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1/9/2022 10:03:15 AM
Pakistan rescuers were working Sunday to clear routes to a locked-in hill town sheltering thousands of tourists after 22 people died in vehicles trapped by heavy snow.
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1/8/2022 2:56:22 PM
Temperatures fell to minus 8 degrees Celsius (17.6 Fahrenheit) amid heavy snowfall at Pakistan's mountain resort town of Murree overnight, killing at least 22 people who were stuck in their vehicles, officials said Saturday.
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1/1/2022 7:57:45 PM
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and an armed criminal gang clashed on Saturday in a restive southeastern province, leaving three Guard members and “at least five bandits” dead, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
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12/19/2021 12:43:21 PM
Pakistan warned Sunday of "grave consequences" for the international community if Afghanistan's economic meltdown continued, urging world leaders to find ways to engage with the country's Taliban leaders to help prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.
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12/19/2021 9:37:11 AM
Envoys from 57 Islamic nations as well as observer delegations were meeting in Pakistan Sunday for a summit aimed at relieving the humanitarian crisis in neighbouring Afghanistan, while testing diplomatic ties with its new Taliban rulers.
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12/18/2021 4:20:17 PM
A powerful gas explosion in a sewage system in a southern Pakistani city killed at least 12 people and injured 11 others Saturday, police and a health official said.
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12/7/2021 1:30:46 PM
Pakistani Ambassador to Cairo Sajid Bilal has lauded the efforts made by Egyptian start-ups investing in Pakistan, voicing his country’s full support for further Egyptian investment in the Asian country.
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12/6/2021 2:36:46 PM
A Pakistani army helicopter crashed on Monday in bad weather in the Pakistan-administered section of disputed Kashmir, killing the two pilots on board, the military said.
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12/4/2021 12:39:58 PM
Police arrested 13 suspects and detained dozens of others in the lynching of a Sri Lankan employee at a sports equipment factory in eastern Pakistan, officials said Saturday.
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11/28/2021 10:50:55 AM
Militants targeted a Pakistani military post in the northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, killing two soldiers in a firefight, the army said in a statement.
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11/22/2021 12:03:23 PM
The International Monetary Fund said Monday that weeks of talks with Pakistan have produced a preliminary agreement toward reviving a $6 billion economic bailout for the Islamic nation.
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11/20/2021 4:32:56 PM
A prominent doctor was kidnapped and killed in northern Afghanistan, his family said Friday.
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11/18/2021 7:32:46 PM
They have terrorised religious minorities, incited riots against France, and mobilised thousands of fanatical supporters who have paralysed Pakistan with violent protests at a moment's notice.
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11/14/2021 3:20:12 PM
Pakistan has freed 20 Indian fishermen who spent four years in prison in the port city of Karachi for violating the country's territorial waters, an official said Sunday.
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11/13/2021 11:04:09 AM
A roadside bomb exploded in a tribal district that borders Afghanistan on Saturday, killing two police, authorities said.
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11/8/2021 9:54:40 PM
Pakistani authorities Monday announced a month-long cease-fire with a key militant group behind numerous attacks on security forces and civilians over the last 14 years.
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11/2/2021 1:47:06 PM
Authorities in Pakistan released hundreds of detained supporters of a banned Islamist party on Tuesday after a deal was struck with the group to end clashes that left seven policemen dead.
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11/1/2021 1:15:50 PM
A banned Pakistani Islamist party on Monday called off a march to the capital and ended its occupation of a major highway after reaching a deal with the government, following more than a week of clashes that left seven policemen dead.
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10/24/2021 5:02:42 PM
A radical Islamist party agreed Sunday to suspend for three days its march of thousands toward the capital Islamabad after Pakistan agreed to drop pending charges against the party's leader.
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10/23/2021 5:04:46 PM
Thousands of supporters of a banned radical Islamist party Saturday departed the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore, clashing for a second straight day with police who lobbed tear gas into the crowd, a party spokesman and witnesses said.
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