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Pakistani troops kill 8 Islamist insurgents amid rising violence

Gbemi Banks — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 10:48:11 +0000

Pakistani troops have killed eight Islamist militants in a shoot-out in the volatile north-western border region, the military said. This is coming amid a surge in violence that Islamabad blames on terrorists operating from their hideouts in Afghanistan. The exchange of fire occurred in the district of South Waziristan, a mountainous area near the Afghan […]

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Pakistan issues last warning to undocumented immigrants to leave

Gbemi Banks — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 12:45:51 +0000

Pakistan on Thursday gave a last warning to all immigrants in the country illegally, including hundreds of thousands of Afghan nationals, to leave voluntarily before a Nov. 1 deadline. The Interim Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti said at a news conference on Thursday that Pakistan was determined to go ahead with a plan to remove all […]

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Pakistan launches search operation for kidnapped polio workers

Gbemi Banks — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 11:18:39 +0000

Officials on Wednesday said Pakistani authorities have launched a search operation to trace and recover two polio vaccination workers abducted by unknown armed men. A four-member polio monitoring team comprising a woman was kidnapped by unknown armed men in the Tank district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday. The kidnappers released the woman and driver […]

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Pakistan begins probe into cause of deadly train crash

Gbemi Banks — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 11:53:44 +0000

Pakistani investigators on Monday were set to begin an investigation to determine the cause of a deadly train crash, officials said. Several carriages of Hazara Express derailed in the southern province of Sindh on Sunday, killing 31 passengers and injuring nearly 100 others, Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafiq said. The minister said sabotage could not […]

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Sudan condemns attack on Pakistani embassy by rebel RSF

Gbemi Banks — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 06:20:18 +0000

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sudan has condemned in strong terms the attack on the Pakistani embassy in Khartoum by the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The condemnation is contained in a statement posted on the Ministry’s website by its Media Department. The ministry described the attack constituted as a flagrant violation of the […]

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Pakistan says 2 soldiers killed at border post with Iran

Gbemi Banks — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 11:25:12 +0000

At least two Pakistani soldiers were killed by terrorists at a check post along the border with Iran, the military said on Thursday. A group of terrorists attacked the border post in the Kech district of Balochistan, the military said. It said: “Security forces have launched an immediate sanitization operation in the area and are […]

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Court ruling on election deepens Pakistan’s political crisis

Gbemi Banks — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:18:37 +0000

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered authorities to hold key provincial elections in a ruling that could deepen the country’s current political crisis. A three-judge bench in the capital Islamabad overturned the decision of the country’s poll body to postpone elections in the province of Punjab until October due to security threats and a lack […]

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Pakistan launches its first digital census

Gbemi Banks — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 10:42:17 +0000

Pakistan’s first digital census began on Wednesday, aiming to gather demographic data on every single individual nationwide in an effort accompanied by tight security. Officials say no fewer than 121,000 enumerators wearing green jackets fanned out across the country to collect the data. Muhammad Sarwar Gondal, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics spokesperson who led the exercise, […]

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Pakistani Apex Court to supervise probe into death of journalist in Kenya

Gbemi Banks — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 12:57:16 +0000

Pakistan’s Supreme Court set up a panel of five judges on Tuesday to supervise an investigation into the death of a prominent journalist who was shot and killed in Kenya. Journalist Arshad Sharif, 50, was killed on Oct. 23 while travelling in a vehicle on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. Kenyan police […]

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Pakistan picks new army chief amid political turmoil

Gbemi Banks — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:08:43 +0000

Pakistan’s prime minister on Thursday appointed a new chief for the nation’s powerful army amid a period of political turmoil that has worsened the country’s ailing economy devastated by this year’s historic floods. General Asim Munir, who had previously led the country’s intelligence services, would replace outgoing army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa next week after […]

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Pakistan, China to work towards peace, progress – Pakistani PM

Gbemi Banks — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:57:52 +0000

Pakistan would work with China to promote a shared destiny of achievements and progress and foster peace and harmony in the region and the world at large. Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif said this in an interview with Xinhua on Thursday. Sharif began his first official visit to China on Tuesday, among the first […]

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Pakistan’s ex-PM Khan announces protest march for fresh elections

Gbemi Banks — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:01:10 +0000

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has announced a protest march to call for early elections would start on Friday. A move seen as a final push by the ousted leader to topple the government. “We are aiming at soft revolution,” Khan told reporters in the eastern city of Lahore late on Tuesday. Khan said […]

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Pakistan’s ex-Premier Khan disqualified from politics for corruption

Gbemi Banks — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 10:53:05 +0000

Pakistan’s Election Commission on Friday disqualified former Prime Minister Imran Khan from taking part in politics for corruption, in a decision likely to deepen the political crisis in the country. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) ruled in the capital Islamabad that Khan had stolen some of the expensive gifts he received from other […]

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Overturned oil tanker explodes, kills 153 in Pakistan

Freedom Reporter — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 17:47:13 +0000

An overturned oil tanker burst into flames in Pakistan on Sunday, killing 153 people who had rushed to the scene of the highway accident to gather leaking fuel, a hospital official said as the death toll continued to rise. Dr. Javed Iqbal at Bahawalpur’s Victoria Hospital in south Punjab said the latest deaths occurred at […]

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Pakistan shoots down Indian spy aircraft

Freedom Reporter — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 18:41:25 +0000

The Pakistan military said on Saturday that it shot down an Indian spy aircraft hours after Indian cross-border firing killed two Pakistani girls. “Indian Quad Copter shot down by Pakistan troops at Aagahi Post in Rak Chakri sector” near Rawlakot along theLine of Control (LoC), a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations said. The aircraft […]

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