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Pakistan develops new war doctrine to counter India
The concluding ceremony of the war games named 'Azm-e-Nau 4' took place in Pakistan on Sunday. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said the war games were meant to operationalize new strategies against evolving threats in the country. According to a Pakistani daily, security officials said at the conclusion of four years of war gaming and exercises that Pakistani military has ...
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5.1 Magnitude Earthquake Jolts Northern Pakistan
Islamabad, June 17 (BNA) -- A quake measuring magnitude 5.1 on Richter Scale jolted Chitral and other parts of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday. The US Geological Survey said that the epicenter of the quake was in 269 kilometer in depth at Afghanistan-Tajikistan border. EM E M BNA 0738 GMT ...
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UN Secretary-General deplores deadly attacks targeting female students in Pakistan
WAM Islamabad, June 17th, 2013 (WAM) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned a series of deadly attacks targeting a bus, a hospital facility and a historic house in Pakistan, which killed at least 20 civilians, many of whom were female students. In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Mr. Ban said no cause justifies such violence, and noted with dismay that ...
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10-year-old Pakistan girl forced to marry to settle feud
Lahore: A 10-year-old girl was forcibly married to a 50-year-old man in Pakistan's Punjab province as part of a custom to resolve a feud, according to a media report today.The incident occurred at Malahanwala in Hafizabad district, where the young daughter of Muhammad Akram was married off under the custom of 'vani' to settle a dispute that began when he took a second wife.Akram ...
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Kashmir is not a part of India IPL media manager severs boundaries of the state
International Management Group (IMG), which has been managing the IPL since 2008 as part of a contract with the Board of Control for Cricket in India, has unilaterally altered the boundaries of Kashmir, an integral part of sovereign India.In a 76-page manual prepared for the television coverage of the recently-concluded IPL-6, IMG, whose international headquarters are based in London, has ...
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161 killed 652 injured in 56 bomb blasts across Pakistan in May
At least 161 people were killed and 652 others injured in 56 bomb blasts as the militants escalated their attacks at the rallies and offices of political parties across Pakistan during the month of May when the country held its general elections, according to official statistics. Among a total of 56 bomb attacks, four were of suicide nature that swept various areas of Pakistan at different ...
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Pakistani party formally nominates Nawaz Sharif for PM slot
ISLAMABAD, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Nawaz Sharif was on Saturday formally nominated as candidate for the position of Pakistan's prime minister by newly-elected members of the parliament, party sources said. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party won majority seats in the May 11 general elections and is in a strong position to form the government. Lawmakers of the PML-N, who ...
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Pakistani Held In $10 Million Real Estate Scam
A Pakistan native has been charged with bilking a wealthy Washington businessman out of $10 million, but it's the flashy way that prosecutors allege Haider Zafar spent the money that's also getting ...
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Foreign climbers arrive to conquer more peaks in Pakistan
The climbing season has already started in Pakistan with mountaineers attempting not just the 8,000 metres plus peaks but also those seldom summated to set new records. Austrian, French, British and Italian mountaineers started arriving in the country a week ago and some of them are on their way to try new challenges in the Karakorum Range. The Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP) said it was a good ...
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Pakistan condemns deaths of polio shot volunteers
The volunteers were killed Sunday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Vaccination programs have been targeted by Islamic militants Pakistan had 58 cases of polio in 2012 The CIA used a fake vaccine program to verify bin Laden's ...
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28 killed in Pakistan militant attack
NEW: Polio workers shot dead on Sunday in northwest Pakistan Female suicide bomber attacks bus with women on it, source tells CNN Pakistani official thinks "homegrown terrorists" may be responsible Officer dies in bombing of Pakistan founder's ...
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Woman bomber struck Quetta bus
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi suicide bomber carried out the devastating attack on a university bus carrying women and her male accomplice struck a hospital in Pakistan's southwestern city ...
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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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