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Sameh Shoukry, Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs, announces that US-backed efforts to re-open the Rafah border crossing have failed, citing Israel's refusal to guarantee the safety of incoming aid convoys and outgoing foreign nationals.
2023-10-16

Twelve people are killed and 26 others injured when a minibus carrying illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh crashes and catches fire in Muradiye, Van Province, Turkey.
2021-07-11

An Airbus A320 carrying 99 people crashes in a residential area near Karachi Airport, Pakistan. Ninety-seven people onboard are killed; the other two survive with injuries. Another person died on the ground. Some people on the ground were also injured when the plane crashed near houses.
2020-05-22

An Afghan diplomat is shot dead at the Afghan consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
2017-02-6

A 6.6 magnitude earthquake occurs in northern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border with tremors felt in north India.
2016-04-10

Sunni militants linked to the Pakistani Taliban kill at least 40 people and injure 50 in a bombing at a Shiite mosque in the Shikarpur District of Pakistan's Sindh province.
2015-01-30

Drone attacks in Pakistan: Pakistani intelligence officials claim that a US drone attack has killed 5 alleged foreign militants, including Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan commander Wali-ur-Rehman, in the North Waziristan town of Miran Shah.
2013-05-29

Tens of thousands gather in Lahore as Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan launches an election bid for the country's general elections in May 2013.
2013-03-24

23 people are killed and 30 injured in a road accident in Pakistan's Punjab province.
2013-03-23

Mumtaz Qadri is charged with murdering the Governor of Punjab Salmaan Taseer in a Pakistan court.
2011-02-14