer and mystic – but who did he call his ‘biggest mistake’?

Every year, poor fishermen in coastal India and Pakistan are arrested for venturing into the other nation’s maritime boundary lines while looking for better catch.

‘We converted the losers into winners, reversing margins of 70,000 votes in 13 national assembly seats,’ said Liaqat Ali Chattha, commissioner of the city of Rawalpindi, where the military has its headquarters.

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The Pakistan Peoples Party said it would support Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz to form a minority government, after polls returned a hung parliament.

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The threat of a wider conflict could encourage nations in the region to expand their fighter jet forces but China has challenges in eroding US dominance.

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While final election results give independent candidates backed by the party of jailed former PM Imran Khan the lead, it has urged supporters to protest over alleged rigging.

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Both Imran Khan, who is in jail, and three-time former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have declared victory, while the nation’s army chief has called on all parties to show ‘maturity and unity’.

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Imran Khan’s PTI party won the most seats but its biggest rivals – the PML-N party of ex-PM Nawaz Sharif, and ex-president Asif Ali Zardari’s PPP – have won enough seats between them to form a government.

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Nawaz Sharif said he would approach the Pakistan People’s Party of Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, as a coalition partner. Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League party has won 71 seats, while Imran Kahn’s PTI had 99.

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Sharif’s party won the most seats by a single party, but Khan supporters, who ran as independents instead of as a single bloc, won the most seats overall.

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