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Loadshedding: Protests swelling up, Multan Road blocked
People have blocked Multan Road in Lahore to protest against prolonged load shedding. Lahore like many other cities of Punjab has been in the grip of over 18-hour loadshedding, making life miserable for the people. The irked people blocked the Multan Road and pelted buses with stones. Police reached the spot shortly in order to…
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Dengue claims three more lives
LAHORE: Dengue claimed three more lives as the death toll climbed to 127 in the city and 139 in the Punjab, Geo News reported Sunday. The total number of cases is more than 12,000 in the province out of which 11,243 cases are in Lahore. According to details obtained through independent sources, out of the…
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Almost 10,000 people infected with dengue fever in Pakistan
A team of World Health Organization (WHO) is arriving on Sunday in Pakistan to help cope with dengue fever that has affected almost 10,000 people in the country, the Pakistani news agency INN reported, referring to official sources. In recent weeks, dengue fever has rapidly spread across Pakistan but the country’s north-eastern Punjab province has…
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Around 26 Shia pilgrims killed in Quetta
QUETTA: Gunmen opened fire on a bus in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan in a suspected sectarian attack on Tuesday, killing around 26 Shia Muslim pilgrims traveling to Iran, police said. Four assailants attacked the bus carrying more than 50 pilgrims near Mastung town around 50 km (30 miles) from the provincial capital of Quetta.…
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Gunmen attack bus in Balochistan, 20 killed
QUETTA: Gunmen opened fire on a bus in the Mastung area of Balochistan, carrying passengers to Iran on Tuesday, killing around 20 Shia pilgrims, police said. “The bus was travelling to the town of Taftan when it was attacked,” a police official in Quetta, the provincial capital, told Reuters. The bus was carrying 60 passengers…