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Pakistan suspends railway services in the country's southwest after deadly train station bombing
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's railways suspended all train services on Monday to and from a restive southwestern province where a suicide bombing at a train station over the weekend killed 26 people, including soldiers and railway staff. The train services would be suspended...
2 suspected rebels and 2 members of government-run militia are killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir
NEW DELHI (AP) — Two suspected militants were killed in a gunfight with government forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Friday, while assailants killed two members of a government-sponsored militia elsewhere in the disputed region. The region, divided between India...
4 security officers and 2 schoolchildren killed in bomb and mortar attacks in northwest Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle carrying security forces in restive northwestern Pakistan, killing four officers and wounding five others, officials said Thursday, and the same day two schoolchildren were killed when a mortar exploded near them elsewhere in the...
Maldives recalls its ambassador in Pakistan over unsanctioned meeting with Kabul's envoy
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials said on Tuesday they were aware the Maldives government had recalled its ambassador to Pakistan after he met with the Afghan Taliban government's top diplomat in Islamabad without clearing it with his government. The Maldives does not recognize...
A Pakistani guard wounds 2 Chinese workers in Karachi
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani guard shot and wounded two Chinese nationals working in a textile mill in the southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, but authorities said the attack was not related to militant violence. China has frequently demanded better security for its...
Pakistan shuts primary schools for a week in Lahore due to dangerous air quality
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Dangerously poor air quality on Monday forced Pakistani authorities in the cultural capital of Lahore to close primary schools for a week, government officials said, after the air-quality index hit a record high over the weekend. The measures in Lahore were...
Bomb targeting police assigned for polio drive kills 9 people, including 5 children, in SW Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in restive southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing nine people including five nearby children, and wounding 17 other people, officials said. ...
3 Pakistani soldiers and 8 militants killed during a raid on insurgents' hideout
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Three soldiers and eight militants were killed after Pakistani security forces backed by military helicopters raided a hideout in a former stronghold of insurgents in a restive province bordering Afghanistan on Wednesday, police said. A local militant...
Attack on a health center used in an anti-polio campaign in Pakistan kills 2 police officers
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Militants attacked a health center used in an ongoing anti-polio campaign in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, triggering a shootout that left two police officers dead, local authorities said. Three of the attackers were also killed in the exchange of fire. ...
Pakistan begins another vaccination campaign after a worrying surge in polio cases
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan began a nationwide vaccination campaign Monday to protect 45 million children from polio after a surge in new cases that has hampered years of efforts to stop the disease in one of the two countries where it has never been eradicated. Pakistan regularly...
