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Pakistani Taliban target police in northwestern province, kill 2 officers and guard at a local bank
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban targeted security forces in a northwestern province in Pakistan on Thursday, killing two officers and a guard at a nearby bank, authorities said. The attack took place near a fruit market in the town of Mingora, located in the...
Pakistan urged to stop arresting Afghan refugees after 250 detained recently
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan urged Pakistan on Wednesday to stop arresting Afghan refugees, after 250 were detained by counterterrorism officials and other agencies for not having travel documents. Millions of Afghans fled to Pakistan during the 1979-1989 Soviet occupation of...
AP Month in Pictures: Middle East
MAY 2023 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images by Associated Press photographers in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan in May 2023. This selection shows scenes from across the region, including images of continued violence in the...
Pakistan's military says 2 soldiers killed in militant attack near border with Iran
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Militants attacked a Pakistani security post near the country's border with Iran on Thursday, triggering a shootout that killed two soldiers, the military said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in the area of Singwan in restive...
Daniel Pearl scholarship winner wants to change society through music
PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A student who said he got goosebumps the first time he played the violin in an orchestra is this year's recipient of a college scholarship given in honor of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan in January 2002 while...
Pakistani police say gunmen kill 1 soldier and wound another in attack on polio workers
MIR ALI, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen killed one soldier and wounded another Wednesday when they opened fire on security forces escorting a team of polio workers during a door-to-door inoculation campaign in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold near the Afghan border, police said. No...
Avalanche in northern Pakistan kills 11 members of nomadic tribe
GILGIT, Pakistan (AP) — A snowy avalanche in northern Pakistan killed 11 people Saturday, including a 4-year-old boy, and injured 25 from a nomadic tribe as they crossed a mountainous area with their goat herds, police said. The avalanche struck the nomads in the Chambeli area of...
Pakistan to try 33 supporters of former Premier Imran Khan in military courts over recent violence
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s government said Friday that 17 more supporters of Imran Khan would be tried in military courts over recent anti-government violence, bringing the overall number of followers of the former prime minister facing military tribunals so far to 33. The...
Pakistani journalist, supporter of former Prime Minister Imran Khan goes missing, second in 2 weeks
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A prominent Pakistani television journalist known for his public support of former Prime Minister Imran Khan has gone missing, the police, his family and his employer said. Sami Abrahim's disappearance was first announced in a police tweet late Wednesday, hours...
In Panama, legal rights given to sea turtles, boosting the 'rights of nature' movement
ARMILA, Panama (AP) — On a Panamanian beach long after dark, a group of undergraduate students dug into the sand to excavate a sea turtle nest, their lamps casting a soft red glow as they studied eggs, inventoried the success of the hatch and checked for any surviving hatchlings stuck at the...
