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Jakarta ranks world's largest city as Tokyo slips to 3rd
Kyodo News, Published on 01/01/2026
» KYODO — Jakarta ranked as the world's largest city with 41.9 million inhabitants followed by Dhaka, while Tokyo slipped to third against the backdrop of population growth in the developing nations and Japan's greying society, a recent United Nations (UN) report on urbanisation prospects shows.
'I know it's immoral': Child labour still common in Pakistan
AFP, Published on 13/10/2025
» KARACHI - From the age of 10, Amina has been scrubbing, sweeping and cooking in a middle-class home in Pakistan's megacity of Karachi.
No pause for food delivery riders during Pakistan's monsoon
AFP, Published on 24/09/2025
» LAHORE — Abdullah Abbas waded through Lahore's flooded streets, struggling to push his motorcycle and deliver a food order on time.
Search continues after Pakistan building collapse kills 16
AFP, Published on 05/07/2025
» KARACHI - Rescue teams in Pakistan worked in searing heat and humidity on Saturday to recover residents trapped under the rubble of a building that collapsed, killing 16 people.
Pakistan building collapse kills at least 7
AFP, Published on 04/07/2025
» KARACHI - A five-storey building collapsed in Pakistan on Friday, killing at least seven people and injuring eight, officials said, with rescuers searching through the rubble for trapped victims.
India, Pakistan move closer to full war
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/05/2025
» ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's army said it struck several Indian military sites early Saturday in retaliation for missile strikes on airbases, a significant escalation that moves the two nuclear-armed neighbours closer to all-out war.
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.
'Education apartheid': schooling in crisis in Pakistan
AFP, Published on 11/01/2025
» ABDULLAH GOTH — Aneesa Haroon drops off her tattered school bag at her rural home in Pakistan and hurriedly grabs lunch before joining her father in the fields to pick vegetables.
Imposing pickup trucks symbolise Pakistan's power gulf
AFP, Published on 20/12/2024
» KARACHI - In Pakistan's largest city, cars inch forward in bumper-to-bumper traffic. But some seamlessly carve through the jam: SUVs flanked by Toyota Hilux pickup trucks.
Islamist militants dressed as women kill 4 in Pakistan
South China Morning Post, Published on 15/10/2024
» BANNU - Islamist militants dressed as women in burkas stormed a northwestern Pakistani district police office on Monday, killing three policemen and a civilian before police shot and killed all five attackers.