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FILE - In this March 7, 2011 file photo, a Pakistan International Airlines passenger jet is parked on the tarmac at a military base in Makassar, Indonesia. The spokesman of Pakistan’s national carrier said Wednesday, July 8, 2020, that the airline is firing 28 pilots found to have tainted licenses, the latest chapter in a scandal that emerged in the wake of the Airbus A320 crash in Karachi in May. An inquiry into the crash, which killed 97 people on board, resulted in the stunning revelation that 260 of 860 pilots in Pakistan had cheated on their pilots exams, but were still given licences by the Civil Aviation Authority. (AP Photo, File)

Pakistani carrier fires 28 pilots over fake licenses scandal

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 22, 2020 file photo, volunteers look for survivors of a Pakistan International Airlines plane that crashed in a residential area of Karachi, Pakistan. The European Union’s aviation safety agency said Tuesday, June 30, 2020 that Pakistan’s national airline will not be allowed to fly into Europe for at least six months after the country’s aviation minister revealed that nearly a third of Pakistani pilots had cheated on their pilot’s exams. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File)

EU bans Pakistan airline from flying to Europe for 6 months

By KATHY GANNON and ADIL JAWAD - Associated Press

In this image made from a video, police stand around an entrance of stock exchange building in Karachi, Pakistan Monday, June 29, 2020. Militants attacked the stock exchange in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Monday, according to police. (AP Photo)

Militants attack Karachi stock exchange, killing at least 3

By Adil Jawad - Associated Press

Captain Chaudhry Salman, center, President of Pakistan Airlines Pilots' Association addresses a news conference with others in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, June 27, 2020. A union of Pakistani pilots on Saturday fired back at the country's aviation minister, who claims as many as 262 pilots serving at state-run Pakistan International airlines and other airline companies, obtained licenses to fly planes by having others take exams for them.(AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistani pilots deny gov’t claim of obtaining fake licenses

By ADIL JAWAD - Associated Press

Pakistani troops, rescue workers and volunteers look for survivors amid the rubble of a collapsed building in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, June 8, 2020. The multi-story residential building that was being expanded collapsed in a congested area of Karachi on Thursday. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Death toll from Pakistan building collapse rises to 22

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Pakistani troops, rescue workers and volunteers look for survivors amid the rubble of a collapsed building in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, June 8, 2020. The multi-story residential building that was being expanded collapsed in a congested area of Karachi on Thursday. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistan: Building collapse in Karachi kills 13 people

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Family members of an air hostess Anam Maqsood, who was killed in Friday's plane crash, mourn for her death at their home in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, May 23, 2020. An aviation official says a passenger plane belonging to state-run Pakistan International Airlines carrying passengers and crew has crashed near the southern port city of Karachi. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Turbulence, warnings before Pakistan plane crash killed 97

By ADIL JAWAD - Associated Press

People offer funeral prayers for a victim of a toxic gas leak, during his funeral prayer, in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. The toxic gas leak killed several people and sickened dozens of others in a coastal residential area in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, police said Monday. The source of the leak, which occurred on Sunday night, and the type of gas that had leaked were not immediately known. There was no suspicion of sabotage. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Death toll from toxic gas leak rises to 14 in Pakistan

By ADIL JAWAD - Associated Press

Toxic gas leak kills 5, sickens dozens in Karachi port city

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CAPTION CORRECTION: CORRECTS YEAR: Dwellers collect their belongings following a fire that gutted homes in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. Hundreds of huts were burnt to ashes as fire erupted making dozens of families homeless in a slum of Karachi, local media reported. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Over 100 makeshift homes destroyed in Pakistan fire

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Major issues that Karachi and other cities in Sindh Province are facing

By Team VOK

Greater Karachi is essential to stop the march of extremist forces in South Asia

By Nadeem Nusrat

PM Khan: Investigate and bring to justice the murderers of Mohajirs

By Nadeem Nusrat

In this Wednesday July 10, 2019 photo, Abdul Aziz, left, and his wife Farah Naz, the parents of Santa Fe High School shooting victim Sabika Aziz Sheikh, 17, talk about the impact of Sabika's death during an interview at their home in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

Pakistani family visits school where exchange student shot

By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press

A waves crashes as people stand on boats on the Arabian Sea coast in Veraval, Gujarat, India, Wednesday, June 12, 2019. Indian authorities evacuated tens of thousands of people on Wednesday as a severe cyclone in the Arabian Sea approached the western state of Gujarat, lashing the coast with high winds and heavy rainfall. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Cyclone batters fishing hub but veers away from Indian coast

By AJIT SOLANKI - Associated Press

Pakistan’s oppressed eye U.S. intervention

By Wasay Jalil

Karachi, once the ‘Bride of the East,’ endures vicious campaign of terror

By Nadeem Nusrat

Blast wounds 6 at religious gathering in Karachi in Pakistan

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Pakistani security personnel arrive at the Chinese Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 23, 2018. Police say gunmen have stormed the Chinese Consulate in the country's southern port city of Karachi, triggering an intense shootout during which two police officers were killed. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Separatists attack Chinese Consulate in Pakistan, killing 4

By Adil Jawad - Associated Press

Security officials gather outside the compound of the Chinese Consulate following an attack, Friday, Nov. 23, 2018, in Karachi, Pakistan,. Gunmen have stormed the Chinese Consulate in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, triggering an intense shootout during which two police officers and all three assailants were killed. (AP Photo)

The Latest: Pakistan’s death toll from market bombing now 35

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