A suspected suicide bombing killed at least 11 people and wounded 43 others on Friday at a hotel near Islamabad’s Red Mosque, after religious students occupied the mosque and demanded the return of its pro-Taliban cleric. The blast occurred soon after police had fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters occupying the mosque.
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/ 13 November 2005
Doctors have begun immunising more than one million children against infectious diseases in crowded camps for Pakistani earthquake survivors, as rivals Pakistan and India move tentatively toward better relations with a further exchange of relief materials.
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/ 11 November 2005
Pakistani police using canes and rifle butts broke up a march on Friday by earthquake survivors protesting what they said were orders to evict them from a makeshift refugee camp. Police denied they were forcing people to leave. Meanwhile, international lenders estimated the economic cost of the quake at more than -billion.
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/ 8 November 2005
The death toll in South Asia’s huge October 8 quake jumped on Tuesday to 87Â 350 following a new count of Pakistan’s casualties, officials announced. Meanwhile, United Nations workers are in a desperate race against the Himalayan winter and a dwindling budget to bring shelter to 350Â 000 of the neediest quake survivors.
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/ 13 October 2005
A strong aftershock shook Pakistan on Thursday, rattling the nerves of those who lived through last weekend’s devastating earthquake and bringing an even greater sense of urgency to efforts to find survivors under the precarious rubble. The death toll is believed to be more than 35 000.
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/ 10 October 2005
Aircraft rushed in supplies from abroad and Washington pledged -million in aid on Monday as hungry families displaced in Pakistan’s worst earthquake huddled in tents and shopkeepers clashed with looters. Death-toll estimates ranged from 20 000 to 40 000.
Pakistani officials said on Sunday the death toll from Saturday’s massive earthquake ranges between 20 000 and 30 000. Meanwhile, in dozens of Pakistani villages, many cut off from rescuers by quake-induced landslides, relatives desperate to find their loved ones dug through rubble with their bare hands.
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/ 1 September 2005
Pakistan plans to send a delegation to Israel following historic talks on Thursday between their foreign ministers, but it still does not recognise the Jewish state, President General Pervez Musharraf said. Musharraf said the talks held in Istanbul, Turkey, were ”the first formal contact between our two countries”.
Police began efforts on Saturday to identify the remains of a suspected suicide bomber who attacked a popular Muslim shrine near the official residence of Pakistan’s prime minister, killing at least 20 people and wounding scores more, an official said. Friday’s blast ripped through hundreds of mainly Shi’ite worshippers.
A suicide bombing at a shrine crowded with Shi’ite Muslims celebrating a religious festival near Pakistan’s capital killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens of others, witnesses said. The explosion ripped through hundreds of worshippers as they recited the Qur’an beneath tents at the Bari Imam shrine on the outskirts of Islamabad.