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Taliban say Pakistani airstrikes killed 46 people in eastern Afghanistan, mostly women and children
By RIAZ KHAN AND MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press
Wed,12/25/24-3:36AM , 120 Reads
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children, a Taliban government official said Wednesday, raising fears of further straining relations between the two neighbors.
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An army soldier examines damages on the site of a bombing at a police station on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle at a police station's main gate in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing several policemen and wounding more than dozen others, officials said. Some militants also opened fire and a shootout between them and security forces was still ongoing, police officer Kamal Khan said. (AP Photo)

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Suicide bomber attacks police station in northwest Pakistan, killing 23 officers and wounding 32
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Mon,12/11/23-11:38PM , 548 Reads
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle at a police station's main gate in northwestern Pakistan early Tuesday, killing at least 23 troops, wounding 32 and causing a part of the building to collapse, authorities said.
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Abrar Ahmed, left, a survivor of cable car incident, sits with his cousin as he talks to members of media, near the incident site, in Pashto village, a mountainous area of Battagram district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. The rescue of six school children and two adults who were plucked from a broken cable car that was dangling precariously hundreds of meters (yards) above a steep gorge was a miracle, a survivor said Wednesday. The teenager said he and the others felt repeatedly that death was imminent during the 16-hour ordeal. (AP Photo/Saqib Manzoor)

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Pakistani children rescued from a broken cable car say they repeatedly feared they would die
By RIAZ KHAN AND MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press
Wed,08/23/23-4:06AM , 87 Reads
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Schoolchildren who were rescued from a broken cable car dangling high above a valley in Pakistan said Wednesday they repeatedly feared they were about to die during the 16-hour ordeal despite attempts by
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Eight people who got trapped in a disabled cable car dangling high above a valley in Pakistan returned safely to the ground Tuesday after military commandos staged a daring and delicate rescue using helicopters and a makeshift chairlift. (Aug. 22)

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Rescuers save 8 people trapped in cable car dangling above canyon in Pakistan
By RIAZ KHAN AND MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press
Tue,08/22/23-3:51AM , 468 Reads
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Eight people who got trapped in a disabled cable car dangling high above a valley in Pakistan returned safely to the ground Tuesday after military commandos staged a daring and delicate rescue using helicopters and a makeshift chairlift.
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