Pakistan plane crashes near Karachi, all 107 killed

Agence France Presse 05/22/2020

  Update KARACHI, Pakistan  — A passenger plane belonging to state-run Pakistan International Airlines crashed near the southern port city of Karachi on Friday, killing all 107 passengers and crew, the city’s mayor said. The aircraft crashed…

Women’s fight for toilets in rural Pakistan villages

AFP 11/25/2018

For as long as she can remember, Ayeesha Siddiqua has fought her male relatives for access to toilets — but a sanitation drive by new premier Imran Khan could make life easier for women in patriarchal Pakistan.…

Nobel laureate Malala returns to Pakistan home

AP 04/01/2018

Pakistan’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has entered her home in the northwestern town of Mingora in the Swat Valley the first time since 2012. That was the year the Taliban attacked the then-14-year-old for advocating…

Death toll in Pakistan’s oil tanker explosion reaches 174

AFP 06/30/2017

  The death toll from an oil tanker explosion in central Pakistan has risen to 174, officials said Thursday, including the driver who warned people scooping up spilled fuel to stay away but was ignored. The tanker…

Egypt’s highest court quashes Morsi life sentence

11/23/2016

CAIRO — An Egyptian appeals court on Tuesday quashed one of two life sentences handed down to Mohamed Morsi since his 2013 overthrow, the Islamist ex-president’s second appeals victory in a week. Morsi’s lawyer and a judicial…

LONE BET

Glendale G. Rosal 07/25/2016

Rafael Vidal is only PH karateka competing in Asia-Pacific Karate tilt Cebuano karateka Rafael Vidal will be the lone Filipino competitor in the upcoming Hayashi-ha 4th Asia-Pacific Karate and Kobudo Championships this weekend in Colombo, Sri Lanka.…

Pakistan heat wave death toll hits 782

AP 06/24/2015

While prolonged power cuts and the harsh heatwave persisted across Sindh province, another 337 people — 311 in Karachi alone — died in public and private sector hospitals on Tuesday, taking the combined death toll to 782…

141 mostly children killed in Pakistan attack

12/17/2014

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — In the deadliest slaughter of innocents in Pakistan in years, Taliban gunmen attacked a military-run school Tuesday and killed 141 people — almost all of them students — before government troops ended the siege.…

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