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Pakistan: Activist Jibran Nasir slams state as Balochistan burns amid viol
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Activist Jibran Nasir slammed Pakistan's handling of Balochistan violence, accusing the state of denial and blame-shifting. He warned that repression and silencing critics block lasting peace, as kidnappings and disappearances continue to fuel fear and insecurity across the province.
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Pakistan's National Finance Commission stalls as key working groups remain
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Pakistan's National Finance Commission has stalled, with most working groups inactive and the second meeting delayed. Provinces and the centre differ over revenue sharing and reforms, raising concerns about further delays to the long-pending 11th NFC award meant to guide distribution of fede
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Pakistan: 4 dead, 28 injured as bus carrying wedding party overturns in Pu
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Four people, including a child, were killed and 28 others injured when a bus carrying wedding guests overturned after colliding with a truck in the Mandhali Mor area of Lodhran district in Pakistan's Punjab province, Dawn reported, citing officials.
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Pakistan: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa CM opposes Tirah operation, hints at Islamaba
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Chief Minister of Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Sohail Afridi, strongly opposed any proposed security operation in the region's Tirah Valley, alleging that the federal government was planning action without consultation and warning that his party could stage a sit-in in Islamabad,
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11 members of 'Myanmar criminal syndicate' executed in China
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
The Supreme People's Court (SPC) announced the executions on Thursday via its official WeChat account. The Wenzhou Intermediate People's Court in Zhejiang province carried out the sentences, handed down for a range of crimes including intentional homicide, intentional injury, illegal detenti
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Blast derails Jaffar Express in Sindh as Baloch Armed Group claims respons
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
An explosion struck the Jaffar Express in Pakistan's Sindh province on Monday, derailing four coaches of the train, officials said, after a Baloch armed outfit claimed responsibility for the assault, according to a report by The Balochistan Post (TBP).
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Balochistan 'turned into vast prison,' says BYC report documenting disappe
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
The report documents more than 1,200 cases of enforced disappearances and nearly 200 alleged extrajudicial killings across the province during the year.
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Pakistan: Afghan suicide bomber behind Dera Ismail Khan wedding attack
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
The attack occurred on Friday during a wedding ceremony in Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A building collapsed after the blast, according to local police official Muhammad Adnan, who said the structure was being used by members of a peace committee at the time of t
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Seven killed in suicide bombing attack at wedding ceremony in Pakistan
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
The attack occurred on Friday during a wedding ceremony in Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A building collapsed after the blast, according to local police official Muhammad Adnan, who said the structure was being used by members of a peace committee at the time of t
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5.1-magnitude earthquake strikes western Turkiye
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck the district of Sindirgi in Balikesir province, western Turkiye, at dawn today.
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7 killed, 82 missing after landslide in Indonesia
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Indonesia's National Disaster Management Agency announced today that seven people were killed and 82 others reported missing following a landslide in West Java province, amid reports of heavy rainfall in the area.
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J-K: NH44 remains closed for second day; snowfall paralyses life in Jammu
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
The incessant snowfall for the second consecutive night on Saturday in the famous hill resorts of Jammu province - Patnitop, Nathatop, Sanasar & Batote, besides Banihal, Gool and other reaches, has paralysed life in these areas.
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