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by Khurram Shahzad Agence France Presse ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from public office over long-running corruption allegations, a decision that ousts him from the premiership for the third time in a chequered political career. “He is disqualified as a member of the parliament so he has ceased to be holding the office of Prime Minister,” Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan told the packed courtroom in Islamabad. […]
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — An explosion claimed by the Pakistani Taliban killed at least 26 people and injured dozens in a busy vegetable market in the Pakistani city of Lahore Monday, officials said. The powerful blast hit a bustling main road in the south of Lahore and blew out windows in nearby buildings. “A suicide bomber of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) used a motorcycle bomb to kill dozens of policemen,” TTP spokesman Muhammad Khurasani said in […]
Karachi, Pakistan (AFP) — Five people died when an apartment building collapsed in southern Pakistan early Tuesday as most of its residents were sleeping, officials said. Rescuers struggled to pull survivors from the rubble of the three-storey building in the southern city of Karachi. “Five bodies were recovered from the rubble,” the city’s deputy commissioner, Fareed Uddin, told AFP. Another local official said a woman and a 13-year-old boy were among the dead. Rescuers pulled at least nine injured people […]
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) – A United States Senate delegation headed by Senator John McCain met Pakistan’s army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Sunday (July 2). The army’s media wing said in a press release that the officials and delegates discussed the regional security situation including Afghanistan and security cooperation between Pakistan and the US. McCain has said there could be “no peace” in Afghanistan or the rest of the region without Pakistan’s cooperation, as […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — The death toll from an oil tanker explosion in central Pakistan has risen to 190, hospital and government officials said Friday, as 16 more people succumbed to their injuries. The tanker overturned early Sunday on a main highway from Karachi to Lahore while carrying some 40,000 litres of fuel. It exploded minutes later as crowds from a nearby village gathered to scavenge for fuel, despite warnings by the driver as well […]
PAKISTAN (Reuters) – Death toll has risen to 153 from the oil tanker fire that broke out in the Bahawalpur district of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab Province Sunday morning, rescuers said. The number of deaths may rise further as about 40 out of the about 100 injured people are in critical conditions, according to an official of local hospital. A total of 75 motorbikes and six vehicles, including a traffic police vehicle, were burnt out in […]
MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – An oil tanker crashed and exploded on a road in Pakistan on Sunday (June 25), killing at least 146 people, many of whom were collecting leaking fuel before it ignited, government officials and rescue workers said. The speeding tanker overturned on a sharp bend on a highway on the outskirts of the city of Bahawalpur. The driver lost control when the vehicle blew a tyre, a provincial government spokesman said. Shahabaz […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — The death toll from multiple attacks in Pakistan rose to 57, officials said Saturday, a day after the bomb and gun assaults in three cities shook the country as it prepared to mark the end of Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month. Officials in Quetta said the number of dead had risen by one to 14 after a blast in the southwestern city which targeted police. Ten policemen were among those killed. […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – Multiple blasts killed at least 26 people and wounded dozens in two Pakistani cities on the last Friday of Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month, as officials warned the toll could rise. Authorities said 13 people were killed and 124 wounded when twin blasts tore through a market in Parachinar, capital of Kurram district, a mainly Shiite area of Pakistan’s tribal belt. Local official Nasrullah Khan told AFP that the first blast detonated […]
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — At least five people have been killed and 10 wounded in a blast which appeared to have been a Taliban attack targeting a census team in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore Wednesday, officials and the militants said. Security forces cordoned off the area on Bedian Road in the bustling capital of Punjab province after the blast, which rescuers said occurred just before 8:00 am local time. A forensics team could also […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) — Dozens of women in Pakistan took part in female-only bike races in major cities on Sunday (April 2), in an event organized to challenge male dominance of public spaces in the country. The bike race was one of many events organized in the last few years by Girls at Dhabas – the name given to roadside restaurants in Pakistan – to promote female participation in public events, fight restrictions faced by […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — More than 400,000 Afghan children are expected to drop out of school this year in the face of growing insecurity and displacement amid a spike in forced repatriations from Pakistan, Save the Children said Thursday. Thursday marked the first day of the new school year in Afghanistan, but around one-third of all children — 3.7 million — were not in attendance, the advocacy group said. “Today should be a happy day […]
