KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) released Rs28.22 billion worth of currency notes during the holy month of Ramazan.Spokesman SBP Syed Waseemuddin told Geo News that special arrangements have been made for making available new currency notes during the month of Ramazan and on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr.
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ISLAMABAD: A militant outfit, Fidaen-e-Islam has claimed responsibility of the suicide attack on Marriott hotel in Islamabad.Militants of the outfit made a telephone call to Geo News and claimed responsibility of the deadly act of September 20. According to Geo News, in a videotaped message forwarded after the telephone call, which is being kept confidential due to security reasons, the group has also made many other demands from the government.
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An official at Afghanistan’s mission in northwestern Pakistan says gunmen have kidnapped an Afghan diplomat and killed his driver.
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British Airways has halted all flights to Pakistan following the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, a spokesman for the airline said on Monday.
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Two local intelligence officials say troops and tribesmen opened fire when two U.S. helicopters crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan.
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Pakistan’s president, prime minister and other Cabinet members were supposed to have been at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad when a massive truck bomb detonated outside, killing 57 and injuring 266, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Monday.
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Pakistan’s president and prime minister were due to eat in the Islamabad Marriot the night the hotel was bombed, before a change of plan, officials say.
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ISLAMABAD: The dead body of Czech ambassador who was killed in the suicide bomb attack on Islamabad’’s Marriott Hotel, was repatriated to Czech Republic through special aircraft. The guard of honour was also given to the slain Czech envoy by a contingent of Pakistan’’s army. The 47-year-old father of two, diplomat Ivo Zdarek named as the Czech ambassador to Pakistan in August, had been living alone at the Marriott Hotel since his arrival last month.
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A huge truck bombing at Islamabad?s Marriott Hotel was one of the worst acts of terrorism in Pakistan?s history.
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A spokesman says British Airways has temporarily suspended flights to and from Pakistan amid security fears following the deadly blast at Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel.
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