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Pakistan religious party Jamaat-E-Islami holds a protest in Rawalpindi after the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh. IMAGES
UN chief Antonio Guterres calls for "massive investments" to help Pakistan recover from last year's devastating floods. "Rebuilding Pakistan in a resilient way will run in excess of 16 billion US dollars, and far more will be needed in the longer term," the UN's Secretary-General tells an international conference in Geneva, which is seeking billions of dollars in donor pledges and other support for the flood-hit country. SOUNDBITE
Pakistan rejects India's claim that it killed many militants in an air strike. Pakistan officials have said that Indian warplanes did breach its airspace and drop a payload over Balakot in the country's northwest, but said there was no damage or casualties. SOUNDBITE
The Pakistani military on Friday announced the arrest of 97 Islamist militants tied to three terror groups in the southern city of Karachi, foiling a planned attack intended to free Khalid Omar Sheikh, a British-born militant sentenced to death for his role in the 2002 beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl, according to a Reuters report.
The UN rights chief warns that the world needs to change paths to avoid a future filled with military escalation, repression, disinformation, deepening inequality and rampant climate change. "We are at a fork in the road: We can either continue on our current path — a treacherous ‘new normal’ — and sleepwalk into a dystopian future, or we can wake up and turn things around for the better, for humanity and the planet," Volker Turk tells the United Nations Human Rights Council. SOUNDBITE
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