Pak: 4 killed in 2 separate explosions
Four people, including two minor girls, were killed in terrorism related incident on Wednesday in Pakistan, officials said.
Security officials said two people were killed when a bomb exploded in a tanker carrying fuel for Nato troops in neighbouring Afghanistan.
The device went off as the Nato supply convoy arrived at a customs checkpost in Chaman which faces Spin Boldak in Afghanistan’s violence-plagued south, reports our Pakistan correspondent.
Meanwhile, two young girls were killed when a hand grenade exploded while they were playing on the outskirts of Peshawar city. The incident took place in the Khazana area.
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400 held for bullying girls in Dhaka
Dhaka : Bangladesh has arrested more than 400 men as part of a nationwide crackdown on the bullying of schoolgirls after a spate of teenage suicides blamed on harassment, the police said on Wednesday.
Many of the men were arrested outside girls’ schools as the police across the Muslim-majority nation of 144 million continue their month-old campaign, a police spokesman said.
“The police are investigating 558 people nationwide and have arrested 432 of these targets,” senior information officer, Kamrul Ahsan, said. —AFP
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Pak court allows nikah inside prison
Islamabad : A Pakistani court on Wednesday allowed a death row prisoner to perform nikah with his fiancée inside the jail.
The Lahore high court granted a plea for nikah of the death row prisoner, identified as Ateequr Rehman, in Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore. The plea was filed by the fiancée of the convict. The girl engaged to the prisoner, said in her plea that the appeal against death sentence of Ateequr Rehman is being heard in the high court and that she may be granted permission to marry her fiancé, reports out Pakistan correspondent.
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