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Tensions escalate between Pakistan's Punjab, Sindh provinces over water sh
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], May 14 (ANI): Acute water shortage along with a searing heatwave have sparked tensions between Sindh and Punjab in Pakistan over their share of the nation's water resources.
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Pakistan: Sindh, Punjab province squabble over water distribution
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 13 (ANI): Heated arguments broke out between Indus River System Authority (IRSA) members of Sindh and Punjab provinces over water distribution arrangement.
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Pakistan: Sindh, South Punjab face serious water scarcity
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], May 9 (ANI): Pakistan's Sindh and South Punjab are facing serious water scarcity that is affecting humans, agriculture, and livestock, media reports said, adding that people have complained about unequal distribution of water resources in the country.
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650 families receive assistance in Afghan provinces
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 8 (ANI/Xinhua): About 650 families received assistance in three Afghan provinces, the country's Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations said on Sunday.
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China replicating Xinjiang surveillance model in Shanghai
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Shanghai [China], May 7 (ANI): In the garb of tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using the Shanghai lockdown to implement the most draconian of its surveillance and authoritarian systems, the kinds of which were only seen in far-off provinces like Xinjiang t
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3 out of 4 Pakistan provinces suffer from acute food scarcity
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 6 (ANI): Pakistan's Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces are suffering from acute food shortages, according to a report released by the Global Report on Food Crises recently.
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20 Afghan civilians killed in floods
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 5 (ANI): Due to heavy rain and flooding in Afghanistan, about 20 civilians have lost their lives while 30 others were injured in over 10 provinces, informed the Afghan officials said on Wednesday.
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Taliban stops issuing driving licence to women in Kabul: Reports
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 5 (ANI): The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has stopped issuing driving licenses to women in Kabul and other provinces, media reports said.
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Dress restrictions tighten for Afghanistan girls' schools, says rights gro
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 28 (ANI): After seizing powering August the last year, the Taliban instituted a de facto ban on girls' secondary education, even though community pressure resulted in some girls' secondary schools reopening in about nine provinces.
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Taliban commander who tortured Afghans killed by Afghanistan resistance gr
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 23 (ANI): A Taliban commander, Qari Nusratullah who had been torturing people in various provinces of Afghanistan for several months has been killed in a targeted operation of the anti-Taliban group, National Liberation Front, local media reported.
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Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan have escalated tensions between two co
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 18 (ANI): The recent airstrikes by the Pakistan military in the Khost and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan, that killed a number of civilians, have escalated the already simmering tensions between the two countries, said a media report.
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Afghans in UK hold protest against Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 18 (ANI): A large number of Afghans living in the United Kingdom protested outside the Pakistan embassy in London against recent airstrikes in parts of Khost and Kunar provinces in Afghanistan.
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