Diya Hadid
speaker
317 appearances
47 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4 Sep
Diya Hadid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 40 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 9.
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Diya Hadid, NPR News, Mumbai.
The group said in an Arabic-language statement that guards posted outside the Shiite mosque in Islamabad tried to stop the bomber from entering, but he shot them before detonating his explosives in a crowd of worshippers.
It was the second blast to strike the Pakistani capital in months, and it was the deadliest since 2008, reviving fears from a time when militants frequently struck Pakistani cities.
The Interior Minister Mohsen Naqvi says they've arrested four people in relation to the attack and says the bomber trained in Afghanistan.
Naqvi also blamed neighboring India, accusing it of funding those militants.
India rejects those claims.
Diya Hadid, NPR News, Mumbai.
A government official says clearance operations are ongoing against the militant group, the Balochistan Liberation Army.
In a video sent to media, the militant group claimed to have penetrated the provincial capital Quetta and at least one military position.
The brazen attacks spotlight how the Pakistani military is struggling to keep security in the deeply poor, resource-rich province, even as the institution effectively controls government and most levers of power in the country.
The Balochistan chief minister told media that dozens of security personnel and civilians were also killed.
Pakistan accuses its neighbour and rival, India, of sponsoring the BLA, a charge India denies.
The US State Department has condemned the attacks.
Diya Hadid, NPR News, Mumbai.
Smog thickens over much of South Asia every winter.
Air pollution levels routinely hit hazardous levels around the Indian capital, New Delhi.
It's so bad that the Energy Policy Institute estimates residents lose more than eight years of their lives here because of the pollution.
The smog is so thick that this week airlines cancelled dozens of flights and delayed many more to and from the capital.
Delayed flights included one that the soccer star Lionel Messi was meant to board on Monday to Delhi.
He was on a tour of India.
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