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Swat Summer Festival planned to promote tourism in Pakistan
SAIDU SHARIF, Swat Valley, Pakistan - All arrangements have been finalized for the four-day Swat Summer Festival starting from June 20, says the civilian and military administration in Pakistan, as reported by the Dispatch News Desk (DND). Commissioner of the Malakand Division, Dr. Fakhar Alam, while addressing a press conference in Saidu Sharif, said the summer festival is being organized ...
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Pakistans new Attorney General seeks govts instructions on Musharraf treason trial
Islamabad, June 18 : The newly appointed attorney general of Pakistan is seeking written instructions from the federal government about the pending petitions seeking trial of former President Pervez ...
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Malala denounces cowardly attack on female students bus in Pakistan
Washington, June 18 : Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, has denounced an attack on a bus carrying female students in Quetta as ...
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Suicide bomber kills 29 at Pakistani funeral
People prepare to carry the dead bodies of their relatives, victims of suicide bombing, at a hospital morgue in Mardan, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 18, ...
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Syrian Complex Situation Forces Kerry to Delay Visit to Pakistan
Islamabad, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) The worsening of the situation in Syria forced U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to postopne his visit to Pakistan, diplomats who wished to remain anonymous told local press. Last week, Pakistani Foreign ministry's sources unofficially announced that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry would visit Islamabad before the end of the month to discuss with the ...
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Destruction Of Historic Building Sparks Debate About Pakistans History
fighting for a homeland in the vast, resource-rich region that borders Afghanistan and Iran. Others brushed it aside as the destruction of a colonial-era building favored by British administrators. They pointed out that it is more important to protect the restive province's beleaguered communities from terrorist violence rather than lament the loss of an historic building favored by ...
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Outrage as Pakistans Mount Vernon is destroyed
Pakistani firefighters extinguish a blaze which gutted a historical building in Ziarat, about 50 miles southeast of Quetta, on Saturday. The country's founding father Mohammad Ali Jinnah spent his last days in the building, which was declared a national monument following his death, one year after Pakistan's independence in ...
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Suicide Bombing Kills 27 in Pakistan
A suicide bomber has detonated explosives at a crowded funeral in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 27 people, including a provincial ...
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Bombing Kills 27 Including Provincial Pakistani Lawmaker
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber has blown himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 27 people. Pakistani authorities said that among those killed was Imran Khan Mohmand, a newly elected provincial legislator who may have been the target of the attack. The blast in Shergarh village of the Mardan district was the worst ...
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Analysis Bridging the development-versus-pollution gap in Pakistan
studies by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, up to 40 percent of all patients in Pakistani hospitals are suffering from water-borne diseases due to unsafe drinking water. More than 250,000 Pakistani children are killed annually by typhoid, dysentery, cholera and hepatitis. "When there is untreated sewage, it results in the groundwater being ...
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Death toll at Pakistan funeral blast jumps to 20
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -; A police officer says the death toll from a bomb that ripped through a crowded funeral in northwest Pakistan has risen to 20 ...
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Bombing at Pakistani funeral kills 27
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -; A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 27 people. Among those killed was a newly-elected lawmaker who may have been the target, authorities ...
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Pakistan Determined to Stop U.S. Drone Attacks
Islamabad, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) Pakistan is working now on a new policy to stop the bombing of U.S. drones and have the firm hope that it will be done, asserted here today a close collaborator of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Drone attacks are a violation of national sovereignty and have a counterproductive effect on the campaign against terrorism, said Sartaj Aziz, advisor of the Head of ...
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Suicide bomber strikes during funeral in Pak 20 killed
At least 20 people including a provincial legislator were today killed and over 50 others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a funeral at Mardan in the troubled northwest Pakistan. About 100 people were at the funeral of a businessman in Shergarh area of Mardan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province this afternoon when the bomber detonated his explosive vest, police officials and witnesses ...
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Young Pakistani activist launches drive for safe education
New York, June 18 : A 15-year-old Pakistani girl targeted by assassins - Malala Yousafzai - is the first signatory of a new worldwide petition calling for urgent action to ensure the right of every child to safely attend school, launched Monday with the backing of the United Nations Special Envoy for ...
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Officials Bomb kills 12 in northwest Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A Pakistani spokesman says a bomb blast at a funeral in northwestern Pakistan has killed 12 people.The spokesman for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Shaukat Yousufzai, says the bombing in the city of Mardan on Tuesday also wounded 50 people.A police officer, Tahir Ayub, says a provincial lawmaker was among those wounded. Ayub says authorities are investigating whether the ...
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Paks Punjab govt allocates millions of rupees for Hafiz Saeeds Jamaat-ud-Dawa
2008 Mumbai attacks . Besides a grant-in-aid of over Rs 61 million for the JuD's centre known as 'Markaz-e-Taiba', the provincial government has allocated Rs 350 million for setting up a "Knowledge Park" at the centre and other development initiatives. Details of the allocations were presented in budget documents tabled in the Punjab assembly on Monday by the PML-N ...
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Pakistan hopeful of end to US drone strikes
A top aide of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that his country is hopeful of end to US drone strikes in the country and will raise the issue with US Secretary of State John Kerry during his visit to Pakistan next ...
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Pakistan PM gives go-ahead to raise power tariff
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday gave a go-ahead to raise power tariff during a high-level meeting on energy crisis in Islamabad. The tariff for electricity is likely to be increased from July 1. Moreover, the meeting also decided to immediately start communications with neighbouring states, including India, for energy import. A plan aimed at resolving the circular debt issue ...
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Pakistan says Kerry visit delayed because of Syria
This file photo shows US Secretary of State John Kerry during an event in Washington, DC, on June 3, 2013. Kerry has been forced to delay a visit to Pakistan because of the worsening crisis in Syria, Pakistani officials said on ...
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Concerns over online Quran teaching as ex-Pakistan militants instruct pupils
Teaching to read the Qur'an text online is booming, with many firms setting up as online instructors, prompting fears about radicalisation. Photograph: Rahmat ...
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Pakistan-Azerbaijan Youth Association chair visits Ireli
Editor in chief of The Diplomatic Insight & Media Diplomacy magazine, Chairman of the Pakistan-Azerbaijan Youth Association Muhammad Asif Noor has visited Ireli Youth Centre. The guest first familiarized with the centre and its projects, talked to the youth and then met with Ireli Public Union's Chairman Rauf Mardiyev and Secretary General Narmin Mammadova. The meeting discussed ...
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Farooq Abdullah objects to IPL management companys faux pas on Kashmir says will complain to BCCI
Senior Union Minister Farooq Abdullah on Monday strongly objected to a prominent sports management company unilaterally altering the map of Jammu and Kashmir in an IPL-6 TV production manual.Abdullah, who is also president of the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association, said he would ask the BCCI president to have the map corrected immediately, so that such things don't recur. "It's ...
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Pakistans Punjab government allocates mlns of rupees for JuD centre
Jamaat-ud-Dawah , considered a front for the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba. Besides a grant-in-aid of over Rs 61 million for the JuD centre known as 'Markaz-e-Taiba', the provincial government has allocated Rs 350 million for setting up a 'Knowledge Park' at the centre and other development initiatives. Details of the allocations were presented in budget documents tabled in the ...
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Pakistan's darkest hour
What began as the normal monsoon season has turned into the greatest disaster, the greatest humanitarian crisis and the worst floods ever seen in the history of Pakistan. According to the UN, the disaster in Pakistan from 2010 floods is now worse than the 2005 earthquake in the country and the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia combined.
It is a catastrophe of mammoth proportions and the challenge faced by a centrally weak government is how to get food aid to the some 6 million in need of help and provide relief facilities to the 20 million people impacted by the disaster. Read more
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