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Polling stations in Gwadar, Kech and Panjgur come under grenade, rocket attacks; five cops lose their lives in D.I. Khan IED blast.

Violent incidents in Dera Ismail Khan and Balochistan resulted in multiple casualties. An IED explosion in Kulachi killed five police officers. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for targeting an election office in Khanozai. Despite the violence, polling proceeded peacefully in central, southern, and northern districts.

According to Dawn, a string of violent incidents on Thursday resulted in at least nine fatalities and over a dozen injuries in the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and several districts in Balochistan. Five police officers were killed and two injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in Dera Ismail Khan, […] - Newsx

Why do some Kurdish writers write in Arabic? Is this Kurdish or Arabic literature in this case? Or Arabic literature with a Kurdish spirit? Why did some Kurdish writers decide to write in Kurdish after they had written in Arabic? This is what some Kurdish writers answer us.

Read this essay in Arabic here. This piece is part of a limited series on shifting narratives in Syrian literature, guest edited by novelist Rosa Yassin Hassan. In 2015, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to the Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, whose work mixes narration, journalistic techniques and direct observation, recording testimonies and documentation.  Alexievich was among the main voices representing an international narrative experience which cemented that literary genre: the documentary novel. This genre influenced many narrative experiences across the world, includi...