Improving India-Pakistan ties
August 28, 2024
Asian news from city Islamabad
Wave of Attacks Rattles a Restive Province in Pakistan
The violence began with blasts that ripped through a military camp in Pakistan’s Baluchistan Province late Sunday night, killing at least one soldier. Around the same time, armed men stormed into at least four police stations in the province, spraying bullets at officers and setting police vehicles on fire, local officials said.
What’s behind the bloodiest recent attacks in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province?
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Multiple attacks in Pakistan’s restive southwest have killed at least 38 people, the highest death toll in a 24-hour period blamed on separatists in Baluchistan province in recent years.
Gunmen kill at least 31 people in 2 separate attacks in restive southwestern Pakistan
Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 31 people in two separate attacks on Monday, with reports of other shootings and unrest across the same province, police and officials said.
Taliban vice and virtue laws provide ‘distressing vision’ for Afghanistan, warns UN envoy
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban’s new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public provide a “distressing vision” for Afghanistan’s future, a top U.N. official warned Sunday.
2 separate bus crashes in Pakistan leave at least 36 people dead, officials say
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Two separate bus crashes hours apart in Pakistan on Sunday left at least 36 people dead and dozens more injured, officials said.
