Iftikhar Firdous
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The more you understand structured militancy and global terrorism, the more you realise the basic unit of conflict is the absence of the state, failure to deliver timely justice, address inequality & impose itself through service delivery rather than force.
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Quite a power show by PTI in
#Peshawar
.. considering the comparison with the previous gathering before Imran Khan was ousted from office. There were families in cars who couldn’t make it to the ground.
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People out on the road at midnight in Peshawar, shouting “Naseem Khan Zindabad” celebrating Pakistans victory over Afghanistan.
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Unprecedented Jamiat Ulema Islam’s Fazlurehman’s candidate Mufti Kifayat says that there have been no mala fide practices on NA-15, people voted for PTI backed candidate Shahzada Gustashap. PMLN Chief Nawaz Sharif should also accept defeat, his case is very weak. I also accept
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With the resignation of PTI MNA’s from the Parliament, the message is very clear Imran Khan is going to take this political war to the streets of Pakistan.
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Source claims the PMLN candidate who won against PTI’s Taimur Jhagra on PK 79 is going to get disqualified on the basis of his fabricated national identity card.
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I am officially Khyber Pakhtunkhwa now. Removing Fata from my twitter bio. Lovely day to be alive and witness it happening.
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Just spoke to the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mahmood Khan, he said he was not invited to the National Security Conference meeting that is being held today in the light of escalating violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. So much for a national consensus.
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And forgive Hassan Ali, don’t do what Indian fans did to Shami. We all have bad days.
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Heard the Aalim from the mosque asking people not to come for the Friday prayers, then he begun crying in the middle of the announcement. Brought tears to my eyes as well. These are difficult times, may we all stay protected.
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Women in Bayzai sub-division of Mohmand Tribal District (ex-Fata), 5 kilometres from the Afghan border got out to vote for the first time. (My hometown as well)
#GeneralElection2018
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In 2000 Pakistani Rupees, you cannot just find an activated sim but also get a thumb that matches someone else’s impression in Pakistan’s NADRA database.
The Federal Investigation Agencies’s Cyber Crime Unit from Dera Ismail Khan have arrested two and seized 2800 thumbs & SIM’s.
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Post-Aftar National Assembly session has a higher ranking than Netflix.
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Unbelievable an Indian Channel is showing a viral video of a marriage in Khyber Paktunkhwa, Pakistan. Dancers in the marriage are masquerading. The anchor is showing them as Taliban celebrating the take over of Maidan in Afghanistan . This is next level bullshit lol.
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Congratulations to the Election Commision of Pakistan for becoming the first civilian body for violating the constitution of the country.
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The Munda Headworks bridge has collapsed. It’s is the one of the main barrages to control the water of the river Swat. Situated in Charsadda.
People downwards should evacuate immediately, officials have requested to spread the message. 🚨
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Just attended the 100 days briefing for PTI in KP. The minister for information kept on saying “the last government did not have a plan”. Someone from across the room shouted“it was the PTI’s government last time as well”. *awkward silence*
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I was contacted to be part of the interim setup in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, I’ve politely declined the offer. I am a career journalist by choice and I feel I have a long way to go with no poltiical aspirations for the time being. Thank you for all your wishes.
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A court in Peshawar has sentenced a man for 8 years in Prison and fined him 50K PKR for uploading pictures of women without their permission.
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Zee News actually ran a picture of F-16 Naswar to prove their point. Unbelievable!
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Peshawar echoing with PTI protests charged by Anti American Sentiments — “Amreeka Ka Jo Yar Hai Ghaddar Hai” — “Americas friends are traitors” — majority of the protestors are young men and women.
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Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in a hurry to inaugurate the Trabela Project 4, prematurely ordered to start the turbines on a dead level of Water in March to claim tat 1400MW of electricity had been added to the National Grid. The result is today catastrophic.
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Benazir Income Support Programme Charsadda!! Regardless of the fact once the video goes out these policemen will be be suspended and the district police chief will spring into action. But the animosity and anger by treating the poor women in such a manner lasts forever. Civil
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Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf’s (PTIs) long March aerial view from Swabi, seems quite a sizeable number of vehicles considering that the participants from the Southern parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa haven’t reached yet. How many of these people will move with the protest is not known yet.
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NOWSHERA, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA.
The Deputy Commisioner has asked people to evacuate from Nowshera Kalan, Khat Kalay, Police Lines area,Aman Garh, Dhobi Ghat, Labour colony, Cantonment Board Building, Al Hamra Guardans,Merathi etc. 0.4 million cusecs of flood water to hit.
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The Sikhs of
#Peshawar
along with residents of the city have blocked the Grand Trunk road near Balahisar Fort demanding compensation and protection after todays terrorist incident where two Sikh traders were gunned down earlier in the morning.
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It’s now certain that Charsadda and Nowshera districts including surrounding area will be flooded in a few hours. Residents of both districts have been asked to evacuate their homes to save their lives : Official
[Please spread the message]
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In one of the main mosques in Peshawar’s Hayatabad area, the Imam’s Friday lecture was about what happened in KSA between the Govt delegation & PTI supporters. The Imam of the mosque was surrounded by PTI supporters, elders from the area had to intervene to save him.
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Now the labourers working on the BRT are protesting because they haven’t been paid their wages. What else does a disaster look like.
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Passing through
#Peshawar
city at this hour. Sindhi taranas (songs) from the PPP camp, Urdu from the PTI camp, Punjabi from the PML-N side & Pashto from ANP. All in less than a kilometre. Diversity is beautiful!
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In Tank district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Ulema refused to offer funeral prayers for a woman for the reason that they voted for PTI and not JUI-F. [am withholding details for the privacy of the family]
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🚨 Police control says that both bridges connecting Peshawar with Charsadda at Khyali have cracked with water flowing over the bridge. Cutting off the land route between the districts on GT Road. 🚨
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Interesting video, how political processes can achieve communal and sectarian harmony. This is Sadda Bazar, Kurram Tribal District where joint candidates with local support from PTI and MWM won. A sort of achievement that was difficult to achieve because of the many recent
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Corps Commander Peshawar Lt. Gen Faiz Hameed was in North Waziristan’s Datta Khel area today, was seen amongst people, locals says he discussed their problems with them including a long standing demand of a bank. North Waziristan has the largest immigrant population in Pakistan.
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And once again a portion of the Peshawar BRT is being dismantled because they probably forgot something. Even worse, the underpasses are filled with water. The suction pipe pulling out the water is channeled to the main road!!! So that the BRT is dried but the main road flooded!
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FACT CHECK: Just spoke to Haseeba Noori, the Afghan Singer who was reported to be killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. She is well and alive. She is in Karachi. Social media and some news websites had shared the news of her death.
Her picture was taken while she was undergoing an
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Putting this up to soothe your timelines of all the misery the world has seen from today’s evening in Kalam valley, Swat.
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So the person who uploaded a video for harassing Kalash women, was apprehended by the women police force of Chitral to “show that the women in Chitral are empowered”.
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Its absolute fabulous to see how intellectually mature & emotionally responsible majority of Pakistan has been in these tough times.
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The infamous Charsi Tikka Owner, Nisar Khan ‘Charsi’ has been put behind bars by Peshawar police after residents complained he was kissing his customers on the road, that included some foreign tourists.
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There is literally nothing happening in
#Peshawar
at the moment. Tweeting this because I am bombarded with phone calls and messages. The protests in the city are over, for now.
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A women in Peshawar, after her husband tested positive but would not stay home. Went to the mosque to tell the people her husband was
#COVID19
positive and should not be allowed. (The name of the area is witheld on her request)
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Another injured is pulled out alive of the rubble of the mosque 10 hours later. The search for more survivors continue in Peshawar.
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This picture from Pakistan-Afghanistan border in
#Bajaur
tribal district shows an 11.5 feet high double fence at the Southern Roots of the Hindukush mountain range around 10 thousand feet above sea level. Built by the Pakistan military.
#KhyberPakhtunkhwa
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Foodpanda rider looted for Pizza by robbers in Peshawar. “They put a gun to my head, first they ate the pizza then they took away my cell phone as well”. Such is the state of affairs as the economic crisis deepens.
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They were asking him to follow COVID SOP’s for BRT travellers by wearing a mask before entering the bus. The reaction is visible in the CCTV.
#Peshawar
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Zaki Anwari, a footballer of the Afghanistan Youth National Team was one of the unfortunate persons who was shown falling from a USAF Boeing C-17 plane while it just taken off, his identity was confirmed by the Afghan Directorate of Sports.
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Not a single student has enrolled in the Philosophy department of University of Peshawar this year. A sign of intellectual degradation of our society. Education is now the lucrative means to the ideal, “Good Life” nothing more or less.
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Tank? — It’s a police armoured personnel carrier (APC). That’s usually parked near the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly.
This is unprecedented.
A Pakistan army tank, displayed as a symbol of the military’s might in Peshawar — and so many other cities across the country — is vandalised by angry protestors after the attack on Imran Khan.
Not in 75 years of history has this been witnessed in Pak.
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Although by-elections on a local government level are usually considered insignificant, but the PTI has beaten the JUI-F with a lead of 7,000 plus votes. The optics of it after a day of Khan’s arrest will play well in favour of the party’s sentiment.
#PeshawarByElection
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Women are stripped naked and beaten in Faisalabad for allegedly being involved in robbery in the middle of the road. There is something seriously gone wrong in this country!
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The 1st Corona Positive case in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s largest hospital, 47 years old from District Karak with a travel history from UK, has finally recovered after being on a ventilator for 17 days in the ICU. A spokesperson for the LRH, said.
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Heatwave triggered Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) in Gilgit Baltistan destroying agricultural land, the Hassan Abad bridge & sweeping houses along. Pakistan meteorological department forecasts more GLOF events in the norther areas particularly in Chitral.
#ClimateChange
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Reporter from DC: “PM Imran Khan has entered the White House, we’ve been told that exit from Afghanistan is at top of the agenda”
Anchor from Lahore : “is water served to PM Khan? He’s travelled such a long way - what other dishes are there on the menu?”
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Sad to see the biggest hospital in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has defaulted. The spokesperson for the Lady Reading Hospital says the hospital cannot pay salaries, the procurement of medicine has stopped and they’re pondering now to shutdown specific operation theatres.
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The US central command says that it’s killed the planner of the Kabul airport bombing belonging to Islamic State - Khurasan (ISIS-K) in a drone attack carried out in Nangarhar,
#Afghanistan
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My companion for the last 14 years, Chopper, passed away today. He had been struggling with cancer for the last two years, when the doctor asked us if we wanted to euthanise him. But he could walk and breathe, how could we? - this morning he breathed his last in silence.
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Iran has blamed the Afghan Taliban for harbouring and aiding Jaishul Adal on its territory. But it attacks Pakistan instead.
Is someone trying to pull Pakistan into the fire that’s gradually engulfing the Middle East? — the larger strategic game is set it seems. Pakistan will
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Sanity would mean to accept the public mandate and reconcile around it. Pakistan has one of the largest youth bulge, accept their mandate otherwise this will lead to a dangerous confrontation. The public has voiced in favour of PTI. The country cannot take anymore turmoil.
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I can’t stop laughing at this. Just can’t. The world has Pegasus, Code Injections Attacks, Spoofing, Phishing, DDOS while we have bathroom equipment to hide our location. LOL… what on earth kind of journalism is this.
واش روم کی ٹونٹی چلا کر لوکیشن کیسے چھپائی جا سکتی ہے بھلا؟ اے عظیم صحافی تیری ذہانت و فطانت پر 🖐🏽
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A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) event is reported in Kalam valley of Swat. Locals say it’s a cloud burst. Last time such an occurrence was reported in Upper Chitral, where carbon particles stuck to glacial ice caused radiation, resulting in 3/4th of the district washed away.
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FACT CHECK: The letter of the TTP circulating and congratulating Ali Amin Gandapur on being CM is fake.
(Since multiple people tagged me thought of putting this out)
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By the way when the police interrogated him last night, his statement in self defence was: “I was wearing the mask as part of the SOPs to protect myself from the Corona Virus”
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While Karachi might have camera and footages but in Two districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — Swabi and Dera Ismail Khan floods have inundated entire villages.
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The Statue of Liberty in Bahria Town Islamabad is called the ‘Churail Chowk’ by cab drivers & locals.
So much for cultural nuances.
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Two people including a man and woman died while 8 people have been injured during a free flour distribution point in Bannu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Grinding poverty is bringing women in Bannu, one of the most conservative areas, out on the roads.
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Majority of foreign journalists and their Pakistani affiliates of Western publications have been warned not to post any pro-Palestinian content on their personal blogs and social media handles otherwise they would be laid off. This is the kind of censorship that nobody will speak
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20 سال بعد ضلع لکی مروت سے جے یوآئی - فضل الرحمن کا مکمل صفایا ہوگیا۔ ایک بھی سیٹ نہیں جیت سکے-
شیر افضل مروت نے سلیم سیف اللہ اور مولانا فضل ارحمان کے بیٹے کو بڑے مارجن سے ہرا دیا
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Things have gotten ugly, reports of deaths and injuries in Shangla, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as PTI was protesting against the changing of voting results in Alpuri. The clash is with the police as per local sources where teargas is used.. Military called in to control the situation.
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Someone give Imran Khan a reminder that the MPA Haji Ibrar who he called the 'Timber Mafia' is PTI now.
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Sad to see the Peshawar BRT go down this way that it cannot pay its own expenses. When after visiting Paris, ADB Headquarters, I wrote about the unsustainable model of the Peshawar BRT, my article was taken down from the newspaper I worked for. And I was stopped from reporting on
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The Explosions in Kabul are the US Troops destroying their equipment before leaving. The Taliban’s spokesperson & the US military have both confirmed.
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Political opinions aside, clothing is a personal choice, making fun of the Prime Minister’s wife (the 1st lady) on the basis of her clothing is too low to stoop.
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Fata & Pata are no more. It’s all Khyber Pakhtunkhwa now. Bill passed by 2/3rd majority.
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People such as these restore my faith in humanity and this country. Rescue 1122 workers in
#Peshawar
got a call from someone who said a dog was lying on the road unable to move . They then provided him first aid it & took took him to the hospital.
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The President has formally signed the 25th constitutional amendment bill. Fata is now KP.
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NAB begins inquiry against former KP CM Pervez Khattak and current defence minister along with 14 others - Will he also resign?
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In Fata we have a minimum of 3 thousand guests for the wedding in routine for the tribe and the extended tribe. These guys are worried about 600.
How do you cater for a wedding with 600 guests? 📻
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The Deputy Commisioner from Chakwal in his official communique writes that the PTI MNA, Zulfiqar Ali Khan NA 64 wants the control of posting and transfers of Patwaris asking for action against the MNA. (The clout of the famed Patwaris seems to have seeped into Naya Pakistan)
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I quit smoking. Am I eligible for ‘Sawab’ allowance?
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People on the roads, celebrating Pakistan’s victory. Some even without their shirts in the cold.
#Peshawar
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The Pakistani government and media is faced with such a tough choice to chose between hundreds of people who are dead and several more on the verge of it because of floods in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Shahbaz Gill having juice. History will remember.
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(1)The main handler and mastermind of Islamic State Khurasan (ISKP) Suicide Squad that went into hiding after a suicide bombing at a Shia Mosque in
#Peshawar
killing dozens, has been killed in an intelligence operation this morning, while escorting another suicide bomber:Source
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Speaking to officials on ground in Nowshera, they say things so far have been manageable from their perspective, but believe the next two-three hours are critical as the peak time for the flood waters will begin.
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Funeral prayers for an Asistant Sub Inspector Javed who lost his life in a TTP attack in North Waziristan today. 4FC, 1 policeman & a driver lost their lives in today’s attack.
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ایک آپریشن پنجاب میں بھی کر لیں اور آئی ڈی پیز کو خیبر پختونخوا بھیج دیں- اگلے الیکشن میں آپ کی دلی خواہش پوری ہو جائے گی-
پنجاب میں محسود ، نیازی، ترین و دیگر الیکشن میں کھڑے ہیں ۔
خیبر پختونخوا میں بھی کوئی جٹ، آرائیں، گجر وغیرہ کھڑے ہیں الیکشن میں ؟؟؟
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Actor Dilip Kumar’s (Yousaf Khan) funeral in absentia offered at his birthplace in Muhalla Khudadad, Qissa Khwani,
#Peshawar
. Prayers held for him at various points in the city.
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Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf clearly taking a lead in all major constituencies, it will take a miracle for the rest to catch up with the unofficial numbers coming in from the ROs office.
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The images and videos emerging out of Malakand Division and elsewhere are devastating. Prayers for all the victims and sufferers. [⚠️ The video contains content that shows people washed away by the flood waters]
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Eidhi's son is in Parachinar,inaugurated an Edhi centre,2 ambulances. what was the directorate of health services
#Fata
doing all this time?
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If sources are believed, there are three more resignations in the pipeline. The never ending drama continues.
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SOS call:
ventilator required for a
#COVID19
positive child who is 1.5 years old. Oxygen saturation is 80. Parents have requested for urgent help in Islamabad or Pindi.
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