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A suicide blast claimed by the Islamic State group (IS) at a Shiite mosque in Islamabad killed at least 31 people on Friday (February 6, 2026), with 169 more wounded in the deadliest attack in Pakistan’s capital since the 2008 Marriott hotel bombing. City officials said 31 people died in the explosion at the Imam…
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A supporter of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), reacts as he along with others attend a rally demanding his release in Swabi, Pakistan. File | Photo Credit: REUTERS Pakistani authorities banned gatherings of five or more people in the capital ahead of a planned march by the supporters…
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Nisar Lehri, senior journalist in Mastung locality of Pakistan’s Balochistan. File | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement GUWAHATI A global media safety and rights body has mourned the killing of the tenth journalist in Pakistan in 2024. Armed assailants gunned down the 50-year-old Nisar Lehri, a senior journalist in Mastung locality of Pakistan’s Balochistan and a member…
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Image used for representational purpose. | Photo Credit: Reuters After blocking X, formerly Twitter, for over four months, the government in Pakistan’s Punjab province is now set to ban all social media platforms – YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok – for six days between July 13 and 18, citing the need to control “hate…
Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa, right, administers the oath of office to newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari during a ceremony at the Presidential Palace, in Islamabad, Pakistan on March 10, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan’s newly-elected President Asif Ali Zardari on March 13 announced that he would not draw any salary…
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Petrol and diesel have become costlier by 20% since the caretaker government took over in August in Pakistan. | Photo Credit: Reuters Amid double-digit inflation, Pakistan’s caretaker government has effected yet another hike in the prices of petrol and diesel taking them to a historic high — over (Pakistani) Rs 330 per litre — prompting…
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On Tuesday, Imran Khan was released on bail in the grafts case (File) Karachi: A Pakistani court on Wednesday extended the jail custody of former Prime Minister Imran Khan for 14 days to investigate him on charges of leaking state secrets, his lawyer said, a day after another court suspended his prison sentence for graft….
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