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 GEO Pakistan
 Quake jolts parts of Pakistan
 Updated at: 1307 PST,  Friday, October 30, 2009
Quake jolts parts of Pakistan KARACHI: An earthquake jolted cities of the NWFP including Peshawar and Malakand division and the federal capital on Friday. The intensity of the earthquake was reported 5.0 on the Rector scale. There was no report of damage of property or life from anywhere so far.

Director General Metrological office Qamaruzzaman Chaudhry said the epicenter of the quake was at Pak-Afghan border.

On Thursday night, the earthquake jolted Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Gujranwala, Attock, Sargodha, Peshawar, Mansehra, Abbottabad, Swat, Upper Dir, Lower Dir and some other cities of the provinces of Punjab and the NWFP, besides some parts of AJ&K and Gilgit and Baltistan.
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