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Karachi: Gunbattle raging after attack on police compound in Pakistan’s Karachi

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KARACHI: A gunbattle was raging Friday night inside a Pakistan police compound in the port city of Karachi, officials and witnesses said, just weeks after a bomb blast at a police mosque in the country’s northwest killed over 80 officers.The police are frequent targets of attacks by militants from Pakistan’s Taliban as well as rebels … Read more

Taliban supreme leader orders women to wear all-covering burqa in public: Decree

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KABUL: Afghanistan’s supreme leader and Taliban chief on Saturday ordered the country’s women to wear the all-covering burqa in public — one of the harshest controls imposed on women’s lives since the hardline Islamists seized power. “They should wear a chadori (head-to-toe burqa) as it is traditional and respectful,” said a decree issued by Hibatullah … Read more