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Day: January 1, 2025

Pakistan: Karachi faces traffic chaos on seventh day of protests over Parachinar killings

Published by ANI News Karachi [Pakistan], January1 (ANI): Karachi residents endured traffic problems for the seventh consecutive day on Wednesday due to ongoing protests against the recent killings in Parachinar area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram district, Dawn reported. In Kurram, a Grand Jirga has been negotiating a peace agreement, though representatives from Lower Kurram have yet to sign it. Clashes over long-standing land disputes have resulted in at least 130 deaths since last month, with shortages of food and medicine reported due to prolonged road blockages, according to Dawn report. Since December 20, res…

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Pakistani girls from Dawoodi Bohra community continue to grapple with secretive practice of FGM: Report

Published by ANI News Karachi [Pakistan], January 1 (ANI): Female genital mutilation (FGM) remains a prevalent yet largely unacknowledged practice among Pakistan’s Dawoodi Bohra community, a Shia Muslim sect primarily originating from Gujarat, with estimates indicating that 75 per cent to 85 per cent of Dawoodi Bohra women in Pakistan undergo FGM, according to a report by Al Jazeera. The FGM is often performed in private homes by older women using unsterilised tools and without anaesthesia, or by medical professionals in urban centres like Karachi. With an estimated 1,00,000 Dawoodi Bohras in Pakistan, the practice…

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Where to visit in 2025: Here are the places our travel experts are booking

Published by Independent.co.uk There’s nothing quite like looking at blank diary pages. The turn of the year is one such time, when 12 months stretch out in front of you waiting to be filled with experiences – and brimming with potential when it comes to travel. It might be the urban thrum of a city that’s caught your eye for a 2025 escape, or a secluded beach with next to nobody around. The Independent’s travel team has equally diverse plans for our globetrotting during the next year. Some of us are hoping to align with new flight routes to explore

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Can India become the world’s third superpower? It faces huge challenges in 2025

Published by Independent.co.uk In an exclusive interview with The Independent in September, Tony Blair made a bold claim – that India will rise to become a global superpower by 2050. “By the middle of this century, you’re going to have three superpowers – America, China, and you’re going to have India. All other countries are going to be small in comparison,” the former prime minister said. India’s own prime minister, Narendra Modi, has set out similar aspirations, saying India will achieve “developed” status by 2047. He also vowed to make his country “the third largest economic superpower” by the end

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