The quake, measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, was 170 km deep, according to the National Seismology division of ministry of earth sciences.
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Saturday afternoon’ s tremors were felt in capital Islamabad and parts of east Punjab and northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The Earthquake jolts have been felt in Pakistan for last few months regularly. People ran out of their offices and houses.
A medium intensity natural disaster hit the Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan on Saturday.
No damages have been reported so far.
In October past year, a 7.5-magnitude quake in the same region ripped across Pakistan and Afghanistan, killing almost 400 people and flattening buildings in rugged terrain.
No report of any casualty or damage to property has come so far from anywhere in the state, an official said.
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The epicentre of the quake was in the Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan, close to the Pakistani and Tajik borders.
