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Pakistan and Afghanistan to hold talks after latest strikes
AFP, Published on 18/10/2025
» ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan officials will hold talks in Qatar Saturday with their Afghan counterparts, a day after Islamabad launched air strikes on its neighbour, killing at least 10 people and breaking a ceasefire that had brought two days of calm to the border.
Pakistan's Kashmiris return to homes, but keep bunkers stocked
AFP, Published on 12/05/2025
» CHAKOTHI (PAKISTAN) - As an uneasy calm settled over villages on the Pakistan side of contested Kashmir on Sunday, families returned to their own beds but were sure to leave their bunkers stocked.
Pakistan tests missile weapons system amid India standoff
AFP, Published on 04/05/2025
» ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's military said it carried out a "training launch" of a surface-to-surface missile weapons system on Saturday, further heightening tensions with India after last month's deadly attack in disputed Kashmir.
India PM vows to pursue Kashmir attackers to 'ends of the Earth'
AFP, Published on 25/04/2025
» NEW DELHI - India and Pakistan exchanged an escalating series of tit-for-tat diplomatic measures on Thursday after New Delhi blamed its regional rival for backing a deadly shooting attack in contested Kashmir.
Classic cars back on the road - in Gaza City
AFP, Published on 24/08/2023
» GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - The vintage beige Mercedes would be eye-catching anywhere in the world, but it is especially so on the streets of impoverished Gaza City.
More than 80 killed in Pakistan mosque blast targeting police
AFP, Published on 31/01/2023
» PESHAWAR (PAKISTAN) - Bodies were still being pulled Tuesday from the wreckage of a mosque blast that targeted police officers in northwestern Pakistan, killing more than 80 people and wounding 150 more.
Police among 61 dead and 150 wounded in Pakistan mosque blast
AFP, Published on 31/01/2023
» PESHAWAR (PAKISTAN) - Police were among 61 people killed and 150 wounded in a blast at a mosque inside a highly sensitive Pakistan police headquarters on Monday, prompting the government to put the country on high alert.
Former Pakistan PM Khan vows to fight on in first rally since being shot
AFP, Published on 26/11/2022
» RAWALPINDI (PAKISTAN) - Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan told tens of thousands of supporters Saturday he would fight with his "last drop of blood" in a first public address since being shot in an assassination attempt earlier this month.
Egypt's COP27 climate summit comes at a 'watershed moment'
AFP, Published on 04/11/2022
» CAIRO - Leaders of a divided world meet in Egypt on Monday tasked with taming the terrifying juggernaut of global warming as they face gale-force geopolitical crosswinds, including the war in Ukraine and economic turmoil.
Grave injustice: Not even the dead rest easy in Pakistan megacity
AFP, Published on 14/04/2022
» KARACHI - In the teeming metropolis of Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, graveyards are filling up and the dead are running out of space to rest.