Pakistan
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At least 30 people have been killed and 60 are injured after a train derailed in Pakistan. The incident took place near the town of Nawabshah in the southern Sindh province, officials have said. The Hazara Express was travelling from Karachi to Rawalpindi when its 10 carriages went off the track, they added. Railway minister…
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Don’t trust every word you hear from celebrities! Malala Yousafzai received widespread recognition after she was shot in a school bus by a Taliban fighter. She was shifted to the UK for treatment after which, she survived. Later on, she became an activist and worked for promoting and spreading education to different sections and different…
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Khan’s supporters have been preventing police from reaching his house in Lahore. A Pakistani court has extended a pause in the effort to arrest former premier Imran Khan, a sign of easing tension in the country’s cultural capital after clashes erupted this week when police tried to detain him. Lahore High Court ordered police to…
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As floods devastate the South Asian country, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Pakistan to seek debt relief from its close partner China. Blinken promised Pakistan strong U.S. support as it recovers from floods that submerged one-third of the country, an area the size of the United Kingdom. “We send a straightforward message. We…
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Hundreds of volunteers joined hands on Saturday to pack thousands of urgent relief kits and food supplies for people affected by the devastating floods in Pakistan. Emiratis, residents, children and people of determination came together at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, Dubai Expo City and Expo Centre in Sharjah between 9am and 1pm, in a nationwide volunteering…
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Parts of Pakistan seemed “like a sea”, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday, after visiting some of the flood-hit areas that cover as much as a third of the South Asian nation, where 18 more deaths took the toll from days of rain to 1,343. As many as 33 million of a population of…
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Thursday that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) did not trust Pakistan because the previous government had gone back on its agreement with the institution. Addressing a meeting of his party’s senators in Islamabad, the prime minister said the PTI-led government should not have agreed to the terms of the…
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Bill Gates has been conferred with Hilal-e-Pakistan on Thursday. President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Alvi conferred the Hilal-e-Pakistan award to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates for his efforts in eradicating polio from the country. The ceremony to honour the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was held at the President’s House in Islamabad. The…
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Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has said the United States government will “sooner or later” have to recognise the Taliban, which now rules Afghanistan. In a televised interview with the Turkish-state affiliated TRT World, Khan said on Saturday the US is in a state of “shock and confusion” after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan on…
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Pakistan’s effort to get the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan recognized at the global platform was shattered to dust after United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) refused Taliban representative to address its session, instead it invited the representative of the ousted Ashraf Ghani Government. The world community may continue to deny any recognition and representation to the…
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Leaders around the world welcomed news of a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas early Friday after days of hostilities killed at least 250 people, including some 70 children. After 11 days of the worst fighting in the region since 2014, global leaders called for both sides to resolve the decades-long conflict and to build a…
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A domestic Pakistan International Airlines flight with at least 98 people on board crashed Friday shortly after 2 p.m. local time near its destination in the southern port city of Karachi, Abdul Sattar Kokhar, a spokesman for the country’s civil aviation authority, told the Associated Press. Pakistan’s civil aviation authority said the plane carried 91 passengers and a crew…
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Muhimman proudly writes his name slowly, carefully, one letter at a time, grinning broadly as he finishes. He’s just 11 years old and was a good student who had dreams of being a doctor. School frightens him now. Earlier this year, a cleric at the religious school he faithfully attended in the southern Punjab town…
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Talks with the Taliban are set to resume on Doha, the Qatar capital. Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, arrived in Doha on Friday night. “Just got to #Doha to resume talks with the Taliban. We are pursuing a #peace agreement not a withdrawal agreement; a peace agreement that enables withdrawal,” Khalilzad tweeted…
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A temporary closure of air space over Pakistan snarled air traffic Thursday, especially between Asia and Europe, though some airlines adjusted by rerouting their flights. In Bangkok, an important and busy hub for transcontinental flights, thousands of travelers were stranded. The closure of a main route for many flights to the Middle East and Europe…
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Pakistani police say they are investigating whether a Baluch separatist commander suspected of orchestrating a suicide attack against the Chinese Consulate in Karachi is sheltering in India. Pakistani security forces say they killed three suicide attackers trying to carry out the November 23 attack before they were able to enter the consulate building. But…
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