PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber yesterday struck a police patrol in a town in northwestern Pakistan, killing a policeman and wounding six others. The bombing took place at a market in Katalang, 50 kilometres north-east of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. “A policeman was killed and two other policemen were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up close to a police patrol car,” senior police official Shafi Ullah said. Four civilians were also wounded in the bombing.
Govt to borrow $13bn in Q4
KARACHI: The government has announced it will borrow Rs1.3 trillion ($13.26bn) from the banking system in the last quarter of this fiscal. The auction calendar of market treasury bills was announced yesterday, and it gives details of the auctions, with the total auctioned amount at Rs1.325 trillion. The State Bank’s data show that until March 15 the government had borrowed Rs778bn from scheduled banks.
GI Joe movie sequel banned
LAHORE: The latest instalment of the Hollywood film franchise GI Joe has been banned in Pakistan for its negative portrayal of the country, according to the Central Board of Film Censors. Officials in the censor board said there was no chance the sequel, titled GI Joe: Retaliation would make it through the censors. It depicts Pakistan as an unstable state where terrorists are on the verge of seizing the country’s nuclear assets.
240,000 kids miss polio drive
ISLAMABAD: Some 240,000 children have missed UN-backed vaccinations against polio because of security concerns in Pakistan’s tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, a top official with the World Health Organisation has said.
Dr Nima Saeed Abid, the acting WHO chief in Pakistan, said health workers had not been able to immunise children in the North and South Waziristan regions — Taliban strongholds — since July 2012.
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