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10 dead in house fire in Pakistan's Kohistan
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The fire, which had reportedly broken out from a lantern, ripped through the multi-room wooden house of Mohammad Nawab and the adjacent cattle pen at about 4 am on Friday, according to The News International.
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Pakistan reports first polio case of 2023
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The case has been reported at a time when delegations of the French Agency for Development (FAD) and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) are in the country to analyse efforts to eradicate the disease.
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Pakistan: Protest at Torkham border ends after negotiations with tribals
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Vehicular traffic to and from Torkham was restored after remaining closed for several hours owing to a protest by the Khugakhel tribesmen in the Landi Kotal region of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa against the construction of a customs terminal at the border over their additional land with
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Seven tribals injured in rocket attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Azam Khan, a local official, said that the firing prompted Darra assistant commissioner Ashrafuddin to call the Khyber administration for halting the hostilities.
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Pakistan: PTM chief says demanding restoration of peace not treachery but
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The remarks by Pashteen came while he was addressing a gathering in Kabal tehsil in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Swat district on Monday. The gathering was organised to welcome Member of National Assembly (MNA) Ali Wazir, a PTM leader, after his release from prison.
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Pakistan: Two police officials killed, five injured in terrorist attacks o
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Two terrorists targeted Constable Dil Jan deployed on census duty in Lakki Marwat's Parwala village near Sadar police station.
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Pakistan: Tribesmen threaten to stop construction of customs terminal at T
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Scores of Tribesmen held a protest at the Bacha Khan Chowk on Sunday and raised slogans against the National Logistic Cell (NLC) for allegedly occupying their collective land in excess to the land acquisition agreement they had reached with the Federal Board of Revenue.
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Pak election commission postpones by-polls on 37 NA seats
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
By-polls were scheduled to be held on over 60 NA seats this month. ECP had said that all pending elections for the NA seats would be held this month.
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Pakistan Jamaat-i-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq calls for 'system overhaul'
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Jamaat-i-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq has blamed former and present rulers for bringing Pakistan "to the brink of disaster" and called for overhauling the system. Addressing a press conference on Saturday alongside Jamat-i-Islami Balochistan chief Maulana Abdul Haq Hashmi, Haq said unless the sys
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Pakistan: Traders hold shutter-down strike in response to prolonged, unsch
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Chairman of the Shinkiari Traders' Association Alamgir Shah, said: "Our businesses are already suffering from record inflation and are badly hit by the daylong load-shedding as well to our misery."
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BSF arrests 3rd intruder near India-Pakistan border in Punjab within two d
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
BSF said that the intruder crossed International Border and entered the Indian territory near Border Outpost Tirath in the Ferozpure sector.
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Pakistan: Cop guarding census team killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The incidents came amid a surge in terrorist activities across the country, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, since the TTP ended its ceasefire with the government in November.
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