A Pakistani passenger plane with almost 100 people on board has crashed in a residential area of Karachi – with reports of many casualties on the ground. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
The jet was coming in to land at Karachi airport when it went down – reportedly after describing an engine fault. Officials say at least one passenger is believed to have survived – but rescuers are still searching the burnt out wreckage for bodies. Our foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller reports.
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In This Story: Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It has a population exceeding 212.2 million, including the world’s second-largest Muslim population. It has an area of 881,913 square kilometres (340,509 square miles).
Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China to the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.
