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By Emma CLARK ISLAMABAD, Jan 17, 2024 (AFP) – Pakistan said Wednesday that Iran carried out an air strike on its territory that killed two children, after Tehran launched attacks in Iraq and Syria against what it called “anti-Iranian terrorist groups”. Pakistan denounced the strike, near the nations’ shared border late on Tuesday, as “completely unacceptable”, saying it was unprovoked. Iranian news agency Mehrnews said the “missile and drone response” targeted the Jaish al-Adl group’s […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 6, 2023 (AFP) – Adventurer Namira Salim became the first Pakistani to travel into space on Friday, riding aboard Virgin Galactic’s fifth successful flight in five months, the US company announced. Salim, who previously traveled to both poles and has also parachuted over Mount Everest, was among the first customers to buy a ticket with billionaire Richard Branson’s space company after it was founded almost two decades ago. “I love my title ‘first […]
QUETTA, Pakistan, Sept 29, 2023 (AFP) – More than 50 people were killed and dozens more wounded in Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Friday by a suicide bomber targeting a procession marking the birthday of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed, officials said. A second suicide attack by two men at a mosque hundreds of kilometres north in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province led to a roof collapse that killed four people, officials said. While the celebration of the Prophet’s birthday […]
By Susannah Walden and Ashraf Khan KARACHI, Sept 28, 2023 (AFP) – The cow had been slaughtered and bags of rice purchased but young bride Wahida’s nuptials were cut short when her groom was arrested on their wedding day, one of hundreds caught in a recent crackdown on Afghans living in Pakistan. The 20-year-old now lives with her in-laws at the Afghan Muhajir aid camp in the port mega-city of Karachi but without her husband-to-be, […]
LONDON, Sept 15, 2023 (AFP) – UK police investigating the death of a 10-year-old girl said Friday they had charged her father, stepmother and uncle with murder after they returned to Britain from Pakistan. Sara Sharif’s body was discovered at the family’s home near Woking, southern England, on August 10. A post-mortem examination revealed she had sustained “multiple and extensive injuries” over a sustained period. Her relatives were arrested late on Wednesday at London’s Gatwick […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12, 2023 (AFP) – Five British-Pakistani children brought to Pakistan by a fugitive couple wanted over the death of a 10-year-old girl in Britain were taken into the custody of state protective services on Tuesday, police said. Surrey Police in Britain said last week the welfare of the five children was “a priority” after Sara Sharif was found dead with multiple injuries in her family home in August. They believe her father Urfan […]
KASUR, Pakistan, Aug 23, 2023 (AFP) – Families waded through water and cattle were loaded onto boats in a mass evacuation of around 100,000 people in Pakistan’s Punjab province, officials said Wednesday. Several hundred villages and thousands of acres of cropland in the central province were inundated when the Sutlej river burst its banks on Sunday. “The flood waters came a couple of days ago and all our houses were submerged. We walked all the […]
THAKOT, Pakistan, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – Military helicopters and zipline experts on Tuesday rescued eight people, including six school boys, trapped for hours in a stricken cable car high above a remote Pakistan valley. The daring rescue began with a helicopter plucking two children to safety after almost 12 hours in the air as daylight faded, but the chopper was forced back to base in the dark. Then rescuers used the cable keeping the […]
THAKOT, Pakistan, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – A helicopter on Tuesday evening helped rescue the first children from a cable car dangling all day over a deep Pakistan ravine, rescue officials said. Six children and two adults were using the chairlift when a cable broke at a height of up to 1,200 feet (about 365 metres) midway through its journey in a remote, mountainous part of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. “The first child has been […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – The first of six children and two adults trapped in a cable car all day over a deep Pakistan ravine was rescued on Tuesday evening, officials said. “The first child has been rescued with a helicopter,” said a statement from the 1122 rescue service. This is a developing story.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – Six children and two adults were suspended inside a cable car dangling over a deep valley in Pakistan for several hours on Tuesday, as a military helicopter hovered nearby. The children were using the chairlift to cross the valley to get to school when a cable broke at a height of up to 1,200 feet (about 365 metres) midway through its journey in a remote, mountainous part of […]
NAWABSHAH, Pakistan, Aug 6, 2023 (AFP) – At least 28 people were killed Sunday when an express train derailed in southern Pakistan, the railway minister said, with an emergency declared at local hospitals struggling to deal with with dozens of injured. Accidents and derailments occur frequently on the country’s antiquated railway system, which has nearly 7,500 kilometres (4,600 miles) of track and carries more than 80 million passengers a year. “This is quite a big […]
