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Motorcyclists and vehicles move on a bridge as smog envelops the historical Badshahi Mosque, background, in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Lahore is in an airshed, an area where pollutants from industry, transportation and other human activities get trapped and cannot disperse easily. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Air pollution and politics pose cross-border challenges in South Asia
By RIAZAT BUTT - Associated Press
Sat,01/20/24-9:02PM , 56 Reads
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The air smells burnt in Lahore, a city in Pakistan’s east that used to be famous for its gardens but has become infamous for its terrible air quality.
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A Pakistani checks morning newspapers covering front page story of Iran's strike, at a stall in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. Pakistan's air force launched retaliatory airstrikes early Thursday on Iran allegedly targeting militant positions, an attack that killed at least several people and further raised tensions between the neighboring nations. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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Could it escalate? A look at what is behind Iran and Pakistan's airstrikes
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Thu,01/18/24-7:56AM , 101 Reads
ISLAMABAD (AP) — This week's airstrikes between Iran and Pakistan that killed at least 11 people mark a significant escalation in fraught relations between the neighbors.
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An Afghan girl cries in front of her house that was destroyed by the earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Another strong earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier one killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province in what was one of the most destructive quakes in the country's recent history. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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More than 90% of people killed by western Afghanistan quake were women and children, UN says
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Thu,10/12/23-8:00AM , 90 Reads
ISLAMABAD (AP) — More than 90% of the people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan last weekend were women and children, U.N. officials reported Thursday.
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Afghan men search for victims after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, of western Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Powerful earthquakes killed at least 2,000 people in western Afghanistan, a Taliban government spokesman said Sunday. It's one of the deadliest earthquakes to strike the country in two decades. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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Desperate people dig out dead and injured from Afghanistan earthquakes that killed at least 2,000
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Sun,10/08/23-3:41AM , 142 Reads
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Men dug through rubble with their bare hands and shovels in western Afghanistan Sunday in desperate attempts to pull victims from the wreckage left by powerful earthquakes that killed at least 2,000 people.
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