A Car Bomb Attack Has Killed at Least 10 People in Pakistan

A Car Bomb Attack Has Killed at Least 10 People in Pakistan

Security personnel check the site of a suicide attack in Quetta, southwest Pakistan's Balochistan province, on Sept. 30, 2025. Ten people were killed and 30 others injured in a suicide attack targeting the headquarters of paramilitary forces in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Tuesday, the provincial Health Minister Bakht Muhammad Kakar told media. TO GO WITH "Roundup: 10 killed, 30 injured in suicide attack in SW Pakistan" Photo by Asad/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

A Car Bomb Attack Has Killed at Least 10 People in Pakistan

A Car Bomb Attack Has Killed at Least 10 People in Pakistan

Damaged vehicles are seen at the site of a suicide attack in Quetta, southwest Pakistan's Balochistan province, on Sept. 30, 2025. Ten people were killed and 30 others injured in a suicide attack targeting the headquarters of paramilitary forces in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Tuesday, the provincial Health Minister Bakht Muhammad Kakar told media. TO GO WITH "Roundup: 10 killed, 30 injured in suicide attack in SW Pakistan" Photo by Asad/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

A Car Bomb Attack Has Killed at Least 10 People in Pakistan

A Car Bomb Attack Has Killed at Least 10 People in Pakistan

People are seen at the site of a suicide attack in Quetta, southwest Pakistan's Balochistan province, on Sept. 30, 2025. Ten people were killed and 30 others injured in a suicide attack targeting the headquarters of paramilitary forces in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Tuesday, the provincial Health Minister Bakht Muhammad Kakar told media. TO GO WITH "Roundup: 10 killed, 30 injured in suicide attack in SW Pakistan" Photo by Asad/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

A Car Bomb Attack Has Killed at Least 10 People in Pakistan

A Car Bomb Attack Has Killed at Least 10 People in Pakistan

Security personnel check the site of a suicide attack in Quetta, southwest Pakistan's Balochistan province, on Sept. 30, 2025. Ten people were killed and 30 others injured in a suicide attack targeting the headquarters of paramilitary forces in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Tuesday, the provincial Health Minister Bakht Muhammad Kakar told media. TO GO WITH "Roundup: 10 killed, 30 injured in suicide attack in SW Pakistan" Photo by Asad/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

Afghan gov't begins reconstruction of major highway in southern region

STORY: Afghan gov't begins reconstruction of major highway in southern region DATELINE: Oct. 10, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:43 LOCATION: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the reconstruction of highway in Kandahar province, Afghanistan STORYLINE: The Taliban-run caretaker administration has started the reconstruction of a major highway in the southern Kandahar province, officials have said. In the first phase, 55 km of the road linking Kandahar to the neighboring Zabul province would be reconstructed, followed by the reconstruction of highways linking Kandahar to Kabul and Kandahar to Herat, said Bakht Mohammad, who is with the reconstruction project. The first phase project will be finished in five months with funds provided by the administration, the official said. Abdul Baqi, another official with the reconstruction project, told Xinhua that the reconstruction of the Kandahar-Zabul highway requires 250 million afghanis (2.84 million U.S. dollars) and is financed by the M

Repair work begins for railway linking Afghanistan's Herat to Iran

STORY: Repair work begins for railway linking Afghanistan's Herat to Iran DATELINE: Sept. 24, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:14 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1 various of the railway project 2 SOUNDBITE (Dari): SAYED SADEQ GILANI, Professor, Herat University STORYLINE: Afghan authorities have begun the work to repair the railway linking the western Herat province to Khawaf of the neighboring country Iran. Bakht-ur-Rahman Sharafat, head of Afghanistan Railways, said that the repairing work began on Wednesday at the Rozanak station on the Herat-Khawaf railway. Sharafat added that the project would be completed at a cost of some 53 million afghani (about 600,000 U.S. dollars) within two and half months. A total of 149 km in length on the Afghan side out of the 225 km railway has been damaged over the past more than one year, according to the official. SOUNDBITE (Dari): SAYED SADEQ GILANI, Professor, Herat University "Repairing of the railway would bolster trade and economic activities not only between