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Haunted by militancy, Pakistani town welcomes library built above gun market

The Pakistani town of Darra Adam Khel is home to a 150-year-old arms market with more than 2,000 shops displaying firearms. Located around 40 ...

Why Pakistan’s polio eradication program is hit by conspiracy theories

It has been 24 years since former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto administered an oral polio vaccine to her daughter, Aseefa Bhutto, to ...

Did Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto have a premonition of her death?

On 27 December 2007, Benazir Bhutto was assassinated soon after she had addressed an election rally in the historic Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi. She ...

Christians await Christmas in the birthplace of Pakistan Taliban founder

It was December 2009, when Baitullah Mehsud revolted against the state of Pakistan and formed a notorious movement, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan [TTP], ...

Courting death for a living: Pakistani city gets dead body a week from coalmines

Its late afternoon, but workers at Old Baazi Khel coalmine are busy extracting coal with different tools and loading it onto trolleys to be ...

Five years on, massacre of schoolchildren continues to haunt Pakistan’s Peshawar

It’s been four years since seven gunmen launched a deadly attack on the Army Public School [APS] in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa city of ...

In Imran Khan’s Pakistan, protest against deforestation, pledge for 10 bln trees

People in Swat district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province took to the streets recently to protest against something that has never ...

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