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    Inside the salt mine so large it has a mosque and electric railway and where tourists can follow in footsteps of Alexander the Great
    The Khewra salt mine, the second largest in the world, is a warren of 40 kilometers of tunnels housing an illuminated mosque made from salt rock, an electric train and even an asthma clinic. The mine 100 miles south of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad is the largest and oldest salt mine in the country, drawing up to 250,000 visitors a year. Khewra was discovered back...
    April 22, 2013 16:38
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    Transgender candidates stake claim in Pakistan vote
    Stereotyped as dancers, beggars and prostitutes, Pakistan’s vibrant but shunned transgender community is striking out into politics with individuals contesting elections for the first time. They may only be seven out of 23,000 candidates with little chance of getting elected, but they have livened up an otherwise lacklustre campaign and set an important marker for...
    April 18, 2013 20:55
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    Mob in Pakistan Torches Christian Homes
    Hundreds of people in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore ransacked a Christian neighborhood Saturday and torched dozens of homes after hearing reports that a Christian man had committed blasphemy against Islam’s prophet. Blasphemy is a serious crime in Pakistan that can carry the death penalty but sometimes outraged residents exact their own retribution for perceived...
    March 9, 2013 22:37
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    Shutdown Threatened for Pakistan’s Largest City
    A powerful political party in Pakistan’s largest city is calling for a general strike to pressure the government to arrest militants behind a deadly bombing in a Shiite Muslim neighborhood that killed 48 people. Raza Haroon, a lawmaker from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, on Wednesday appealed to the city’s business community to observe an indefinite strike in...
    March 6, 2013 19:36
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    Pakistan Shi’ites demand protection from militants
    Pakistani Shi’ites furious over a sectarian bombing that killed 85 people protested on Monday, demanding that security forces protect them from hardline Sunni groups. The attack, near a street market in the southwestern city of Quetta on Saturday, highlighted the government’s failure to crack down on militancy in nuclear-armed Pakistan just a few months before...
    February 18, 2013 17:38
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    Bomb Kills 15 in Southwest Pakistan, 50 Wounded
    Pakistani police say a bombing at a vegetable market has killed 15 people and wounded 50 others in the country’s southwest. Senior police officer Wazir Khan Nasir said the bomb was detonated by remote control in a Shiite Muslim-dominated residential area ofQuetta. Women and children were among the victims, he said, adding that the death toll could rise. Quettais...
    February 16, 2013 20:26