Shehryar Khan Afridi is a PTI-backed member of the National Assembly from Kohat who served as Minister of State for Interior and for Frontier Regions under Imran Khan and chaired Parliament's Kashmir committee. This…
Asad Ali Toor is an Islamabad journalist who reports on the Supreme Court and runs the YouTube channel Asad Toor Uncensored. He was assaulted in his home in 2021, jailed for three weeks in…
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Dr Moeed Yusuf is a scholar of war and peace who became Pakistan's National Security Adviser under Imran Khan and wrote the…
Aitzaz Hasan was a 15-year-old student from Hangu who died on 6 January 2014 while stopping a suicide bomber at the gate…
AlBaik, the fried chicken chain that millions of Pakistani pilgrims know from Makkah and Jeddah, signed an agreement in 2024 to come…
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