IS suicide bomber kills 26

Kabul: A suicide bomber on Wednesday killed at least 26 people, many of them teenagers, after detonating a device among a crowd of people in Kabul who were celebrating the Persian New Year holiday, officials said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the deadly attack — the fifth suicide …

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Shehbaz next in line after Nawaz’s dismissal: Imran

GUJRANWALA: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Wednesday said that Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shehbaz Sharif was next in line for disqualification after the ouster of his brother and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. “Punjab should be cleansed from the Sharifs in the upcoming general elections,” he told workers at …

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No plan for boots on the ground in Pakistan: Pentagon

WASHINGTON: The United States has ruled out any plan to cross the international border in chasing the Taliban or any other terrorist group who flee Afghanistan. “To be clear, US military authorities are within the borders of Afghanistan only. We have no authority to go into Pakistan. If there is …

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Pakistan needed to do ‘a lot more’

WASHINGTON: The United States emphasised on Wednesday that while Pakistan was headed in the right direction, ‘a lot more needs to be done’ with regard to wiping out terrorism from South Asia. Addressing a weekly press briefing, Heather Nauert, the spokesperson for the US State Department, said, “We’ve certainly seen …

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