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Gunmen kill 14 after kidnapping them from buses in southwestern Pakistan
Apr 18, 2019 10:59Heavily-armed assailants have shot dead at least 14 people after pulling them from several passenger buses in a remote area of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, officials say.
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Pakistan in agreement with IMF over bailout program
Apr 16, 2019 03:19Pakistan has reached an "agreement in principle" with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over a bailout program and expects to formally secure a rescue package later this month, a Pakistani minister said on Monday.
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Pakistan's Hazara Muslims keep sit-in going after Quetta bombing
Apr 15, 2019 09:19Hazara Shia Muslims have held the third straight day of a sit-in in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta to demand better security in the wake of a terrorist attack that killed two dozen people at a market there.
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Terrorist bombing hits Hazara market in Pakistan's Quetta
Apr 12, 2019 03:44A bomb hidden among bags of potatoes at a Pakistani market killed at least 16 people, half of them ethnic Hazaras, officials said, in an attack apparently aimed at minority Shia Muslims.
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Facebook deletes accounts in India, Pakistan
Apr 02, 2019 13:09Facebook has deleted hundreds of accounts and pages allegedly tied to India’s opposition and ruling parties as well as Pakistan’s military, citing “inauthentic behavior.”
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Tensions reemerge in Kashmir, ‘2 Indians killed’
Apr 02, 2019 02:07Tensions have resumed between India and Pakistan in the disputed Kashmiri region, where cross-border fire has reportedly killed two Indians, including a young girl.
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Malaysian PM Mahathir: Israel ‘a state of robbers’
Mar 23, 2019 08:51Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has dubbed Israel as “a state of robbers”, saying his country enjoys friendly relations with every country in the world except the illegal Zionist entity.
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Kashmir hit by strike after young man's death in custody
Mar 21, 2019 02:38Indian-administrated Kashmir has been hit by a strike in the wake of the death of a young school teacher in police custody that sparked anger across the restive Himalayan region.
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Bomb blast kills 4 on railway track in southwest Pakistan
Mar 17, 2019 12:52At least four people have been killed and ten others injured in Pakistan following a bomb blast on train tracks in the country’s troubled southwestern province of Balochistan.
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Are we edging closer to nuclear war?
Mar 15, 2019 17:15Stephen Kinzer, author of the book “Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq”, says in his article for the Common Dreams site, titled: “Are We Edging Closer to Nuclear War” that one wrong move and the world would be embroiled in a catastrophic atomic conflict.