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Taliban announces 4-day polio vaccination campaign across 23 provinces of
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The campaign, which got underway on May 15, intends to immunize 6.4 million kids in 23 provinces of Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan: FAO warns of severe locust outbreak across 8 provinces
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has issued a warning about a widespread Moroccan locust outbreak across eight provinces in Afghanistan's wheat-growing north and northeast region, Khaama Press reported.
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Chinese delegation to visit Gilgit-Baltistan next week
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
15 members of the delegation from China, basically Chinese buyers hailing from Xinjiang, Zhejiang and Shandong provinces as well as the Weifang area will arrive in the region on May 15, Qadir told APP.
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Destroyed 4,000 hectares of poppy fields in Afghanistan, claims Taliban
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Head of the Taliban-led MoI, Hasibullah Ahmadi, said the process of destroying poppy fields is ongoing in Badakhshan, Kunduz, Takhar and Faryab provinces.
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Imran Khan reiterates 'dissolving assemblies before May 14' for same day e
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Khan has been mounting pressure on the government to announce general elections since his ouster from office in April, announced last month that the PTI would dissolve the provincial assemblies in the two provinces where it is in power, KP and Punjab.
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Unprecedented shortage of wheat may lead to anarchy in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The Pakistani media is filled with tragic stories of chaos and stampedes in markets coming from several areas covering all the provinces. As per a recent report in the prominent Pakistani newspaper 'The Express Tribune', thousands flock to the markets and spend hours every day for the subsid
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Gilgit-Baltistan's exploitation leads to uncontrollable street protests: R
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Locals are enraged because GB-based power plants supply electricity to all provinces in Pakistan, thousands of kilometres away; but GB does not see the light of a glowing bulb.
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Gen Bajwa advised me to dissolve assemblies: Imran Khan
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
During a meeting with General Bajwa where President Arif Alvi was also present, the former army chief suggested that if the PTI chief sought elections, he should first dissolve his governments in the two provinces, Khan said in a recent interview with a private news channel on Sunday, The Ne
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Afghanistan: Taliban forbids women from taking part in Eid celebrations in
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
In another harsh restriction, the Taliban has prohibited women from attending Eid celebrations in two provinces of Afghanistan, Khaama Press reported.
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Flash floods, quakes killed 29 across 31 provinces last month in Afghanist
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
At least 29 people were killed across 31 provinces in Afghanistan due to flash floods and earthquakes in the past month, Khaama Press reported citing Shafiullah Rahimi, a spokesperson for the Taliban-led Ministry of Natural Disaster Management.
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Gas, chemical attacks in Iran: Dozens of schoolgirls hospitalized
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
According to the reports received by VOA and videos posted on social media, at least five schools in different provinces of Iran were attacked with chemical gases. The serial poisonings of mostly female students began on November 30, 2022, in the city of Qom and have continued to spread acro
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Pakistan National Assembly rejects motion seeking supplementary sum of Rs
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The Pakistan Supreme Court last week directed the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to "allocate and release" Rs 21 bn by April 17 for elections in two provinces from the Federal Consolidated Fund (FCF) "lying under its control and management".
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