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India to boycott Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference 2015 meeting

August 8, 2015

India has decided to boycott the 61st Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) which is scheduled to be held in Islamabad in September 2015. India took this extreme step in order to protest Pakistan’s (CPC 2015 host) unilateral decision of not inviting ..

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CERN formally confers its Associate Membership to Pakistan

August 3, 2015

Pakistan was formally conferred Associate Membership status by European Organisation for Nuclear Research (also known as CERN). The membership was granted after Pakistan formally completed the required internal ratification process. With this, Pakistan became the first Asian country to become ..

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Pakistan receives CSF tranche of $336 million dollars from US

July 30, 2015

Pakistan received 336 million dollars fund from the United States for its on-going role in combating a Taliban insurgency in its neighbouring country Afghanistan. The fund is provided by US under the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) programme which was started ..

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Pakistan's Mohammad Hafeez suspended from Bowling in International Cricket for 1 Year

July 18, 2015

International Cricket Council (ICC) has banned Pakistan’s all-rounder cricketer Mohammad Hafeez from bowling in international cricket for a period of one year. He was banned after he failed in ICC’s independent assessment on his suspected bowling action which violated permitted ..

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Acclaimed Pakistani Urdu novelist Abdullah Hussain passes away

July 6, 2015

Acclaimed Pakistani Urdu novelist Abdullah Hussain passed away in Lahore due to blood cancer. He was 84. He had received worldwide fame after the publication of his masterpiece Urdu novel and greatest contemporary works of Urdu fiction Udas Naslain in ..

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Zaheer Abbas appointed as ICC President

June 25, 2015

Former Pakistan cricket team captain Zaheer Abbas has been selected the new President of International Cricket Council (ICC) for one year term. He will be 13th President of ICC and succeeds Mustafa Kamal of Bangladesh who had resigned from the ..

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