Pakistan’s health-care system is near collapse (Deseret News)
Pakistan’s rundown health-care system is near collapse, say health officials, bringing yet more instability to a country…
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Funeral prayers of 2 martyred policemen offered
ISLAMABAD: The funeral prayer of two police personnel, martyred during suicide attack on police Rescue-15 building, has been offered here in the G-8 sector early on Sunday morning, Geo news reported.According to sources, the prayer was offered at Police Lines area meanwhile, the orders, for promotion of both policemen onto ASI ranks after their martyrdom, have been issued, sources said.IG Islamabad police Kaleem Imam, SSP Islamabad and other police officials also took part in the prayers who was led by police lines Imam mosque, sources added.
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ATC reserves judgment in kidnapping case
KarachiAn Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) reserved judgment against two defendants in a kidnapping-for-ransom case after hearing the closing argume
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Civil society urged to work for environment protection
KarachiFormer Judge of Supreme Court Justice (retd) Saleem Akhtar said that the civil society would have to come forward to protect the enviro
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Majority of IDPs not willing to return to their native places
Karachi A majority of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Malakand Division of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) is not willing
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53 candidates file papers for NA-55 by-polls
RawalpindiA total of 53 candidates submitted their nomination papers for contesting by-election from NA-55 Rawalpindi here on Saturday.br
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Suicide bomber scythes
ISLAMABAD: Two policemen were killed and five others received injuries in a suicide attack on Saturday evening at the main office of Rescue-15 located
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Eight injured in DCET clash; 20 students rounded up
KarachiA violent clash erupted on Saturday between activists of the Islami Jamiat-e-Tulaba (IJT) and the Pakhtoon Students Federation (Pakhtoo
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Two Muttahida activists shot dead
KarachiTwo activists of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) were shot dead in Shah Faisal Colony and Awami Colony police limits, while the bullet-r
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Mosque bombing heightens fears of Taliban backlash
PESHAWAR: Investigators were Saturday sifting for clues in a mosque in northwest Pakistan where a suicide bomber killed 38 people, as Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani vowed to root out militancy. The attack happened during Friday prayers in a remote, mountainous village in Upper Dir, which borders the district of Swat, where the military Saturday stepped up a concerted air and ground assault against the Taliban. “I want to make it clear that the government will root out militancy with full public support,” Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said during a ceremony in the eastern city of Lahore. “Security forces have achieved important successes in the ongoing military offensive in Swat. We will defeat militancy with the help of our armed forces and people.” There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on the mosque in Upper Dir — bombers particularly target mosques on Fridays, when they are often packed with worshippers. The bombing comes after a series of similar assaults on civilian and security targets in retaliation for the Swat offensive, which was launched in late April. A suicide bomb blast at a police helpline centre in federal capital Islamabad killed two policemen late Saturday. Militants targeted the same helpline service in an attack in Lahore 10 days earlier. The military’’s push to reclaim Swat appears to have the rebels on the run though.
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