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Video Senior female politician killed in Pakistan
Anguished relatives and friends react to the news that Zahra Shaid Hussain, a politician in the PTI party was gunned down by unknown assailants. Deborah Gembara ...
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Pakistani Politician Zara Hussain Is Killed
Former cricket star Imran Khan has blamed a UK-based political rival and the British government after a female party colleague was shot dead. Zara Hussain, 59, was gunned down outside her home in the violence-plagued city of Karachi. She was vice president of the women's wing of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Sindh province. The killing came on the eve of a partial ...
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Pakistans Imran blames rival for killing party figure
KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistani politician Imran Khan Sunday blamed a rival political leader for the killing of a senior member of his party, who was gunned down outside her home in the violence-plagued city of Karachi.The killing of Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president of the women's wing of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Sindh province, came on the eve of a partial re-run in the ...
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Gunmen kill senior female Pakistani politician
By By Katharine Houreld, Reuters ISLAMABAD - Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition parties. It was not immediately clear who killed Zohra Shahid Hussain, a senior member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. The PTI ...
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Gunman kills senior member of Imran Khans political party as row over Pakistan election vote rigging continues
Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. She was the vice president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in Sindh. No one has claimed responsibility for the killing. Mr Khan's party has claimed it was the victim of vote rigging in several areas of ...
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Pakistan throws down gauntlet at the US
By M K Bhadrakumar The return of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to power in Pakistan after a hiatus of 14 years electrifies the regional politics of South Asia. Signals passing back and forth between New Delhi and Lahore underscore a subtle change having already appeared in the political vibes. Typically, even as the results from the previous day's parliamentary poll were pouring ...
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Take gradual initiatives Kayani tells Nawaz on ties with India
The report said Kayani called on Sharif to congratulate him on the PML-N's success in the general election and informally talked "about all national security ...
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Pakistan politician shot dead in Karachi
Gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party. Zahra Shahid Hussain was shot dead outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. Ms Hussain was the vice president of former cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (Movement for Justice) in Sindh. No one has claimed responsibility for the killing. ...
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PTI Leader Gunned Down in Karachi
Islamabad, May 19 (BNA) - Just hours before re-elections in some polling stations of NA-250 were due to begin, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf central vice president was shot dead outside her house in Karachi. Zara Shahid Hussain was shot dead outside her house in Defence Phase IV late on Saturday evening, according to Pakistan's (Dunya News). The motive of the attack could not be immediately ...
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Leading Pakistani politician killed
The body of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior female politician from cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, is carried at a hospital in Karachi, in this still image taken from video footage. Photograph: Reuters ...
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Alia Bhatts encounters on a Kashmir Highway
Aru valley in Kashmir has a whiff of Bollywood in its air these days. Alia Bhatt is busy shooting for Imtiaz Ali's new film, Highway, at the picturesque locale.Highway is a road movie that will see Alia share screen space with Randeep Hooda. The film has been extensively shot across five other states besides Kashmir.The Kashmir leg of shooting is in fact the last stint for the unit. Imtiaz ...
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Upmarket Pakistan district votes again as Imran Khan decries killing
The body of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior female politician from cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, is carried at a hospital in Karachi, in this still image taken from video footage, May 18, 2013. Hussain was shot and killed by unidentified assailants on Saturday, according to ...
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Pakistan holds re-polling after election fraud claims
The Election Commission of Pakistan had ordered re-polling after political parties alleged that election officials had been forcibly stopped from reaching the polling stations on May 11 polling ...
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Zara Shahid Hussain Senior Member Of Pakistan Party Led By Imran Khan Killed By Gunmen
ISLAMABAD, May 19 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition ...
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Chinese held in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir over Quran abuse
Muzaffarabad (Pakistan): A Chinese man working on an energy project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) was being held today after hundreds of protesters attacked his company offices over the alleged desecration of a Quran, officials said.Lee Ping, administration manager of a Chinese consortium building the Neelum Jhelum Hydropower project, was accused by co-Pakistani workers of throwing the ...
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Pakistan politician from Khan party gunned down
KARACHI (AFP) - Gunmen have killed a Pakistani politician from Imran Khan's party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of a partial re-run of May 11 polls that were marked by more than 150 killings.Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president of the women's wing of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the province of Sindh, was targeted by three gunmen on a motorcycle outside her home in ...
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Hobbled once-grand railways reflect Pakistan’s decline
RUK, Pakistan - Resplendent in his gleaming white uniform and peaked cap, jacket buttons tugging his plump girth, the stationmaster stood at the platform, waiting for a train that would never come. "Cutbacks," Nisar Ahmed Abro said with a resigned shrug. Ruk Station, in the center of Pakistan, is a dollhouse-pretty building, ringed by palm trees and rice paddies. Once, it stood at the ...
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Pakistani lawmaker killed on election eve
-- Pakistani lawmaker Zahra Shahid Hussain, who alleged vote rigging in Karachi, was shot to death Saturday on the eve of a highly contested re-run of balloting in her district, sources close to the family told ...
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Pakistan Woman Politician Gunned Down
Police in Pakistan say gunmen have killed a woman politician who was a member of former cricket star Imran Khan’s party. Police said Zohra Shahid Hussain was shot outside her home in the southern port city of Karachi on Saturday. The gunmen escaped, and there was no immediate claim of responsibility. Police said it was unclear whether the killing was a murder or the result of a ...
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Indiana halts support of Pakistani fertilizer plant on US bomb concerns
By Susan Guyett, Reuters Indiana has canceled subsidies for a planned $1.8 billion fertilizer plant in the state because of concerns that a Pakistani company involved in the project makes products used in improvised explosives that kill and injure U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Midwest Fertilizer Corp, which has sought to build the plant in southern Indiana, is 48 percent owned by Fatima Group, ...
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Karachi gunmen kill Khan party woman
Gunmen have killed a Pakistani woman politician from cricket star Imran Khan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of partial election ...
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Pakistans Railroads Sum Up Nations Woes
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Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain killed in Karachi
PTI party supporters during the general election in Rawalpindi on May 11, 2013. PTI politician Zahra Shahid Hussain was killed in Karachi outside her home on Saturday evening. (FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty ...
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Power lunch Security on the menu for Kayani Sharif meet
Nawaz Sharif and briefed him on the security situation of the country. Kayani, who sought the meeting, called on Sharif at his brother Shahbaz Sharif's residence in Lahore on Saturday. This was the first meeting between Kayani and Sharif since the PML-N emerged victorious in the elections. The meeting lasted over three hours and the leaders had lunch together. The army chief briefed the ...
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Woman political leader killed in Pakistan
Imran Khan 's Movement for Justice in Pakistan was gunned down Saturday outside her Karachi home, police said. Investigators said the killing of Zahra Shahid Hussain, carried out by two men on motorbikes, was a robbery gone wrong, The (London) Guardian reported. But Khan, the cricket star turned politician, suggested the United National Movement or MQM party, which dominates politics in ...
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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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