QUETTA: Officials reported that a bomb exploded near a vehicle on Saturday in the Duki district of Balochistan, injuring four members of the Frontier Corps (FC). The FC patrol was passing through the Mandaytak area when the improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated by unknown criminals at the roadside. A senior security official stated, “Four FC soldiers were injured in the blast,” adding that they were working to ensure the safety of trucks transporting coal from the Duki coal fields to Punjab. The injured were transported to the district hospital in Duki by FC and police personnel upon their arrival…
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Pakistan• Militants target the residence of a former JUI-F senator in the North Waziristan/Peshawar region: Officials reported that a suicide bombing at a joint police and security forces checkpoint in the Eidak area of the North Waziristan district on Saturday resulted in the deaths of at least eight people, including four police officers and two security officials. They claimed that the suicide bomber, who was traveling in a rickshaw, blew himself up at the Aslam checkpoint. They added that the attack occurred while personnel were inspecting vehicles. An official stated, “Four policemen, two security personnel, and two civilians have been…
BEIRUT: Saturday, more than a month into the all-out war, Israel said it used 400 tonnes of explosives to destroy a Hezbollah tunnel, while Lebanese state media reported that the Israeli army dynamited houses in border villages. “The army of the Israeli enemy has since dawn blown up and destroyed houses” in the border village of Adaisseh, according to the official National News Agency. The NNA also reported “large explosions” in the border village of Kfar Kila, claiming that smoke columns rose above the area and could be heard to the south. A “strategic underground facility” in southern Lebanon was…
CAIRO: Activists claim that Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed at least 124 people on Friday in a village in El Gezira State. This was one of the deadliest incidents in an 18-month war and the largest of a series of attacks in the state. Pro-democracy activists claimed that the RSF had carried out retaliatory attacks in the farming state where Abuagla Keikal was from, killing and detaining civilians and displacing thousands, following the high-ranking RSF officer’s surrender to the army on Sunday. Residents in Gezira claim that the RSF carried out a months-long rampage that resulted in the…
IRAN: Israel’s forces struck Iranian military facilities in Tehran as well as the provinces of Ilam and Khuzestan, which border Iraq, early on Saturday, the latest exchange between Israel and Iran, a shadow war that came to light following the events of October 7, 2013. Israel’s aggression has been downplayed by Iran, which claims that it caused “limited damage” and that four Iranian troops were killed. It would appear that the extremists in Tel Aviv have heeded American pleas not to strike Iranian nuclear and oil facilities; The entire region would have suffered terrible consequences had these kinds of facilities…
TEHRAN: Local media reported on Saturday that a “terrorist attack” in a region of southeastern Iran long plagued by unrest resulted in the deaths of at least 10 police officers. The Mehr and Tasnim news agencies reported that they were killed in an attack on “police vehicles” in the Taftan county of Sistan-Baluchistan province. The news agencies did not specify how the attack was carried out. The attack, which took place approximately 1,200 kilometers southeast of Tehran, was not immediately attributed to any particular group. Citing a statement from the police, the official IRNA news agency claimed that an ambush…
LISBON: Following a week of unrest sparked by officers’ shooting of a black man, thousands protested on Saturday in Lisbon against police racism and force. The peaceful protesters held placards with slogans such as “Racism kills” and “Black lives matter” as they marched peacefully down the central avenue of the Portuguese capital. They chanted “No peace without justice” and “Police violence, colonial heritage.” Violence in the city is uncommon in Portugal. However, following the murder of a 43-year-old man from Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony in Africa, on Sunday night, several down-at-heel neighborhoods with large immigrant communities have seen…
LONDON: On Saturday, both right-wing, anti-immigrant protesters and anti-racism protesters held large rallies in London. Both rallies ended peacefully amid a stepped-up police operation to keep the opposing groups from fighting each other. The “Unite the Kingdom” nationalist rally by parliament, which was organized by anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who goes by the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, attracted several thousand people who waved English and British flags. Trade unionists and anti-racism activists staged a counterprotest nearby, marching with signs reading “Refugees Welcome” and “Smash the Far Right.” On X, the London force stated that only a few arrests had…
Pakistan Karachi: What comes to mind when you think of a city? Its avenues On the off chance that a city’s roads look fascinating, the city looks intriguing. The city appears drab if they are dull. Pakistan’s footpaths are more than just places to walk; they are the arteries of urban life and a reflection of the social fabric of the country. — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities Karachi’s trails are passerby pathways as well as are overflowing with suburbanites, sellers and food trucks. As a consequence of this, the footpaths become marketplaces, social hubs,…
Pakistani: The newly established research center at Hunan University of Medicine in China has been named after Pakistani Professor Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary. According to a press release, this center will house 17 full-time researchers who will work to improve scientific collaboration between China and Pakistan. The Chinese national public medical university, which was established in 1912, has more than 14,425 full-time students and more than 4,500 faculty members. It offers approximately 20 undergraduate and graduate medical programs. Dr. Choudhary has previously advocated for the establishment of research centers between China and Pakistan and the promotion of scientific collaboration between…
