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By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least Balochistan province only a day before elections, killing at least 16 people, provincial Information Minister Jan Achakzai told Anadolu. The blast occurred as a crowd of supporters of an independent candidate gathered outside his election office in the district. Achakzai said the bomb was planted on a […]

8th Aug 2023

Pakistan: Roadside bombing kills 7 in Balochistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least seven people were killed in a remote-controlled blast in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Monday night, police and local media reported. The incident took place in the remote Kech district located some 772 kilometers (480 miles) from the provincial capital Quetta. The explosion targeted a vehicle, killing […]

13th Jul 2023

Pakistan: 9 soldiers among 15 killed in militant attack on Balochistan military garrison

By Aamir Latif and Alperen Aktas KARACHI, Pakistan / ISTANBUL (AA): The death toll from a militant attack on a garrison in southwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border rose to 15, including nine soldiers, on Wednesday, the military’s media wing said in a statement. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations, five injured soldiers died as […]

15th May 2023

Pakistan: 6 Pakistani army troops killed in Balochistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI Pakistan (AA): At least 13 people, including six Pakistani army troops and as many suspected attackers, were killed during a night-long battle after a group of militants stormed a military compound and held families hostage, the military said on Saturday . The heavily armed militants stormed a compound of Frontier Corps, […]

10th Apr 2023

Pakistan: 2 soldiers killed in blast in NW, 2 policemen killed in Balochistan

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD (AA): At least two Pakistani army soldiers were killed and wounding four others in a roadside bomb blast in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said on Saturday. Two policemen were killed and one was injured in an attack by unknown assailants in the Killi Spine area of Kuchlak district, […]

6th Mar 2023

Pakistan: Suicide bombing kills 9 paramilitary troops in Balochistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least 9 paramilitary troops were killed and thirteen others injured in a suicide bombing in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Monday, an official said. The bombing, the latest in a string of attacks on security forces, took placed at the Kambri bridge on the Quetta-Sibi highway in Bolan […]

26th Feb 2023

Pakistan: 4 killed, 20 injured in Balochistan explosion

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least four people were killed and over 20 injured in an explosion in southwest Pakistan on Sunday, police and local media reported. The explosion occurred in a busy Rakhni market in the remote Barkhan district of southwestern Balochistan province. Police confirmed that at least four dead people and […]

29th Jan 2023

Pakistan: 41 dead as bus plunges into ravine in Balochistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least 41 people were killed after a passenger minibus fell into a ravine in southwest Pakistan on Sunday morning, officials and local media reported. The accident occurred in Lasbela town of southwestern Balochistan province, located some 116 kilometers (72 miles) from the country’s commercial capital Karachi. The passenger […]

26th Dec 2022

Pakistan: Bomb explosion kills 6 army troops in Balochistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least six Pakistani army troops were killed and seventeen others injured in a bomb explosion in the southwestern Balochistan province on Sunday, the military said. The bombing – the second in a day – took place in the remote Kahan region of the mineral-rich province, during a […]

2nd Dec 2022

Pakistan: Suicide bomber targets police guarding anti-polio team, leaving 4 dead, 27 injured

By Aamir Latif KARAC, Pakistan (AA): At least four people were killed and 27 others, including 24 policemen, were injured when a suspected suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a police vehicle in southwest Pakistan on Wednesday morning, officials and local media said . The suspect bomber, who acted alone, targeted a truck […]

30th Jul 2022

Pakistan: 25 killed in rain-related accidents in 2 days as monsoon wreaks havoc

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least 25 people have been killed in rain-related accidents in the last two days as a fresh spell of monsoon rains and flash floods has inundated large swathes of Pakistan, triggering landslides and washing away houses, roads, and bridges, officials and local media reported on Saturday. Some 25 […]

4th Feb 2022

Pakistan: 7 Pakistani soldiers, 13 terrorists killed in Balochistan

ISLAMABAD (AA) At least 13 terrorists and seven soldiers, including an officer, were killed in overnight clashes in southwestern Pakistan, the army said on Thursday. In a statement, Pakistan army said militants tried to storm security camps in Panjgur and Naushki areas of Balochistan province on Wednesday night, but the troops foiled their attempt. The […]

28th Jan 2022

Pakistan: 10 Pakistani soldiers killed in attack near Iranian border

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD (AA): At least 10 Pakistani soldiers were killed in an attack on a security check post near the country’s southwestern border with Iran, the Pakistan Army said. In a statement issued on Thursday, the army said “terrorists” carried out the attack in Kech area of Balochistan province. “1 terrorist was […]

31st Dec 2021

Pakistan: 4 killed in Balochistan blast

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD (AA): At least four people were killed and 16 others wounded in a bomb blast targeting a public gathering in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Thursday evening, an official confirmed. “A bomb (IED – Improvised Explosive Device) exploded at the main gate of Science College Ground Quetta City, where participants […]

19th Dec 2021

Pakistan: Suspected gas explosion kills 16 in Karachi

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least 16 people were killed and nearly a dozen injured in a suspected gas leak explosion that shook the southern port city of Karachi, police and health officials said. The explosion occurred outside a building in Shershah area, an industrial district of Karachi, which serves as the […]

7th Oct 2021

Pakistan: 20 dead after magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes Balochistan

By Muhammet Nazim Tasci and Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): At least 20 people were killed and more than 300 injured when a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province early on Thursday. The National Seismic Monitoring Center (NSMC) said the earthquake was centered near Harnai district and had a depth of 15 […]

7th Jan 2021

‘Pakistan setting up interfaith harmony bodies to confront sectarianism’

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan is establishing interfaith harmony councils at the local, provincial and national level to promote dialogue and resolve sectarian conflicts, Maulana Tahir Ashrafi, special representative of the prime minister on religious harmony, has revealed. In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Ashrafi, who is also the chairman of Pakistan […]

3rd Jan 2021

Pakistan: 11 Hazara miners killed in armed attack in Balochistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least 11 Hazara Shia Muslim coal miners were kidnapped and later killed in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, officials said. The incident took place in the remote Mach coalfield, about 48km (30 miles) east of the provincial capital, Quetta. of the southwestern Balochistan province, a key route to multi-billion-dollar […]

10th Aug 2020

Pakistan: 58 dead, 100s villages submerged in monsoon rains

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): The death toll from three days of heavy monsoon rains triggering flash floods in Pakistan has risen to at least 58, officials said on Sunday. The southern Sindh and southwestern Balochistan provinces, and the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region have been badly hit by the recent rain spell: flash floods […]

8th Feb 2020

Pakistan: 200-year old temple returned to Hindus

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan’s government has handed over a 200-year old temple to the country’s Hindu minority, local media reported on Saturday. Located in the remote Zhob district of the southwestern Balochistan province, the temple had been illegally occupied in 1947 following the partition of United India, which prompted a mass-scale […]

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The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.