Pakistan

Bus crash in southern Pakistan kills at least 41

(Reuters) -More than 40 people were killed after a bus fell into a ravine and caught fire in the southern Pakistani province of Balochistan on Sunday, officials said. Forty-one bodies…

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Pakistan suffers major power outage after grid failure

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Pakistan suffered nationwide power outages on Monday morning due to a "major breakdown" of the national grid, the power ministry said, with…

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Pakistan PM Sharif makes conditional talks offer to arch-rival India

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has made a conditional offer to his Indian counterpart to open talks on all outstanding issues between them, including disputed Kashmir, which…

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UN chief calls for ‘massive investments’ for Pakistan recovery

GENEVA, Jan 9 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for massive support to help Pakistan with a $16 billion rebuilding effort following devastating floods, saying the country…

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Taliban militants in Pakistan end ceasefire with government

Taliban militants in Pakistan will no longer abide by a months-long ceasefire with the Pakistani government, a spokesman for the militant group said on Monday. The Afghan Taliban have been…

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Photo Story: Money Heist-inspired cafe in Peshawar, Pakistan

A Bella Ciao Cafe staff, dressed up in the iconic red jumpsuit and Savlador Dali mask worn by the robbers in the Netflix series Money Heist (La Casa de Papel),…

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Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan’s party to hold protests after ‘assassination attempt’

WAZIRABAD, Pakistan, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The party of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was shot and injured in an apparent assassination attempt, said country-wide protests would be…

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UPDATED: Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan wounded in ‘clear assassination’ attempt

LAHORE, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was shot in the shin on Thursday when his anti-government protest convoy came under attackin the east of the…

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Malaria and diseases spreading fast in flood-hit Pakistan

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - The death toll from malaria and other diseases tearing through Pakistan's flood-ravaged regions reached 324, authorities said, and actress Angelina Jolie said she feared many people…

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Fear Pakistan flood-borne diseases could get ‘out of control’

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least nine more people have died from water-borne diseases in flood-hit areas of Pakistan, officials said, as actress Angelina Jolie made a surprise visit to…

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Pakistan floods’ death toll nears 1,500

ISLAMABAD, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Pakistan's unprecedented floods, which have submerged huge swathes of the South Asian nation, have killed nearly 1,500 people, data showed on Thursday, as authorities looked…

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Pakistan races to keep floodwaters out of power station that supplies millions

DADU, Pakistan, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Authorities in Pakistan are scrambling to protect a vital power station supplying electricity to millions of people against a growing threat of flooding, officials…

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Pakistanis throw up barriers against rising floodwaters; 12 more die

BHAN SYEDABAD, Pakistan, Sept 8 (Reuters) - People were building barriers in some parts of Pakistan on Thursday to hold back rising waters that have engulfed nearly a third of…

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Pakistan looks ‘like a sea’ after floods, PM says, as 18 more die

SEHWAN, Pakistan, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Parts of Pakistan seemed "like a sea", Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday, after visiting some of the flood-hit areas that cover as…

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Pakistan struggles to avert danger as floods rise, death toll tops 1,300

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities are struggling to prevent the country's biggest lake bursting its banks and inundating nearby towns after unprecedented flooding, while the disaster management agency…

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South Pakistan braces for yet more flooding as waters flow down from north

DADU, Pakistan (Reuters) - Southern Pakistan braced for yet more flooding as a surge of water flowed down the Indus river, threatening further devastation in a country already a third…

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Cataclysmic floods in Pakistan kill 1,100, including 380 children

CHARSADDA, Pakistan, (Reuters) - Torrential rains and flooding have submerged a third of Pakistan and killed more than 1,100 people, including 380 children as the United Nations appealed for aid…

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Pakistan floods have affected over 30 million people

Historic monsoon rains and flooding in Pakistan have affected more than 30 million people over the last few weeks, the country's climate change minister said, calling the situation a "climate-induced…

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UK’s Priti Patel signs deal to deport illegal Pakistani migrants

deal, to speedily remove Pakistani nationals with no legal right to remain in the UK. The Returns Agreement was signed by Home Secretary Priti Patel and Pakistan Interior Secretary Yousaf…

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Flash floods kill 550 in Pakistan in heaviest rains in decades

ISLAMABAD, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished…

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Flooding in Pakistan kills dozens as heavy monsoon rains lash the country

Intense floods killed dozens of people and left hundreds homeless in Pakistan, officials said, as heavy monsoon rains battered the country. In the southern province of Balochistan, 57 people, including…

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Updated: Afghanistan earthquake death toll hits 1,000; toll seen likely to rise

KABUL, June 22 (Reuters) - The death toll from the earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has hit 1,000, according to a local official in province of Paktika, one of the hardest-hit areas. "1,000…

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FATF keeps Pakistan on ‘grey list’

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A global dirty money watchdog said it was keeping Pakistan on its "grey list" of countries under increased monitoring but said it might be removed after an on-site visit…

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Pakistan, India reel under intense heat wave

PESHAWAR, Pakistan/AHMEDABAD,India (Reuters) - Pakistan issued a heat warning after the hottest March in 61 years while in parts of neighbouring India schools were shut and streets deserted as an intense heave…

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Pakistan’s parliament votes in Sharif as prime minister

Pakistan's parliament on Monday elected Shehbaz Sharif prime minister after a week-long constitutional crisis that climaxed on Sunday when his predecessor Imran Khan lost a no-confidence vote. Shehbaz, 70, who…

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Shehbaz Sharif submits nomination for prime minister to Pakistani parliament

ISLAMABAD, April 10 (Reuters) - Opposition politician Shehbaz Sharif submitted his nomination to be Pakistan's next prime minister to the legislature on Sunday, his party said, after incumbent Imran Khan lost a…

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Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan ousted in no-confidence vote in parliament

ISLAMABAD, April 10 (Reuters) - Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted on Sunday when he lost a vote of confidence in parliament, after being deserted by coalition partners who blame him…

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UPDATED: Fresh elections in Pakistan to be held in 90 days

ISLAMABAD, April 3 (Reuters) - Fresh elections in Pakistan will be held in 90 days, State Minister for Information Farrukh Habib said on Sunday. Habib made the announcement in a…

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UPDATED: India says it accidentally fired missile into Pakistan

NEW DELHI, March 11 (Reuters) - India said on Friday it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan because of a "technical malfunction" during routine maintenance. "On 9 March 2022, in the course…

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At least 56 killed in suicide bombing at Shi’ite mosque in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -A suicide bombing at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque during Friday prayers in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar killed at least 56 people and injured nearly 200,…

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Attacks on Pakistan army bases kill four soldiers, 15 insurgents

ISLAMABAD, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Pakistan's army successfully repulsed night-time attacks on two southwestern bases that killed four soldiers and 15 insurgents, Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad said on Thursday.…

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Pakistan records most daily COVID cases since pandemic began

KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Pakistan reported on Friday over 7,000 COVID-19 cases in a single day, its highest daily number of infections since the pandemic began, as the…

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Deadly weather traps hundreds of drivers in Pakistan

At least 21 people have died after heavy snow trapped them in their vehicles in northern Pakistan. As many as 1,000 vehicles became stranded as would-be tourists reportedly rushed to…

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Pakistan sees most COVID-19 cases in two months, concern about Omicron

KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Pakistan reported on Monday more than 700 COVID-19 cases in a single day, its highest tally in two months, as authorities warned of a…

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Pakistan may have first Omicron case

KARACHI, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Authorities in Pakistan are investigating the first possible case of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in the South Asian nation, a provincial health ministry official…

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Facebook says hackers in Pakistan targeted Afghan users amid government collapse

Hackers from Pakistan used Facebook to target people in Afghanistan with connections to the previous government during the Taliban's takeover of the country, the company's threat investigators said in an…

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Abdul Qadeer Khan, father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb and centre of proliferation scandal, dies

KARACHI, Pakistan, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Abdul Qadeer Khan, lionised at home as the father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb despite admitting he was at the centre of a nuclear proliferation ring, died on…

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UPDATED: At least 20 killed in earthquake in southern Pakistan

At least 20 people were killed and about 300 injured on Thursday when a 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck southern Pakistan in the early hours as many of the victims were…

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Pakistan to ban public sector, education, malls, air travel for unvaccinated

Pakistan will ban air travel for anyone without a COVID-19 vaccine certificate from Aug.1 and will require all public sector workers to get vaccinated by Aug. 31, the government announced…

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Two activists killed in tightly fought vote in Pakistan’s Kashmir

Two political activists were killed in an exchange of fire between supporters of two major Pakistani parties on Sunday during a tight race to elect the regional assembly in Pakistan-administered…

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Afghan Taliban seize border crossing with Pakistan in major advance

Taliban fighters in Afghanistan said on Wednesday they had taken control of one of the main border crossings with Pakistan, perhaps the most strategic objective they have captured so far in…

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UPDATED: Pakistani train collision leaves 41 dead, more than 100 wounded

At least 41 people are dead and more than 100 wounded after two trains collided in southern Pakistan on Monday, the state-owned railway said. Rescue teams shifted the injured to…

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Pakistan to slash international flights by 80% to curb COVID-19

Pakistan will reduce the number of international flights into and out of its airports by 80% to help curb rising COVID-19 cases, the government said. The restrictions will come into…

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Car bombing at hotel in Pakistan kills 4, wounds 11

A car bomb blast late on Wednesday ripped through a luxury hotel's parking area in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, killing four people and wounding 11, officials said. China's…

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Pakistan blocks social media apps temporarily on security grounds – officials

ISLAMABAD, April 16 (Reuters) - Pakistan temporarily blocked Facebook, Twitter and several other social media apps on security grounds on Friday amid a crackdown against a violent Islamist group, officials…

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UAE is mediating between India and Pakistan

The United Arab Emirates’ envoy to Washington confirmed the Gulf state is mediating between India and Pakistan to help the nuclear-armed rivals reach a “healthy and functional” relationship. Top intelligence…

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FIFA suspends Pakistan, Chad football federations over interference

FIFA has suspended the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) due to third-party interference, as well as the Chadian Football Association (FTFA) with immediate effect due to government interference, football's global governing body…

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Young Pakistanis rush to purchase Russian vaccine as private sales open

Thousands of Pakistanis rushed to get inoculated in the first round of commercial sales of COVID-19 vaccines that began over the weekend, with vaccination sites in the southern city of…

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India and Pakistan suffer new COVID-19 surge

India and Pakistan reported a big jump in new coronavirus infections on Thursday, driven by a resurgence in cases in their richest states. While authorities in India have mainly blamed…

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Pakistani PM wins vote of confidence amidst opposition protest, boycott

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan won a vote of confidence from parliament on Saturday in a session marked by opposition boycott and protest. Khan was able to…

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Two white tiger cubs in Pakistan likely died of COVID

Two 11-week-old white tiger cubs that died in a Pakistani zoo last month appear to have died of COVID-19, officials said. The cubs died in the Lahore Zoo on Jan.…

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Photo Story: Cold winter weather grips Peshawar

Children warm themselves around a fire to beat the cold weather at a road side in Peshawar, Pakistan. Reports state that many cities in Pakistan are experiencing unusual cold weather…

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Pakistan plunged into darkness as national power grid breaks down

A breakdown in Pakistan's national power grid plunged the country into darkness on Saturday night, officials said. "A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency…

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Photo Story: New arrivals for the Pakistani Air Force

Dual-seat JF-17 Thunder fighter jet, the product of a joint venture between Pakistan's Aeronautical Complex (PAC), and China's Kamra and Chengdu Aircraft Industry Corporation (CAC), are seen at Pakistan Aeronautical…

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Pakistan accuses India of funding disinformation campaign in EU

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan accused arch-rival India of funding a long running disinformation campaign against it on Friday and said it would raise the matter in global forums. In making…

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France demands Pakistan rectifies Macron Nazi jibe

France's foreign ministry has demanded Pakistan authorities withdraw comments made by one of its ministers that President Emmanuel Macon was treating Muslims like Nazis had treated Jews in World War…

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Indian and Pakistani troops exchange fire, at least 15 dead

At least 10 civilians and five security personnel were killed in cross-border shelling between India and Pakistan on Friday, in one of this year's deadliest days along the heavily militarised…

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