ISLAMABAD : President Asif Ali Zardari has called a joint session of parliament on Wednesday (October for a rare briefing from army and intelligence chiefs on the battle with extremists, officials said. The closed-door briefing comes in the wake of ….

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Source: IRIN On 11 September, four boys were killed when the wall of a school building in Karachi collapsed. The Federal Government Public School had been re-housed six years ago in a new structure but the dilapidated old building had been left standing.

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People in the border district of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir had reason to cheer on Monday as the fortnightly bus service across the Line of Control (LoC) to Rawlakote in Pakistan-administered Kashmir became a weekly affair.

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