Daily Study Abroad

PESHAWAR – A peace agreement has been reached between Shia and Sunni commu­nities in Kurram district under the leadership of Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ali Amin Gandapur.

ISLAMABAD – Foreign Office Spokes­person on Saturday said that in Pakistan, state institutions ac­tively worked to safe­guard minorities as a matter of policy.

ISLAMABAD – A high-level meeting on the security situation in Balochistan has decided to expose the attackers of Jaffar Express in the province and the motives behind them.

Washington – Director of the Communications Department of International Monetary Fund (IMF) Julie Kozack has said Pakistan will be able to have access of a total of 2.

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM – Israel on Friday carried out its first major airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs in months, retaliating for an earlier rocket launch from Lebanon in the most serious test of a shaky ceasefire deal agreed in November.

Naypyidaw/Myanmar – A huge earthquake hit Myanmar and Thailand on Friday, killing nearly 150 people and injuring hundreds, with dozens trapped in collapsed buildings and the death toll expected to rise.

LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif chaired a special meeting on Friday to address the alarming spread of AIDS in Taunsa district.

QUETTA/ISLAMABAD – Three people including two policemen were martyred and 21 others including four policemen sustained inju-ries in a bomb blast that target police van at Double Road in Quetta on Thursday.

LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif chaired the 24th Provincial Cabinet meeting which approved the longest agenda items and took important decisions.

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan yesterday reaffirmed its commitment to counterterrorism cooperation with the United States in the future.