NBCNews.com | Struggle to reach hard hit areas as death toll from South Asia quake tops 340 CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) Noor Wali was sitting inside his shoe shop in northwestern Pakistan when he heard a loud roaring sound and saw cracks appear in the walls. He ran out of the building just before it collapsed into rubble. "I avoided death by ... Afghanistan Earthquake Was a 'Warning' From God: Pakistan Group Taliban Complicate Effort to Aid Afghans After Quake Rescuers scramble to reach quake-hit Pakistan, Afghan areas |
Reuters | India Grateful to Pakistan for Return of Geeta, Lost for Years New York Times NEW DELHI — She was a deaf and mute Indian who had strayed over the border into Pakistan as a young girl more than a decade ago. On Monday, she was welcomed back to India, the outcome of a rare cooperation between the nuclear-armed rivals. Pakistan charity that cared for wandering Indian girl declines Modi's cash 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' woman stuck in Pakistan for 13 years goes home to India Geeta a 'symbol of India-Pakistan unity': President Mukherjee |
The Guardian | Earthquake aftermath in Afghanistan and Pakistan – in pictures The Guardian Rescuers have been picking their way through rugged terrain and pockets of Taliban insurgency in the search for survivors after a massive quake struck Pakistan and Afghanistan, killing nearly 300 people. The death toll is expected to rise as search ... |
Deutsche Welle | Pakistan says militants firing from Afghanistan kill seven soldiers Reuters Instead, Pakistan says the leadership of the Pakistani Taliban - a group loosely allied with the Afghan Taliban but fighting to topple Pakistan's government - is based in Afghanistan. Afghanistan recently accused Pakistan of not doing enough to arrest ... Border fire from Afghanistan kills several Pakistani troops Cross-border Afghan fire kills seven Pakistan soldiers Cross-border firing from Afghanistan kills seven Pakistani soldiers |
Wall Street Journal | In Earthquake's Aftermath, a Pakistani Man's Fatal Decision and Race to Rescue ... Wall Street Journal DHAL BALA, Pakistan—When the ground heaved from Monday's earthquake, Omar Rehman fled his stone-and-mud house and screamed for his family to follow. It was a fatal decision. Almost as soon as they stepped outdoors, his wife and four of his children ... |
Father's Heartbreaking Story Highlights Tragedy in Pakistan-Afghanistan Earthquake ABC News In the dingy and poorly lit neurology wing of Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital, four young boys lay in a row, unconscious and motionless in their beds, surrounded by older male relatives. The second boy from the end was 20-month-old Afan Wadood, one of ... |
PBS NewsHour | Giant earthquake recalls another in Pakistan 10 years ago PBS NewsHour A man clears off his damaged roof after an earthquake in Behsud district of Jalalabad province, Afghanistan on Oct. 27. Rescue workers on Tuesday rushed to deliver aid to victims of a massive earthquake that hit northern Afghanistan and Pakistan. Photo ... |
9news.com.au | Video shows landslide in Pakistan after massive earthquake 9news.com.au Shocking video has emerged of a landslide caused by a massive earthquake that hit Pakistan and Afghanistan. The amateur video, taken in the Hunza Valley in Pakistan's north, shows huge amounts of rubble sliding down the side of a mountain after the 7.5 ... |
BBC News | Why Pakistani Hindus leave their homes for India BBC News Pakistani Hindus, who have arrived in the Indian capital in recent months, tell BBC Hindi's Zubair Ahmed that they fled their homes to escape discrimination and religious persecution. Mala Das can just about write her name. At 16, this has been her ... |
Eyewitness News | Why is America siding with Pakistan on Kashmir? DailyO Pakistan's chronic hostility towards India, its constant efforts to internationalise its differences with India, the persistent US bias in favour of Pakistan on issues bedevilling India-Pakistan relations, all oblige us to pay attention to visits of ... Indian girl arrives home after being stranded in Pakistan for 13 years Pakistan's nuclear weapons may not deter Indian retaliation, but destruction ... |