The rebels now control large swaths of northern Syria, and last month captured their first provincial capital, the city of Raqqa.
In its 700-odd years of recorded history, the city has been both capital city and provincial backwater.
Among the affected areas was the provincial capital of Lata, a city of about 2, 300 in Temotu Province where hospital patients were evacuated to higher ground.
The group is blamed for a resurgence of sectarian violence including a recent spate of killings in the south-western city of Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan.
Both Mr. Sharif's PML-N and Mr. Khan's PTI draw much of their support from Punjab, the country's wealthiest province, and the election is particularly hard-fought in Lahore, the provincial capital and the country's second largest city.
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Both Mr. Sharif's PML-N and Mr. Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf draw much of their support from Punjab, the country's wealthiest province, and the election was particularly hard-fought in Lahore, the provincial capital and the country's second largest city.
Thalmann had worked for six years at the city hospital in Klagenfurt, the small provincial capital in south Austria where the girl was resuscitated.
He tellingly refused to greet Mr Ban on his arrival in Kinshasa, the capital, but met him instead in the provincial city of Kisangani, in Congo's east, where the president is more popular.
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This has given them control of much of the city of Aleppo, Syria's largest, and one provincial capital, Raqqa.
He spoke via Skype from the eastern city of Raqqa, which in early March became the first provincial capital to completely fall to the rebellion and which is now controlled by Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra.
Crematoria in the neighboring city of Dujiangyan are completely full, so the father drove more than an hour to the provincial capital, Chengdu.
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