DAN HODGES: Britain IS in the grip of a coup - and it's being led by fanatical Remainers

DAN HODGES: This morning Britain stands on the brink of a second civil war. The Prime Minister's 'declaration of war will be met with an iron fist,' announced Lib Dem Brexit spokesman Tom Brake.

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Thomas Markle asks: Why can't I meet Archie?

In Rosarito, Mexico, Thomas Markle is speaking out for the first time since Archie's birth because he feels he is being unfairly vilified and cut out of his grandson's life by Harry and Meghan.

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You're too scared of an election to bring down Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg tells Remainer rabble

Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused 'deceitful' MPs planning a last-ditch Commons move to block No Deal Brexit of being too frightened to call a vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson.

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Corbynistas 'threaten Harriet Harman with deselection' to ensure Jeremy will become Prime Minister

They have demanded that Ms Harman gives her party leader a clear run, despite fears that Mr Corbyn will never win backing from other parties to head the 'unity' administration.

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Parents of British man stabbed to death in Shanghai offer her £40,000 for custody of their grandson

Ian and Linda Simpson have spent over two years fighting for custody of Alice, six, and Jack, eight, after their son Michael was stabbed to death by wife Wei Wei Fu in his Shanghai apartment.

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Was Russian model linked to 'sex trafficker' in Epstein's lair at the same time as Prince Andrew?

A woman resembling former Russian model Svetlana Pozhidaeva was pictured leaving Jeffrey Epstein's infamous mansion in Manhattan's Upper East Side, New York.

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Police will 'do everything in their power' to stop Heathrow drone activists

A group calling themselves Heathrow Pause have broken away from militant activists Extinction Rebellion and say they are willing to go to jail over next month's action at the airport in London.

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Portuguese woman who interrupted Sky broadcast with impassioned Brexit speech trained is an ACTRESS

Ana Rocha, 42, fought back tears as she said she had 'given up her youth' to the UK during a protest against prorogation in London on Wednesday. She founded her own theatre company in 2007,

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Strictly Come Dancing: Bosses to 'allow same-sex couples next year'

A BBC source claimed that after years of campaigning by viewers, producers have relented after seeing how popular pairings have been on international version of the show.

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Shortages of HRT could last until the middle of next year

Women could be forced to wait up to ten months for some HRT products to return to the shelves. Experts warn some products might not be available again until 'mid-2020'.

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NHS saves £300MILLION in a year by telling doctors to stop giving out expensive branded medications

Hospitals spent £290million on adalimumab - a drug primarily used to treat arthritis but also given to patients with Crohn's disease - in 2018/19.

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Dior pulls 'tone deaf' ad for Sauvage, starring Johnny Depp, that uses Native American themes

Dior was criticized on social medial for using Native American themes in an advert promoting Sauvage aftershave. The advert, which starred Johnny Depp, was deleted from social media.

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Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein: Ex-Labour minister shopping with depraved financier in 2005

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Mandelson, former British Cabinet minister is pictured holidaying with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein on the luxury Caribbean resort island of St Barts in December 2005.

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Scientists create a material that could help you regrow enamel naturally

Professor Damien Walmsley, scientific adviser for the British Dental Association, said: 'Regrowing teeth is the holy grail for dentistry, not least because it is so complex.'

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Life on 'paedophile island' revealed in new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's St Barts mansion

The never-before-seen cache provide a visual record of daily life in the seedy orbit on Little St James, a stunning 72-acre patch of the U.S. Virgin Islands - now nicknamed 'paedo island'.

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Damien Nettles' mother asks whether missing girls get more attention than their male counterparts

In November it will be 23 years since Val Nettles' 16-year-old son Damien left the family home on the Isle of Wight for a night out with friends and never came back.

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RICHARD KAY: Fear and loathing at No10 as Dominic Cummings strips Tory aide of Westminster pass

RICHARD KAY: Dusk was falling as Sonia Khan presented her government security pass to the waiting officials and slipped into Downing Street.

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Boris's gamble is paying off as Tory lead over Labour nearly DOUBLES in three weeks

The Tory lead over Labour has nearly doubled in three weeks to put them on 31 per cent and Labour on 24. Even a fifth of Labour supporters believe Mr Johnson is doing a good job at No 10.

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Momentum militant who hopes to bring Britain to a standstill is Corbyn's former private secretary

Jeremy Corbyn's former private secretary Laura Parker, 49, is the hard-Left Momentum group's national coordinator who has been urging supporters to 'shut down the streets'.

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Inside Ellie Goulding's fairytale wedding: ALISON BOSHOFF reveals all

ALISON BOSHOFF: Pop star Ellie Goulding will be watched by royalty as she walks down the aisle of York Minister, a £150,000 ring on her finger, and into the arms of Old Etonian Caspar Jopling.

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to stay with Queen at Balmoral after Kate and Prince William

RICHARD EDEN: With her history of animal activism and semi- vegan diet, the Duchess of Sussex could be forgiven for putting off a huntin', shootin' and fishin' visit to Balmoral.

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has his own account HACKED

At around 4pm on Friday, a series of offensive tweets and retweets were blitzed across Twitter and remained on the Jack Dorsey's page for roughly 15 minutes.

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Remainer Bercow kept on scheming during his holiday at a Med paradise by plotting with Tory rebels

The Speaker has been colluding with Brexit rebels while on a family holiday at the all-inclusive four-star hotel in the south of Turkey in a bid to stop Boris Johnson's decision to prorogue Parliament.

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Met chief says there is no need for police to face a criminal probe over 'Nick' investigation

Cressida Dick said a fresh probe into officers would be 'completely improper'. Carl Beech, known as Nick in court, lied about being sadistically raped and abused by famous Westminster figures.

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Man, 21, fighting for his life after being stabbed in south London as capital's crime-wave continues

A young man is in a life-threatening condition after being stabbed in broad daylight in Croydon town centre. It is the second stabbing to rock London today after a boy, 15, was knifed this morning.

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Chancellor Sajid Javid is 'livid' over sacked aide

The Chancellor was 'livid' after the Prime Minister's chief aide Dominic Cummings fired Sonia Khan amid accusations she had leaked Brexit secrets to her former boss Philip Hammond.

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Tetra Pak billionaire Hans Rausing dies aged 93 after building father's business into £9.8bn empire

Swedish billionaire Hans Rausing, whose co-inheritance of the Tetra Pak packaging firm saw his family become one of the richest in Britain, has died at the age of 93.

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Paul McCartney reveals his grandson was robbed at knifepoint in London and had his phone taken

Sir Paul McCartney has revealed one of his 'older' grandsons was mugged in London and acknowledged the 'scary' rate of knife crime in London. The singer, 77, said his grandchild felt a 'coward'.

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Dominic Cummings reads SPADs riot act: Furious Brexit mastermind scolds aides for 'leaking bulls***'

The PM's maverick Brexit chief sent the stark warning at a gathering of advisers in Downing Street tonight after he axed Sajid Javid's aide and accused her of keeping in touch with Philip Hammond.

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Explosions tear through factory in Peterborough sending huge cloud of smoke across the city

Cambridgeshire Fire Services are attending a blaze at a Whirlpool site along Morley Way in Peterborough. A series of 'loud bangs' were heard earlier tonight before smoke crossed the sky.

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Amir Khan finally heals three-year rift with his parents after they branded his wife 'evil'

The Bolton boxer, 32, publicly fell out with his father Shah and mother Falak in 2016 over a row with his wife Faryal Makhdoom who accused them of violence and bullying.

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Bear Grylls' eye SWELLS UP after bee sting leaves him in life-threatening anaphylactic shock

Bear Grylls suffered a life-threatening allergic reaction to a bee sting, with the insect struck him during filming of his latest series Treasure Island.

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Hormone replacement therapy may raise the risk of breast cancer

Women aged 50 to 69 who take the most common type of HRT for five years or more run a 32 per cent risk of developing breast cancer s Oxford research says the therapy causes one in 20 cases.

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'Five-fold' rise in sham marriages used to cheat immigration laws

The number of suspected sham marriages staged to cheat immigration laws may have multiplied five times over the past decade, a report has revealed.

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EU tourists shun British holidays despite drop in value of pound

The number of European visitors in April was 8 per cent down on the previous year, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.

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Momentum rabble-rouser calling for street blockades is a failed MEP candidate and former Eurocrat

Laura Parker accused Boris Johnson of a 'coup' and of 'stealing democracy' but last year said that when people call actions sinister or untoward 'it's because they didn't go their way'.

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Forget climate change - the antibiotics crisis will kill us all first, says NHS chief

Bugs that cannot be killed by anti-biotics could wipe out humanity 'before climate change does', England's chief medical officer Professor Dame Sally Davies warned yesterday.

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Boris orders the EU to step up tempo on Brexit

'Encouraging talks' with Germany's Angela Merkel, France's Emmanuel Macron and Donald Tusk has spurred Boris Johnson into stepping up the rate of meetings with Brussels.

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Donald Trump abruptly cancels trip to Poland to monitor Hurricane Dorian

Donald Trump scrapped a trip to Warsaw, where other heads of state are gathering to commemorate the invasion that launched WWII, saying he will stay at home as Florida braces for Hurricane Dorian.

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Hard Left Momentum activists target Tory MP's homes and constituencies

Dozens of demonstrators held a rally outside Cheltenham MP Alex Chalk's office, where they hounded the politician until he came out and tried to calm them down.

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Exercise in pregnancy protects obese mothers-to-be and their children from health problems

Obese mice ran on a treadmill before and during pregnancy in a study at the University of Cambridge. Scientists found exercise helped the mice control their blood sugar levels.

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Almost HALF of women wrongly think they won't catch HPV if they are in a long-term relationship

Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust and a pharmaceutical firm quizzed 1,500 British women about their knowledge of the infection, thought to cause 99 per cent of cervical cancer cases.

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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: As Blue Mink's song Melting Pot is banned for being 'racist', here's my rewrite

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has ruled that the 1969 Number Three song Melting Pot is 'racist' and too 'offensive' for modern audiences.

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Momentum of veganism threatening brain health of the UK, expert warns

'The mounting evidence of choline's importance makes it essential that it does not continue to be overlooked in the UK,' said Dr Emma Derbyshire, who runs a health consultancy in London.

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Shamed ex-footballer Dean Saunders seen leaving jail after being sentenced for drink driving

Former Liverpool striker Dean Saunders, 55, was seen leaving Altcourse Prison, near Liverpool, at around 5pm today before jumping into the passenger seat of Audi and driving off.

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The NHS' drive towards social prescribing is based on little evidence, experts argue

Cornbrook Medical Practice, in the inner-city area of Hulme, is believed to be the first GP practice in the country sending patients with anxiety and depression home to grow their own vegetables.

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Men are now much more reluctant to shake a female colleagues hand in the wake of #MeToo, study finds

Research to be published in the journal Organizational Dynamics has found that 27 percent of men avoid one-on-one meetings with female co-workers, a possible backlash to the movement.

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Ross Clarke's odds on next steps in Boris's Brexit battle

ROSS CLARK examines -what could be next in Boris's battle for Brexit - and what are the odds we leave with no deal?

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The times that the Remainers now screaming 'constitutional crisis' have themselves broken protocol

The Remainers who squealed 'constitutional outrage' but they, too, have been guilty of breaking political protocol.

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15-year-old British boy stabs his parents and then throws himself into a 50ft ravine on Tenerife

The boy tried to kill himself close to a bus station after knifing his parents in front of bars and restaurants in Costa Adeje in the south of the island. All three were hospitalised with the boy left 'very seriously ill'.

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Former Barcelona and Spain manager Luis Enrique announces death of 9-year-old daughter Xana

Former Barcelona and Spain manager Luis Enrique has paid tribute to his daughter Xana, the 'star that guides our family', after announcing her death at the age of nine. 

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Removing hard shoulders to make 'smart motorways' puts drivers at risk

Drivers who break down on smart motorways are left in their cars for more than an hour because just 20 per cent of the network is covered by technology to instantly close a lane.

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People in England smoked 1.4BILLION fewer cigarettes in 2018 than 2011

Research by University College London analysed sales data and smoker surveys to find the number of cigarettes smoked is falling faster than the number of people who smoke.

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Rapists attack without fear of being punished

Victims' Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird, slammed official figures that show cases of rape reported in the UK have trebled in six years while charges have halved.

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Scientists discover a rare sleep gene in a family that needs less than six hours a night

A new study from the University of California, San Francisco has found that some people have a gene that requires them only needing six-and-half hours of sleep to feel well rested.

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Tesco and Asda caught selling knives to children

National Trading Standards sent children into UK high street stores to attempt more than 2,200 test purchases and found they were able to buy a knife in more than one in seven attempts.

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Shots are fired during stand-off with police in Swindon as two pubs are locked down

The man, described as bald, topless and with tattoos, surrendered after shooting at armed officers during an hour-long incident.

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SIR ANTHONY SELDON: If Boris Johnson pulls off this gamble, he'll be a man who made history

SIR ANTHONY SELDON: Boris Johnson could make history if he manages to pull off his parliament suspension -unlike Winston Churchill whose daring campaigns cost him his Cabinet post.

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Undercover police officer who infiltrated green groups and had affair is probed himself

Former undercover police officer Mark Kennedy who posed as a green activist for seven years to infiltrate campaign groups is under probe himself after he deceived four women into romantic relationships.

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Jeffrey Epstein's 'sex slave' Virginia Roberts 'massaged' Matt Groening's 'crusty toenails'

The documents were unsealed by a judge earlier this month and were part of a lawsuit that Roberts filed against Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, his reported madam.

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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Poet John Betjeman's mistress dies and leaves £10million to adopted nieces

Lady Elizabeth Cavendish died last September and left £10million to her two adopted nieces and nothing to Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman's son Paul Betjeman. She was John's lover for 33 years.

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King Charles I's suspension of Parliament serves as a reminder to today's leaders

Suspending Parliament didn't end well for Charles I when he did it, albeit in very different circumstances, 370 years ago.

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Britain's 'most independent' town FINALLY gets a Caffé Nero

The townspeople of Totnes, Devon fought off a Costa Coffee from their high street in 2012 but now a Caffé Nero subsidiary, Coffee #1 (bottom left), has forced its way into the town centre.

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Andrew's in the frame: 'Friends' might say the picture that dogged the prince for years is fake

Sources close to Prince Andrew say the duke's fingers 'don't look right and nor does the height of the duke and the girl'. Andrew was 41 when the photo was taken with California-born Virginia Roberts.

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Changing Consumer and Retails Behavior in Pakistan – A Study by Gallup Pakistan

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Mrs Khan — the voice of a masculine

Mrs Khan — the voice of a masculine

You might have a chance to look at Mrs Khan’s video in which she is describing very humbly on how to be a good wife. She has shed light on how a woman should act and be a wordless robot who should work hard and not speak “unnecessarily.” She suggests her theory that things get […]

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The 6th Islamabad Literature Festival to take place next month

The 6th Islamabad Literature Festival to take place next month

Every year, the capital gets its much-needed intellectual and cultural treat in the form of the annual Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF). Carrying on this legacy for the 6th time, the theme of this year’s ILF is ‘The Focus is Tomorrow: Reflecting on the Past’. The festival will take place on 27, 28, and 29 September […]

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The Umarkot Fort is in government’s consideration to be preserved

The Umarkot Fort is in government’s consideration to be preserved

Pakistan is blessed with numerous natural, geographical and historical sites. Sindh only has a 5,000-year-old history with one of three precious forts, namely Umarkot Fort that is internationally recognised with plethora of tourists coming to see it every year. Daily Times learnt that in supervision of Antiquities & Archaeology Department, the fort is being in […]

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agenciesLok Baithak session to take place at Lok Virsa today

agenciesLok Baithak session to take place at Lok Virsa today

The Research & Media Department of Lok Virsa is holding its 10th sitting session of Lok Baithak at Media Centre today (Thursday) from 4pm to 6pm. This time Lok Baithak would discuss the “Traditional Musical Family of Patiala”. The main purpose of the Lok Baithak is to revive the traditional informal sittings of the rural […]

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Kashmir remains cut off from world for 24th day

Kashmir remains cut off from world for 24th day

The Kashmir valley remained cut off from the rest of the world for the 24th consecutive day on Wednesday as the Indian security forces continued to impose curfew and other restrictions on the innocent people. According to the Kashmir Media Service, Indian-held Kashmir is under strict lockdown since August 5 when Narendra Modi-led Indian government […]

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Pakistan approaches world on worsening crisis in IHK

Pakistan approaches world on worsening crisis in IHK

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday reached out to French and Jordanian top leadership to apprise them of the deteriorating situation in Indian-held Kashmir following Modi government’s August 5 decision to revoke special status of the occupied valley. In a telephonic conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron, the prime minister said the illegal and unilateral […]

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PML-N MNAs protest non-issuance of funds for development schemes

PML-N MNAs protest non-issuance of funds for development schemes

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) parliamentarians in National Assembly Standing Committee on Energy on Wednesday staged a walkout over what the claimed government’s failure to release funds for various development schemes approved by the previous government. PML-N legislators Murtaza Javed Abbasi, Barjees Tahir, Riaz Hussain Pirzada and Khurram Dastagir claimed that the schemes had already […]

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Judge hearing Rana Sanaullah contraband case transferred

Judge hearing Rana Sanaullah contraband case transferred

The law ministry has repatriated a judge of the Anti-Narcotics Force court who was hearing a contraband case against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Rana Sanaullah on Wednesday, a private TV channel reported. According to a notification from the ministry dated August 26, the services of ANF court judge Masood Arshad have been repatriated […]

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National anthem, sirens to mark ‘Kashmir Hour’ tomorrow

National anthem, sirens to mark ‘Kashmir Hour’ tomorrow

Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Asif Ghafoor on Wednesday said the entire nation will participate in the ‘Kashmir Hour’ on Friday, by gathering at their respective nearby open areas or workplaces, ensuring unwavering and full support to the people of Kashmir for their just cause. At 1200 hours on Friday, sirens will […]

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Holding talks with India out of question now: FM

Holding talks with India out of question now: FM

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi Wednesday said there is no question of contacting the Indian side for dialogue now. Speaking to reporters in the federal capital, Qureshi said Indian government lacks the courage to initiate dialogue on the matter concerning Kashmir. Referring to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s repeated offer for talks, he recalled that Islamabad […]

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Teachers 'told to confiscate phones from rowdy pupils' in leaked education proposals

Schools could be given billions of pounds in new funding and more help to crack down on bad behaviour, according to proposals leaked on Tuesday.

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DOMINIC SANDBROOK: What IS it that Corbyn and his rabble alliance don't understand about democracy?

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: There are victims on all sides, but by far the saddest cases are those unreconstructed Remainers so inflamed by disappointment they have lost touch with reality.

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Renee Zellwegger admits things got 'dark and sad' before she took six years off from Hollywood

Renee Zellwegger has admitted that feeling 'dark and sad' prompted her to take some time off from Hollywood.

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Barbara Winsdor tells Boris: You MUST sort out the dementia care crisis

The actress (pictured), who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's five years ago, will deliver an open letter to 10 Downing Street next week warning that the scandal cannot be ignored any longer.

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European capital cities dominate list of the world's FASTEST public transport systems

A study from researchers at the Polytechnic University of Turin, has ranked the networks which move at the quickest pace and those which are the most sluggish.

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Supermarkets are STILL tricking shoppers with bogus offers

Some offers encouraged British shoppers to buy in bulk by giving the impression this provided better value - even though it was cheaper to buy products individually.

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Inspirational story of the bond between a fiercely loyal artist and her son

From the second he was born, just a few days into the start of the new millennium, the bond between Alison Lapper and her son Parys (pictured), from Worthing, was an extraordinary one.

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IAIN DUNCAN SMITH: It's time to break the cycle of addiction

Addiction now needs to be seen for the real and significant problem it is in the UK and we need to deal with it as a government priority. We must act now, writes IAIN DUNCAN SMITH.

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Britain is the substance abuse capital of Europe, official figures show

EXCLUSIVE: Cocaine-related fatalities in Britain have doubled in the past three years, figures show. Drug abuse kills more people each year than knife crime and road accidents combined.

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Teenage males are catching up to female counterparts in terms of anxiety over physiques

Teenage boys are catching up with their female counterparts by becoming more worried about their looks, children's charity Children's Society said on Tuesday.

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Trapped in purgatory: 'Six years after mother died we're still waiting for her legacy'

Many people think choosing a solicitor to manage their affairs after they die will help take the burden off their loved ones - but it can be the exact opposite.

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Boy, 16, is arrested on suspicion of murdering mother-of-two Lindsay Birbeck

Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of murdering Lindsay Birbeck, whose body was found in a Lancashire cemetery, after today releasing CCTV footage of a man dragging a bin.

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Epstein's victims speak out at dramatic hearing

Roberts made the comment outside court in New York on Tuesday after speaking before a judge. She had told how Jeffrey Epstein 'stole her dreams' when she was 15 when he 'recruited' her.

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PM mulls airspace closure, trade route ban for India

PM mulls airspace closure, trade route ban for India

Pakistan is considering a complete closure of airspace to India and blocking Indian land trade to Afghanistan via Pakistan, Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhary posted on his Twitter handle on Tuesday. “PM is considering a complete closure of Air Space to India, a complete ban on use of Pakistan Land routes for Indian […]

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China reaffirms support to Pakistan on Kashmir

China reaffirms support to Pakistan on Kashmir

Chinese Central Military Commission Vice Chairman General Xu Qiliang Tuesday called on Prime Minister Imran Khan and conveyed reaffirmation of China’s full support to Pakistan, particularly at this crucial juncture. Underscoring the importance of the time-tested China-Pakistan strategic partnership, he conveyed the Chinese leadership’s commitment to the time-honoured tradition of both countries supporting each other […]

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Waseem Akhtar suspends Mustafa Kamal over ‘playing politics’

Waseem Akhtar suspends Mustafa Kamal over ‘playing politics’

Less than 24 hours after “designating” former mayor Mustafa Kamal as “Project Director Garbage on voluntary basis” to clean the city, Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar on Tuesday suspended the Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chief from the position. “I had appointed him thinking that he sincerely wanted to solve the city’s problems. However, after the press […]

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Thousands take to streets in Kashmir amid curfew

Thousands take to streets in Kashmir amid curfew

Defying curfew and other restrictions, thousands of people took to streets in south, north and central Kashmir on Tuesday against India’s brutalities against the Kashmiri people after revocation of occupied valley’s special status, the Kashmir Media Service reported. Scores of people were injured when occupying forces fired bullets, pellets and teargas shells on protesters in […]

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Two dead in indiscriminate Indian shelling on AJK valley

Two dead in indiscriminate Indian shelling on AJK valley

Considered previously to be ‘comparatively’ safe, the remote Gurez sub-valley in the upper belt of the Neelum district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) was heavily shelled by Indian troops from across the Line of Control (LoC) on Tuesday, leaving two civilians dead and four others wounded, local officials said. Gurez lies beyond Kel – […]

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Maleeha Lodhi briefs UNGA president on Kashmir unrest

Maleeha Lodhi briefs UNGA president on Kashmir unrest

Pakistan’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) Dr Maleeha Lodhi has briefed President of UN General Assembly Maria Fernanda Espinosa on the grave situation in Occupied Kashmir. In a tweet on Tuesday, the representative said that the United Nations should live up to its obligations on Indian Occupied Kashmir. Earlier, Dr Maleeha Lodhi told […]

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BB murder case: court seeks details of Musharraf’s frozen bank accounts

BB murder case: court seeks details of Musharraf’s frozen bank accounts

A special court formed to hear the high-profile murder case of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has summoned 12 branch managers of different banks, along with details of former military ruler General (r) Pervez Musharraf’s bank accounts, to appear before it on October 7. Judge Muhammad Asghar Khan, while hearing the case on Tuesday, expressed […]

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No shortcuts to the path of justice: Sheikh Azmat Saeed

No shortcuts to the path of justice: Sheikh Azmat Saeed

Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, part of the apex court’s larger bench which heard the Panama Papers case, retired on Tuesday. A full-court reference was held on Tuesday at the Supreme Court in honour of Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, who has reached superannuation. Headed by Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, the ceremony was attended by senior […]

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NA body unhappy over removal of Pakistani doctors by Saudi Arabia

NA body unhappy over removal of Pakistani doctors by Saudi Arabia

The National Assembly Standing Committee on National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination has expressed strong displeasure over the removal of services of Pakistani doctors having MS degrees by Saudi Healthcare Commission. The commission took notice over the fake report for not having training components as part of their degrees. MNA Khalid Hussain Magsi chaired the […]

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Airspace closure caused Rs 8.5 bn loss to Pakistan

Airspace closure caused Rs 8.5 bn loss to Pakistan

Federal Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan Tuesday said the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) suffered a loss of Rs 8.5 billion because of airspace restrictions put in place following the Feb 26 ingress by Indian warplanes into Pakistan territory, a private TV channel reported on Tuesday. Speaking at a press conference at the CAA headquarters, […]

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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Another Royal Family drama as Fergie turns TV producer

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Fergie has set up a television production company - and her debut project will be a historical series about Prince Albert's Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty.

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Now AFRICA burns: Forest fires rage across thousands of miles

The burning forests cover an area of more than a million square miles in the Congo Basin, often described as the 'second green lung' of the planet after the Amazon itself.

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Ben Stokes thanks his family for Ashes triumph

Stokes thanked his wife Clare (pictured together after England's World Cup win at Lord's) and their two children for 'keeping me grounded' during the ups and downs of his England career.

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Base jump on Monte Trento in Italy goes horrifically wrong as wingsuit flier smashes into mountain

A video has emerged of a jumper, known only by the name of Karl, attempting a base jump from Monte Brento near Trento, Italy.

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Gay couple at centre of Ben Stokes brawl call for hi to be knighted

Cricket's man of the moment Stokes was put on trial over the fight in Bristol in 2017 but said he had been defending Kai Barry and William O'Connor (pictured) from homophobic abuse.

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Bank of Mum and Dad cash crisis: Parents are facing uncertain retirements

British parents are facing uncertain retirements as they try to give their children a step up on the housing ladder. Parental contributions to a first deposit have risen from £6,000 to £24,000.

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Police find GIANT zombie knife 'abandoned on the ground after an attack' at Notting Hill Carnival

Stop and search has been stepped up at the London event after 11 officers were set upon by revellers over the weekend.

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Wife of NASA astronaut who 'hacked her bank account' from space reveals messy custody battle

Summer Worden has accused astronaut and former US Army Lieutenant Anne McClain of illegally accessing her financial records while aboard the International Space Station.

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Police pay Twitter guru more than their bobbies on the beat

The job advert states applicants will be expected to spend 37 hours a week 'identifying and engaging with online communities' for both Dorset Police and Devon and Cornwall Police.

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Murder probe launched after 18-year-old man dies from stab injuries in east London

Police were called to the Chadd Green estate in Newham, east London at 3.30pm after a man was found critically injured and suffering from stab injuries.

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Pet ban for rare lizard after web craze

The rare Union Island gecko, which is native to its namesake island in the Caribbean, is now banned for sale after world leaders voted to protect them so they can no longer be commercially traded.

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Enormous phone masts will be installed in some of the UK's remote regions

The current restriction on the height of the masts is set at 82ft (25m) and could be doubled to 165ft (50m) - almost exactly the same height as Nelson's column.

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Rise of male nudity on TV 'is the fault of Daniel Craig coming out of the sea in Casino Royale'

Miss Reid, 84, who plays rich widow Lady Denham in Jane Austen's 'sexed-up' Sanditon drama, said it is 'unnecessary' to have so many naked men around.

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Jeremy Paxman blasts May, Cameron and Johnson as he calls for a halving in the number of MPs

The broadcaster, pictured, lambasted David Cameron over the 2016 referendum, and described Theresa May as a 'cornucopia of failure'.

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Finsbury Park mosque terrorist 'batters Muslim paedophile in jail attack'

Darren Osbourne, 48, sought out Muslim worshippers to attack in 2017 after learning of Rochdale grooming gangs, He ploughed into a crowd killing one and injuring 12.

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Tim Bell, the PR Mad Man who made Margaret Thatcher, dies aged 77

Lord Bell - Tim Bell - was one of the architects of Margaret Thatcher's 1979 election and it began a relationship with the Iron Lady that endured in good times and bad.

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'Unsafe' HRT drugs from private clinics sparks warning from experts

Experts are telling British women to avoid tailor-made HRT compounds, saying they are unsafe, untested and unnecessary. The private formulas are also unregulated, causing additional concern.

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Exercise could help thousands of patients taking statins from suffering muscle pain

Roughly six million people in Britain take statins, preventing 80,000 heart attacks and strokes every year at the cost of roughly £20 a year per patient.

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Britain will DOUBLE the amount it spends on cutting its carbon footprint

Britain will double its contribution of £720 million to £1.44 billion to tackle climate change, including wildfires like the ones seen recently in the Amazon rainforest (pictured above).

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Reading Festival tragedy as man dies in hospital two days after falling ill

The man was helped by emergency services after falling ill near a stage at Reading Festival on Saturday night, but died in hospital yesterday. Other guests are seen arriving at the festival on Friday.

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Health tourists cost the NHS £150M in unpaid bills

Two hospitals in London are owed £28million each, including almost £500,000 from one patient alone. Nigerian Priscilla, who was 43 at the time, went into labour shortly after landing at Heathrow airport.

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NHS has spent £92million on private ambulances in a year

England's 10 major ambulance trusts paid £92.5million on private transport last year - up from £90.9million the year before, according to data obtained through Freedom of Information requests.

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Teenage son of the disabled artist is found dead

Disabled artist Alison Lapper, who had a marble sculpture of herself displayed on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth, has been left devastated after her teenage son Parys was found dead.

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Hong Kong protesters fight back with tennis racquets

Pro-democracy protesters were seen armed with metal poles and even sports equipment to protect themselves from a police crackdown amid escalating tensions in Hong Kong.

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Union boss cannot call off BA pilot strikes - because he's on a cruise

Union members of Balpa at British Airways have left passengers in travel limbo after announcing three days of industrial action next month, as General secretary Brian Strutton enjoys a holiday cruise.

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Health chiefs to review service that gives transgender children hormones

NHS England will review the process of prescribing young transgender children puberty-blocking hormones.

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Menopausal women should be protected from workplace discrimination say MPs

A 'menopause policy' should be standard in the workplace as women battle anxiety, depression, hot flushes and muddled thinking. Women across the country have lost jobs due to symptoms.

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Ben Stokes joins the pantheon of England's greatest cricketers

Ben Stokes, pictured in the afterglow of his triumph against Australia at Leeds yesterday, was on trial only a year ago over his role in a late-night brawl outside a Bristol nightclub in 2017.

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Classrooms in 800 Pakistani schools paid for with UK taxpayers' cash are closed

Classrooms in 800 Pakistani schools, paid for with British aid, have closed as they are not fit for use. An estimated 115,000 children are left taking classes outside or in overcrowded rooms.

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Sweltering sunseekers pack themselves onto Britain's beaches for another scorching day

Thousands of people descended on Bournemouth beach this morning to make the most of the sizzling heat, after the mercury rose to a record-breaking 92F (33.3C) at Heathrow.

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PM tells BBC: 'You've got enough cash… cough up for over-75s' TV licences'

The Prime Minister challenged the BBC to rethink its plan to make 3.7m pensioners pay for their TV licences from next June, saying the financial settlement provided the funds to provide them free.

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PM Johnson is left in the wings by other world leaders for G7 group photo

G7 leaders posed on the shore of the Atlantic this evening for a 'family portrait' at the summit in Biarritz but Boris Johnson found himself in a place at the far side of the front row of 19 leaders and spouses.

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Blueprint to sort social care is delayed AGAIN despite Boris Johnson claiming he had a 'clear plan'

Last month, the Prime Minister claimed he'd 'prepared' plan' to fix the crisis in social care 'once and for all.' Yesterday, he refused to commit to revealing proposals by the end of the year.

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Emma Barnett, 34, claims men would be given time off work if they had periods

British journalist Emma Barnett, 34, who suffers from endometriosis, said although she doesn't support with 'period leave' that if men had them 'menstrual leave would be baked into HR policies.'

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If Trump takes our pork pies, we should be OK with his chlorinated chickens, says DOMINIC LAWSON

DOMINIC LAWSON: As a descendant of the J. Lyons-owning family that introduced mass-produced food to Britain, I confess to a certain bias in favour of cheap meals for all.

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ANDREW PIERCE: Corbyn has flunked his history and blamed Thatcher for actions before her time

ANDREW PIERCE: Corbyn cited examples of job losses from a Northamptonshire steelworks and the Thatcher government, he said, axed jobs. Hang on! It was a Labour PM.

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Royal Navy engineers' futuristic tech visions include invisible body suits

Engineering graduates dreamed up the future for Royal Marines' kit at the Commando Training Centre in Lympstone. The exoskeleton suit (pictured right) would allow Marines to scale walls with ease.

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'You can't find a way through if you just sit on the beach!' Boris Johnson takes early-morning swim

Boris Johnson swam out 200m from shore and around an outcrop called La Roche Ronde in Biarritz today saying the dip had provided a metaphor for Brexit.

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Misery for millions as airline punctuality plummets for five years

A Which? analysis of almost 10 million flights from 2014 to 2018 found that eight of the UK's ten busiest carriers have seen an increase in delays of more than an hour.

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Sweet potato drought leaves shelves bare after severe weather in the US

In London and the South East levels are just one 20th of normal. Supermarkets say the shortage is worse than feared and shoppers are complaining they can't be bought at a good price.

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Too much screen time gives children less opportunity to invent playmates, nursery workers say

The daynurseries.co.uk poll, which questioned 1,000 nursery workers, found that a total of 72% agreed that fewer children have imaginary friends now than five years ago.

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Homes now come with more bathrooms than ever as Britons strive for 'rare solace'

Andy Ramus, an architect from Winchester, said the norm for his projects is five bathrooms in a four-bedroom home and everyday stress could be to blame.

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Duchess of York's murderer aide Jane Andrews enjoys her freedom

Jane Andrews, who was Sarah Ferguson's dresser for nine years, stabbed Tom Cressman in the chest as he slept in his flat in Fulham, West London, in 2000 after he refused to marry her.

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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps admits controversial HS2 could be scrapped

The government has commissioned a review into the high speed rail scheme. The project is unpopular in swathes of the Tory heartland and may cost £100bn, twice its current budget.

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Labour plans TOTAL ban on 'cruel and indefensible' importing of wild animal trophies to UK

The plan will form part of a new 'animal welfare manifesto' to be released later this week, and is expected to be included in Labour's wider manifesto in the event of a snap election this autumn.

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Furious passengers blast the airline after spending thousands re-booking flights

Furious passengers have blasted BA after they spent thousands of pounds re-booking their flights, only to be told that they their cancelled flights were actually going to go ahead.

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200,000 Rohingya rally to mark ‘Genocide Day’ in Bangladesh camps

KUTUPALONG (AFP): Some 200,000 Rohingya rallied in a Bangladesh refugee camp Sunday to mark two years since they fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar forces, just days after a second failed attempt to repatriate the refugees.

Around 740,000 Rohingya from Myanmar’s Rakhine state escaped in August 2017 during the brutal offensive, joining another 200,000 who fled earlier persecution.

The nearly one million refugees now live in three dozen squalid camps in Bangladesh’s southeastern border district of Cox’s Bazar.

On Sunday, children, hijab-wearing women, and men in long-skirt lungis shouted “God is Great, Long Live Rohingya” as they marched at the heart of the world’s largest refugee camp, to commemorate what they described as “Genocide Day”.

Under the scorching sun, thousands joined in a popular song with the lyrics “the world does not listen to the woes of Rohingya”.

“I have come here to seek justice for the murder of my two sons. I will continue to seek justice till my last breath,” 50-year-old Tayaba Khatun said as tears rolled down her cheeks.

Myanmar had said they were conducting counter-insurgency operations against Rohingya extremists after they attacked police posts, but the UN last year called for Myanmar’s top generals to be prosecuted for genocide over the crisis.

Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah said the stateless minority wanted to return home, but only after they were granted citizenship, their security was ensured and they were allowed to settle back in their villages.

“We have asked the Burmese government for dialogue. But we haven’t got any response from them yet,” Ullah told the rally.

“We were beaten, killed and raped in Rakhine. But still that is our home. And we want to go back.”

Young Rohingya students from schools set up by aid agencies held marches with black flags and chanted slogans, “yes Rohingya, … no Bengali,” in reference to the term Myanmar have used for the ethnic group.

The refugees offered special prayers, seeking divine blessings for people who had died. They had large banners urging Myanmar to “talk to us about citizenship and Rohingya ethnicity”.

Tight security

Police officer Zakir Hassan told AFP some 200,000 Rohingya took part in the peaceful gathering, which was attended by UN officials.

Security has been tight across Kutupalong camp, the world’s largest refugee settlement and home to more than 600,000 Rohingya.

“Hundreds of police, army and border guards have been deployed to prevent any violence,” local police chief Abul Monsur told AFP.

The rally came three days after the failed attempt to repatriate the refugees, which saw not a single Rohingya turn up to return across the border.

Bangladesh and UN officials interviewed nearly 300 families, none of them agreed to go back Myanmar where they fear they would be kept in special camps for internally displaced people.

Amnesty International said the ongoing violence in Rakhine “makes immediate repatriation dangerous and unsustainable” and called on Bangladesh to provide schooling for children in the camps, adding that it would have long-term benefits for Dhaka and the refugees.

On Saturday, Bangladesh police said they shot dead two refugees during a gunfight in a camp after the pair were accused of killing a ruling party official.

The Rohingya are not recognised as an official minority by the Myanmar government, which considers them Bengali interlopers despite many families having lived in the country for generations.

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Hezbollah denies shooting down Israeli drones

BEIRUT (AA): Lebanese group Hezbollah has denied shooting down two Israeli drones, which crashed in the southern suburb of capital Beirut earlier Sunday.

“The first drone fell down, while the other exploded, causing severe damage to Hezbollah’s media office in the southern suburb,” Hezbollah spokesman Mohamed Afifi told the official Lebanese news agency.

He said the drone that exploded was a “booby-trapped”.

“The first drone that fell down is now in the hands of Hezbollah, which is analyzing the background of its operation and the tasks it tried to carry out,” he said.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah will respond to these events in a speech later Sunday, according to the spokesman.

The Lebanese army, for its part, confirmed that one Israeli drone fell and the another exploded in Beirut’s southern suburb.

“The army arrived immediately and cordoned off the area where the two drones fell,” a military statement said.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, meanwhile, described the Israeli drone crash as aggression on Lebanon’s sovereignty.

In a statement, Hariri said the new development constituted “a threat to regional stability and an attempt to push the situation towards further tension”. –

There was no comment from Israel on the incident, which came hours after Israel announced it carried out airstrikes in Syria against what it said positions of an Iran-aligned group in the war-torn country.

In 2006, Israel launched war against Hezbollah during which at least 1,200 people, mostly Lebanese civilians, were killed.

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US, Taliban peace parley resumes in Doha

KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): The crucial ninth round of rejuvenated yet fragile peace talks between the U.S. and Taliban were set to resume on Sunday in the Qatari capital, Doha.

Speculations surrounding the establishment of an interim government in Kabul overshadowed the first two days of talks that commenced on Friday with a wide range of media outlets reporting an alleged agreement between the two parties has been reached. However, the top U.S. peace negotiator rejected such reports around midnight on Saturday.

”As the Taliban spokesperson stated earlier, we have had no discussions about an interim government. Governance decisions are for Afghans to make in intra-Afghan negotiations”, Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation tweeted.

Prior to that, the Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen also rebuked such reports.

This comes weeks ahead of the proposed presidential elections in Afghanistan that the Taliban insurgents are opposing.

Meanwhile, the top U.S. diplomat in Kabul Ambassador John Bass has said peace in Afghanistan remains ‘highest priority’.

During a trip to Balkh province, he said on Saturday the elections should be held on its scheduled time if there is a hurdle in the way of the peace process.

“Both (peace process and elections) are important for the United States. Peace is our highest priority because it is also the highest priority of the Afghan people. And every day, we have Afghans telling us that peace is their highest priority,” Mr. Bass said. “So, we are working very hard to create that opportunity for Afghans to sit together, to negotiate, to work out their differences and to try to achieve a durable peace agreement which is accepted by most of the people of this country and is therefore implemented.”

On the proposed withdrawal of troops, Ambassador Bass said if the Taliban want to see international forces depart, then they are going to have to ensure that there are no future terrorist threats against the United States, allies and partners from Afghanistan.

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At G7 summit, Trump offers Brexit Britain a ‘very big’ trade deal

BIARRITZ, FRANCE (Reuters): US President Donald Trump promised a big trade deal for post-Brexit Britain to Boris Johnson on Sunday and praised the new prime minister as the right man to take Britain out of the European Union.

Johnson, who faces a delicate task of assuaging European allies while not angering Trump at a G7 summit in France, said trade talks with the United States would be tough but there were huge opportunities for British businesses in the US market.

Speaking to reporters with Johnson ahead of a trade-focused bilateral meeting, Trump said Britain’s membership of the EU had been a drag on efforts to forge closer trade ties.

“We’re going to do a very big trade deal – bigger than we’ve ever had with the UK,” Trump said. “At some point, they won’t have the obstacle of – they won’t have the anchor around their ankle, because that’s what they had. So, we’re going to have some very good trade talks and big numbers.”

With less than three months until an Oct 31 deadline, it is still totally unclear, how, when or even whether Britain will leave the EU. The uncertainty around Brexit, the United Kingdom’s most significant political and economic post-war move, has left allies and investors aghast and roiled markets.

Opponents fear Brexit will make Britain poorer and divide the West as it grapples with both Trump’s unconventional presidency and growing assertiveness from Russia and China.

Supporters acknowledge the divorce might bring short-term instability, but say in the longer term it will allow the United Kingdom to thrive if cut free from what they cast as a doomed attempt to forge European unity.

COMPREHENSIVE DEAL VS MINI DEALS

Trump and Johnson were in the French seaside resort of Biarritz for a summit of G7 industrialised nations that exposed sharp difference over trade protectionism and an array of other issues including climate change and digital taxes before it had even begun.

Johnson will on Sunday meet European Council head Donald Tusk, who on Saturday said Johnson would go down as “Mr No-Deal” if he took Britain out of the EU without a withdrawal agreement.

Johnson is expected to tell Tusk that Britian will only pay 9 billion pounds ($11 billion) instead of the 39 billion pound liability agreed by former prime minister Theresa May under a no-deal Brexit, Sky News reported on Sunday.

On his arrival on Saturday, Johnson said in reference to the escalating US-China trade war he was “very worried” about the growth of protectionism. He said those who “supported tariffs were at risk of incurring the blame for the downturn in the global economy”.

Sitting opposite Trump on Sunday, Johnson praised the performance of the US economy before adding: “But just to register a faint, sheeplike note of our view on the trade war – we are in favor of trade peace on the whole.”

Johnson used a pre-summit phone call to Trump to demand he lower trade barriers and open up parts of the US economy to British firms, citing a wide range of markets from cars to cauliflowers.

Britain was looking forward to some comprehensive talks about taking the future UK-US relationship forward, Johnson said, adding he had made clear to Trump that the National Health Service would not be a part of trade talks.

London’s preference is for a comprehensive free trade deal with the United States post Brexit, UK government officials say, while some US officials including Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton have talked of a sector-by-sector approach.

Hints of those divisions emerged on Sunday.

As Johnson said London and Washington would do a “fantastic deal”, Trump interrupted to say: “lots of fantastic mini-deals, we’re talking about many different deals but we’re having a good time.”

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Iran blacklists US-based think-tank: ministry

TEHRAN (AFP): Iran has blacklisted US-based think-tank the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and its chief Mark Dubowitz on accusations of being behind “economic terrorism” against the Islamic republic.

The Iranian foreign ministry said in a statement issued late Saturday that it had “added the so-called Foundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD) and its director to the sanctions list”.

“The American institution with the deceitful name” and Dubowitz were accused of being involved in “designing, imposing and intensifying the impacts of economic terrorism against Iran”, it said.

The FDD and Dubowitz were blamed for “seriously and actively trying to harm the Iranian people’s security and vital interests”, according to the English-language statement posted on the ministry’s website.

They were accused of doing so through “fabricating and spreading lies, encouraging, providing consultations, lobbying, and launching a smear campaign” against Iran.

As a result, they would be “subject to legal consequences”, it said.

The move would be “without prejudice to any further legal measures that the other administrative, judicial or security institutions and organisations may take” against them and their “collaborators and accomplices”.

The FDD describes itself as a Washington-based “non-partisan research institute focusing on national security and foreign policy”.

The think-tank responded to Tehran’s move with a statement saying: “FDD considers its inclusion on any list put out by the regime as a badge of honour and looks forward to the day when Americans and others can visit a free and democratic Iran”.

It strongly opposed the 2015 deal that saw world powers lift sanctions against Iran in return for limits on its nuclear programme.

Tensions between arch-foes Iran and the United States have escalated since President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the accord last year and began reimposing sanctions against the Islamic republic.

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‘Modi is a terrorist’: Kashmiris protest in front of UN headquarters

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NEW YORK: A group of Kashmiris led by Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider staged a protest in front of the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York on Sunday.

The demonstrators waved Kashmiri flags as they raised anti-India slogans and placards with inscriptions such as “Modi – the face of Indian terrorism”.

In an address to the gathering, AJK PM Haider called on the UN to play its due role to restore normalcy in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK).

“The UN Security Council must ensure the implementation of its own resolutions and protect Kashmiris from India’s plans of genocide,” he said.

“India is committing crimes against humanity in occupied Kashmir. It is planning a genocide while making sure the world remains blind to the plight of millions of Kashmiris.”

The AJK premier said India was also killing innocent Kashmiris along the Line of Control (LoC) and was actively trying to hide its human rights abuses from the world.

He warned New Delhi to stay clear of AJK and said any sort of attack on the Pakistani side of Kashmir would lead to full-scale war.

India’s IOK actions threaten regional, world peace: Pak envoy

Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Dr Asad Majeed Khan has said the conditions created by India’s brutal actions in Occupied Kashmir pose a major threat to peace and stability in the region and the world.

Speaking at the Pakistan Independence Day Festival in Virginia on Saturday, Ambassador Khan said Pakistan was gravely concerned over the humanitarian crisis created by India in the occupied valley.

He said the issue had already been raised at the UN Security Council and the world was closely observing New Delhi’s actions in Occupied Kashmir.

Khan said the chairman of the US House Intelligence Committee had also raised concerns over India’s actions, while US President Donald Trump has expressed a desire to mediate on the matter.

The ambassador said global efforts were essential to pressure India to stop its brutalities in IOK as the situation could otherwise spiral out of control.

Last week, UN human rights experts on called on India to lift the lockdown and communication blockade it had imposed on Occupied Kashmir as a global advocacy group focusing on genocide issued an alert for the disputed region.

In a strongly-worded statement released by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the experts urged India to end what it termed a form of ‘collective punishment’ on Kashmiris.

“The shutdown of the internet and telecommunication networks, without justification from the government [of India], are inconsistent with the fundamental norms of necessity and proportionality,” the statement quoted the experts as saying.

“The blackout is a form of collective punishment of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, without even a pretext of a precipitating offence.”

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Ambassador Majeed urges world to take notice of India’s atrocities in IoK

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VIRGINIA: Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States Dr Asad Majeed Khan has urged the international community to take strict notice of India’s ongoing atrocities in occupied Kashmir.

Addressing an event in the state of Virginia on Saturday, Ambassador Majeed said the Narendra Modi-led government had held nine million Kashmiris hostage with its ongoing clampdown in the occupied valley, and called on the world to break its silence on the grave situation.

The ambassador demanded that the world institutions send analysts and observers to the occupied valley and force India to withdraw its decision to end special status of occupied Kashmir.

India’s actions in occupied Kashmir posed a threat to regional peace and stability, he noted, adding that it was not clear how the situation would unfold in the coming days.

Ambassador Majeed pointed out that US President Donald Trump had offered as many as three times to play a role in mediating on the Kashmir crisis.

Indian forces continued their lockdown of occupied Kashmir for the 21st day on Sunday, after India withdrew Article 370 of its constitution that gave a special status to the disputed territory.

Indian authorities continued to impose strict curfew and other restrictions across the valley, preventing Kashmiris from holding demonstrations against the occupation and end of special status for Jammu and Kashmir.

According to the Kashmir Media Service, people are faced with acute shortage of essential commodities including baby food and life-saving medicines due to the persisting blockade that is resulting in a humanitarian crisis in the occupied valley.

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Senate chairman cancels UAE visit as Modi honoured amid Kashmir crisis

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ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani cancelled an official visit of his parliamentary delegation to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was honoured on his recent tour to the Gulf nation amid the crisis in occupied Kashmir.

Sanjrani was scheduled to visit the UAE from August 25 to August 28 on the invitation of the UAE government. His delegation was to hold meetings with the UAE parliamentarians and government officials.

The Senate chairman, however, decided to cancel the trip as Pakistan vehemently supports Kashmiri peoples’ right to freedom from Indian occupation and condemns India’s atrocities in the occupied valley, a statement from the Senate Secretariat said.

Modi was awarded the UAE’s highest civilian honour on Saturday, as a human rights crisis brews in occupied Kashmir with the Indian government continuing its clampdown in the disputed territory. The Indian prime minister was conferred the award at the Presidential Palace in Abu Dhabi during his first visit to the UAE capital after winning the recent elections.

Indian forces meanwhile continued their lockdown of occupied Kashmir for the 21st day on Sunday, after India withdrew Article 370 of its constitution that gave a special status to the disputed territory.

Indian authorities continued to impose strict curfew and other restrictions across the valley, preventing Kashmiris from holding demonstrations against the occupation and end of the special status for Jammu and Kashmir.

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A democracy-friendly PM can fight better for Kashmir cause, Bilawal says

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SUKKUR: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Sunday claimed that no “selected prime minister” can fight for the Kashmir cause the way a “democracy friendly” premier can.

Addressing a press conference in Skardu, Bilawal said there was no comparison between the military occupation in occupied Kashmir and the undermining of democracy and human rights in Pakistan.

Nonetheless, if Pakistan had been investing in democracy and a third “real [democratically elected] government” was in power, they could fight for the Kashmir cause with moral authority, he said.

“No selected prime minister can fight for the Kashmir cause the way a democracy-friendly prime minister can,” he said.

Bilawal said it was important that he raises his voice for Kashmir at every possible opportunity while also seeing the reaction of the people.

He said that Pakistanis know that a “historic injustice” is taking place in occupied Kashmir and that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a murderer. However, he added that people also know that Prime Minister Imran Khan does not have the capability or legitimacy to provide the people of occupied Kashmir or Gilgit Baltistan with their rights.

Bilawal asked how the premier could talk about injustice in occupied Kashmir and about media restrictions in the disputed region if he has imposed “historic media restrictions in his own country”.

“How can he speak about restrictions of human rights in occupied Kashmir when he has restricted human rights?” he inquired, adding: “How can he speak about democracy in occupied Kashmir when he has led the funeral of democracy in his is own country?”

Earlier, Bilawal has also raised doubts over the government’s sincerity with the Kashmir cause, saying the government was “not supporting the Kashmiris in an effective way”.

On Wednesday, the PPP leader had promised to wage a struggle for realising the democratic rights of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan and to fulfill the commitment made with the region’s people by late prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Bilawal today said that the people of Gilgit Baltistan have seen that the premier is attacking democracy and human rights in the country.

“How can a person who is snatching democracy and constitutional and human rights away from us get the people of Gilgit Baltistan their rights?”

The PPP leader said that people knew that only the democratic and “real leadership” of Pakistan could grant the people of Gilgit Baltistan their rights and raise their voices for Kashmiris.

While responding to a question about India’s top opposition leaders, including former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, being sent back after they landed in Srinagar on Saturday, Bilawal said that this was very unfortunate.

“What are they hiding from him? If everything is transparent and rights are being granted and they are doing good things […] then why have you stopped the opposition leader of the country?”

He said that while the politics of Pakistan and India were different there were similarities regarding the democratic and undemocratic approaches used.

The PPP leader said that he had decided to spend Eidul Azha in Muzaffarabad as it was a “very good opportunity to send a message of unity” and after his announcement, the government also announced that they would send someone to Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).

Bilawal added that the night he reached Muzaffarabad, his aunt, Faryal Talpur was “illegally” shifted from a hospital to jail.

“We feel that the government is trying to antagonise us […] PPP has seen this in the past and knows how to oppose this.”

He said that it would very good if the PTI and the rest of the country gave attention to Gilgit Baltistan the way his party (the PPP) was.

“Right now I feel like PPP is leading from the opposition and the government is playing the role of the opposition in the government,” the PPP leader remarked.

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No alternative but to continue fight for freedom, Gilani’s message to Kashmiri people

SRINAGAR (Web Desk): Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Gilani has appealed to the people of occupied Kashmir to continue their resistance against Indian brutality without losing courage.

Gilani, in his first statement received by Kashmir Media Service from house arrest since the scrapping of occupied Kashmir’s special status by India on August 5, said there is no other alternative but to fight.

“India should know that even if they bring their entire armed forces into occupied Jammu and Kashmir, even then the people of Jammu and Kashmir will not abandon struggle for their rights and liberation.

“We must fight the enemy in unison. History remains witness to the fact that big military powers have repeatedly perished in front of the force of peoples’ unity and truth. Courage, patience, and discipline are those weapons of a defenseless people which can defeat the enemy with howsoever enormous an arsenal,” he wrote.

The APHC chairman lamented that the entire region has been transformed into a prison. “Even as we continue to receive immensely grim news from every corner, the Indian State has made extensive efforts to hide their campaign of brutal repression from the outside world. Not only have they blocked the entire communication systems used by common people since about the beginning of the month, they have also gagged local reportage and news media without any formal declaration. No news about the brutalities and repression of the Indian armed forces, killings, and arrests of thousands of youth is being published. Common people are unable to know about their kith and kin. The oppressors might try to hide the reality, but history will not spare anyone.”

“In spite of India’s best efforts, the Kashmir issue is being highlighted throughout the world like never before. The recently concluded United Nations Security Council meeting on Kashmir as well as the international media coverage are its clear examples. In this scenario, we hope that this message reaches you via the international media,” he wrote.

“This is a great victory for us that now no narrative apart from our ideals of the struggle for self-determination and justice remain relevant in the Kashmiri political discourse. Even those who would never tire of flaunting their pro-India credentials and ties to the Indian system have realized that the Indian State does not care about the lives of Kashmiri people, but is only interested in occupying our land whatsoever the cost,” he said.

Gilani urged the Kashmiri people living outside occupied Kashmir to keep themselves informed of the situation back home. “They must participate in the resistance struggle by acting as ambassadors of Kashmiri people all over the world. They should use their knowledge of Kashmir’s history and their own lived experiences to highlight the oppression and brutalities of the Indian State. They should also connect with other marginalized and struggling nationalities in other parts of the world and forge solidarities of resistance.”

The leader also appealed to Pakistan, and the Muslim Ummah in general, to come forward at this crucial juncture to help the besieged people of Kashmir. “You are an important party to the Kashmir dispute and this is the time for unity and action. Today, if you once again get ensconced in so-called pragmatism and fail to act decisively, then neither history will forgive you nor will your coming generations. You must continue to heighten your political and diplomatic initiatives to the highest level and respond to the deceit of the Indian occupation with full strength and determination.”

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‘The world never learns’, Rohingya pay the price

Maung Zarni

This coming Sunday Rohingya communities and their international supporters will commemorate the 2nd anniversary of what is widely acknowledged as a textbook genocide commissioned by the UN member state of Myanmar, not simply by a few bad apples amongst the leaders of my country’s Tatmadaw or armed force who continue to shield their mass-criminal rank and file troops with a blanket impunity.
At the Jesuits’ Sogang University in Seoul, Yanghee Lee, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights situation in Myanmar, has opened this year’s largest international conference co-organized by the Korean Civil Society in Solidarity with Rohingya, Free Rohingya Coalition, Forsea.co and Human Rights Action Center in Washington, DC.
Those of us, grassroots human rights defenders, engaged legal scholars and genocide experts from about 12 countries have joined Professor Lee in building a grassroots movement to end Myanmar’s ongoing genocide and help realize Rohingya’s dream of justice, truth and international accountability.
As a scholar and activist, during the last 10 years I have been extremely pained by what I discovered to be our genocidal crime which both the state and the predominantly Buddhist society have been committing against the most vulnerable community of Rohingya. I blew the whistle on my own country’s “Buddhist” genocide with the three-year-long study which I conducted with my colleague and partner Natalie Brinham six years ago, at a time when using the “G-word” was sure fire way to destroy one’s own intellectual and professional credibility.
I stuck to what I found, despite denunciations and dismissal coming from even the leading circles of human rights documenters including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, not to mention genocide-averse diplomats and policy wonks.
While I do not have the power to end my Buddhist country’s genocide or hold any perpetrators or perpetrating Myanmar as a state party to the Genocide Convention, I do have the power to spread the word that my country is committing genocide against an innocent, vulnerable Muslim community. And I have the power as an honest Buddhist to say “sorry” to the Rohingya community – for the heinous crimes which they have been subjected to during the last 40 years.
I am not alone.
I know that there are other truthful and compassionate Burmese activists who want to apologize to the Rohingya and want to stand up openly in support of Rohingya’s right to belong in Myanmar – as full and equal citizens, just like any other ethnic nationalities.
Despite all irrefutable evidence to the contrary, the overwhelming majority of my fellow Burmese of all non-Rohingya backgrounds have fallen prey to the 40-year official propaganda of Myanmar crafted against the targeted Rohingya ethnic group.
We, Myanmar Buddhists and other non-Rohingya communities are, without a doubt, implicated in this crime of all crimes as unwilling or willing executioners partaking in the heinous acts, literally or through our acts of genocide cheer-leading, popular de-nial of both Rohingya group identity as an integral ethnic nationality of the Union of Myanmar and the government-orchestrated policies of persecution and collective destruction against these “Myanmar’s Jews”.
The manufactured hate-soaked climate within Myanmar makes it exceedingly risky for other human rights defenders — for instance, the White Rose campaigners who went around mosques in Rangoon, Mandalay and other cities during Muslims’ Holy Month of Ramadan — inside the country to openly stand with Rohingya. The White Rose-ers draw their inspiration from the peaceful anti-Nazi resistance group from Bavaria, Hitler’s stronghold.
All genocides are no crimes of passion, and as such they do not simply erupt violently in a sudden fashion out of nowhere. Beyond the standard, narrow definition of the convention, genocides are a long process of intentional destruction of groups with distinct collective identities from their very economic, cultural, social, physical, institutional, communal foundations. Rohingya have suffered a similarly systematic destruction as the Jews and other group victims such as Sintis and Romas throughout the Nazi-occupied Europe.
Myanmar’s genocide began with the military’s racially and religiously motivated attempt to re-engineer the predominantly Muslim character of Northern Rakhine State of Western Myanmar where there existed 70% Rohingya population. My late mentor Robert L. Koehl called the Nazi SS corps, who executed Hitler’s genocidal project, “social engineers”. Koehl was a US military intelligence officer and German-English interpreter posted to Germany during the WWII, where he came to specialize in Himmler and SS. Like the Holocaust which culminated with one million deaths in a single concentration camp of Auschwitz, Myanmar military’s demographic engineering of N. Rakhine ended with the “security clearance operations” — with the almost total destruction of Rohingya as a group. Today only about 400,000 left standing in Myanmar.
When societies reach a low point where public partake, literally and psychologically, in such premeditated, state-sponsored destruction of targeted groups, be they Jews, Bosniaks, Rwandan Tutsi, or Bengali, the world ought to intervene.
For no genocides have ever ended through legal activism or economic boycott. No real justice can be done, unless perpetrators are captured and/or their regime crushed militarily.
The chances are slim in terms of any effective intervention to end Myanmar genocide or to effectively hold to account Myanmar both as a UN member state and individual perpetrating leaders, including Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and his partner in crime Aung San Suu Kyi.
Much as I wish for the restoration of Rohingya’s full-citizenship with all the basic rights as the rest of Myanmar’s ethnic nationalities, I fear that without the UN and external intervention Rohingya will remain the most persecuted and vulnerable population existing in sub-human conditions in the camps in Bangladesh, in detention centers in India, Saudi Arabia and as stateless people in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.
Alas, a classic Catch-22. The world has failed again – this time the Rohingya are paying the price, with no light at the end of the tunnel.
No wonder then that the staff lady at the Nazi Concentration camp museum at Dachau last Christmas, who sold me a “Never Again!” pin, and said: “the world never learn” (from the Nazi Genocide).

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Sagacious decision by chairman NAB

Chairman National Accountability Bureau, Justice (R) Javed Iqbal, while taking to a delegation of business community, assured that his institution will not take up case of sale tax and income tax and orders have been issued for the return of under probe cases to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). This is a sagacious decision which will restore the confidence of businessmen and industrialists who will now whole heartedly concentrate on generating economic activities.
FBR is the proper forum for dealing with the cases of income tax and sales tax collection and evasion and the drive for filling income tax and sales tax returns is gaining momentum. The number of filers is on the rise and the misgivings of traders about the levy of fixed income tax and sale tax registration shall be allayed by holding talks with the government.
Unfortunately, successive governments encouraged and the culture of tax evasion and preferred to acquire domestic and foreign loans for financing both current and development expenditures. The pubic debt has jumped to Rs.31.8 trillion which 71 percent of the GDP against the sustainable limit of 60 percent. The tax amnesty schemes have also not yielded the desired results of expanding the tax base through direct taxes. As a measure of last resort the Prime Minister office has issued instructions to all Deputy Commissioners and Development authorities through Chief Secretaries of provinces to launch crackdown against “Benami Assets” and submit their reports to the FBR till September 30. The decision was inevitable as still the influential people have not taken seriously the operationalisation of Benami Transactions Prohibition Act. Hopefully, the provincial governments will ensure full compliance of the directives which have been issued from the Prime Ministers’ Office and the FBR will get the required reports. But Inland Revenue Services Department of the FBR is still in the state of denial. They are not keeping necessary liaison with the revenue department of provincial government. The sales tax wing has not started monitoring of the business houses that include sales tax deduction in the sale receipts but the computer generated receipts do not bear sale tax registration numbers which most often lead to disputes between the clients and owners of business houses. Some business houses charge concealed sales tax in their sale receipts which also do not bear sales tax registration numbers. The loopholes of sales tax evasion need to be plugged.

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Intelligence Yorker by PM Khan

Taking into account the fabricated terror attacks that took place in India from December 12, 2001 down to February 14, 2019 Pulwama occurrence and his deep insight into Nrendar Modi’s mind, Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned the international community against the likely risk of another “false flag operation” by India to divert the attention from massive human rights violation and rain of terror unleashed in the occupied Kashmir. It is not sheer coincidence that most of such operations had been conducted when BJP was in power in India except the 26/11 Mumbai attacks in 2008 in the government of Indian Congress.
As most of the attacks were blamed on banned outfits like Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Muhammad, Pakistan has always asked for comprehensive dossiers of actionable intelligence about these incidents which were either not provided or were devoid of substance. The previous PML-N government went out of the way by registering an FIR against unknown terrorists in a Police Station in Gugranwala about the attack on Pathankot Airbase in which the official vehicle of Superintendent of Police of Gurdaspur District of Indian Punjab was used. The incident had occurred on January 2, 2016The government of Pakistan constituted an investigation team and sent it to India for assistance Indian investigation authorities and facts finding but Pakistani team was not given access to the spot of occurrence.
I t was either by design or default that previous governments of PPP and PML-N remained reluctant to unmask the false flag operations conceived by the ruling Indian leadership and executed by their state agencies. The then President Asif Zardari blamed Mumbai attacks that simultaneously occurred at five different places on what he called Pakistani non-state actors. And Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif almost took the ownership of attack by armed men on Pathankot Airbase by formally registering FIR in Gugranwala. Lack of proper response from Pakistan’s civilian leadership helped India to build a narrative that Pakistan is exporting terrorism in the region against which no counter narrative was built by the governments of two mainstream political parties. Hence India got a level playing field to give a shade of Pakistan’s sponsored terrorism to its false flag operations and homegrown freedom struggle of Kashmiri Muslims. The narrative was successfully showcased to the international community.
On the core issue of Kashmir the new leadership in Pakistan is pursuing hectic and proactive diplomacy. Prime Minister Imran Khan had made telephonic contacts with a number of heads of states and heads of government to apprise them about dire situation in occupied Kashmir in the aftermath of abrogation of its special constitutional status, complete lockdown therein , communication blackout, shortages of food and medicines there and BJP government nefarious designs about changing the demographic structure by planned ethnic cleaning and genocide of Kashmiries. The foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and, officers of foreign office and diplomats abroad are also highlighting the Kashmir dispute. Let us hope that sanity will at last return to the mind of BJP leadership and realise the peaceful resolution of this issue.

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Timely policies help expand income tax-return filing bases by 43 percent

Timely policies help expand income tax-return filing bases by 43 percent

ISLAMABAD:Owing to prudent, timely and swift tax reform policies of the incumbent government, the income return filing base has widened by around 43 percent to the record level of 2.5 million filers, as 0.750 million news return tax-filers have registered themselves in the tax system till the last date, as indicated by official data.Anne Applebaum, […]

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Pakistan to open Kartarpur Corridor for Sikhs irrespective of ties with India: Firdous

Pakistan to open Kartarpur Corridor for Sikhs irrespective of ties with India: Firdous

LAHORE: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan Saturday said irrespective of its ties with India, Pakistan’s doors were open to Sikh pilgrims visiting Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in connection with the 550th birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak and other religious sites. Addressing a press conference flanked by […]

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PM reviews progress on establishment of university at PM House

PM reviews progress on establishment of university at PM House

ISLAMABAD:Prime Minister Imran Khan Saturday chaired a meeting to review the progress on establishment of a state-of-the-art University of Engineering and Emerging Technologies here at the Prime Minister’s House. The meeting was attended by Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, Chairman Task Force on Science and Technology Professor Dr Atta-ur-Rehman, secretary science and […]

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Intl’l bodies be given access to address mental health crisis in IOK: Envoy

Intl’l bodies be given access to address mental health crisis in IOK: Envoy

ISLAMABAD:Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Canada Raza Bashir Tarar Sunday demanded Indian government to give access to the international organizations to address the mental health crisis gripping the people of the Indian Occupied Kashmir due to Indian atrocities and violence. Addressing an event related to the mental health issues organised by Canada-Pakistan Association in Ottawa, the […]

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Paris celebrates its liberation from Nazis, 75 years on

Paris celebrates its liberation from Nazis, 75 years on

PARIS: Paris is celebrating the French resistance fighters, American soldiers and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago. A parade on Sunday will retrace the entry of French and American tanks into southern Paris on Aug. 25, 1944. Firefighters will raise a French flag on the Eiffel Tower, […]

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Clarifications and corrections

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Royal author ANGELA LEVIN claims the Duke of York's statement was staggeringly arrogant

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Teenage girl, 17, dies at Leeds Festival 'from a suspected drugs overdose'

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Holidaymakers face FIVE days of British Airways chaos as airline cancels flights over pilot strike

On Wednesday, airline staff voted to take industrial action on September 9, 10 and 27, throwing thousands of travel plans into chaos which has also seen flights on 8 and 11 cancelled.

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Man is stabbed to death and four more injured in a house in Birmingham 'following a family dispute'

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Grandmother, 81, is the latest victim of hospital listeria food scandal that saw six patients die

Brenda Elmer, 81, died after eating contaminated food at St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex. Sandwiches from a supplier in the Midlands were later withdrawn from NHS trusts

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British Airways pilots will walk out for three days next month

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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Meghan to make emotional 'pilgrimage' to Princess Diana's burial place

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Duke of York's 'fears over being drawn into civil proceedings' against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein

Andrew has not set foot in the country since early 2017 and sources say plans to launch a business initiative there later this year have been put on ice.

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CAMRA reveals it's annual list of Britain's best pubs

The Campaign for Real Ale has selected 16 regional winners around the UK for its Pub of the Year prize, with the overall champion to be named in February 2020.

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Bake Off contestant strips down to her underwear for a university calendar before cooking contest

Amelia Le Bruin, 24, stripped to her underwear and leather boots for a De Montfort University, Leicester, naked calendar in 2014. She was raising money for the Riding for the Disabled Association.

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Taxidermy fan, 57, gets a criminal record thanks to an estate agent's photographs of her collection

Susan Tate, 57, received a criminal record for having an illegal stuffed animal collection in her Newborough home. Police, with BBC's Crimewatch film crew, seized 20 stuffed animals.

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Art dealer's son whose grandfather was 'king of commodities' killed himself after split from model

Kai Schachter-Rich, 21, was dating 20-year-old Lady Lola Crichton-Stuart, daughter of the 7th Marquess of Bute before she sent him a text message, ending their relationship.

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Boris Johnson tells migrants 'we will send you back' if they cross the Channel

The Prime Minister warned migrants they would be 'sent back' if they crossed. Mr Johnson warned the UK should not be regarded as a place to arrive illegally.

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Music fans hit the booze as four-day party starts at Leeds and Reading Festivals

Thousands of revellers at the Leeds and Reading Festivals basked in the Bank Holiday heatwave today, keeping the drinks flowing as they enjoyed performances from several high-profile artists.

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Commuters have to walk along Tube tracks in the dark to be evacuated near St Pancras

Commuters were seen being led through the tunnel at St Pancras International as Thameslink Railway revealed there had been problems with overhead wires at Kentish Town.

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Privately educated woman, 23, reveals how she has more than 30 tattoos to her father's dismay

Hetti Harper, 23, has lost count of the number of tattoos she has. Her father David Harper, 52, presenter of TV's Bargain Hunt and Antiques Road Trip, hoped each tattoo she got would be the last.

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Glasgow University will pay £20million in reparations for its part in the slave trade

Glasgow University has announced it will pay £20 million in reparations for its part in the slave trade, after discovering last year it received millions from Scottish slave traders.

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British boy, 11, drowns in swimming pool during family holiday at French Eurocamp site

An 11-year-old British schoolboy has drowned in a pool at a Eurocamp site in France. Dozens of people are reported to have rushed to save him at the site 50 miles north-east of Paris.

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Independent MP Jared O'Mara is arrested on fraud charge after police raid on his office

Sheffield Hallam MP Jared O'Mara and his office manager Gareth Arnold have both been arrested on suspicion of fraud after police raided the office a week ago and removed computers.

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Bank holiday crowds stuck in 24 MILES of jams after a record 5 MILLION cars take to the UK's roads

The worst of the traffic chaos appeared to be on the M4, with up to 24 miles of queues and a crash involving several cars on the M5 around Bristol saw further delays.

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Father who battled to save boy who died at Center Parcs slams woman for demanding refund

EXCLUSIVE: Guests watched in horror as staff and members of the public rushed to the stricken boy after he collapsed at the holiday park in Wiltshire, Longleat on Saturday, August 17.

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Police force REVERSES ban on officers showing tattoos while on duty after 18-month union campaign

West Yorkshire Police have relaxed the rules and said 'small and inoffensive' tattoos on necks and hands can be displayed. A survey showed 55% of 1,182 officers interviewed last year had a tattoo.

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Boris Johnson warns scrapping backstop and agreeing a new deal with the EU is 'not going to be easy'

Boris Johnson today warned scrapping the backstop and striking a new Brexit agreement with the EU will 'not be easy' as he cautioned against people being too optimistic about a deal being done.

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PETA Cheltenham brands private prep school teachers as bad as 'racists'

Animal rights group PETA have branded teachers of St Edwards School's Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, as bad as 'sexists and racists' over their buy alpacas as pets for their Farm Club.

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Nostalgic Twitter users share the giveaway 'signs you're old'

Twitter users from across the globe have listed the amusing signs 'you are officially old' in a viral online thread.

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