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Khairpur Nathan Shah grid station deluged

LARKANA: Deluge has kept its devastating pace maintained in separate parts of Sindh province as in the latest development, the raging flood torrents have entered Khairpur Nathan Shah city of Dadu district to wreak havoc with many Kutchi settlements besides inundating government boys? college, police station, many houses, parks and grid station, Geo New reported [...]

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NATO general criticises Afghan president

BERLIN: German General Egon Ramms, chief of operations of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, criticised Thursday Afghan President Hamid Karzai for failing to support NATO forces in the war against the Taliban.
Ramms said in an interview with the daily economic newspaper Handelsblatt that the president “looks at things from a point of view [...]

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Rare hope in KP as hospital rises from ruin

NOWSHERA: When water gushed through Nowshera hospital last month it filled operating rooms and wards, left them clogged with stinking mud and forced patients to leave, whatever their condition.
Two doctors evacuating the sick had to be airlifted to safety after getting trapped on the top floor of the district hospital, the main [...]

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Blast in Peshawar heard

PESHAWAR: A powerful blast has been heard on Ring Road in Peshawar on Friday morning, Geo News reported.
Meanwhile, police are trying to determine the nature of blast.
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Pak HC critic of ICC over suspension of trio

LONDON: Pakistani High Commissioner in London Wajid Shamsul Hassan has strongly criticized ICC following its ruling of suspension of Pakistani cricket trio: Salman Butt, Mohammed Aamer and Mohammed Asif, alleged cricketer of spot-fixing allegations, Geo News reported Friday.
In his statement, he said ICC Chief Haroon Logart has betrayed Pakistani High Commission (PHC), by telling a [...]

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Settlement policy closes the door to peace: Palestine

WASHINGTON: Middle East talks in Washington have produced a pledge from Israeli and Palestinian leaders to continue regular negotiations, with the goal of a new peace deal by the end of the year.
The US says that’’s the aim of all parties, which met for their first face-to-face talks in almost two years, but Jewish settlements [...]

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Don?t miss chance for peace in ME, pleads Obama

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday pleaded with Israelis and Palestinians not to let slip a fleeting opportunity for peace, as he launched a landmark Middle East diplomatic initiative.
“This moment of opportunity may not soon come again,” Obama warned after holding separate meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas [...]

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Relief work to continue till repatriation of flood victims: PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has stressed the need to continue the relief efforts with the same zeal and zest as exhibited during last weeks till the flood-affected people return to their homes.
The Prime Minister was talking to the Federal Ministers who met him at the Prime Minister House on Thursday to brief [...]

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World Islamic body asks Muslims to tithe for Pakistan

JEDDAH: The Organisation of the Islamic Conference on Thursday appealed to Muslims everywhere to direct their zakat tithes to relief for flood-wracked Pakistan.
The Jeddah-based pan-Islamic organisation, together with the OIC-sponsored International Islamic Fiqh Academy, said in a statement that Muslims everywhere “should not restrain from helping their Pakistani brothers … and should not leave [...]

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Jafferabad cut off for 23 days

JAFFERABAD: Most parts of Jafferabad city in Balochistan left flooded after deluge wreaked devastation there have remained disconnected with other parts of country for 23 consecutive days, Geo News reported.
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