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Pakistan, US agree to remain engaged as Abbasi meets vice president Mike Pence

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Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi met US Vice President Mike Pence on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, with the two sides resolving to remain engaged and carry forward the relationship that has been on a downward trajectory since announcement of the US policy for Afghanistan and South Asia. Abbasi’s meeting with VP Pence is the highest contact between the two sides since the policy was announced on Aug 21. Pakistan had after the policy announcement postponed the then planned bilateral interactions. The meeting on the sidelines…

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At UNGA, Trump threatens ‘total destruction’ of North Korea

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United States (US) President Donald Trump, in a combative debut speech to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), threatened the ‘total destruction’ of North Korea if it does not abandon its drive toward nuclear weapons. Trump, who has ramped up his rhetoric throughout the escalating crisis with North Korea, told the murmuring crowd at the UN on Tuesday that “it is far past time for the nations of the world to confront” Kim Jong Un and said that Kim’s “reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons” poses a threat to “the entire…

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PML-N leaders’ row reveals internal split

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ISLAMABAD: The prime minister’s endorsement of Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s contention that Pak­istan needs to “put its house in order” has exposed cracks in the ranks of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and provided an opportunity to opposition parties to criticise the government’s foreign and security policies. In his latest assault on his own party’s government, former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Tuesday advised Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi not to embarrass the country at the international level. On the other hand, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan…

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Law allowing convicts to run for president still unchanged

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ISLAMABAD: A controversial amendment in the presidential election rules that allows convicts, mentally-deranged persons and government servants to run for the office of president — enacted a decade ago to please retired Gen Pervez Musharraf — still holds the field. According to former Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) secretary Kanwar Dilshad, this stipulation could theoretically allow ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif to run for president, if Mamnoon Hussain were to step down. The ECP amended the rule governing presidential elections in September 2007, taking away the provision for disqualification of…

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Yemen soldier kills Al-Qaeda detainees to avenge his father’s murder

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A young soldier participating in operations against Al-Qaeda in Yemen murdered three militant detainees who confessed to killing his colonel father, a security source said on Sunday. The soldier, a member of Yemen’s government intelligence services, carried out the killings “suddenly and without the consent of his colleagues” during an interrogation on Saturday, the source said. According to the source, the soldier’s colleagues were “angered” by the killings, but he did not face repercussions. Tribal leaders confirmed the revenge killings to AFP. The detainees were captured during a military operation last…

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British police arrest second suspect over London train attack from Hounslow

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A second man has been arrested in connection with the bombing of a London Underground train, police said on Sunday after announcing that they were hunting for more suspects. The 21-year-old man was detained late Saturday in Hounslow, on the western rim of the capital, a statement said. Officers had earlier arrested an 18-year-old man over Friday’s attack at Parsons Green station, which injured 30 people. The man, who has not been named, was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of committing, preparing or instigating an act of terrorism. “We’re keeping an open mind…

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Human rights of Kashmiris highlighted in Community Carnival in Berlin

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Berlin: Human rights of Kashmiris was concentrated in the annual community carnival on Saturday in Berlin, the capital of Germany.The multicultural parade was organized by community carnival organization coordinated by Germany based social figure Mr Samillah. At least 19 trucks participated in the carnival and one of them was specified for Kashmir which was arranged by Kashmir Free Organization Germany headed by Mr Saddique Kiyani. On the occasion Mr Saddique Kiyani said, the truck with Kashmiri shade specially having Kashmiri flags and banners with human rights slogans helped in raising…

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ISI to have more civilians at the top

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakis­tan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government has increased the civilian share in the senior hierarchy of the country’s premier intelligence agency — Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Sep­t 15, 2017 approved a proposal to increase the number of directors general (DGs) — the highest civilian post in the agency — from one to four. The post of civilian DG in the ISI is a grade 21 position, equivalent to a serving major general of the armed forces. Previously, there was only one civilian DG post in…

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Muslims to talk Universal Rights, not only Ummah’s Rights: A seminar in Oslo

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Report By Tariq Mohammad Muslims should begin to talk on Universal Human Rights instead talking Umma Rights. This statement is given by Lars Gule, a social researcher and human right activist in a Seminar in Literature House the capital city of Norway Saturday. Seminar on Islam’s Approach to Social Change in Oslo was organized by Islamic Culture Centre Norway. Main speakers were Dr Jonathan Brown (professor in Georgetown University USA) and Director of Yaqeen Institute and Dr Zahid Pervaz (UK) (Principal of Markfield Institute of Higher Education). Dr Zahid Pervaz talking about…

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Bomber attacks foreign military convoy in Afghanistan: officials

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A suicide attacker driving an explosives-filled vehicle slammed into a convoy of foreign troops in southern Afghanistan on Friday wounding several soldiers, officials said. The Taliban claimed the attack which Kandahar provincial governor spokesman Fazal Bari Baryalai told AFP “totally destroyed” one of the vehicles carrying Romanian soldiers in Daman district. A spokesman for Nato’s Resolute Support train and assist mission confirmed a “small number” of soldiers were wounded. In a WhatsApp message to journalists Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said “seven invading forces” were killed. The militants routinely exaggerate…

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1,800-year-old dot is first ‘zero’, say researchers

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LONDON: A black dot on a third-century manuscript has been identified by Oxford University as the first recorded use of the mathematical symbol for ‘zero’, 500 years earlier than previously thought. “Scientists from the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, have used carbon dating to trace the figure’s origins to the famous ancient Indian scroll,” the university said in a statement. The birch bark scroll is known as the Bakhshali manuscript, named after Bakhshali village near Peshawar, where it was found buried in 1881. It has been held at the Bodleian…

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Pakistan defeat World XI by 33 runs to win Independence Cup

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Pakistan defeated the visiting World XI by 33 runs in a gripping contest for the Independence Cup at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium on Friday. World XI skipper Faf du Plessis won the toss today and put Pakistan in to bat first, as was the case in the first two matches of the series. The green shirts in their innings set a target of 184 runs for the visiting side in the Twenty20 international (T20I) series finale, but the World XI managed to pile on only 150 runs with eight wickets. The…

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North Korea fires missile over Japan following UN sanctions

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North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan and into the Pacific on Friday, responding to new UN sanctions with what appeared to be its furthest-ever missile flight amid high tensions over its weapons programmes. The launch, from near Pyongyang, came after the United Nations Security Council imposed an eighth set of measures on the isolated country following its sixth nuclear test earlier this month. It was by far its largest to date and Pyongyang said it was a hydrogen bomb small enough to fit onto a missile. In New…

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ECP orders SSP Operations Islamabad to arrest Imran Khan, produce him on 25th

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The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has ordered the SSP Operations Islamabad to arrest Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan and produce him before the polls supervisory body on September 25. In connection with a contempt case against the PTI chief, the ECP also sent a communique to the Advocate General Islamabad, informing him that as the commission would hear the case against Khan on September 25, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) should set another date to hear his case. The PTI chief, however, can avoid being arrested if he obtains a pre-arrest…

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Supreme Court dismisses review petitions filed by Sharifs, Dar against Panama Papers verdict

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The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the review petitions filed by deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his children and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar against the apex court’s Panama Papers judgement of July 28. The court had reserved its verdict on the review petitions after the lawyers for the petitioners completed their arguments earlier in the day. A five-judge SC bench, headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, had taken up the petitions seeking review of the court’s July 28 judgement which disqualified Nawaz Sharif and ordered the filing of corruption references against Sharif, his…

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