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Islamabad– An elite provincial border police force is to be set up along the confluence of the Sindh-Punjab-Balochistan borders in southern and central Pakistan, where growing lawlessness and sabotage have contributed to a certain amount […]

Islamabad– Overnight rains in rural Sindh have forced tens of people back into the relief camps set up after heavy rains caused huge floods last month, leaving over a million people stranded or homeless in […]

Islamabad– The international and national aid community in Afghanistan is concerned over the phenomenon of increasing incidents, in the context of the bombing of the United Nations office in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Such incidents […]

Helsinki– United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the President of Finland have held talks on a number of the world’s most troubled regions as well as the need for a concerted international approach to global […]

BOGOTA, Colombia– Top Formula 1 racing driver Juan Pablo Montoya sat at the wheel of a vehicle very different from those he normally drives – a van specially designed to bring fast-track documentation to internally […]

Islamabad– A new programme to improve childhood development and education in Pakistan’s poverty stricken provinces of Balochistan and Sindh in the south of the country will be implemented by the Aga Khan Foundation Pakistan (AKFP) […]

Kabul, Afghanistan– As NATO took over command of international peacekeeping forces from Germany and The Netherlands on Monday, local Afghans on the street, as well as aid agencies, expressed disappointment on learning that the operations […]

Washington– Recent terrorist bombings of a major hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, and at the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad underline the need for nations to unite to fight global terrorism, the senior U.S. diplomat said here […]