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☆ Bus crash in southern Pakistan kills at least 41
  + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Jan 29 (Reuters) - More than 40 people were killed after a bus fell into a ravine and caught fire in the southern Pakistani province of Balochistan on Sunday, officials said. Forty-one bodies had been recovered from the wreckage, some burned beyond recognition, district police officer Israr Umrani told Reuters. The bus carrying around 48 people crashed on the way from Balochistan's capital of Quetta to the southern city of Karachi, officials said. Fatal road accidents are common in Pakistan, where traffic rules are rarely followed and roads in many rural areas are in poor condition. At least 22 people were killed in June, including nine members of one family when a passenger van fell into deep ravine in Balochistan.
☆ Tens of millions without power after Pakistan suffers major outage
  + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
Much of Pakistan was left without power for several hours on Monday morning as an energy-saving measure by the government backfired. The outage was reminiscent of a massive blackout in January 2021, attributed at the time to a technical fault in the country’s power generation and distribution system. According to the minister, during winter, electricity usage typically goes down overnight. A Metro station is closed after major power outage in Lahore, Pakistan on Monday. Pakistan is grappling with one of the country’s worst economic crisis in recent years amid dwindling foreign exchange reserves.
☆ This scientist was irked by the phrase 'hella' big — so he created 2 new units of measurement
  + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +13 min
Metric measurements — also known as the International System of Units, or SI — are managed by a formal international organization. The prefixes Brown came up with are ronna and ronto for 1027 and 10-27 and quetta and quecto for 1030 and 10-30. In fact, SI units used to be based on actual, real-life physical artifacts. "If everyone sticks to SI prefixes," Brown says, "you don't have to go on Wikipedia to find out how long a light-year is or the power in 1 jansky." Pražák proposed sticking to Greek words and letters.
☆ Taliban ban women from working for domestic, foreign NGOs
  + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
The Taliban government on Saturday ordered all foreign and domestic non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to suspend employing women, allegedly because some female employees didn't wear the Islamic headscarf correctly. It was not immediately clear if the order applies to all women or only Afghan women working at the NGOs. More details were not immediately available on the latest Taliban ban amid concerns that it could be a stepping-stone to more restrictive measures against women in Afghanistan. Also Saturday, Taliban security forces used a water cannon to disperse women protesting the ban on university education for women in the western city of Herat, eyewitnesses said. Afghan women have since demonstrated in major cities against the ban, a rare sign of domestic protest since the Taliban seized power last year.
☆ One dead as fresh clashes erupt between Afghan, Pakistani border forces
  + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Gul Yousafzai | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
REUTERS/Abdul Khaliq AchakzaiQUETTA, Pakistan, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Clashes erupted once again between the border forces of Afghanistan and Pakistan near the key Chaman-Spin Boldak border crossing on Thursday, resulting in one death and over a dozen injuries, Pakistani officials said. Thursday's fighting started when Pakistani forces repairing a portion of the border fence damaged during Sunday's clashes came under attack from the Afghan side of the frontier, a provincial official Balochistan, Zahid Saleem, told Reuters. Both sides blamed each other for instigating Sunday's clashes. Afghanistan's ministry of defence, run by the Taliban administration, said in a post on Twitter that Pakistani forces had opened fire first, and called for a resolution of the issue through negotiations. The police spokesman of the Afghan province of Kandahar did not reply to a Reuters request for comment on the casualties.
☆ Six Pakistanis, one Afghan soldier killed in cross-border clash
  + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Gul Yousafzai | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
QUETTA, Pakistan, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Six Pakistani civilians and one Afghan soldier were killed on Sunday in cross border shelling and gunfire, according to officials on both sides of the frontier. Six civilians were killed and another 17 wounded on the Pakistani side by the Afghan fire, leading Pakistani troops to retaliate, the Pakistan military said in a statement. Afghan security sources said the clash started after Pakistani forces demanded Afghan forces stop building a new checkpost on their side of the border. Kandahar police spokesman Hafiz Saber said one Afghan soldier was killed and 10 other people, including three civilians, were injured. The busy Afghan border crossing at Chaman, used for trade and transit, was closed for some hours before reopening, officials on both sides said.
☆ Ambush claimed by Pakistani Taliban kills three police officers in northern Pakistan
  + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Jibran Ahmad | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
PESHAWAR, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday claimed responsibility for a gun ambush that killed three police officers in northern Pakistan, the second attack claimed by the group just days after it announced an end to a ceasefire with the government. He said three police officers were killed on the spot and the identity of the attackers was unknown. The militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement. The Afghan Taliban have been facilitating peace talks between local militants and the government since late last year. The Pakistan army has conducted several operations against the militants in their strongholds in lawless districts along Afghan border in recent months.
☆ Pakistan Taliban Attacks Police After Calling Off Cease-Fire
  + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Saeed Shah | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—An attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban killed at least four people Wednesday, just two days after the group announced the end of a shaky cease-fire. An explosion hit a truck carrying policemen on their way to be deployed as security for polio vaccinators, outside the western city of Quetta. The Civil Hospital in Quetta said that it received four dead and 29 injured.
☆ Pakistan suicide blast targeting police kills 3, wounds 28
  + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Gul Yousafzai | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
QUETTA, Pakistan, Nov 30 (Reuters) - A suicide bomb blast in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta targeted a police patrol on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding 28, police said. "A bomb blast that targeted a police patrol wounded more than 30 people, including 15 police," a police official, Abdul Haq, told Reuters. The patrol had been guarding a polio vaccination team at the time of the suicide blast, he added. Islamist militants in Pakistan often target polio vaccination teams, in the belief that the immunisation effort is a Western tool to spy on them. Quetta is the capital of Pakistan's province of Balochistan bordering Afghanistan and Iran, where both Islamist and separatist insurgents operate.
☆ Pakistan reopens Afghan crossing shut after border hostilities
  + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Gul Yousafzai | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
REUTERS/Saeed Ali Achakzai/File PhotoQUETTA, Pakistan, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Pakistan has reopened a major Afghan border crossing that was shut for trade and transit after security forces clashed last week, officials from both sides said on Monday. As the crossing opened on Monday, three people were wounded in another clash reported on a northwestern border with Afghanistan, an Afghan official said. A Pakistani security official said the fresh exchange of fire killed one member of border personnel and wounded nine other people. "We are going to meet senior Pakistani officials to find an amicable solution," he said. The Pakistan military did not respond to a request for comment, but a Pakistan security official said there has been regular border management coordination with Afghan authorities, adding that details of Afghan investigations into last week's hostilities will be shared with Pakistan in due course.
☆ New measures for size, as world’s people surpass 8 billion
  + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
And one British scientist led the push Friday to incorporate bold new, tongue-twisting prefixes on the gigantic and even the minuscule scale. There’s the gargantuan “ronna” (that’s 27 zeros after the one) and its big brother the “quetta” — (that’s 30 zeros). Their ant-sized counterparts are the “ronto” (27 zeros after the decimal point), and the “quecto” (with 30 zeros after the decimal point) -- representing the smaller numbers needed for quantum science and particle physics. The conference, which takes place every four years in France, is the supreme authority of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. (We) need new words as things expand,” Brown said.
☆ Alarmed by suicide attack, China and Pakistan work together on probe
  + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Asif Shahzad Syed Raza Hassan | Asif Shahzad | Syed Raza Hassan | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +11 min
[1/5] A police officer stands guard near a passenger van, cordoned after a blast at the entrance of the Confucius Institute University of Karachi, Pakistan, April 26, 2022. Even though months have passed since the attack, Pakistani authorities remain deeply worried. Shortly afterwards, schoolteacher Shari Hayat Baloch, 30, is filmed walking in a park with her young son and daughter and later addressing the camera in combat fatigues. The Chinese officials supported Pakistan's counter-terrorism forces in areas such as CCTV footage enhancement and data retrieval from cell phones, the ministry said. On the day of the Karachi attack, Habitan, a dentist, tweeted that he was "beaming with pride" at what his wife had done.
☆ Former Pakistan leader Imran Khan disqualified from holding office
  + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s elections commission on Friday disqualified former Prime Minister Imran Khan from holding public office for five years, accusing him of unlawfully selling state gifts and concealing assets, his spokesman and officials said. Chaudhry condemned the move and urged Khan’s supporters to protest publicly. Balkh Ser Khosa, a prominent lawyer, said the commission disqualified Khan from holding public office because he unlawfully sold state gifts given to him by other countries when he was in power. Banaras Khan / AFP via Getty ImagesLaw Minister Azam Nazir Tarar confirmed that the commission found Khan guilty of the charges. Tarar said Khan has been disqualified from holding public office for five years.
☆ Explozie la un hotel de lux în sud-vestul Pakistanului: Cel puţin trei morţi şi 11 răniţi
  + stars: | 2021-04-22 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md   time to read: 1 min
Cel puţin trei persoane şi-au pierdut viaţa şi 11 au fost rănite, miercuri, într-o explozie la un hotel de lux din sud-vestul Pakistanului, relatează Agepres. ''O explozie a zguduit zona de parcare a hotelului Serena'', a declarat oficialul de poliţie Nasir Malik. Hotelul se află în Quetta, capitala provinciei Baluchistan care a fost mult timp teatrul unei insurgenţe a naţionaliştilor locali. ''Ofiţerii noştri lucrează pentru a stabili dacă a fost o bombă şi ce tip de dispozitiv ar putea fi'', a precizat Nasir Malik.
Persons: Nasir Malik Locations: Pakistanului, Serena, Quetta, Baluchistan
☆ Meet Afghanistan's fearless Gen Z influencers, who are blowing up on TikTok and have more Instagram followers than the president
  + stars: | 2021-03-05 | by ( Ali Latifi | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +14 min
A group of women in Afghanistan are breaking through as Gen Z influencers on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. More Afghans are online, and dozens of Afghan women have 50,000 or more followers on at least one social platform. A generation of Afghan women in their 20s have mastered the art of living their lives on social media. The 26-year-old posts several times a day, and she has more followers on Instagram than the country's president, Ashraf Ghani. Ayeda Shadab photographed at the ancient Citadel in Herat, Afghanistan.
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