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Pakistan to lodge U.N. complaint against India for 'eco-terrorism' forest bombing
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India refuses to share proof of strikes in Pakistan amid doubts of militant deaths
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Pakistan’s F-16 combat jets have all been accounted for, U.S.-based Foreign Policy magazine said, citing U.S. officials, contradicting an Indian air force assessment that it had shot down one of the jets in February
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BREAKING: Pakistan military says shot down two Indian aircraft inside Pakistani airspace, captured one pilot
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A Pakistan man born without arms has mastered the game of snooker. Meet Muhammad Ikram:
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JUST IN: Pakistan ambassador to Afghanistan says that Afghan peace talks will be affected if India resorts to violence against Pakistan after Kashmir attack
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JUST IN: Pakistan inflation rises to 9.41 percent in March - statistics bureau
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Pakistani village asks: Where are bodies of militants India says it bombed?
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The daughter of an Afghan coal miner has come top in the country’s university entrance exam and set her sights on becoming a doctor
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JUST IN: U.S. shares concerns about "flaws in the pre-voting electoral process" in Pakistan - State Department
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Kabul's streets were deserted early on Monday, a day after Taliban insurgents took over the Afghanistan capital without a fight, but the airport was jammed with hundreds of civilians trying to flee
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BREAKING: S&P raises Pakistan sovereign credit rating to B from B-
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#UNGA
- Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says India has posed "unacceptable" pre-conditions to dialogue
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BREAKING: Pakistan PM Imran Khan says downed Indian pilot to be released on Friday 'as a peace gesture'
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JUST IN: EU monitoring team for Pakistan election says campaign was not a level playing field for all parties
#ElectionPakistan2018
#PakistanElections2018
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BREAKING: Suicide bomber at Friday prayers kills at least 16 people at Pakistan mosque in Mohmand tribal area - regional official
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British RAF's "Red Arrows" aerobatic team performs in an air show in Karachi to mark 70 years of friendship between Britain and Pakistan.
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Haider Ali of Pakistan won
#bronze
in the men’s long jump at the Rio
#Paralympics
, Sept. 13. Photo by Ricardo Moraes
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At least 20 people were killed and more than 200 injured when an earthquake struck southern Pakistan, according to Disaster Management Authority Director General Naseer Nasir
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Pakistan army confirms plan in place to integrate militant-linked groups into mainstream politics by
@AsiffShahzad
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UPDATE: Saudis offer Pakistan $6 billion rescue package to ease economic crisis by
@kayatrtrz
@asiffshahzad
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Britain's Royal Air Force "Red Arrows" aerobatic team performs at an air show in Karachi, October 5, 2017. Reuters photos by Akhtar Soomro
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JUST IN: Pakistan says takes control of 182 religious schools, detains 121 people in crackdown on militant groups
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Pakistanis celebrate the country's 71st Independence Day at a ceremony at the mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi, August 14, 2018. 📷 Akhtar Soomro
#14August2018
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A global money-laundering watchdog has decided to place Pakistan back on its terrorist financing watchlist, a government official and a diplomat said by
@kayatrtrz
@Draz_DJ
#FATF
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Ousted Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif sentenced to 10 years in prison, daughter
#MaryamNawaz
gets seven-year term
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Taliban call on Biden to stick to U.S. troop withdrawal deal
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S&P on Pakistan - Improved macroeconomic stability has raised Pakistan's growth prospects and bolstered its fiscal and external buffers
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After campaign to oust Pakistan PM, cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan looks to take the job by
@kayatisloo
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#UNGA
- Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says India putting unacceptable conditions on dialogue. See more:
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High-resolution satellite images reviewed by Reuters show that a religious school run by JeM in Pakistan appears to be still standing days after India claimed its warplanes had hit the Islamist group's training camp and killed a large number of militants
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Supporters of PTI Chairman
#ImranKhan
cheer at a celebration rally in Islamabad, Nov. 2, 2016. Reuters photos by Caren Firouz
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JUST IN: U.S. State Department places Pakistan on special watch list for severe violations of religious freedom
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Pakistan orders shutdown of rights groups over "anti-state" activities.
@Saad_Scrawls
reports. See more:
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Heavily pregnant Taj Bibi prays for her fourth husband as the Afghan soldier sets off to battle the Taliban, hoping his fate won’t be the same as that of his three brothers, her first three husbands, all killed fighting the militants
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Girls play on the grounds of Lahore's Badshahi Mosque during a day with heavy air pollution October 30, 2017. Reuters photo by Mohsin Raza
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In Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, rights activist Maryam Durani has found a fresh outlet for her decades of advocacy - a gym for women
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Zafarullah Achakzai, a reporter for the Daily Qudrat newspaper, arrested under a new electronic crime law
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UPDATE:
#MikePompeo
upbeat on 'reset' with Pakistan after meeting new PM Imran Khan by
@phildstewart
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BREAKING: Pakistan captures one Indian soldier along disputed border in Kashmir - Indian and Pakistan military officials
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China defends ally Pakistan after Trump criticism
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EXCLUSIVE: Taliban officials and Afghan representatives have agreed on a code of conduct that sets ground rules to advance their peace talks in Doha
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Pakistan rejects U.S. sanctions against Kashmir militant Syed Salahuddin
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BREAKING: Haqqani network still enjoys sanctuaries in Pakistan, says commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan
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Gunmen battle Afghan security forces on Kabul University campus
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Five members of an all-girl Afghan robotics team arrived in Mexico on Tuesday, fleeing an uncertain future at home after the recent collapse of the U.S.-backed government and takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan
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Nobel winner Malala visits hometown in Pakistan for first time since shooting
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JUST IN: Pakistan Supreme Court orders ex-PM Nawaz Sharif removed as head of his political party
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MORE: Pakistan PM Imran Khan says Indian pilot to be released Friday as peace gesture
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MORE: EU monitoring team says Pakistan election not a level playing field
#ElectionPakistan2018
#PakistanElections2018
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Female commandos and police march during a ceremony on International
#WomensDay
, at the police headquarters in Islamabad, Pakistan March 8, 2018. 📷 Faisal Mahmood
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Pakistan's trade deficit in July-December, the first half of the fiscal year, narrowed by 5 percent from the same period in 2017, helped by efforts to curb imports and ward off a looming balance of payments crisis
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Pakistan Supreme Court rules insufficient evidence to remove PM Nawaz Sharif over corruption allegations, orders further investigation
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Pakistan will begin lifting its coronavirus lockdown on Saturday, Prime Minister Imran Khan said, hours after the country announced its highest daily increase in new cases
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Boys with faces smeared with colours celebrate the festival of Holi at Karachi's Shri Swaminarayan temple, March 12. Photo by Akhtar Soomro
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JUST IN: Pakistani military spokesman says Pakistan army has only one Indian pilot in custody, previously said two captured
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Pakistan's ex-PM Sharif says intelligence chief asked him to resign
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Pakistani woman police commander Suhai Aziz Talpur led defence of Chinese mission by
@syedraza_hassan
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Afghan woman shot, blinded, for getting a job
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General view of people visiting Hanna Lake after snowfall on the outskirts of Quetta, Pakistan, Jan. 15, 2017. Reuters photo by Naseer Ahmed
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Pakistan eyes investment pacts with Saudi Arabia, UAE
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State funeral for German-born Catholic nun Ruth Pfau, widely known as Pakistan's Mother Teresa, who fought leprosy
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Five members of an all-girl Afghan robotics team arrived in Mexico, fleeing an uncertain future at home. The team has been heralded for winning international awards for its robots
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The heaviest rains in 38 years have turned roads into virtual rivers in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, stranding motorists and leaving at least six people dead by
@BukhariMubasher
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Pakistan beat India in a World Cup match for the first time ever with a 10-wicket win in a Super 12 match at the
#T20WorldCup2021
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JUST IN: Pakistan PM Imran Khan says 'we should sit down and talk' to resolve crisis with India
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S&P on Pakistan - Revised upward forecasts of average annual GDP growth to 5 pct over 2016-2019 from earlier estimate of 4.7 pct
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#UNGA
- Nawaz Sharif says cannot ignore India's arms build-up and will do whatever is necessary to maintain credible deterrence
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Protesters in Peshawar condemn the killing of university student Mashal Khan after he was accused of blasphemy, April 20. Photo: Fayaz Aziz
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Members of the anti-narcotics force pose for a picture as drugs are burned during a ceremony in Islamabad, Pakistan December 5, 2017. Reuters photo by Caren Firouz
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A man guides his donkey and cart down a street on a rainy day in Islamabad, Pakistan February 24, 2018. Reuters photo by Caren Firouz
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Transgender community holds rare party in Peshawar under police guard. See more:
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Pakistan envoy calls on U.S. to play greater role in India-Pakistan tensions
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BREAKING: Pakistan orders Hafiz Saeed, accused mastermind of 2008 Mumbai attacks in India, under house arrest - spokesman
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ICYMI | Pakistani journalist Taha Siddiqui, known for criticizing his country's military establishment, escapes kidnap attempt by
@Draz_DJ
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How a phone app and a database served up Imran Khan's Pakistan poll win by
@Saad_Scrawls
@Draz_DJ
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PHOTO: A rocket is fired during military exercises in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, November 16, 2016.
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MORE: Pakistan warns that Afghan talks will be affected if India retaliates over Kashmir
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JUST IN: Pakistan court orders
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UPDATE: Pakistan shoots down Indian jets, carries out airstrikes in Kashmir by
@jmackreuters
@AlasdairPal
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Timeline: The three-time rise and fall of Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif
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An Afghan woman’s campaign calling for mothers’ names to be included on identity cards has stirred heated debate in the conservative Muslim country where, for some, speaking a woman’s name in public is taboo
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Taliban insurgents began entering Kabul after taking control of all of Afghanistan's major cities apart from the capital.
Following are some of the major milestones in the Islamist militant movement's advance in recent months
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The death toll from a bomb attack outside a school in the Afghan capital Kabul has risen to 68, officials said on Sunday
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A man rides a motorbike with a national flag ahead of the country's Independence Day in Islamabad, Pakistan August 13, 2018. 📷 Faisal Mahmood
#14August2018
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Pakistan anti-graft agents arrest opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif
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