Local Urdu TV channels reported on Friday that the victims were offering prayers in the mosque when the wall collapsed in the Model Town area of Lahore, the capital of the country’s eastern Punjab province.
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Represented by Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, in Lagos while declaring open a two-day conference organised by the Nigerian Navy to mark its 62nd anniversary, Buhari called for an appraisal of multinational approaches to enhance maritime security in the Gulf.
Roads leading to the 20-year-old education activist’s childhood home in Mingora were blocked earlier in the day, and a helicopter was seen landing at a government guest house about 1 km from her house.
Sareer Ahmed, principal of the private Islamia College in the northern town of Charsadda, had an argument with one of his students for missing a number of classes.
The four-day event which took place at the 1212 Polo Club had teams from six countries participating, with Nigeria, the U.S., India, Morocco, Pakistan and Egypt as the countries.
Police found the body in a trash dump in the city of Kasur in the province of Punjab on Tuesday, a week after she was kidnapped, local police chief Zulfikar Ahmed said Wednesday.
A spokesman for Pakistan International Airline, Mashood Tajwar, said both the mother and baby were healthy, though it was a premature birth.
Asim Khan, the Head of Chancery in the Pakistan High Commission, said this while speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja.
In March, the South Asian nation conducted its first population census in two decades, which was possible thanks to improved security after years of violence linked to al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack which wrought carnage near the Lahore Technology Park in the center of the city.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the 20-year-old Malala, who was accompanied by her father, Yousafzai, and other members of the Malala Foundation, arrived at the Presidential Villa at about 5.30pm.
Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya, the Director, Public Relations and Information, NAF Headquarters, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja.
The treaty obliges countries not to develop, test, produce or possess nuclear arms, or to acquire them by other means – “never under any circumstances”.
Khan reiterated his country’s “readiness to continue to support Nigerian Armed Forces and security agencies in their fight against insurgency and terrorism”.
Dozens of people who drank the homemade alcohol in the district of Toba Tek Singh in Punjab province had fallen unconscious
The blast occurred at the Shah Noorani shrine, located in Baluchistan province, about 100km north of the port city of Karachi.
It took place while hundreds of people were inside, said Ghalzai
Hot weather is not unusual during summer months in Pakistan, but prolonged power cuts seem to have made matters worse, the BBC’s Shahzeb Jillani reports
He said that the crackdown was Pakistan’s national reaction to December’s terrorists’ massacre of school children in the country
Jonathan spoke during the Nigeria-Pakistan Trade and Investment Forum, organised by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, in Abuja, on Tuesday
Speaking at talks with the British Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Mark Simmonds, at the Presidential Villa, Jonathan said that the Federal Government will also welcome international support for its plans for the socio-economic rehabilitation of the North East states after the Boko Haram insurgency has been substantially curtailed