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Pakistan: Traders protest after alleged tyre damage during bazaar enforcem
Updated : 3 weeks ago IST
According to The Express Tribune, at least 13 vehicles, most belonging to shopkeepers, were allegedly targeted during the operation. Eyewitnesses claimed that district officials, accompanied by local police, punctured and severely damaged the tyres of cars parked outside shops.
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Campus fury after killing exposes governance failures in Pakistan
Updated : 4 weeks, 1 day ago IST
According to The Express Tribune, invigilators had already handed out question papers in several rooms when an announcement ordered the exams to be cancelled. Staff moved swiftly to gather the papers back, while anxiety spread among students aware that protests were swelling at the main entr
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Pakistan: Over 40 shops destroyed in massive blaze at Abbottabad
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
According to eyewitnesses, the fire that broke out on Saturday is believed to have started due to a short circuit in one of the shops and quickly spread across the market, which was stocked with winter merchandise such as used clothes, sweaters, shoes, and bags.
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Gilgit-Baltistan faces landslides due to destruction of local ecosystem
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
According to the accounts of the residents, the flooding, which started on Saturday at midnight, continues and has damaged many critical water supply lines.
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PoK: Major unattended forest fires continue to create environmental hazard
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The forest fire has been spreading over large areas and remains unattended, turning hundreds of tonnes of priceless olive wood into ash creating smoke.
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Pak: Hindu woman in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Buner eyes seat in general electi
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Saveera Parkash, a 2022 graduate of Abbottabad International Medical College, serves as the general secretary of the PPP women's wing in Buner. Expressing her commitment to the welfare of the community, she highlighted her desire to work for the betterment of women, ensuring a safe environme
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Pakistan: Nine members of family killed after fire erupts at house in KP's
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Nine members of a family died after their house caught fire in Tarhairi village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Abbottabad district on Sunday.
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Asad Qaiser re-arrested in another case
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
As per details, police have arrested former Speaker of National Assembly Asad Qaiser in a vandalism case and took him to Charsadda police station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under strict security measures. Hours before being re-arrested, the anti-corruption court in Abbottabad on Thursday granted
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Pakistan: Imran Khan's nephew Hassan Niazi arrested
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Days after Pakistan's Joint Investigation Team summoned Imran Khan's sisters, his nephew Hassan Niazi has been apprehended in Abbottabad city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday night, reported Daily Pakistan.
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Pakistan: Chinese national arrested for blasphemy denies allegations in co
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The Chinese national, who works as head of heavy transport at a major hydropower project, was accused on April 15 of insulting Prophet Muhammad for allegedly urging workers to speed up their pace of work as they took a prayer break, Al Jazeera reported.
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Chinese workers unsafe in Pakistan amid blasphemy accusations
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
An unnamed Chinese national, working on the Dasu Hydropower Project in the north was on April 17 taken into protective custody and flown out to safer Abbottabad after Pakistani workers on the project accused him of blasphemy.
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Pakistan: Chinese national arrested on blasphemy charges airlifted to Abbo
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in the country as even rumours of sacrilegious remarks can incite lynch mobs and deadly violence.
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