- Pakistan
150 burnt alive in oil tanker explosion
26-Jun-17BAHAWALPUR: An overturned oil tanker exploded in a huge fireball in Pakistan Sunday, killing at least 150 people and injuring scores as crowds scavenging for fuel ignored warnings to stay clear, officials and witnesses said. The horrific early morning tragedy came hours before Pakistan was due to begin Eidul Fitr celebrations marking the end of Ramazan. The tanker carrying 40,000 litres of fuel overturned on a ma ...
- Pakistan
Day after the nuclear option is exercised
26-Jun-17The Panama Papers verdict has been out for quite some time. The manner in which the case has since proceeded gives an impression that the judiciary has indicted and punished itself. The on-going Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probe under the authority of the Supreme Court of Pakistan bench may end up polarising the country even further than the levels witnessed before the SC admitted for hearing petitions by a political opposition that ...
- Pakistan
PM cuts short London visit
26-Jun-17Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, winding up his private trip to London, has decided to return back to country. He will leave for Pakistan in the wake of tragic incident of oil spill in Bahawalpur in which more than 150 people have lost their lives, according to a press release of PM office media wing. Nawaz noted that the terror incidents on Jummatul Wida and Ahmedpur Sharqia tragedy had grieved the nation immensely. He appealed to the nation to p ...
- Pakistan
China launches ‘shuttle diplomacy’ to help Pak-Afghan ties improve
26-Jun-17ISLAMABAD: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday said he had started shuttle diplomacy to improve relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Chinese foreign minister was speaking in Islamabad along with Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz after he concluded two-day hectic consultations with the Afghan and Pakistani leaders. "The purpose of my visit is to respond to the interest expressed by Pakistan and ...
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Nine children killed in toy bomb explosions
26-Jun-17PESHAWAR: At least nine children were killed and another seriously wounded in two separate 'toy' bomb explosions in Mehsud area of South Waziristan agency on Saturday and Sunday. The first incident took place in Parto area of Tayarza Tehsil late on Saturday. Two children were killed when a toy bomb they had picked from a field exploded. On Sunday, the first day of Eidul Fitr in Waziristan, a toy bomb killed seven ...
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