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KHYBER AGENCY Terrorists destroyed two government schools and one bridge with explosives on Thursday morning. According to media reports, terrorists planted explosives inside the government girls and boys primary schools in Zakakhael and blew up both buildings. In another incident, the militants blasted apart a bridge in the Atta Kheal area, said the reports.

LAHORE - Two robbers were shot dead by a 50-year-old constable in an alleged encounter in the Baghbanpura Police precincts on Thursday. According to the police, two robbers carried out a robbery bid in a house one Naveed resident of Rasheedpura located in Harbanspura Police precincts. The police said that the two robbers looted valuables including gold ornaments, cash and mobile phones worth thousands of rupees on gun point and later tried to escape but locals of the area chased them

SRINAGAR - Traders in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) have suspended cross Line of Control (LoC) trade for the next two weeks due to unnecessary harassment by Indian Commercial Tax Department. Per details, over 30 traders involved in cross LoC trade said in a statement issued after a meeting in Poonch that they had decided to suspend their activities for two weeks to protest against the Commercial Tax Department.
The traders also took out a protest rally later.
They said according

PESHAWAR - At least 36 people were killed and more than 50 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral in Adezai village on the Peshawar-Kohat Road on Wednesday. The attack was the second in the country in as many days, following Tuesday's car bombing near the office of the Inter-Services Intelligence in Faisalabad. Police said that the explosion took place when around 300 people were preparing to offer funeral prayers for a relative of an active member of the Adezai

QUETTA - The two missing judges of Balochistan were recovered in the wee hours of Tuesday after ten days of hectic efforts on part of administration and tribal officials. However, none of the abductors could be apprehended. Sibi District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Jan Gohar and Sibi Civil Judge Muhammad Ali Kakar were abducted by unknown armed persons on February 27 while hey were on their way to Usta Mohammad area of Jaffarabad to attend a wedding. Sibi Deputy Inspector General

ISLAMABAD - The Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet (ECC) on Tuesday decided to extend by two years the government guarantees for Rs 5 billion loans of the Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (PIAC), approved conversion of Rs 1 billion loans of the Heavy Electrical Complex (HEC) as government equity to make the entity viable for privatisation and formed a sub-committee to decide the quantity of strategic reserves of wheat to be maintained.
Finance Minister Dr

SEOUL - North and South Korea remained at loggerheads Tuesday over Pyongyang's demand that all 31 of its citizens stranded in the South be repatriated, including four would-be defectors. In its latest comments, the North said it was "nonsensical" for the South to try to send back only 27 of the 31 people whose fishing boat drifted across the border in thick fog last month.
The North refuses to accept that two men and two women want to defect, and says the South pressured group

QUETTA - Two children were injured in a toy bomb explosion in Quetta's suburbs on Monday. According to police, Attaur Rehman was playing with his sister Bilqees, 6, near his house located at Kirani Road when they found a hard object and started playing with it. Resultantly, the object exploded and seriously injured both the children who were later shifted to a hospital. Police spotted an improvised explosive device (IED) attached with an electric pylon at Kirani Road and called the

LAHORE - The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab on Monday filed a reference in an accountability court against two former deputy commissioners, two former assistant commissioners and a deputy tehsil nazim along with two others over charges of illegal allotment of 1,240 kanal state land. The reference has been filed against former Bahawalnagar deputy commissioner (DC) Saeed Zafar, former Bahawalnagar deputy commissioner Khalid Bashir Tarar, former Fort Abbas assistant

MURIDKE - Lahore police seized 16 stolen motorcycles and arrested two accused from the city area of Muridke. Reportedly, Hanjarwal Police Station conducted a raid here at Iqbal Park Muridke under the supervision of Sabzazar Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Shoaib Ahmed and seized 16 new Honda 125 motorcycles from a house. The police claimed that the accused had stolen and snatched the motorcycles from different areas of Lahore and had been living in the house which was the

KASUR - Two women were electrocuted at village Jeve Wala Khooh in the Ganda Singhwala police precincts. Reportedly,Nadeem had protected his fields the help of electric wires.
On the day of the incident, Fatima and Nasreen were electrocuted when they went to the fields and accidentally touched the wires.
MAN GUNNED DOWN: A man was shot dead over a minor issue at Kotha Kalan village in the jurisdiction of Kanganpur police station. Reportedly, some members resorted to aerial

OKARA - Two fake powdered milk factories have been sealed in the areas of Depalpur.
DDO Health Dr Abdul Aziz received information that adulterated milk was being produced at a large scale through hazardous chemicals in Kot Fazil Dakhli, Faridkot. Acting on the information, Dr Abdul Aziz raided the factory and recovered 250 litres ready powdered milk and chemicals.
The milk was taken into custody and Muhammad Jafar and Hashim Ali were arrested. A case against them was also

KARACHI Two bodies were found in separate areas of the city on Saturday. The body of 40-year-old man Zahid Hussain was found in a pond near Liaquatabad. Police shifted the body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Gulbahar police said that the victim was idnapped on Friday night and the murder might have been motivated by personal enmity.
Another body was found in a pond near Korangi Crossing. Korangi Industrial Area police said that the identity of the 40-year-old man could not be

KARACHI - A former employee of Airblue has written a letter to Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Board of Directors (BoD) member and Vice Chief of the Air Staff Air Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt, seeking his immediate intervention in the case of CAA Flight Inspector Capt Shafqat Mehmood. Sources have informed Pakistan Today that Capt Mehmood managed to have the CAA Board of Inquiry (BoI) president replaced and the terms of reference (ToR) of the inquiry being conducted against him

CAIRO - Two men were killed during clashes in Egypt between Muslims and Christians, which also saw Muslims set fire to a church in the village of Sol, south of Cairo, a security official said on Saturday. "Two people were killed, and the Shahedain church set on fire in clashes between two families," the official told the MENA news agency.
The violence was triggered by a feud between the families, which disapproved of a romantic relationship between a Christian man and a Muslim

MUSCAT - Oman's Sultan Qaboos has replaced two ministers, days after protests erupted demanding an end to corruption and reforms in the normally placid Gulf state, official media reported on Saturday.
The sultan has appointed Khaled bin Hilal bin Saud al-Bousaidi as a minister of the royal court, replacing Ali bin Humud al-Bousaidi, the state ONA news agency said.
He also appointed Sultan bin Mohammed al-Numani as minister in the sultan's office, replacing Ali bin Majid

QUETTA - Two more bullet-riddled bodies were recovered from Mastung district, some 60 km south of Quetta, on Friday. According to Levies officials, local people spotted two dead bodies in Ghanja Dori area in the outskirts of Mastung and informed local Levies.
A Tehsildar Muhammad Ismail along with some personnel rushed to the spot and moved the bodies to Civil Hospital Mastung. The officials said that victims' hands were tied with ropes and both received bullets in the head and