Pakistan launches its first census in nearly two decades, with security high as thousands of enumerators backed by the military began the enormous, politically-charged count. https://youtu.be/iL8XgnF-1Lk
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Pakistan market bombing kills 8
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) — A bomb blast in an upscale shopping center in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore killed at least eight people and wounded 20 on Thursday (February 23), officials said, the latest in a surge of violence that has shaken the country. Security forces cordoned off the residential neighborhood, also home to banks and coffee shops, rescue officials said, after what one bank worker said was a “frightening” explosion. Punjab police spokesman Nayab […]
5 dead, 30 injured in bomb attack in Lahore: Pakistan officials
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — At least five people were killed and 30 injured after a blast ripped through a building in an upscale shopping area of Pakistan’s Lahore Thursday, officials said, the latest in a surge in Islamist violence. “It was a bomb attack,” Nayab Haider, a spokesman for the provincial Punjab police said. Rescue services spokeswoman Deeba Shehnaz provided the casualty toll. Television footage showed a smouldering building and several crumpled cars with their […]
Islamic State-claimed bomb kills 70 at Pakistan shrine
SEHWAN, Pakistan (AFP) — At least 70 people were killed and hundreds wounded Thursday when a bomb ripped through a revered Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan, officials said, after a series of attacks which have shaken optimism over recent improvements in security. The Islamic State group (IS) claimed the attack, the deadliest to hit Pakistan so far in 2017, in the town of Sehwan in Sindh province, some 200 kilometres (124 miles) northeast of the […]
Blast kills at least 13, injures 82 in Pakistan’s Lahore
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — At least 13 people were killed and 82 injured when an apparent Taliban suicide blast ripped through a protest in Lahore on Monday, Pakistani officials said, shattering the city’s growing sense of security. Police cordoned off the area near the crowded Mall Road, one of the city’s main arteries, as witnesses fled in fear of a second explosion. Local media showed images of the injured being carried away. The road had […]
Strong 6.3 quake strikes off coast of Pakistan: US monitors
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the coast of Pakistan early Wednesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The shallow quake struck at 3:03 am (2203 GMT), with an epicenter just 23 kilometers (14 miles) southwest of Pakistan’s coastal city of Pasni, the USGS said. Last April, a large 6.6-magnitude quake struck neighboring northeastern Afghanistan, rattling parts of South Asia and killing at least six Pakistanis. In October 2015, a […]
Toll from Pakistan market bombing rises to 24: officials
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — The death toll from a bomb blast at a market in a mainly Shiite area of Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt has risen to 24, officials said Sunday. The explosion, which occurred on Saturday in Parachinar, capital of the Kurram tribal district, initially killed 20 people and was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban. It was the first major militant attack in the country in 2017. “The number of dead people from the blast […]
Pakistan plane carrying 48 crashes killing all on board
by Gohar Abbas Agence France Presse SADDHA BATOLNI, Pakistan (AFP) – A Pakistani plane carrying 48 people crashed Wednesday in the country’s mountainous north and burst into flames killing everyone on board, authorities said, in one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the nation’s history. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Flight PK661 came down after one of its two turboprop engines failed while travelling from the city of Chitral to Islamabad, the civil aviation authority said. Rescuers, including […]
205 na ang nahuli sa unang araw ng anti-jaywalking ordinance ng Davao City
DAVAO CITY (Eagle News) – Umabot sa 205 katao ang nahuli sa unang araw ng anti-jaywalking ordinance ng City Transport Management Office (CTTMO) nitong huwebes, December 1 sa Davao City. Ayon kay CTTMO Executive Service Officer Charlotte Parba, may parehong bilang ng lalake at babae ang kanilang nahuli. Karamihan aniya sa kanilang nahuli ay mga empleyado at estudyante. Mayroon din umanong foreign nationals na galing Pakistan, Japan, China, Denmark, at India ang dinala sa kanilang tanggapan. […]
Zap fishing with generators, say Pakistani fishermen
Pakistan (AFP)- by Sajjad TARAKZAI Abbas Khan feeds a hot wire from a rickety generator into a river, a fishing technique he argues is more environmentally friendly than others used in northwest Pakistan — though he also admits it has killed several of his friends. Hundreds of fishermen risk their lives daily to hunt the rare fish known as “sher mahi”, found in the Kabul River which flows from the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan into neighbouring Pakistan, […]
17 dead, 50 injured as Pakistan trains collide
KARACHI, Pakistan (AFP) — At least 17 people have been killed and dozens more injured after two trains carrying hundreds of passengers collided in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi early Thursday, officials said. Witnesses described watching in horror as one train sped into the city’s Quaidabad Railway Station and rammed into the second, which was stationary, with the roar of the crash swiftly followed by the screams of people trapped inside. Officials said rescuers […]
Pakistan police clash with opposition activists after protest ban
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) – by Masroor GILANI A Pakistan opposition party planning a major anti-government protest was raided by police Thursday as authorities banned all public gatherings in Islamabad for two months. Police raided a youth convention for opposition leader Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek Insaaf (PTI) party, charging activists with batons and arresting dozens of people. Khan, a former Pakistan cricket star, is due to lead the protest on November 2 to demand Prime Minister Nawaz […]
