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Poor roads, absence of snow-removal machinery caused traffic jam led to Pa
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], January 10 (ANI): Roads in and around the Murree hill station in Pakistan -- where 23 tourists died on Friday night while being stranded in their vehicles -- had not been repaired for the last two years that caused the snow accumulated in the crevices to harden causing the
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PML-N senior leader Ahsan Iqbal urges Government's allies to part ways wit
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 10 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Ahsan Iqbal on Sunday has urged the Government's allies to part ways with the ruling party and to bring about a vote of no-confidence to send the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) packing, reported local
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Pakistan's anti graft body asks NAB chief to attend Public Accounts Commit
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 9 (ANI): Pakistan's anti-graft body -- National Accountability Bureau -- has requested the National Assembly secretary to consider its earlier letter as withdrawn in which the bureau had said that its chairman Javed Iqbal will not attend a meeting of the Public
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Amid unrest, Pakistan claims it has set up help desk in Kazakhstan
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 9 (ANI): Amid civil unrest in Kazakhstan, Pakistan claimed that its Embassy in the country has established help desks in Nur-Sultan and Almaty to facilitate its citizens, local media reported on Sunday.
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10 killed, 13 injured in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa following heavy rai
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], January 9 (ANI): Ten people were killed and 13 were injured in separate incidents in different parts of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province due to the heavy rains, local media reported on Sunday.
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Earthquake strikes China's Qinghai, 9 injured
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Beijing [China], January 9 (ANI): A total of nine people have been injuried as of Sunday noon after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake jolted Menyuan County in northwest China's Qinghai province on Saturday, local media reported citing authorities.
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Olympic organizing body refutes reports of athlete with COVID-19 entering
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Beijing [China], January 9 (ANI): Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games on Sunday dismissed reports that a Spanish athlete who tested positive for COVID-19 visited downtown Beijing, local media reported.
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China's Xi'an reports 30 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Xi'an [China], January 9 (ANI): Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, reported 30 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Saturday, local media reported citing authorities as saying on Sunday.
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Closure of passport office in Kabul angers people
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 9 (ANI): The closure of the passport department in the capital city Kabul has once again sparked reactions from the people as they desperately seek the resumption of the process as quickly as possible, local media reported.
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Charity bakeries come up in Afghanistan's Kabul to feed residents amid war
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 9 (ANI): Charity bakeries have been opened in Afghanistan's capital by an aid group to feed residents amid warning of massive starvation in the country, reported local media.
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Pakistan bans entry to three tourists destinations after Murree snowfall t
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 9 (ANI): Pakistani authorities imposed a temporary ban on the entry of tourists in Shogran, Naran and Kaghan after the Murree snowfall tragedy which killed at least 23 people on Saturday, reported local media.
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Death toll in Pakistan's Murree snowfall surges to 23, thousands of strand
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 9 (ANI): The death toll from heavy snowfall in Pakistan's Murree has surged to 23 on Sunday as the forces evacuate over a thousand tourists from the affected area, reported local media.
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