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AFP/APPKabul: Children sit shoulder to shoulder, crammed in rows on the floor of a shipping container with lesson books in their laps, the remains of their school unrepaired in the six months since a major earthquake devastated their…

Tahira KhanLoralai: Muhammad Zubair, a 16-year-old resident of Loralai, is employed in one of the coal mines in Duki, a renowned coal mining region in Balochistan province, Pakistan.Zubair, once an ambitious school-going boy with…

AFP/APP Pule Alam: Khurma had to borrow her neighbor's shoes to walk to Pul-e Alam city to collect a cash handout being given to the growing number of vulnerable Afghans who are struggling to survive the winter. The 45-year-old widow…

APPIslamabad: Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani has reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to a stable, peaceful, prosperous and connected Afghanistan on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.…

News Desk Peshawar: The reopening of the Torkham border has brought relief to traders on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier, but business representatives say the nine-day shutdown has exposed the heavy economic cost of…

Mohammed AjeebBradford: The suicide terrorist attack on Sunday, July 30 has accounted for 54 lives.This pattern of violence is becoming too regular and frequent.How has the country arrived at this violent juncture?Extremist…

Asem Mustafa AwanIslamabad: The alarm bells are ringing, and with floods and upcoming monsoons, the picture appears bleak. The United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP) has done the needful and it is time the government took measures…

APPAbbottabad: A teenage girl died of cardiac arrest in Narayan Valley on Tuesday night due to the fear caused by the magnitude 6.8 earthquake.According to the details, panic erupted in Abbottabad as a result of the earthquake’s…

News Desk Islamabad: A private aesthetic clinic Sunday set up a medical camp for the Afghan refugees exposed to infectious skin diseases and provided treatment to many, including children and women. The refugees, who were exposed to…