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Security Alert – U.S. Embassy, Islamabad

(August 2, 2020) Location: Peshawar, Pakistan Event: Media reports indicate that there has been an increase in threats posted online against purported blasphemers and non-believers across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well as in the Peshawar area since the July 29 murder of a U.S. citizen who had been imprisoned since 2018 on blasphemy charges.  U.S. citizens ...
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By | 2 August, 2020 | Topics: Alert, News

Killing of Tahir Naseem

STATEMENT BY CALE BROWN, PRINCIPAL DEPUTY SPOKESPERSON Killing of Tahir Naseem July 30, 2020 We are shocked, saddened, and outraged that American citizen Tahir Naseem was killed yesterday inside a Pakistani courtroom.  Mr. Naseem had been lured to Pakistan from his home in Illinois by individuals who then used Pakistan’s blasphemy laws to entrap him.  ...
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By | 31 July, 2020 | Topics: News

America Provides an Additional 100 Ventilators to Pakistan to Support COVID-19 Recovery

Islamabad, July 30 – In partnership with Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority, the United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is working together to fight COVID-19 by contributing a second shipment of 100 respiratory ventilators. The ventilators arrived in Islamabad on July 28 and will be deployed in hospitals across Pakistan.  The ...
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By | 30 July, 2020 | Topics: News, Press Releases

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, U.S. Government inaugurate agriculture market in Bara to bring businesses under one roof

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, U.S. Government inaugurate agriculture market in Bara to bring businesses under one roof  Bara, July 24, 2020: The Deputy Commissioner of Khyber District Mahmood Aslam Wazir, along with USAID/Pakistan Director Julie Koenen, today inaugurated the Fruit and Livestock Market in Bara Tehsil of District Khyber, a merged district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.  The market ...
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By | 26 July, 2020 | Topics: Peshawar, Press Releases

UNIVERSITIES TRAIN YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS FROM THE MERGED DISTRICTS ONLINE WITH U.S. COOPERATION

July 24, 2020 For Immediate Release​, 17/2020       UNIVERSITIES TRAIN YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS FROM THE MERGED DISTRICTS ONLINE WITH U.S. COOPERATION Islamabad, July 24, 2020:  Bahria University and Islamic International University, in partnership with the U.S. Government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the local business ...
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By | 24 July, 2020 | Topics: News, Press Releases

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