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By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): Torrential rains accompanied by flashfloods have killed at least 20 people over the last two days in northwestern and southwestern Pakistan, officials and local media reported on Saturday. Most of the fatalities have been reported from the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KP) and the southwestern Balochistan provinces, where heavy rainfall […]

6th Mar 2016

Pakistani media outlets attacked for ignoring execution

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): Protesters on Friday attacked the offices of several Pakistani newspapers and television channels to protest the failure of the latter to cover the funeral of a former police commando who was executed earlier this week for killing a governor of Punjab. In 2011, Mumtaz Qadri, a member of an […]

20th Jan 2016

Pakistan: 21 people killed, 60 injured in campus attack

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA & Agencies) – Several people were killed and scores injured Wednesday in a gun-and -bomb attack on a university campus in northwest Pakistan. 21 people have been killed and more than 60 injured, some in critical condition. Rescue workers said they have found at least seven bodies, including a […]

13th Jan 2016

Pakistan: 14 killed at polio vaccination centre in Quetta

By Aamir Latif Karachi, (AA): At least 14 people, including 12 policemen, were killed in a bomb blast Wednesday in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province, officials said. The bomb struck a police van outside a polio vaccination center in the provincial capital Quetta. The campaign is to target 2.4 million children under the age of […]

11th Jan 2016

Saudi Arabia: Riyadh fails to draw Pakistan into row with Tehran

KARACHI, (AA): Mohammad bin Salman, deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia, arrived in Islamabad on Sunday to seek Pakistan’s support in its ongoing diplomatic spat with Iran. He was the second high-profile Saudi visitor in less than three days: earlier this week, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel bin Al-Jubeir met with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and […]

4th Jan 2016

India: 11 killed in ongoing fighting in Punjab state

By Ahmad Adil CHANDIGARH, (AA): At least 11 people have been killed in ongoing gun battles between Indian security forces and suspected Pakistani militants following an attack on an Indian Air Force base in the Pathankot area of India’s northern Punjab state. The gunfight, in which at least four suspected militants were killed on […]

30th Dec 2015

Pakistan: 6 dead, 50 injured in suicide blast

KARACHI, (AA): At least 26 people were killed and more than 50 were injured after a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden motorbike into a government building in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, police said. The bomber struck a government registration office in Mardan district, some 150 kilometers from Islamabad, where many people were standing in line […]

17th Dec 2015

Pakistan surprised by listing in Saudi-led anti-terror bloc

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan has expressed its surprise to hear that Saudi Arabia this week had declared it a part of a recently-formed 34-nation alliance against terrorism. Malyasia and Indonesia have also denied they will join the alliance. Pakistani Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry told reporters Tuesday that he had been surprised to hear news regarding […]

27th Nov 2015

Pakistan: Federal minister survives attack in NW Pakistan

KARACHI, (AA) – A roadside bomb that targeted a federal minister killed two policemen and injured three others — while leaving the minister unharmed — in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, local officials said. The attack occurred in Federal Minster Akram Khan Durrani’s hometown of Bannu, located some 250 kilometers from capital Islamabad, Kamran Zeb, Bannu commissioner, […]

22nd Nov 2015

Bangladesh executes two senior opposition leaders

By Mainul Islam Khan DHAKA, (AA) – Bangladesh on Sunday hanged two well-known opposition figures convicted of war crimes during the country’s war of independence from Pakistan in 1971, depsite concerns that the legal proceedings against them were flawed. Bangladesh Jamaat e Islami’s Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid and Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s high-ranking member […]

6th Nov 2015

Pakistan: 25 killed in factory building collapse

KARACHI, (AA, The News): Rescuers on Thursday pulled out over 100 laborers from under the rubble of a factory building that collapsed Wednesday, killing at least 25 people and injuring more than 50, officials said. Victims had been trapped for at least 20 hours as huge mounds of debris and darkness slowed down the rescue operation. […]

4th Nov 2015

Jammu & Kashmir: Two Indian troops killed on Kashmir’s Line of Control

By Ahmad Adil SRINAGAR, Jammu & Kashmir, India, (AA): Two Indian soldiers were killed on Monday along the Line of Control (LoC) in the northern part of the disputed Kashmir region, with New Delhi accusing Pakistan of violating the ceasefire between the two rivals. The incident took place only one week before a scheduled visit […]

2nd Nov 2015

Pakistan: Four killed in railway blast in Balochistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): At least four passengers were killed and another 10 wounded Sunday when a bomb was detonated by remote control along a railway line in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, which shares borders with both Iran and Afghanistan, according to local officials. The blast occurred along a railway track in Balochistan’s Dasht […]

1st Nov 2015

Pakistan: 13 killed in election violence in Faisalabad

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): A deadly clash between two rival political groups during the local bodies elections in southern Pakistan has left 12 people dead and 15 others wounded on Saturday, police said. Another person died in election-related violence in Faisalabad city, they added. The clash occurred at a polling station in Sindh […]

28th Oct 2015

Rescue efforts underway as S Asia quake leaves 385 dead

By Aamir Latif and Zabihullah Tamanna ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): A powerful earthquake that rocked Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday has left hundreds dead. Officials from both countries put the combined death toll at 385 on Tuesday. In northwestern Pakistan, rescue workers dug through the debris and mounds of mud as fears of aftershocks of the massive […]

27th Oct 2015

310 killed as powerful quake rocks Pakistan, Afghanistan

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Scores of people were killed in Pakistan and Afghanistan — mostly in the former’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province — after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake shook southern Asia on Monday afternoon (9:32 GMT). According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake’s epicenter was 45 kilometers south-southwest of Jarm, Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan. At least 186 people were […]

26th Oct 2015

S. Asia quake kills scores in Pakistan, Afghanistan

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Scores of people have been killed in Pakistan and Afghanistan — mostly in the former’s Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KP) province — after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake shook southern Asia on early Monday afternoon (9:32 GMT). According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the epicenter of the quake was 45 kilometers south-southwest of Jarm, Afghanistan, near […]

22nd Oct 2015

US, Pakistan discuss additional efforts to fight terror

WASHINGTON (AA): U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have discussed the need for broader efforts to defeat terrorism in the region. “The two leaders discussed the need for additional efforts to target all terrorists in its territory,” U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday during a press briefing, […]

20th Oct 2015

Pakistan: 11 killed in bus blast in Quetta

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): At least 11 people were killed in bomb blast Monday that hit a bus in Quetta, central Pakistan, officials said. Initial reports said the device was planted on the roof of an evening service carrying more than 40 passengers and detonated with a timer, city police chief Imtiaz Shah […]

19th Sep 2015

Pakistan: 29 killed by terrorists at air force base

By Sardar Hussain PESHAWAR, (AA): As many as 29 people, including an army captain, were killed in a Friday attack on a heavily guarded Pakistan Air Force base. Confirming the death toll, DG ISPR (Inter Services Public Relations) said Taliban gunmen stormed the base on the outskirts of Peshawar city. According to the DG ISPR, a […]

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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.