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Muhammad Imran Dawn: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday accepted a petition moved by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to club together three separate accountability references pending against him, ordering an accountability court which had dismissed the request earlier to consider the case again. In doing so, the IHC set aside the October 19 decision of the accountability court to turn down the petition. Sharif’s lawyer, Azam Nazir Tarar, said today that the accountability court had not provided any reasoning for the rejection of Sharif’s earlier petition; therefore, the IHC should…

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Nadir Guramani Dawn A day after lawmakers slammed US President Donald Trump’s new South Asia policy, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif assured the Senate that their concerns had been heard and Pakistan’s foreign policy would be devised keeping their guidelines in mind. Beginning his speech with an acknowledgement of Trump’s assertion that “things have started getting better” in US-Pakistan relations, and thanking the American president for the endorsement, Asif reiterated that Pakistan wishes for a regional solution to the Afghan problem. “The entire region has a role to play in the…

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