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Pak Punjab province cancels all outdoor activities on August 14 over secur
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lahore, Aug. 10 (ANI): Pakistan's Punjab province has cancelled all outdoor activities planned for celebrating Independence Day in view of terror threats, officials said.
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Pakistan's Tharparkar region facing major human catastrophe
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Karachi, Aug.10 (ANI): More than 1,500 children under the age of five have died in the Tharparkar district of Pakistan's Sindh province since 2011, and as per reports, incidents of such deaths continue despite the provincial government announcing emergency plans to stop this trend in t
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Top Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan's military operation
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul, Aug. 10 (ANI): The Taliban's deputy shadow district governor Abdul Rahman and 13 other insurgents were reportedly killed in a military operation in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province on Wednesday.
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Pak's Punjab province CM orders polygraph tests of children recovered
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lahore, Aug. 9 (ANI): Pakistan's Punjab province Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday ordered polygraph tests of children recovered in kidnapping cases to verify the claims that they had in fact been kidnapped.
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1 dead, 14 injured in Afghanistan's Mazar-i-Sharif blast
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul, Aug. 9 (ANI): At least one civilian was killed and 14 others injured in a suicide attack in Mazar-i-Sharif city of Afghanistan's Balkh province on Tuesday.
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43 militants including ISIS surrender before Afghan forces in Nangarhar
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul, Aug. 8 (ANI): At least 43 militants, including loyalists of the ISIS terrorist group have surrendered to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in eastern Nangarhar province.
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40 Taliban insurgents killed in Afghan air strike
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul, Aug. 7 (ANI): At least 40 Taliban insurgents, including their commanders, were killed in an Afghan Air Force air strike in northern Kunduz province, said the officials from the 20th Pamir Army Division on Sunday.
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Afghan govt. committed to eliminating terrorists from Badakhshan: Abdullah
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka, Aug. 6 (ANI): Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Saturday said that terrorists will be eliminated from Badakhshan province in the near future, after he held a meeting with senior security officials.
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ISIS loyalists behead two men in Afghanistan: Reports
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul, Aug. 6 (ANI): ISIS loyalists have reportedly beheaded two men in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province for supporting the pro-government forces in their fight against the terror group.
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Balochistan govt. steps up security measures in province
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Quetta, Aug. 5 (ANI): The Balochistan government has urged law enforcement agencies to make a joint strategy to enhance its efforts against terrorists and other criminals, in a bid to improve security measures in the province.
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Pak helicopter crash-lands in Afghanistan, crew taken hostage by Taliban
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad, Aug.5 (ANI): A helicopter of Pakistan's Punjab province government crash-landed in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, following which the Taliban insurgents took the crew hostage before setting the helicopter on fire.
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Pak Govt's helicopter crash lands in Afghanistan; Taliban takes crew
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad/Kabul, Aug. 4 (ANI): A Pakistan's Punjab Government Mi-17 helicopter crash landed on Thursday in Afghanistan's Logar province, where Taliban militants took the crew hostage before setting the helicopter on fire.
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