At least 250 people have been killed and another 1,000 wounded after a 6 magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border.

The powerful tremor was recorded at 11.47pm and was centered 17 miles east-northeast of the city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province.

It was only five miles deep. Shallower quakes tend to cause more damage.

Entire villages in the province of Kunar are believed to have been destroyed and dozens of houses turned into rubble, Taliban sources say.

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A Virgin Atlantic passenger has been jailed after calling an air hostess a ‘f***ing white Welsh c**t’ and threatening to ‘gang rape and set her alight’.

Salman Iftikhar was on a flight from London Heathrow to Lahore when he unleashed a tirade of abuse at stewardess, Angie Walsh, and promised to blow up the Avari Lahore Hotel, where cabin crew were due to stay.

Footage shows the 37-year-old repeatedly accusing the woman of being a racist and shouting,’ You called me a p**i in front of everybody’.

Another passenger, who filmed the shocking scenes, can be heard saying ‘holy s**t’ as the scene unfolded in first class.

Iftikhar’s wife and three children watched him chugg champagne, film the crew and eventually ‘grabbing and squeezing’ Ms Walsh’s arm and telling her, ‘You will be dead on the floor of your hotel’.

Isleworth Crown Court heard that the incident on on February 7, 2023, was so bad that pilots even considered detouring the plane to Turkey.

Prosecutor Abdul Kapadia detailed how the horror unfolded: ‘During the first meal service, the defendant was seen helping himself to ice, leaning over the bar he was drinking at, and taking ice with his hands.

‘When told to stop, the defendant became irate, and started to film cabin crew with his phone, telling them: “Do not tell me what to do you bitch.”

‘When asked by the cabin crew to return to his seat, he then said: “Don’t tell me what to do you racist f***ing bitch. I know where you are from in Cardiff.”‘

The pilot was then contacted, and turned the seat belt lights on, but that only made the situation worse.

Kapadia said: ‘The defendant then shouted, and said: “Look at this bitch having the seat belt sign on when there was no turbulence. What the f**k is this bitch doing?”

‘Iftikhar returned to his seat and called crew member Angie Walsh a “f**king bitch.”‘

Once the passenger was informed that the flight could be diverted due to his behaviour, his threats did not stop. Instead, he replied: ‘I don’t care. F**k it, go to Turkey. I have contacts.’

The court was told how his three young children were crying and pleading for him to stop, but to no avail.

Kapadia revealed how Iftikhar then threatened to blow up a floor of the hotel.

He added: ‘The defendant knew the specific hotel, but also the hotel room numbers, and threatened the cabin crew with this.

‘He told Ms Walsh: “You will be dead on the floor of your hotel”.

‘Iftikhar shouted at Ms Walsh and said: “The white sheep s**ging b***h will be dead. The floor of your hotel will be blown up and it will disappear.”

‘He told Ms Walsh: “You will be dragged by your hair from your room and gang raped and set on fire.”‘

When the plane landed in Pakistan, no action was taken against Iftikhar.

He was eventually arrested – more than a year later – at his £900,000 home in Iver, Buckingamshire.

Ms Walsh told the court how after 37 years of flying with Virgin Atlantic, she had to take 14 months off work after the threat of being gang-raped and

She said: ‘I can’t quite believe that one passenger has had this much of an impact on my, my job, my career and my life.

‘I am a strong brave, happy stewardess, and loved my job. I am well known within the company.

‘I have been flying with Virgin Atlantic for 37 years. I was working when all flights were grounded on 9/11, and I have even flown into a warzone. But this incident has broken me.

‘But I don’t feel strong enough anymore. I was abused for eight hours and 15 mins. It has broken me. It was a very personal attack.

‘I was doing everything in my power to protect passengers and the crew from him. I felt exposed and vulnerable, especially as we were 39,000 feet in the air. There was nowhere for me to go.

‘There was one moment where I felt I could not cope. I went into the cockpit and had a meltdown. I said to the captain I don’t know what to do.’

Ben Walker-Nolan, defending, told the court that his client was suffering from ‘amnesia blood loss’, which contributed to what happened.

Iftikhar wept in the dock as he was sentences to 15 months behind bars.

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Sumeera Rajput, who boasted more than 58,000 followers and a million likes on the video sharing platform, was discovered at her home in Ghotki district in Sindh, Pakistan.

Sumeera Rajput, who boasted more than 58,000 followers and a million likes on the video sharing platform, was discovered at her home in Ghotki district in Sindh, Pakistan.

‘It was a gruesome and cold-blooded murder,’ he said.

During a school assembly, Khyalmat was singled out and hit on the neck, head, face and back, local police said.

• India and Pakistan exchange major cross-border strikes, with both sides targeting military bases after Pakistan launched a new military operation, Bunyan-un-Marsoos.
• More than a dozen civilians killed in Kashmir, as artillery and missile fire continue overnight.
• Both nations signal conditional willingness to deescalate.
• Global powers urge restraint between the nuclear-armed rivals.

India and Pakistan – two nuclear-armed neighbours – are teetering on the brink of an all-out war after a dramatic escalation of strikes today.

Medium-range Fateh missiles were unleashed towards at least 25 military sites in India, including airbases and weapons depots in the Indian states of Gujarat, Punjab, Rajasthan and India-administered Kashmir.

The strikes – part of the newly-launched military operation, named Bunyan-un-Marsoos, meaning ‘solid wall of steel’ – were in response to attacks on Pakistani territory this week.

Shortly afterwards, India targeted multiple military bases in Pakistan, citing ‘blatant escalation with drone strikes and other munitions’ along the western borders.

Overnight, Indian and Pakistani troops also exchanged artillery and gunfire along the Line of Control that divides the disputed Kashmir region.

Pakistan’s disaster authority confirmed that 13 civilians have been killed and more than 50 injured in Kashmir in past 12 hours.

The heavy cross-border violence escalate the volatile standoff sparked by last month’s attack on tourists by five armed militants near Pahalgam in the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, in which 26 civilians were killed. 

Both nations have signalled a willingness to de-escalate if the other halts further aggression.

Yet, military mobilisations on the border and a retaliatory rhetoric suggest a deepening crisis with no clear cut-off.

Former Pakistan national security adviser, Moeed Yusuf, warned that ‘we are on the brink of an all-out war’.

He told SkyNews: ‘This is not a good situation, the world must wake up to the reality that two nuclear powers are on the brink of an all-out war.’

Yusuf claimed Pakistan ‘never wanted to escalate’ tensions and said now is the time for the two sides to ‘sit down and talk’.

He added: ‘I think the view in Pakistan is that enough is enough. We are not sacrificial lambs, we will stand up. If India does not respond now, I am sure Pakistan will say thank you, that is it.’

Hours after carrying out strikes on India, Pakistan’s foreign minister, Ishaq Dar, said his country would consider de-escalation if India stopped further attacks.

Earlier, he told Pakistan’s Geo News: ‘We responded because our patience had reached its limit. If they stop here, we will also consider stopping.’

Prime minister Shehbaz Sharif also told his country’s political leaders ‘we have given India a befitting response’.

India has also said it is committed to ‘non-escalation’, providing that rival forces reciprocated.

Wing Commander Vyomika Singh warned: ‘Indian armed forces remain in a high state of operational readiness.’

US secretary of state Marco Rubio spoke to Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir on Friday to offer American assistance ‘in starting constructive talks in order to avoid future conflicts’.

He spoke to his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar, stressing that ‘both sides need to identify methods to de-escalate and re-establish direct communication to avoid miscalculation,’ State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said Saturday.

The Group of Seven (G7) major economies had earlier called for maximum restraint from India and Pakistan, urging the neighbours to engage in direct dialogue.

‘Further military escalation poses a serious threat to regional stability. We are deeply concerned for the safety of civilians on both sides,’ according to the statement, which was posted in the official website of the government of Canada, a member of the G7.

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The decision comes amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan.

The Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir is claimed by both countries, and has been the site of several wars, insurgency and diplomatic standoffs.

Brits have been warned against travel

India has targeted Pakistani-controlled territory, killing at least 26 people including a child, in what Pakistan called an act of war.

India says it has targeted ‘terrorist infrastructure’.

On Tuesday, gunmen shot 26 people, mostly Indian tourists, in an attack near the picturesque town of Pahalgam.

A deadly attack which left 26 tourists dead in Kashmir has heightened tensions between India and Pakistan again.

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