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The ship in service with the Pakistan Navy as PNS Tariq

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Thomas Kerr and Malcolm Offord in the east end of Glasgow

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Chair Halla Mohieddeen with representatives from the six political parties at the hustings in Edinburgh.

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The Grand Iftars are currently underway in Gaza and Syria and have been carried out across Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

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Scottish-Pakistani footballler Rayan Mohammed, pictured during a loan spell with Forfar Athletic. (Photo by Ross Parker / SNS Group)

Scottish trailblazer chasing international dream with Pakistan

Scottish golfer eyes Vietnam victory after strong Pakistan performance

Polio is still endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Polio symptoms to be aware of as cases surge in Pakistan

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Imran Khan was shot in the foot at a political rally in 2022.

Protesters launch strike action amid Pakistan election rigging claims

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A Pakistani police officer stands guard outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad. Picture: Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images

Pakistan air strikes on Iran kill four children, three women

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Afghan residents clear debris from a damaged house after earthquake in Sarbuland village of Zendeh Jan district of Herat province (Photo by Mohsen KARIMI / AFP) (Photo by MOHSEN KARIMI/AFP via Getty Images)

Afghanistan earthquake: Taliban - ‘at least' 2000 dead in densely populated area

The firm has locked down work with new and existing clients in Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Pakistan (file image). Picture: contributed.

Aberdeen-headquartered KCA Deutag locks down drilling contract work worth £311m

Tributes to Sara Sharif where her body was found at home on August 10 (Pic: SWNS)

Sara Sharif: relatives of father of dead 10-year old detained for questioning

Rizwan Ullah, a survivor of the cable car accident sits in a classroom at a school in the Pashto village of mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province a day after being rescued from a chairlift which dangled over a ravine for 15 hours.

Why does Pakistan have a vast network of homemade cable cars?

People watch as an army soldier slings down from a helicopter during a rescue mission to recover students stuck in a chairlift in Pashto village of mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on August 22, 2023. Six children and two adults were suspended inside a cable car dangling over a deep valley in Pakistan for several hours on August 22, as a military helicopter hovered nearby. (Photo by Prateek KUMAR / AFP) (Photo by PRATEEK KUMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Relief as Pakistan children rescued from chair lift dangling over ravine

Prince and Princess of Wales with their three children

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Scottish broadcaster and author, Aasmah Mir, whose memoir, A Pebble In The Throat by Aasmah Mir is published by Headline. Pic: Contributed

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Haleema says her family has been living in a tent since the floods last September. Picture: Khaula Jamil/DEC

Pakistan floods: 'Everything has disappeared, everything has finished'

PC Sharon Beshenivsky was killed while on duty in Bradford in 2005. Picture: West Yorkshire Police/PA Wire

Man extradited from Pakistan charged with murder of PC in 2005

The epicentre of the earthquake is believed to be in Afghanistan.

Earthquake measuring 6.5 hits Afghanistan and Pakistan

Internally displaced girls walk beside the flood waters near a makeshift camp in the flood-hit area of Dera Allah Yar in Jaffarabad district of Balochistan province, months after Pakistan was hit with devastating flooding. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Scottish funding boost for girls' education in flood-hit Pakistan

Afghan boys sit outside newly built houses constructed by the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) in Barmal district, Paktika province, following humanitarian work. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

UNHCR calls for funding to support millions of Afghan refugees

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Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf (left) walks down after taking the oath as a civilian president at the presidential palace in Islamabad. Picture: Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images

Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf dies

Emirates’ Airbus A3800-800 airliner approaches Heathrow international airport, where Border Force agents discovered a package contaminated with uranium in December

Scotland Yard continue investigations in uranium contaminated package

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and climate activist Vanessa Nakate at a COP26 event in Glasgow last year (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Sturgeon flashing our cash on vanity projects

Flood affected children attend makeshift school organized by Islamic group Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, in Sukkur, Pakista. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File)

Millions of Pakistan children miss school after floods

A truck carries local residents while driving to safer ground last month away from the rising waters in Numan Community of Adamawa State in North East Nigeria.

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Women carrying firewood walk past a carcass of a cow in Loiyangalani, Kenya, amid this year's prolonged drought (Picture: Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images)

Every bit of global warming is making floods and droughts worse

Anti-fracking groups from around Scotland gather to demonstrate outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Picture: PA

Why the UK cannot afford to waste time or money on 'reckless' fracking quest

Flood-affected people sit along with their relief supplies being distributed by the International Federation of Red Cross in Jaffarabad district, Balochistan province.

At least 528 children killed in Pakistan floods, charity warns

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UN chief appeals to world to help flood-hit Pakistan

Workers of 'Saylani welfare trust' cook food for flood-affected people in Hyderabad in Sindh province. Monsoon rains have submerged a third of Pakistan, claiming at least 1,190 lives since June and unleashing powerful floods that have washed away swathes of vital crops and damaged or destroyed more than a million homes.

Tens of thousands of people suffering from diseases after Pakistan floods

Oxford University student Israr Khan, who also studied law at Aberdeen University between 2016 and 2020, returned to his native Pakistan to visit in August and plans to come back to the UK in October. He saw a man drown in Pakistan as a result of catastrophic floods. Picture: Israr Khan/PA Wire

Law student who saw man drown in Pakistan floods highlights need for aid

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Graeme McMeekin: If we come together we can send a lifeline to Pakistan

With a third of Pakistan said to be under water, a man and a youth use a satellite dish to move children across a flooded area (Picture: Fida Hussain/AFP via Getty Images)

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Government officials and security personnel load relief food bags into a government helicopter for flood affected people in Saidu Sharif, the capital of Swat valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on August 30, 2022.Photo by Abdul Majeed via Getty Images

UN seeks £136m of emergency aid for victims of Pakistan floods

Children shelter from the rain under a plastic sheet near their collapsed house in Jaffarabad district, Balochistan province, after heavy monsoon rainfalls caused major flooding across much of Pakistan (Picture: Fida Hussain/AFP via Getty Images)

Antonio Guterres: As climate catastrophe hits Pakistan, your country may be next

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Lubna Kerr: Why do you need to know where I am really from?

Fateh Ali (left), a travelling salesman on the Isle of Arran in the 1940s and 50s, with his brother Yaqub (right). PIC: Tariq Ali/Contributed.

Tracing Fateh Ali, a travelling salesman on the Isle of Arran

A still image from a video released by Al-Qaedas media arm as-Sahab and obtained on September 11, 2012 courtesy of the Site Intelligence Group shows al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a video, speaking from an undisclosed location on the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

US kills Al-Qaeda leader in drone strike

Wing Commander Gordon Henderson, originally from Dunfermline, is believed to have died on a mountaineering expedition to Broad Peak, Pakistan. PIC: RAF.

Scottish airman missing on mountain expedition in Pakistan presumed dead

A wet bulb thermometer next to a normal thermometer.

Wet bulb temperature and why it is an important alternative way to measure heat

A severe earthquake shook four districts of Paktika province, killing and injuring hundreds

At least 255 dead after magnitude 6.1 earthquake hits Afghanistan

New Edinburgh Punjabi restaurant Mera Lahore has opened near Leith Walk

New Punjabi restaurant opens in Edinburgh

This photograph shows a view of a school destroyed as a result of fight not far from the center of Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, located some 50 km from Ukrainian-Russian border, on February 28, 2022. (Photo by Sergey BOBOK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images)

Russian news agency appears to accidentally publish article claiming victory

Tabassum Niamat, Community engagement manager, The Pollokshields Trust. Picture: John Devlin/JPIMedia

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Afghans crowd the tarmac of Kabul airport on 16 August, 2021, trying to flee the country after the Taliban took control PIC: AFP via Getty Images

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Parachinar is a small town, the capital of Kurram District in Pakistan. Picture: Muhammad Daud Khan

Valley that provides water for local Pakistan towns is drying up

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

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