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  Three killed in bomb targeting police in Pakistan's Lahore

  Agence France-Presse . Lahore, Pakistan | Updated at 08:11pm on June 23, 2021

  A bomb killed at least three people in Pakistan's eastern  megacity Lahore on Wednesday, in an attack officials believe targeted police and security forces. The blast happened outside...

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  Story of the last tamarind leaf

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on June 23, 2021

  THE World Press Freedom Index listed by Reporters sans Frontières ranks India at an embarrassing 142 out of 180 countries, actually two places worse than...

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  Bangladesh 3rd most peaceful country in South Asia

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 11:59pm on June 17, 2021

  Bangladesh is the third most peaceful country in South Asia ahead of India and Pakistan, according to Global Peace Index 21 released on Thursday. In...

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  Nuclear arms decline stalls as nations modernise arsenals

  Agence France-Presse . Stockholm | Updated at 10:30pm on June 14, 2021

  As nuclear nations commit to renewing and sometimes expanding their arsenals, a decline seen since the early 1990s seems to have stalled, with some signs...

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  Pakistan police detain 19 after being denied free burgers

  Agence France-Presse. Lahore | Updated at 09:45pm on June 14, 2021

  A group of police officers in Pakistan flipped out when a takeaway joint refused to hand over free burgers, detaining all 19 staff at the...

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  Children pay the price in Pakistan’s mass HIV outbreak

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 09:40pm on June 14, 2021

  Since his son was diagnosed with HIV during a mass outbreak in Pakistan among babies and children, hard-up Shahzado Shar has often been forced to...

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  Hardline Pakistani cleric detained for threating Malala

  Agence France-Presse . Peshawar, Pakistan | Updated at 07:37pm on June 11, 2021

  A firebrand Pakistani scholar has been detained for making death threats against Nobel prize laureate Malala Yousafzai over her comments on marriage, officials said Friday....

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  Pakistan province to block phones of unvaccinated people

  Agence France-Presse . Lahore, Pakistan | Updated at 06:53pm on June 11, 2021

  A Pakistan province said Friday it will block the mobile phones of people refusing to get Covid-19 jabs, in the latest move to penalise the...

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  23 die as bus overturns in Pakistan

  Online Desk | Updated at 05:30pm on June 11, 2021

  At least 23 people were killed and several others sustained injures when a bus overturned on the M8 motorway in Khuzdar district in Pakistan and...

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  Patient dies at Pak hospital as security guard performs surgery

  Agence France-Presse. Lahore, Pakistan | Updated at 08:40pm on June 07, 2021

  A woman died after an ex-security guard at a Pakistani hospital posed as a doctor and performed surgery on her, police said Monday.