THE ASSOCIATED PRESS QUETTA, Pakistan — Suspected separatists killed two Pakistani soldiers Wednesday, in a wave of attacks targeting troops doing relief work in a remote region of the country's southwest where a major earthquake killed at least 376 people last week, military officials said. Also in southwestern Baluchistan province but far from the earthquake […]
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QUETTA, Pakistan – Pakistani military officials say a roadside bomb has killed at least two soldiers who were doing relief work in a remote southwestern region where a major quake killed at least 376 people last week. The officials say the bomb hit the soldiers' vehicle near Mashkay, a village in the southwestern Baluchistan province. […]
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KARACHI: “My eyes are up here,” she snaps at the reporter as, mid-conversation, his attention drifts away from her face towards her chest. He giggles; she shrugs it off as just another display of myopic male mentality. Sadly, these incidents are not uncommon; female broadcast and print journalists share that discrimination and harassment shadow work […]
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ISLAMABAD: Iran has formally requested Pakistan to finalise the construction of crossing points at the border in an effort to promote trade and people-to-people contacts between the two neighbours. Earlier this year, Islamabad and Tehran had agreed to open their border at four points, two at each side—Gwadar, Pishin, Mand and Gabd— to promote trade […]
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ISLAMABAD: Iran has formally requested Pakistan to finalise the construction of crossing points at the border in an effort to promote trade and people-to-people contacts between the two neighbours. Earlier this year, Islamabad and Tehran had agreed to open their border at four points, two at each side—Gwadar, Pishin, Mand and Gabd— to promote trade […]
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ISLAMABAD: Ambassador of China Sun Weidong has stressed on quickly developing an economic corridor from Xinjiang to Gwadar Port to make Pakistan an economically vibrant state. “Both friends—China and Pakistan are making plans for setting up a task force for the purpose,” he told Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Wednesday, according to an official […]
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ISLAMABAD: Chairman National Highway Authority (NHA) Hamid Ali Khan on Friday informed the Senate Standing Committee on Communications and Postal Services that the USAID has expressed its intention to provide million for additional works to complete Kalat-Quetta-Chaman highway. The committee met with Senator Daud Khan Achakzai in the chair at the Parliament House. Khan said […]
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KABUL: Afghanistan is shocked by Pakistan’s “complacency” in the nascent Afghan peace process and is ready to work without Islamabad’s help on reconciliation, Deputy Foreign Minister Jawed Ludin told Reuters on Wednesday. It was the first time Afghanistan has suggested the possibility of going it alone without its neighbour. Regional power Pakistan is seen as critical […]
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Following an established tradition, the National Assembly did not carry out any legislative business Monday evening. The house was adjourned after delivering memory- and sympathy-inducing speeches for Jam Yousaf, whose sudden death late last week shocked many of us. Since 1985, Jam had been frequently representing his ancestral town of Lasbela in the National Assembly […]
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QUETTA: Governor Balochistan Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi on Wednesday chaired a high-level meeting during which Dr Samar Mubarik Mund gave briefing about Quetta News Sources
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