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Stories and analysis from The Northern Express Herald.

Pakistan: Kids watch couple's murder

A young couple murdered in Pakistan barely a week after they had married for love were killed as a warning to other girls not to marry without the permission of their parents, witnesses said.

Fresh fighting erupts amid new threats

Pakistan security forces relaunched their military operation at Karachi airport last night after gunfire was heard hours after all the attackers had been declared dead.

Wife killed: Husband shares his grief

Their relationship, now the subject of feverish worldwide interest, began some six years ago, in the fields surrounding Jhok Kallu Khan, a remote Punjab village.

Malala plotter chosen as Pakistani Taliban leader

The Pakistani Taliban have chosen the ruthless commander who planned the attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai as the militant group's new leader, and it ruled out holding peace talks with the government.

Rockets target Pakistan aid chopper

Separatist militants fired two rockets that narrowly missed a Pakistani government helicopter surveying a region devastated by an earthquake, underscoring the dangers authorities face in helping victims in Baluchistan.

Quake victims struggle for food

Survivors built makeshift shelters with sticks and bedsheets after their mud houses were flattened in an earthquake that killed 348 people.

'We need more tents, more medicine'

Rescuers struggled to help thousands of people injured and left homeless after their houses collapsed in a major earthquake in southwestern Pakistan, while the death toll from the massive temblor there rose to 285.

Quake creates new island

Alongside the carnage of Pakistan's massive earthquake came a new creation: a small island of mud, stone and bubbling gas pushed forth from the seabed.

Pakistan militants prepare for war in Afghanistan

Militants in Pakistan's most populous province are said to be training for what they expect will be an ethnic-based civil war in neighbouring Afghanistan after foreign forces withdraw in 16 months, according to analysts and a senior militant.