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Capital of Pakistan
Islamabad is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of over 1.1 million and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory — with a metropolitan population of over 2.3 million. Built as a planned city along the Margalla Hills in the 1960s and established in 1967, Islamabad replaced Karachi as Pakistan's national capital. It is located in the northern Punjab region, north of the city of Rawalpindi — with which it forms a metropolitan area of over 5.7 million inhabitants.
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Relations strain further as Afghanistan and Pakistan trade accusations over terrorism and cross-border violence.
The ministry alleged Pakistani militias had supported the fighters and that most of them were former Afghan government security personnel.
Takeaways Up Front 1. Afghanistan's Defense Ministry said it killed 28 fighters and captured 32 in Nuristan, blaming a Pakistan-backed cross-border