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Pakistani children pray for plane crash victims
Haber Merkezi 16:57 December 08, 2016 Yeni Şafak
Pakistani students have prayed for the 48 victims killed when a plane crashed in the country's mountainous north. The students are in school in Pakistan's southern industrial city of Karachi. Pakistan has a long history of air disasters with 17 crashes since 1965. Some 130 people were killed when a local airline's plane crashed in Islamabad in April 2012. Pakistan's former military ruler General Zia-ul-Haq, along with 17 senior army officers and the then U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, was killed in a plane crash in August 1988.