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News Articles: Pakistan

The halt to USAID projects will likely impact secret schools for girls across Afghanistan, which could close as soon as the funds from the U.S. agency go dry. Above: A teenage girl wearing a face mask, head scarf and long black robe at a tutoring center in Kabul, established by a women's rights activist to circumvent a Taliban ban on girls attending secondary school.

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  • Global Health

U.S. aid freeze hits secret girls' schools, post-flood repair and much more

The suspension of foreign aid by the Trump administration is having a worldwide impact. Here's how it has affected projects in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

February 03, 2025
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  • Diaa Hadid
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, right, with his wife Bushra Bibi, speaks to the media before signing documents to submit surety bond over his bails in different cases, at an office of Lahore High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, on July 17, 2023.

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  • World

Court sentences former Pakistani leader Imran Khan to 14 years in prison

Khan has denied wrongdoing and insisted since his arrest in 2023 that all the charges against him are a plot by rivals to keep him from returning to office.

January 17, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Paramilitary soldiers stand guard along roadside to ensure security in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday.

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  • World

Pakistani security forces push Imran Khan supporters out of capital in overnight raid

The operation came hours after thousands of Khan supporters broke through a barrier of shipping containers blocking off Islamabad and clashed with security forces.

November 27, 2024
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  • Diaa Hadid
Supporters of imprisoned former premier Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, burn bushes to reduce the impact of tear gas shells fired by police officers to disperse them during a rally demanding Khan's release, at a motorway in Ghazi in Attock district, Pakistan on Sunday.

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  • World

Supporters of ousted Pakistani leader clash with police, at least six people killed

Police used tear gas to disperse the crowds and at least one person has died in clashes.

November 26, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Pedestrians walk along a road engulfed in thick smog in Lahore, Pakistan, on Nov. 11. Lahore, a city of 14 million people and stuffed with factories, regularly ranks among the world's most polluted cities. It's hit record levels this month.

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  • Global Health

Pakistan's smog is visible from space. This activist is 'frustrated' but won't give up

The government in Lahore has closed schools and public spaces and shut down factories. Environmental lawyer Ahmad Rafay Alam shares his perspective: "frustrated" but still fighting.

November 13, 2024
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  • Kamala Thiagarajan
Security officials examine the site of a bomb explosion at railway station in Quetta, southwestern Pakistan on Saturday.

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  • Asia

Death toll rises to 24 in suicide bombing at a rail station in southwestern Pakistan

The bomb exploded when nearly 100 passengers were waiting for a train to travel to the city of Rawalpindi from Quetta, the capital of the restive Balochistan province, said a senior police officer.

November 09, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Injured men receive treatment at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, on Friday following the Thursday attack by gunmen in Balochistan province.

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  • Asia

Gunmen kill 20 miners in southwest Pakistan attack ahead of Asian security summit

It's the latest attack in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province and comes days ahead of a major security summit being hosted in the capital. No group claimed immediate responsibility for the attack.

October 11, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
People look at a burnt vehicle which was torched by gunmen after they killed passengers at a highway in Musakhail, a district in Baluchistan province in restive southwestern Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024.

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  • Asia

Separatist group claims multiple attacks that killed over 40 people in Pakistan

The outlawed Baluchistan Liberation Army group warned in a statement overnight into Tuesday of more attacks.

August 27, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
People near burned vehicles, torched by gunmen after killing passengers, on a highway in Musakhail, a district in Baluchistan province in southwestern Pakistan on Monday.

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  • Asia

Gunmen kill at least 31 people in 2 separate attacks in restive southwestern Pakistan

Security forces killed 12 insurgents, officials said, in one of the deadliest days of violence in the restive Baluchistan province, with reports of other shootings and destruction in the area.

August 26, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan competes during the men's javelin throw at the Olympics in Paris. He won gold, set an Olympic record — and reaped lots of prizes, including a buffalo from his father-in-law. It's all about the milk!

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  • Global Health

He won Olympic gold for Pakistan. He got $1 million. And ... a buffalo!?!

Arshad Nadeem hurled his javelin over 300 feet — an Olympic record that earned him Pakistan's first individual gold medal. His rewards include cash, a car — and a buffalo. Therein lies a story.

August 23, 2024
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  • Benazir Samad
United States' Saurabh Nethralvakar celebrates after the team's win in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup cricket match against Pakistan at the Grand Prairie Stadium in Grand Prairie, Texas, on Thursday.

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  • Sports

The U.S. defeats Pakistan in a dramatic upset at the cricket World Cup

Cricket is one of the world’s most popular sports, with about 2.5 billion fans. Several of the U.S. team’s starting players are from other countries, including India, Pakistan and New Zealand.

June 07, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
A motorcyclist and car drivers drive through a flooded road caused by heavy rain in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, April 15, 2024.

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  • World

Lightning, rains kill 36 people in Pakistan

Lightning and heavy rains have killed at least 36 people, mostly farmers, across Pakistan in the past three days, as authorities in the country's southwest declared a state of emergency.

April 15, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Nancy Gobran, instructor and owner of Safety Driving School, poses in an empty parking lot where she holds her driving lessons on Feb. 6, 2024 in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

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  • News

Teaching refugee women to drive goes farther than their destination

A greater Atlanta program called Women Behind the Wheel offers 14 hours of free drivers' education to mostly refugee and immigrant women. Many of the women who enroll come from countries that discourage women from driving or working outside their home.

April 12, 2024
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  • Associated Press
FILE - Pakistan's former Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif speaks during a press conference regarding parliamentary elections, in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. Lawmakers in Pakistan's National Assembly elected Sunday, March 3, Shehbaz Sharif as the country's new prime minister for the second time.

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  • Asia

Shehbaz Sharif returns as Pakistan's prime minister, as protests hit parliament

Lawmakers in Pakistan's National Assembly elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country's new prime minister for the second time, as allies of imprisoned former premier Imran Khan shouted in protest.

March 03, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Pakistan's former prime minister and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party Shehbaz Sharif speaks during a press conference in Lahore on Feb. 13, 2024.

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  • World

Pakistan party nominates Shehbaz Sharif as prime minister, ending deadlock

The move to reappoint Shehbaz Sharif as prime minister is a likely blow to millions of Pakistanis who voted in last week's elections for independents backed by the country's popular leader Imran Khan.

February 14, 2024
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  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Abdul Sattar
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