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  Apparel manufacturers ask buyers not to renegotiate payment terms

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 02:58pm on April 08, 2020

  Nine textile and garment business associations in six countries including Bangladesh on Wednesday asked the global brands and buyers to honour the terms of readymade...

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  Doctors demanding virus safety equipment arrested in Pakistan

  Agence France-Presse . Quetta, Pakistan | Updated at 10:09pm on April 06, 2020

  More than 50 doctors protesting the lack of safety equipment as they battle the coronavirus were arrested Monday in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta,...

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  Pakistan searches for pilgrims from mass gathering

  Agence France-Presse . Lahore | Updated at 11:39pm on April 05, 2020

  Pakistani authorities are searching for tens of thousands of worshippers who attended an Islamic gathering in Lahore last month just as the novel coronavirus was...

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  Pakistan overturns convicted man’s death sentence

  Agence France-Presse . Karachi | Updated at 11:57pm on April 02, 2020

  A Pakistani court on Thursday overturned the death sentence for British-born militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been convicted in the 2002 killing of...

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  Low humidity increases possibility of spread of coronavirus

  Emran Hossain | Updated at 04:06pm on April 02, 2020

  The Bangladesh weather is far less humid now than normal with the minimum temperature hovering between 16C and 18C at places across the country which...

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  Indian cricketers face backlash for supporting Pakistan virus fund

  Agence France-Presse . New Delhi | Updated at 03:45pm on April 01, 2020

  Indian cricketers Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh have unleashed a social media storm by backing former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi’s foundation in its fight against...

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  Imran Khan greets Hasina on Independence Day of Bangladesh

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 07:13pm on March 26, 2020

  Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan greeted prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday on the occasion of Independence Day...

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  1947-71: Was Pakistan a ‘false’ state?

  by Afsan Chowdhury | Updated at 01:30am on March 26, 2020

  THE analytical problem troubling the history of both Pakistan at birth and Bangladesh in being is that it takes colonial interpretations and narratives of state...

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  Promises of national independence and politics of public deception

  Nurul Kabir | Updated at 01:18am on March 26, 2020

  BANGLADESH was born out of an extraordinary war of liberation, fought primarily by ordinary people, against the professionally trained occupation forces of neo-colonialist Pakistan 49...

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  Pakistan suspends civil servants for corona patient selfie

  Agence France-Presse . Karachi | Updated at 09:54pm on March 24, 2020

  Pakistan has suspended six civil servants after they posed for a selfie with a coronavirus patient in a quarantine centre, an official said Tuesday. The...