Listen In EnglishListen in ArabicBeta V.1.0 - Powered by automated translationAt least seven people including four attackers died after gunmen attacked Karachi's stock exchange building on Monday morning. Police said four men  stormed the building in Pakistan's financial centre and were killed after paramilitary rangers responded.Two guards and a policeman were killed in the attack, which was later claimed by the Balochistan Liberation Army, a separatist militant group from a neighbouring province.The militants launched a grenade attack at the main gate before...…Listen In EnglishListen in ArabicBeta V.1.0 - Powered by automated translationAt least seven people including four attackers died after gunmen attacked Karachi's stock exchange building on Monday morning. Police said four men  stormed the building in Pakistan's financial centre and were killed after paramilitary rangers responded.Two guards and a policeman were killed in the attack, which was later claimed by the Balochistan Liberation Army, a separatist militant group from a neighbouring province.The militants launched a grenade attack at the main gate before...WW…

Pakistan's government has endorsed a plan to help tackle the country's locust plague by encouraging people to catch the voracious pests and sell them as chicken feed.Imran Khan, prime minister, has said he wants to extend a pilot project which saw farmers paid by the kilogram to catch the insects so they could be made into protein-rich poultry food.The scheme would provide much needed income to farmers in some of the poorest parts of the country.Pakistan is facing as marauding swarms have caused widespread damage in the Middle East, East Africa and South Asia.The country has already seen...…Pakistan's government has endorsed a plan to help tackle the country's locust plague by encouraging people to catch the voracious pests and sell them as chicken feed.Imran Khan, prime minister, has said he wants to extend a pilot project which saw farmers paid by the kilogram to catch the insects so they could be made into protein-rich poultry food.The scheme would provide much needed income to farmers in some of the poorest parts of the country.Pakistan is facing as marauding swarms have caused widespread damage in the Middle East, East Africa and South Asia.The country has already seen...WW…

The campaign to stamp out polio in one of its last haunts will begin again next week, four months after it was halted due to the coronavirus.Eradication efforts will resume in Pakistan as health officials worry the pause in operations meant .Pakistan will begin targeted vaccination campaigns from July 20, building to nationwide sweeps from September onwards. Districts included in the first round are Faisalabad, Attock, South Waziristan, and parts of Karachi and Quetta, with a target to vaccinate almost 800,000 children under the age of five.Afghanistan will also begin its own vaccinations...…The campaign to stamp out polio in one of its last haunts will begin again next week, four months after it was halted due to the coronavirus.Eradication efforts will resume in Pakistan as health officials worry the pause in operations meant .Pakistan will begin targeted vaccination campaigns from July 20, building to nationwide sweeps from September onwards. Districts included in the first round are Faisalabad, Attock, South Waziristan, and parts of Karachi and Quetta, with a target to vaccinate almost 800,000 children under the age of five.Afghanistan will also begin its own vaccinations...WW…

A series of attacks on American bases in Afghanistan, including a secret spy base, have raised fears that the Taliban will step up assaults on US forces ahead of the May 1 deadline to pull out.Rockets twice struck a base used by military personnel working for the CIA in eastern Afghanistan last month, CNN reported, in apparent breach of the US-Taliban withdrawal deal signed last year.Kandahar airfield which is used by US and coalition troops supporting the Afghan forces was then hit earlier this week.The attacks came as Joe Biden is reviewing whether to stick with the Doha deal signed by...…A series of attacks on American bases in Afghanistan, including a secret spy base, have raised fears that the Taliban will step up assaults on US forces ahead of the May 1 deadline to pull out.Rockets twice struck a base used by military personnel working for the CIA in eastern Afghanistan last month, CNN reported, in apparent breach of the US-Taliban withdrawal deal signed last year.Kandahar airfield which is used by US and coalition troops supporting the Afghan forces was then hit earlier this week.The attacks came as Joe Biden is reviewing whether to stick with the Doha deal signed by...WW…

Women's rights campaigners in Pakistan say their lives have been put in danger after opponents doctored footage of a protest march and made false claims to portray feminists raising blasphemous slogans.The fake video has been widely shared on social media in a country where an accusation of blasphemy is often an open incitement to violence or even murder.Organisers of the march said the video and other false claims had provoked a string of death threats.in the nation of more than 220 million, as placard bearing feminists draw the ire of religious and social conservatives.Pakistan's human...…Women's rights campaigners in Pakistan say their lives have been put in danger after opponents doctored footage of a protest march and made false claims to portray feminists raising blasphemous slogans.The fake video has been widely shared on social media in a country where an accusation of blasphemy is often an open incitement to violence or even murder.Organisers of the march said the video and other false claims had provoked a string of death threats.in the nation of more than 220 million, as placard bearing feminists draw the ire of religious and social conservatives.Pakistan's human...WW…

Brazil's Covid-19 outbreak has reached new highs, driven by the spread of emerging coronavirus variants.The Latin American nation of more than 211 million people was battered by one of the world's most intense Covid outbreaks last summer as death rates raged out of control for months.Yet while global caseloads worldwide have receded in recent weeks, Brazil has again found itself setting new domestic records, with its outbreak as bad as it has ever been.Brazil has already identified one new variant that has spread alarm across the world, and epidemiologists have warned that the scale of...…Brazil's Covid-19 outbreak has reached new highs, driven by the spread of emerging coronavirus variants.The Latin American nation of more than 211 million people was battered by one of the world's most intense Covid outbreaks last summer as death rates raged out of control for months.Yet while global caseloads worldwide have receded in recent weeks, Brazil has again found itself setting new domestic records, with its outbreak as bad as it has ever been.Brazil has already identified one new variant that has spread alarm across the world, and epidemiologists have warned that the scale of...WW…

Two months after Pakistan appeared headed for a sky-rocketing Covid-19 outbreak, case numbers and death tolls have fallen in what doctors say is a welcome, but puzzling drop in the disease.While neighbouring India has raced up the world ranking for countries badly hit by the new coronavirus, Pakistan is heading in the other direction.A young population, robust immune systems and a system of localised “smart” lockdowns have all been touted as reasons for the fall, but health officials admit the reasons remain unclear.In mid-June the daily death toll was pushing 150, and the outbreak was...…Two months after Pakistan appeared headed for a sky-rocketing Covid-19 outbreak, case numbers and death tolls have fallen in what doctors say is a welcome, but puzzling drop in the disease.While neighbouring India has raced up the world ranking for countries badly hit by the new coronavirus, Pakistan is heading in the other direction.A young population, robust immune systems and a system of localised “smart” lockdowns have all been touted as reasons for the fall, but health officials admit the reasons remain unclear.In mid-June the daily death toll was pushing 150, and the outbreak was...WW…