Save the Children regrets expulsion order

Save the Children regrets expulsion order

ISLAMABAD: A global children's aid agency on Wednesday said it regretted Pakistan's government ordering staff to leave the country and denied it was ever involved in the CIA's hunt for Osama bin Laden. Pakistan had ordered all Save the Children's foreign staff to leave the country within four weeks in the wake of accusations linking it to a fake vaccination programme launched to track down the al Qaeda chief. However, local media quoted Interior Minister Rehman Malik as saying on Saturday that t... more

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Pakistani Hindus flee to India claiming persecution

Pakistani Hindus flee to India claiming persecution

JAIPUR: A group of 170 Hindus from Pakistan who travelled to India on pilgrim visas have said they will not return home due to alleged persecution.Officials in the western Indian state of Rajasthan have reported an increase in Hindu refugees, but Pakistani authorities say the numbers are exaggerated and those who leave are economic migrants seeking better jobs.The latest group from Sindh arrived in the desert city of Jodhpur at the weekend, and have appealed for help from the Indian government."... more

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Malik Riaz announces cash aid for fire victims

Malik Riaz announces cash aid for fire victims

Lahore: Real estate tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain has announced cash assistance of Rs 200,000 for the family members of those killed in the factory fires in Karachi and Lahore and Rs 100,000 for the injured.In what are apparently the worst industrial fires of the country's history, more than 300 people have lost their lives and dozens suffered burn injuries.The fires have raised questions about the safety standards in factories and highlighted the need for proper fire exits and on-premises firefight... more

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Pakistan files murder case over factory...

Pakistan files murder case over factory...

Pakistan on Thursday registered murder charges against factory bosses and government officials over the deaths of 289 people in the country's worst industrial disaster, police said.

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Murder Charges Filed After Pakistan Factory Fire Kills 258

Murder Charges Filed After Pakistan Factory Fire Kills 258

Pakistani police registered a murder case against the owners and managers of a garment factory in the southern city of Karachi after a fire swept through the building and killed 258 people, many of whom were unable to escape because the exit doors were locked, a senior police officer said Thursday.

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Central Asian alliances vital in regional stability - The Voice of Russia

Central Asian alliances vital in regional stability - The Voice of Russia


The Voice of Russia

Central Asian alliances vital in regional stability
The Voice of Russia
The whole region is coming together – Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran. India also is not very far away. All of them say, "If we do not play together, then no one will be able to play it." These resources will remain unutilized. We need them, Central Asia ...

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Double factory blazes in Pakistan kill 39

Double factory blazes in Pakistan kill 39

Factory blazes in two of Pakistan's major cities killed 39 people and injured dozens more on Tuesday, including some who leapt from the burning buildings to escape the flames.

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Fire in Pakistani factory kills at least 289

Fire in Pakistani factory kills at least 289

At least 289 people were killed in a fire that swept through a garment factory overnight in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, a local official said Wednesday.

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1.6m cases pending before courts: CJP Iftikhar

1.6m cases pending before courts: CJP Iftikhar

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Chaudhry on Monday said over 1.6 million cases were pending in district and superior courts until August 15.Addressing the New Judicial Year Ceremony, the CJP said, "From 1st January, 2011 to 31st May, 2012, within a period of less than one-and-a-half-year, over 4.1 million fresh cases were instituted in the district as well as superior judiciaries.Thus, despite disposal of more than 4 million cases, the grand total of pending cases jumped to over 1.... more

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Shahid Akram Bhindars quit PTI, join PML-N

Shahid Akram Bhindars quit PTI, join PML-N

LAHORE: Former minister Shahid Akram Bhindar and his son Waleed Akram Bhindar on Tuesday announced to quit Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and join Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).The Bhindars called on PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and expressed complete trust in the leadership of the party. The PML-N chief welcomed the joining of the Bhinders, saying that the real faces of those raising slogans of change were being exposed before the nation. The Bhindars said only Nawaz Sharif could extricate Pakista... more

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Cleric put burnt Quran pages in Rimsha's bag, IG tells body

Cleric put burnt Quran pages in Rimsha's bag, IG tells body

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad police Inspector General Bin Yameen on Monday informed the Senate's Standing Committee on Human Rights that Qari Khalid Jadoon had put burnt pages of the holy Quran in Rimsha Masih's bag.Awami National Party Senator Afrasiab Khattak chaired the session of the committee.Yameen told the committee that there was a great disparity between Rimsha's physical and mental age. The IG said that a situation similar to Gujjar Khan would have arisen if a first information report (FIR) ha... more

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Shahbaz asks India 'to put leash on' Bal Thackeray

Shahbaz asks India 'to put leash on' Bal Thackeray

ISLAMABAD: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday demanded India to stop Bal Thackeray from giving hate speeches against normalisation of relations between the two countries. National Assembly Standing Committee on Commerce Chairman Khurram Dastgir Khan informed the media that Sharif had held a meeting on Sunday with Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishna and asked him to stop Thackeray from giving hate speeches against Pakistan so that the relations between the two nations could be further... more

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NAB asked to complete inquiry on sale of embassies

NAB asked to complete inquiry on sale of embassies

ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday directed NAB to submit a detailed report of embezzlement in sale of Pakistani embassy buildings in Jakarta and Tokyo within 30 days.The committee expressed displeasure over the Foreign Affairs Ministry, which failed in submitting an inquiry report into reported corruption in the sale of the embassy buildings.PAC member Ayaz Sadiq said the ministry had been ordered by PAC to submit the report, but nothing had been presented. He insisted th... more

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Bridge destroyed in Chitral

Bridge destroyed in Chitral

CHITRAL: Unidentified miscreants set on fire a bridge in Priat village some 45 kilometres from Chitral, cutting off access for hundreds of people as their land route was disconnected from the rest of the district on Tuesday. SHO Koghuzi Police Station said that unidentified miscreants set ablaze the bridge late on Monday. Hundreds of people including aged men and women, children stranded across the bridge are compelled to travel through mountain trails to reach their destinations. Koghuzi police... more

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Suspect arrested near PAF base

Suspect arrested near PAF base

SARGODHA: Security officials of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on Tuesday arrested a suspect near PAF Mushaf Airbase. Police sources said that the suspect, Sohail Bhatti, had been handed over to cantonment police. During investigation, he confessed to being trained by a militant organisation.End.... more

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17 injured in Hub bombing

17 injured in Hub bombing

QUETTA: At least 17 people, including two women, were wounded in a bomb blast on Monday night in Hub, an industrial town of Balochistan.According to Hub Police Deputy Superintendent Raza Muhammad, some workers of a cement factory were en route to Karachi in a bus when explosives planted on a motorbike parked along the highway exploded. As a result, 17 people sustained injuries, he said. "Explosives were detonated by a remote-controlled device," he added. Rescue workers and police rushed to the s... more

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25 feared dead as fishing boat capsizes off Karachi

25 feared dead as fishing boat capsizes off Karachi

KARACHI: Bodies of nine people were recovered and 16 remained missing after an ill-fated fishing boat Al-Rehman capsized in the sea late on Sunday night. The incident occurred when the boat was in the open seas near Khuddi and Khahi creeks, 15-km off the Ibrahim Hydry, Karachi coast, said Majeed Motani, a senior boat captain and community activist. The bodies recovered were identified as those of Ismail, two brothers Yaseen and Hussain, Hameedullah, Bilal, Naushad, Sadiq Khaskheli, Shams Alam ... more

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Jacobabad receives heaviest rain in 100 years

Jacobabad receives heaviest rain in 100 years

ISLAMABAD: Director of Met, Muhammad Hanif, said that Jacobabad received 380mm rain during last 24 hours, the heaviest in the last 100 years. Talking to PTV on Monday, he said that average rain in Jacobabad was usually about 11mm in the month of September every year, adding that all the upper areas of Sindh had received more than 100mm rains so far. Muhammad Hanif said that this spell of rain was still persisting in Sindh, and all the adjacent areas, including Karachi, would receive heavy rain t... more

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New video of US aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan

New video of US aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan

A 71-year-old American aid worker kidnapped over a year ago in Pakistan asked Israel's prime minister for help in meeting al-Qaida 's demands so that he could be freed, in a new video released by the group Wednesday.

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310 die in devastating Pakistan factory...

310 die in devastating Pakistan factory...

More than 310 people have perished in fires that gutted factories in Pakistan's two largest cities, in tragedies that prompted calls for an overhaul of poor industrial safety standards, officials said Wednesday.

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Perceived insults to Islam trigger Muslim anger

Perceived insults to Islam trigger Muslim anger

Muslim anger over perceived Western insults to Islam has exploded several times, most recently in Tuesday's attacks against U.S. diplomatic posts in the Middle East in which U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.

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Pakistan factory fires kill 105 workers

Pakistan factory fires kill 105 workers

Fires swept through two factories in Pakistan, one in the city of Karachi and the other in Lahore, killing at least 105 people, police and government officials said on Wednesday.

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Death Toll Of Garments Factory Fire In Pakistan Rises To 65

Death Toll Of Garments Factory Fire In Pakistan Rises To 65

The death toll of a garment factory fire that broke out Tuesday evening in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi has risen to 65, China's Xinhua news agency said citing local media reports on Wednesday morning.

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Pakistan Shiites face rising militant attacks

Pakistan Shiites face rising militant attacks

In the Shiite Muslim graveyard of this provincial Pakistani capital, entire sections are dedicated to the hundreds killed by Sunni militants over the past two years, their portraits line the cobblestone entrance, some garlanded with wilted flowers.

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Pakistan: 14 killed, 65 injured in Parachinar car bombing

Pakistan: 14 killed, 65 injured in Parachinar car bombing

PARACHINAR, : Fourteen persons were killed and 65 injured in an major explosion caused by an explosive-laden vehicle here on Monday, official and tribal sources said.

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Pakistan frees 48 Indian prisoners as 'goodwill gesture'

Pakistan frees 48 Indian prisoners as 'goodwill gesture'

Pakistan on Monday released 48 Indian fishermen, 10 of them teenagers, as a "goodwill gesture" following a visit by the Indian foreign minister S. M. Krishna.

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SEAL: I didn't recognize bin Laden

SEAL: I didn't recognize bin Laden

The new book "No Easy Day" by former U.S. Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette, who wrote under the name Mark Owen, gained widespread attention because of his firsthand account of how he and other members of SEAL Team Six killed Osama bin Laden.

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Car bomb kills 12 Shiites in northwest Pakistan

Car bomb kills 12 Shiites in northwest Pakistan

A car bomb ripped through a crowded market in a Pakistani tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Monday, killing 12 Shiite Muslims in the latest instance of sectarian violence to rock this country.

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Officials: Rain, flash floods kill 78 in Pakistan

Officials: Rain, flash floods kill 78 in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: At least 78 people died and dozens were injured as torrential rains and flash floods wreaked havoc in Pakistan over the past three days, a government spokesman said Monday.

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Queen of Asia: Welcome to Pakistan Mr. Putin - Rupee News

Queen of Asia: Welcome to Pakistan Mr. Putin - Rupee News


Queen of Asia: Welcome to Pakistan Mr. Putin
Rupee News
In the article the author, Lyuba Lulko says that "establishing close cooperation with Pakistan will give Russia a real chance to gain a foothold in Central and South Asia. In addition, Russia will be able to access the Indian Ocean, and make the U.S ...

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India's Eurasia strategy leverages Iranian ports - Asia Times Online

India's Eurasia strategy leverages Iranian ports - Asia Times Online


India's Eurasia strategy leverages Iranian ports
Asia Times Online
It will also allow India to gain access to Central Asian markets, including in Afghanistan, as India "battles" rival Pakistan over influence in the broader region ahead of the withdrawal of coalition forces from Afghanistan by 2014. Fina! lly, it would ...

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Global Insider: India and Tajikistan Draw Closer - World Politics Review

Global Insider: India and Tajikistan Draw Closer - World Politics Review


Global Insider: India and Tajikistan Draw Closer
World Politics Review
WPR: What is the recent trajectory of the India-Tajikistan relationship, and how does Tajikistan fit into India's broader engagement with Central Asia? Meena Singh Roy: Tajikistan figures very high in India's foreign policy priorities ... The ...

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USA manages China's rise - Pravda

USA manages China's rise - Pravda


USA manages China's rise
Pravda
... (GMER-Iraq), South Central Asian Region (SCAR-Afghanistan, Pakistan), North Africa (Tunisia, Libya, Egypt), the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen), the Mediterranean (Syria) and still keeping the Persian Gulf sub-region (Iran) on tenterhooks it has now set ...

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Pakistan Shiites face rising militant attacks - Columbus Telegram

Pakistan Shiites face rising militant attacks - Columbus Telegram


Pakistan Shiites face rising militant attacks
Columbus Telegram
The powerful agencies have often been linked to the murky world of militancy, accused of using hardline Sunni Muslim militants against enemy India in the disputed Kashmir region and aga! inst U.S. and NATO soldiers next door in Afghanistan. But the rise ...

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