1 killed in landslide, at least 5 missing after cloudburst in India's Himachal Pradesh

India's northern hill state of Himachal Pradesh which has been witnessing heavy rainfall, was hit by a landslide in Shimla district on Wednesday, which killed at least one person, while five persons were feared dead after flash floods triggered by a cloudburst hit Kullu district. Residents across India expressed anguish after prices of domestic liquid petroleum gas cylinders were hiked by Rs 50. The Pakistan government has slashed the budget for armed forces development programme by Rs72 billion - the one-fifth of the allocation made last month in order to meet a major condition of International Monetary Fund for a bailout deal. Pakistan on Tuesday approved imports from neighboring Afghanistan in exchange for local currency for a period of one year, a move mainly aimed at buying coal to help ease an energy shortage. A protest was held by locals in Pakistan-administered Kashmir recently to express anger over frequent load-shedding in the illegally-occupied region. Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai in interview with a Dubai-based TV channel called the recent gathering of the Islamic clerics held in Kabul "symbolic," saying that this was more a gathering of the “Taliban movement themselves. Eid al-Adha is one of the most auspicious festivals celebrated with religious fervour by Muslims all around the world. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama turned 87 on Wednesday.