The driver lost control at high speed, veering off a bridge into the icy Indus river in northern Pakistan, according to local reports. At least 14 people have been confirmed killed and many more missing and presumed dead after a bus crashed into the Indus river in northern Pakistan, according to local authorities. The driver […]
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CNN — A suicide bombing at a train station in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday killed at least 25 people, as a separatist militant group in the region said it carried out the attack. Another 53 people were injured in the attack in the city of Quetta, Commissioner Hamza Shafqaat said in a statement. “Explosion at
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says perpetrators of attack ‘should be identified and given exemplary punishment’. A bomb blast near a police office in southwestern Pakistan has killed at least two children and injured 16 people, authorities have said. Seven policemen were among those wounded when the remote-controlled bomb attached to a motorcycle detonated in Pishin
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The dramatic surroundings of Hingol National Park in Balochistan province are the setting for Pakistan’s largest Hindu celebration, Hinglaj Yatra, which started on Friday and ends on Sunday. Muslim-majority Pakistan is home to 4.4 million Hindus, just 2.14 percent of the population, and the ancient cave temple of Hinglaj Mata is one of the few
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Police said three people were wounded in port city of Karachi but bomber and accomplice died. A suicide bomber has detonated his explosive-laden vest near a van carrying Japanese autoworkers in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, police said, injuring three bystanders. The van was heading to an industrial area where the five Japanese nationals
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Afghanistan says the move is illegal, but Pakistan insists it’s for security reasons. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans are being forced to leave Pakistan as part of a government crackdown. Many have lived there for decades and consider it their home. But the Pakistani government blames Afghans for a surge in attacks by armed groups.
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Passengers were en route to a pilgrimage site in Balochistan when the crash took place during Eid al-Fitr. At least 17 pilgrims have been killed and 41 injured after their vehicle crashed while travelling to a shrine in southwestern Pakistan, officials said. The accident took place at about 10pm (17:00 GMT) on Wednesday in the
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The majority of deaths reported in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. At least 29 people have been killed and 50 others injured due to heavy rains that swept Pakistan in the past 48 hours, causing several houses to collapse and landslides to block roads, particularly in the northwest. At least 23 rain-related deaths were
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Amid West’s Avdiivka Panic, Jaishankar’s Pakistan Weapons Example, Says ‘Russia Never Hurt India’ Hindustan Times ‘Western countries long preferred to supply Pakistan, not India’: S. Jaishankar reasserts defence cooperation with Russia The Hindu “Russia Has Never Hurt Our Interests”: S Jaishankar To German Daily NDTV ‘Russia never hurt India’s interests, Moscow-New Delhi relations were always stable’: Jaishankar The Indian
It is winter in Pakistan, and that means weddings. Lots of weddings. During the cooler weather between November and February, millions of people attend weddings every week. Pakistanis living abroad come home from around the world for the season, packing airport arrival halls and five-star hotels. They even have a name for it: Decemberistan. “December
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