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Grenade attack near Karachi school in Pakistan
World | Feb 03, 2015, 12:18 PM ISTIslamabad: A grenade was hurled near a school in Pakistan's Karachi city Tuesday. No casualties were reported, a media report said.The motorcycle borne attackers, however, left a threat letter before fleeing.A police official said the
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Al Qaeda commander among four killed in Karachi
World | Jan 09, 2015, 11:07 AM ISTIslamabad: Four terrorists, including an Al Qaeda commander, were killed in an alleged gun battle in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, media reported on Friday.The terrorists were well-versed with preparing suicide jackets.They were planning to
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India asks Pakistan to hand over Dawood
India | Dec 27, 2014, 08:15 PM ISTNew Delhi: India on Saturday asked Pakistan to hand over underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, saying enough evidences have been given to it on the prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.Minister of State for
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No New Year celebrations in Karachi
World | Dec 24, 2014, 12:04 PM ISTIslamabad: The New Year celebrations have been cancelled in Karachi in view of the Peshawar army school carnage, media reported on Wednesday.Karachi Commissioner Shoaib Siddiqui said permission would not be granted for New Year celebrations
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'Kargil was in response to India's role in creation of B'desh'
World | Dec 10, 2014, 06:51 PM ISTKarachi: Pakistan's former military dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf has said he believes in a tit-for-tat policy on all fronts and claimed that Kargil conflict was in response to India's role in the creation of Bangladesh.
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Karachi renames Moti Lal Nehru Road as Jigar Muradabadi Road
World | Nov 01, 2014, 04:47 PM ISTKarachi: Authorities in this commercial capital of Pakistan have renamed a road named after Moti Lal Nehru, father of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, as Jigar Muradabadi road.Jigar Muradabadi, renowned Urdu poet, stayed in
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Pakistan slashes petrol price by Rs 9.43 a litre
World | Oct 31, 2014, 07:28 PM ISTIslamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced a steep reduction in petrol price by Rs 9.43 a litre. The new price shall be effective from midnight today.The price of diesel has been slashed by
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Pakistan to evacuate 50,000 people in wake of Nilofar Cyclone
World | Oct 30, 2014, 02:53 PM ISTKarachi: Pakistan has planned to evacuate at least 50,000 people from its southern coastal areas with cyclone Nilofar slowly moving towards it, officials said today.The cyclone, moving at about 14km per hour speed towards Sindh
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Pakistan MQM chief claims support for new province
World | Oct 27, 2014, 07:21 AM ISTKarachi: MQM chief Altaf Hussain today claimed that the people of Sindh have spoken out in favour of new provinces in Pakistan by observing a ‘black day' against a rival PPP leader's remarks about ‘Muhajirs'. “The
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Bilawal Bhutto Zardari holds first public rally in Karachi
World | Oct 18, 2014, 11:07 PM ISTKarachi: Pakistan People's Party chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday held his first public rally here, launching his political career in a big way.Around 40,000 persons were deployed to provide security cover for the rally
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Pakistan to intensify effort to end polio
World | Oct 15, 2014, 11:08 AM ISTIslamabad: The Pakistan government has decided to intensify its effort to eradicate polio, a media report said.Emergence of new cases has forced international institutions and foreign governments to put restrictions on the country.The decision was
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah's sister asked to pay water bill 47 years after her death
World | Jun 30, 2014, 12:50 PM ISTKarachi: Pakistani authorities here have sent a water bill amounting Rs 2,63,774 to Fatima Jinnah, the sister of the country's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, 47 years after her death.The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board has
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Pakistan PM calls officers to discus Hamid Mir shooting
World | Apr 20, 2014, 02:10 PM ISTIslamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called for a meeting of senior officers Sunday to discuss the attack on senior journalist Hamid Mir, a media report said.Pakistan's Geo News' executive editor Hamid Mir was
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Air India plane in near-miss as Karachi air traffic control gives incorrect info
India | Mar 13, 2014, 11:55 AM ISTHyderabad: In a mid-air scare, "incorrect" input by Pakistan's air traffic control to a Mumbai-bound Air India Dreamliner plane from London led it to come close to another aircraft, prompting a sharp reaction from India.The
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13 killed as suicide bomber targets police bus in Karachi
World | Feb 13, 2014, 10:15 PM ISTKarachi: A Taliban suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a bus carrying policemen in this southern Pakistani city today, killing 13 people and injuring 50 others. The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), with which the
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Know Pakistan's Dirty Harry, the fearless cop who survived 9 assassination attempts
World | Jan 13, 2014, 06:57 AM ISTNew Delhi: For years, Karachi's Dirty Harry, Chaudhry Aslam Khan had been grappling with the terrorists to maintain law and order in Pakistan. Also called the cop with the nine lives, he had been shot
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Six bodies with throats slit found near Bukhari mazaar in Karachi
World | Jan 08, 2014, 07:43 AM ISTKarachi: Six bodies with their throats slit were today found near a 'mazaar' in this southern Pakistani city with a note warning against visiting such shrines.The corpses were recovered near the shrine of Ayub Shah
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Retd Justice Ganguly had accepted hospitality of Pak national in Karachi
India | Jan 03, 2014, 09:37 AM ISTNew Delhi: The chairperson of West Bengal State Human Rights Commission retired Justice A K Ganguly, facing charge of sexual harassment of an intern, had accepted the hospitality of a Pakistani national named Faisal Siddiqui
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13 killed as violence hits Karachi
World | Dec 04, 2013, 11:59 AM ISTKarachi: Violence rocked Karachi city of Pakistan as 13 people were killed in targeted shootings including five suspected Taliban activists, a Shia scholar and two Moroccan students at a religious seminary.Police said the spate of
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Pakistan to build n-power plant in Karachi
World | Nov 26, 2013, 08:05 AM ISTIslamabad : Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will lay the foundation stone of a 2,117 megawatt civil nuclear power project Tuesday which is being built with the assistance of China in the port city of