A powerful earthquake jolted many Pakistani cities on Thursday afternoon, with people rushing out of their houses and offices, reported 24NewsHD TV channel
A number of major cities including Islamabad, Peshawar, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Abbottabad, Swat, Mahmand, Mansehra, Kohat, Mardan, Faisalabad and many areas of Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan were rattled by the quake.
According to the National Seismic Monitoring Centre in Islamabad, the earthquake was measured 6.01 on Richter Scale.
The earthquake tremors were felt around 2.20 pm with people rushing out of their homes and offices in panic reciting verses of the Holy Quran.
No loss of life and property was reported from any part of the country due to earthquake so far.
According to National Seismic Monitoring Centre, Islamabad, the epicenter of the earthquake was located in the southwestern Kashmir at the depth of 11 kilometres.
According to the reports, the earthquake tremors were also felt in India, Uzbekistan, and other countries in the region.
Strong quake rattles Afghanistan
A powerful earthquake hit northeastern Afghanistan on Thursday, shaking buildings from the capital Kabul to Islamabad in neighbouring Pakistan.
The epicentre of the 6.4-magnitude earthquake was in Jurm district in the Afghan province of Badakhshan in the mountainous Hindu Kush region, according to the US Geological Survey.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
It struck at a depth of around 200 kilometres (125 miles) just before 2:00 pm (0930 GMT) and was felt in the capital Kabul, about 300 kilometres from Jurm.
Afghanistan is frequently hit by earthquakes, especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range, near the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.
In October last year, around 1,000 people were killed when a series of quakes with magnitudes measuring between 4.2 and 6.3 jolted western Afghanistan.
Months later, thousands of people are still living in tents in the affected region as winter weather sets in, with 10,000 homes destroyed, according to the UN's refugee agency.
Afghanistan's deadliest recent earthquake killed 5,000 in 1998 in the northeastern provinces of Takhar and Badakhshan.