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Islamabad, May 11 (IANS) A fighter jet of the Pakistan Air Force crashed near Karachi Friday but the pilot managed to eject safely, a media report said.
The France-made Mirage 5 crashed shortly after take-off for a routine training flight from the Masroor air base in Karachi, Xinhua reported citing local media.
The plane crashed in Hub area of Balochistan, 30 km from Karachi.
The Dassault Mirage 5 is a supersonic attack aircraft designed by Dassault Aviation in the 1960s.
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Islamabad, May 11 (IANS) Ten Pakistani nationals have been deported from Greece for illegally entering the country, a media report said Friday.
The men, who had illegally crossed into Greece after passing through Iran and Turkey, reached Islamabad Friday, Online news agency reported.
Nine are from Punjab province and one is from Peshawar. They were taken to the Federal Investigation Agency’s Anti-Human Trafficking Cell for questioning.
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Islamabad, May 11 (IANS) At least 22 language teaching centres have been closed in Pakistan’s Peshawar city after a ban on the admission of foreigners, a media report said Friday.
More than 100 languages centre exist in the city in the northwest tribal region. The centres taught Pashto, Urdu, Persian and English, the Online news agency reported.
The provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recently launched a crackdown against foreigners. A ban was imposed on the admission of foreigners and some foreign employees were also sacked, the report said.
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Islamabad, May 11 (IANS) A TV reporter, his brother and a friend were gunned down in Pakistan’s Sindh province Thursday night, a media report said Friday.
Aurangzeb Tunio, reporter of a Sindhi news channel KTN, along with his brother and a friend, was fatally shot in Lalurounk town Thursday night, reported Dawn.
Tunio was sitting in his office when a group of 20 armed men barged in and opened fire, killing him, his brother Rustam Tunio and friend Deedar Khaskheli.
Sources said that the killings could be the result of personal enmity.
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Islamabad, May 11 (IANS) A Pakistani police officer was injured in Peshawar city Friday when a bomb hidden beneath a manhole cover exploded as soon as his vehicle by, a media report said.
The massive explosion took place in Chughalpura area, injuring one and damaging many vehicles, DawnNews reported.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Banaras Khan, who was targeted, escaped unhurt but his car was partially damaged.
Sources said the bomb was placed under a manhole cover on the road which detonated as soon as the DSP’s car passed by it.
Panic gripped the area after the deafening blast.
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Islamabad, May 11 (IANS) Pakistanis are seeking an “escape from the old order and a move towards something different”, said a daily, citing a survey that is certain to rattle established political parties.
An editorial in the News International Friday said that as the country moves steadily towards the general election, “it is becoming abundantly clear that people want change”.
“Indeed, it takes only the most basic common sense to realise this. After all, it is a logical assumption that every citizen would wish to free him or herself from the chains of corruption, misrule and mismanagement,” it said.
The daily said that people are burdened by unrelenting inflation and they are now “seeking an escape from the old order and a move towards something different”.
Referring to a survey conducted by the US-based International Republican Institute (IRI), the editorial said its results will “undoubtedly shock the major, established parties – accustomed as they are to holding power”.
It shows that right now it is in fact the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) which is the nationwide front-runner, with 31 percent of the vote. The opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) holds second place with 27 percent, while the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has a dismal share of only 16 percent.
“So, can we expect the tsunami, the wave of change, that (PTI leader) Imran Khan has so often spoken of?,” the daily asked.
Sounding a note of caution, it said that surveys are not always reliable, “…but we seem to have solid suggestions that people may indeed be getting ready to sweep away the old order”.
“Their desire is hardly surprising, and could indeed prove to be very good news for a country stuck too long in a state of political stalemate,” it said.
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