ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday issued separate statements to announce a ceasefire between the two sides, which has been implemented later.
Pakistan's Foreign Office said on Wednesday that at the request of the Afghan side, Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed on a temporary 48-hour ceasefire to ease border tensions. (Pakistan-Afghanistan-Ceasefire)
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NEW DELHI -- At least 20 people were killed Tuesday after a private bus carrying them caught fire in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, officials said.
The moving bus caught fire on the road near Thaiyat village in Jaisalmer district, about 548 km west of Jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan. (India-Bus-Fire)
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JAKARTA -- Ten people were killed and 21 others injured after a fire broke out aboard an oil tanker undergoing repairs at a shipyard on Batam Island in Indonesia's Riau Islands province early Wednesday.
The victims were technicians working on the tanker Federal II at PT ASL Shipyard Indonesia in the Batuaji area. (Indonesia-Tanker-Fire)
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ISLAMABAD/KABUL -- The Pakistani military said on Wednesday that Pakistani security forces repulsed an attack by the Afghan Taliban in the country's southwest Balochistan province. On the same day, an Afghan government spokesman said fresh fighting between Afghan and Pakistani troops killed 12 civilians and wounded over 100 others.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan Army, said in a statement that the Afghan Taliban resorted to an attack at four locations in the Spin Boldak area of Balochistan, which was repulsed by the security forces, noting that 15 to 20 Afghan Taliban members have been killed. (Pakistan-Afghanistan-Attack) Enditem