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"LAHORE: A Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) worker was allegedly shot dead while four others sustained gunshot wounds after Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) heavily armed activists sprayed them with bullets here on Sunday night, Samaa reported."

KABUL: An air strike on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday left three Doctors Without Borders staff dead and dozens more unaccounted for, the medical charity said, with NATO conceding US forces may have been behind the attack.

KARACHI: Two policemen lost their lives in broad daylight attack in Karachi on Thursday. According to Samaa correspondent, the cops were gunned down by unknown bikers near Char Minar Chowrangi in Bahadurabad, one of city's busy commercial areas.

TEHRAN: The first bodies of Iranians killed in a deadly stampede at the Hajj arrived home from Saudi Arabia on Saturday, after a controversial nine-day delay and questions over the final death toll. President Hassan Rouhani and other top officials laid white flowers on coffins at a sombre repatriation ceremony for the 104 pilgrims - among at least 464 Iranians who died in the September 24 crush.

DHAKA: Police in Bangladesh said they have detained four people in connection with the shooting death on Saturday of a Japanese citizen, the second foreign national killed in the South Asian nation within a week.

caption id="attachment_590616" align="alignnone" width="768"] An aerial view of the walk way leading to the pillars where pilgrims throw stone (center tents) on the 2nd day of "Jamarat" ritual, the stoning of Satan, in Mina near Saudi Arabia's holy Muslim city of Makkah on September 25, 2015.

JACOBABAD: AT last eight people have been killed and several others injured when an explosion struck a Muharram procession here on Friday. Our correspondent said the blast took place on Quetta road. The dead and injured were being taken to a nearby hospital.