FIFA cuts Afghan women’s football team from world ranking

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KABUL: The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has eliminated the Afghan women’s national football team from the world women’s ranking, due to the team’s lack of activity.

The women’s national teams from the US, Germany and the Netherlands are in first, second and third place in the world ranking, respectively.

In Asia, Australia, South Korea and Japan are ranked first to third, but Afghanistan is not among the 161 countries on the list.

Under FIFA rules, teams that have not played five official games in an 18-month period are eliminated from the FIFA rankings.

The Afghan Women’s National Football team was in the 108 place in the FIFA ranking.(TOLOnews)

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Swarms of locusts eat up hundreds of acres crops in Sukkur

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SUKKUR: Swarms of locusts have destroyed crops on hundreds of acres in Saleh Pat area of Sukkur quoting local farmers, revealed on Monday. Several swarms of locusts descended in the area and eat up standing cotton crop, vegetables and fodder for cattle in the area, local people complained.

Local farmers staged protest against inaction of the provincial agriculture department with regard to the attacks of locusts swarms in the area. The farmers are trying to get rid of the vegetation eating grasshoppers on self help basis after the agriculture department’s inaction over the matter.

“We worked hard for six months, spent thousands of rupees but the crops were destroyed (by the swarms of locusts)”, a farmer lamented. The government by conducting spray of insecticides could save us from further harm, local farmers said.

Earlier in this month, locusts, a specie of grasshoppers, reportedly eat up crops, grass and shrubs in some villages of Nagarparkar and Islamkottalukas of Thar region. Local villagers said the government officials had sprayed insecticides a few days ago, but the spray proved ineffective due to continuous rain in the areas. They demanded of the highups to send teams with required machinery for killing insects.

In June this year, swarms of locusts attacked cotton fields in Khairpur, Sukkur, and Ghotki. Farmers had to bear losses of hundreds of thousands of rupees due to crop loss in the attack. The crops were affected in Khairpur’sNaaro, Chondko, ThariMeerwah, Sukkur’sSaleh Pat, Thikrato, Mubarakpur and Ghotki’sKhanpurMahar, and Khangarh. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in first week of September warned that the situation relating to locusts in Pakistan was “most serious” as a second generation of the insect had been bred.

According to the FAO’s Locust Watch report, there remains a risk of further breeding, causing locust numbers to increase, with the possibility of swarm formation from late September onward. Yemen and India are also facing a similar situation, and the situation could deteriorate in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Breeding will continue in Cholistan and Tharparkar deserts with another generation of hatching and the formation of hopper groups and perhaps a few small swarms forming by late September, the report said.

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Officer cadre teachers stage demo in Jamrud

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LANDI KOTAL: Teachers of Khyber district took out protest rally against abolishing of Fata education directorate here in Jamrud on Monday. The protest demo was organized jointly under the banners of Senior Officer Association (SOA), All Teachers Association (ATA) and Subject Specialists (SS) in front of Jamrud press club and scores of officer cadre teachers participated in it.

The protestors were holding banner inscribed in favor of their demands and chanting full-throat slogans against anti-teachers policies adopted by the government. Addressing on the occasion their leaders said that after merging of ex-tribal region into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the government ended Fata educational directorate and Fate directorate was deployed as teacher in State-run school that was injustice to the officer. They added that previously educational officer had been appointed from within the teachers however according to the new policy, introduced by the government, new staff would be hired for the management which was equal to usurp their right.

They demanded that the government revised the elimination of the Fata director and bestow on him the powers, took away from him. They warned that if their demands were not meet in near future, they would initiate indefinite strike against it.

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Greece steps up migrant transfers after Lesbos clashes

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LESBOS: Greece will keep moving asylum seekers from overcrowded camps on its islands to the mainland, government officials said on Monday, after a woman died following clashes and a fire at a refugee camp on the island of Lesbos. The violent clashes began at the Moria refugee camp on Sunday after a fire broke out inside a shipping container, one of the means Greek authorities use to house refugees. At least 17 people were hurt.

The migrant camp, the country’s biggest, is operating at almost four times its capacity. The charred remains of a woman were taken to hospital, the health ministry said in a statement. Reports of a second victim remained unconfirmed, officials said, adding that the cause of the fire was under investigation.

Deputy Citizen Protection Minister LefterisEconomou told reporters that 250 people would be transferred from Moria to the mainland by the end of Monday. The issue would be discussed during a cabinet meeting chaired by the prime minister, a government official said. About 12,000 migrants and refugees are holed up in Moria camp, a collection of tents and shipping containers, according to data released by the UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency. The government aims to move at least 3,000 people from its islands to the mainland by the end of October, the official said.

Moving asylum seekers from island camps to the mainland is not a new policy. It was announced by the conservative government last month as part of measures intended to deal with a resurgence in refugee and migrant flows from neighboring Turkey. More than 9,000 people arrived in Greece in August, the highest number in the three years since the European Union and Ankara implemented a deal to shut off the Aegean migrant route. More than 8,000 people have arrived in September, according to the UNHCR. (Reuters)

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Factory fire kills 19 in east China: Official

BEIJING (Agencies): A factory fire has killed 19 people in east China, local authorities said Monday, in the latest deadly incident to hit the country´s industrial sector. The fire broke out on Sunday at a factory in Ninghai county, eastern Zhejiang province, said the local government on its official Twitter-like Weibo account.

The incident, which is under investigation, occurred at a facility owned by the Ruiqi Daily Necessities Company. Among eight people rescued from the fire, three were injured and sent to hospital for medical treatment, said Ninghai authorities. It made for a deadly weekend in China ahead of the communist-led country´s 70th-anniversary celebrations on Tuesday.

A packed bus collided with a truck in eastern Jiangsu province on Saturday, killing 36 people. Industrial accidents are common in China, where safety regulations are often poorly enforced. In March, a blast at a chemical plant in eastern Jiangsu province killed 78 people and injured hundreds. Four months later in July, a huge explosion left 15 dead at a gas plant in central China. Last November, a truck carrying combustible chemicals exploded at the entrance of a chemical factory in Zhangjiakou, a northern Chinese city that will host the 2022 Winter Olympics, killing 23 people and injuring 22 others.

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Kurz eyes economic growth after vote triumph

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VIENNA: Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz basked in election victory on Monday, his People’s Party (OVP) strengthened by a parliamentary contest that punished the scandal-hit far right, although tough talks lie ahead on forming a ruling coalition. Sunday’s snap vote followed the collapse in May of Kurz’s coalition with the right-wing Freedom Party (FPO) after a video sting that forced FPO Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache to step down.

Kurz, 33, emerged largely unscathed from the uproar, with the OVP having its widest lead over the second-place Social Democrats in the post-war era. He now faces tortuous negotiations to choose one or two partners with which to govern. His most likely coalition choices are to ally with the resurgent Greens, possibly in a three-way tie-up with the liberal Neos, or link up again with the FPO.

But FPO leader Norbert Hofer called chances of a renewed alliance “very unlikely” given its poor showing on Sunday. Austrian voters’ top concern is the environment, surveys show, which helped lift the Greens to a record 14% of the vote from less than 4% in 2017, when they crashed out of parliament. A coalition with the Social Democrats is mathematically possible but unlikely under their current leadership.

Kurz is keeping his cards close to the chest, reiterating his mantra that he would talk to all other parties in parliament to seek a stable coalition. In an interview with broadcaster ORF aired on Monday, he said his priorities included fostering economic growth at a time of trade and political jitters. “We are just now seeing very negative economic developments in Germany, we have not solved Brexit, we have tensions in trade ties with the United States,” he said.

“The challenge for us will be securing good economic growth in the future as well and doing our utmost to keep unemployment in Austria from rising again. This is going to be a challenging phase.” Kurz’s OVP came a comfortable first, with 37.1% of the vote, according to a projection by pollster SORA for ORF based on a count of all but postal ballots.

The Social Democrats came second with 21.7%, their worst result since World War Two but still well ahead of the FPO on 16.1%. The projection had a margin of error of 0.7 percentage point. While the Greens could give Kurz a narrow majority, his party is wary of being at the mercy of a handful of its left-wing lawmakers. If he does ally with the Greens he might therefore seek a three-way deal including the liberal, pro-business Neos, who are on 7.8%.

It could take time for the Greens and Kurz to convince their supporters about working together. Many Greens voters see Kurz as their enemy since he brought the far right to power. Many of Kurz’s core voters, such as farmers and big business, are wary of the Greens. (Reuters)

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Imran, Trump, Modi and Kashmir Puzzle

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US President Donald Trump urged India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 24 to improve ties with Pakistan and “fulfil his promise to better the lives of the Kashmiri people,” the White House said after Trump-Modi meeting on the side-lines of the annual UN gathering. Earlier, talking to reporters at joint press conference with Modi before their bilateral meeting, Trump suggested Pakistan-India summit on Kashmir, expressing his optimism that the “good things” would happen when the “two great gentlemen” will meet. He said he believed that Prime Minister Imran and Prime Minister Modi would “get along when they get to know” each other. In a series of tweets after the meeting, India’s Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said that Kashmir issue came up during the Trump-Modi meeting.

Tensions between India and Pakistan reached a feverish pitch on August 5, when New Delhi unilaterally annexed occupied Kashmir, revoking a constitutional guarantee that gave a special status to the disputed territory. A strict lockdown and communications blackout was imposed in the region that has snapped off ordinary people’s internet and mobile telephone service across occupied Kashmir. And when Trump and Imran met, crackdown had crossed its 50th day.  Trump was  asked about his opinion on the lockdown in IOK. Instead of answering the question put up by a Pakistani reporter, Trump started praising the journalist. “He is a good reporter. Where do you find these reporters?” he asked PM Imran.

While Imran Khan was still queuing up for a meeting with Trump, latter was hobnobbing with Modi in a 50,000 gathering in Houston and pledging to, jointly with India, counter Muslim extremism. He also announced the schedule for first ever joint tri-service military exercise with India.

According to ABC news, “Justice for All”, an interfaith human rights group, and its allies had organised a massive protest demonstration outside the Houston venue with protesters chanting “Go back Modi” and “Modi is a terrorist”.

Trump has once again reiterated his offer for mediation between Pakistan and India on the Kashmir dispute but emphasised that arbitration could not be carried out unless both the parties involved welcome it; what a useless offer it is, embedded with a non-starter, both by default and design. Avoiding to directly answer a question about UN resolutions on Kashmir, Trump emphasised that he is ready to play his role in South Asia if both India and Pakistan are willing.

Imran met Trump on September 23. PM explained Pakistan’s clear, categorical and firm stance on Kashmir. When asked if he was concerned about human rights violations in occupied Kashmir (IOK), Trump said, “Yes…I am, I want both sides to come to the negotiating table… I’d like to see everything work out. I want everybody to be treated well. There is always a solution and I do believe that there is a solution.” Trump added that he had heard a “very aggressive” statement from Modi on September 22, but “I hope they (Pakistan and India) are going to be able to come together and do something that’s really smart and good for both”.

Imran Khan, who has declared himself an ambassador of Kashmiris, spent most of his time out of seven-day visit to the US, briefing US lawmakers, scholars, human rights activists and media on the repercussions of the Indian annexation of the disputed Kashmir territories.  Premier met with the founder the Kashmir Study Group FarooqKathwari during which he urged Kathwari to continue informing the world about India’s illegal occupation and human rights violations in occupied Kashmir so that they could see the real face of Modi’s government.

The prime minister also met Amnesty International’s secretary General KomiNaidoo and discussed with him the dire human rights situation and ongoing humanitarian crisis in IoK. Naidoo briefed PM Imran on Amnesty’s advocacy work on Kashmir including its social media campaign captioned “#LetKashmirSpeak”. PM Imran appreciated the lead role that Amnesty was playing in presenting the real state of human rights in the occupied territory and amplifying the voices of the Kashmiri population in a state of perpetual lockdown. Premier also lauded Amnesty’s report on the use of pellet guns by India and their devastating impact on Kashmiri youth.

After it was confirmed that Trump would meet both Indian and Pakistani prime ministers, diplomatic observers in Washington had guessed the strong possibility that he may use the meetings to discuss the situation in Kashmir. About a week before meeting the two prime ministers, President Trump had told reporters at a White House briefing that “a lot of progress” has been made in defusing India-Pakistan tensions.  Trump’s recent comments on Kashmir and India-Pakistan relations have triggered speculations about direct or indirect dialogue between the two, with Washington playing the role of a facilitator.

The silver lining is that After PM Imran’s powerful presentation of Kashmir cause at the UNGA, the US has, at official level, urged India to ease restrictions on the people of IoK. However, Reuters has reported that: “Authorities in Indian Kashmir tightened restrictions on people’s movements to prevent possible protests… Soon after the speech, hundreds of Kashmiris came out of their homes, shouting slogans in support of Khan and calling for the independence of Kashmir”.

In the weeks since Kashmir’s lockdown, thousands of elected politicians, activists and trade unionists have been imprisoned or put under “house arrest”. Over 13000 young men, including minors, have been arrested in night raids by the police, with many transported to jails outside the IoK. World is all about money and power, unfortunately. Kashmir does not have oil or strategic significance. That is why it is not receiving much world attention.

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Biodiversity, KP government’s greatest challenge

During a briefing, Chief Minister Mahmood Khan directed for the protection of wild life and biodiversity in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. He agreed in principle to launch a fund for this purpose with seed money of Rs.200 million. Because of the rapid population growth and unregulated urbanization, the conservation of wildlife and biodiversity has become a great challenge. The world was oblivious of the vital role of these two elements in sustaining ecological system until the first report of Russian Naturalist Nikolai Ivanovich Valvilov was published in which he highlighted and emphasised the importance of plants’ genetics resources. He classified the globe into six origin centers for biodiversity.

Ever since Pakistan came into being, Prime Minister Imran Khan was the only person who showed great passion and determination by addressing the alarming issue of deteriorating ecological balance in the country. He is agreat visionary but the decision makers who are directly involved to implement his vision have not succeeded to deliver on the protection of wild life and biodiversity. The major causes of wild life destruction are hunting and deforestation which wipe out the habitat of wild life animals. Many of the species of wild life have gone extinct and the remaining are at the verge of extinction. The solution to this problem lies in strictly implementing a policy of punishment and penalties and showing no leniency to the ones who play a leading role in merciless cutting of forests and hunting of wild life species facing the threat of extinction. Moreover, conducive environment has to be created for breeding and increasing the population of various species of wild life.

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Rigid stance

Speaking at a press conference after JUI (F) district executive council meeting at DI Khan on Sunday, Maulana Fazlu Rehman described the popularly elected PTI led government illegitimate and liable to be sent home. He alleged that establishment is responsible for bringing this government to power but in the same breath he said that JUI (F) does not want confrontation with any state institution. He reiterated that his party decision about the million marches towards Islamabad is irreversible and vowed that neither a deal shall be made with the present government nor any space will be given to it.

 It was Maulana Fazlu Rehman alone, who took the stance that the polls were rigged when the results of 2018 election were out. Other opposition parties including PML-N and PPP had accepted the verdict of the people which gave overwhelming mandate to ruling PTI. However, when the wheel of across-the-board accountability started running other opposition parties hinted at giving support to JUI (F) agitation politics. PPP Chairman Bilwal Bhutto Zardari hosted Iftar Dinner for the leaders of opposition parties and authorized MaulanaFazluRehman to call all Parties Conference to agree upon a protest plan outside parliament. Still conflicting signals are emanating from PML-N as to whether its President Shabaz Sharif is supportive of JUI (F) leadership inflexible stance or not. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has assured JUI (F) central Amir about his party active support in million marches towards Islamabad. It is indicative of observing double standards by PML-N leadership.

Rule of law, transparency and accountability are the basic fundamentals of true democracy and there can be no different sets of laws for the investigation and trial of the citizens of the country. Rule of law is equally applicable to common man and political elite. But on the contrary in Pakistan the opposition political parties are opposing, by and large, the across-the-board accountability process, bringing to justice the elite class by observing the rule law of law and ensuring transparency in the system of governance. It was the US that moved a resolution in the Paris meeting of FATF early last year seeking black-listing Pakistan for its weak anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing regime. A short leash of three months was given to the previous PML-N government to make strong the anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing regimes before formally putting Pakistan on the black list in June last year. Instead of putting their house in order former Interior Minister Ahsan termed it a conspiracy to destroy the so called fast growing economy of Pakistan, whereas his party government actually put the economy on fast downturn.

It is not only a misnomer but a matter of grave concern that because of the alleged involvement of ruling political elite, business tycoons and top bureaucrats the sole superpower of world, the United States has extended the scope of FATF scrutiny to the entire economy of Pakistan, including both formal and informal sectors. In his speech at the United Nations General Assembly 74th session, Prime Minister Imran Khan unmasked Indian design to push Pakistan from FATF grey list to black list.

In their protest rallies the JUI (F) and other political parties will try to capitalize on the issues pertaining to high price spiral, mass unemployment, worsening business environment and law and order situation. These issues are agitating the minds of the people. Hence, it is time that government focuses its maximum attention on these issues.

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Pakistan invites Manmohan Singh to Kartarpur Corridor inauguration ceremony

Pakistan invites Manmohan Singh to Kartarpur Corridor inauguration ceremony

Pakistan on Monday invited former prime minister of India Manmohan Singh to attend the inauguration ceremony of Kartarpur Corridor scheduled for next month. “After consultation, we have decided to invite former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh. He is Sikh by faith and is also regarded,” the foreign minister said in a video message. The foreign […]

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PM assures AJK of complete support in rehabilitation of quake-hit areas

PM assures AJK of complete support in rehabilitation of quake-hit areas

Prime Minister Imran Khan Monday expressed his sympathies with victim families of quake-hit areas of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and assured the AJK government of Pakistan government’s complete support in relief and rehabilitation efforts. The prime minister assured the Government of Pakistan’s full support in extending complete package for the quake-hit areas. He expressed these […]

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TODAY’S CARTOON

TODAY’S CARTOON

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PML-N wants JUI-F to defer ‘Azadi March’ till November

PML-N wants JUI-F to defer ‘Azadi March’ till November

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Monday formed a committee to hold consultations with the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and other opposition parties before committing to a final date for their anti-government protest, media reports said. PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal told reporters after a meeting of the party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) chaired by its president […]

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Successful poll a good sign for Afghanistan

Successful poll a good sign for Afghanistan

Saturday’s Afghan election was the victory of the people’s resilience and belief that continuity of the process is the only way to defeat the militant mindset. Voters did defy Afghan Taliban threats against casting votes in the presidential elections, though turnout was as low as about 20 per cent of the registered voters. Low turnout, […]

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Revisiting the tourism sector

Revisiting the tourism sector

Pakistani cultural sites and museums have seen a big boost in tourism over the last five years. According to Gallup Pakistan, up to 317 per cent increase has been seen in tourists turnout – from 1.6 million visits in 2014 to 6.6 million in 2018. Province wise, Punjab attracted most of the tourists, nearly 95 […]

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The bogey of Islamic extremism

The bogey of Islamic extremism

The speech of Prime Minister Imran Khan at United Nations General Assembly was very straight, convincing and persuasive. Straight as he spoke his heart out, convincing as he presented his point with examples drawing parallels and persuasive as he appealed the rational and logical thinking. One of the issue he discussed was the label of […]

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China at 70 (Part-I)

China at 70 (Part-I)

People’s Republic of China will be celebrating its glorious 70th Anniversary of the founding of the country on 1 October with spectacular festivities across the country and abroad wherever the Chinese diaspora is living. The foundation was officially proclaimed by Chinese Communist Party’s chairman Mao Zedong on 1 October 1949 at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. […]

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Murad Ali Shah’s arrest will be like crossing a red line for PPP: Bilawal

Murad Ali Shah’s arrest will be like crossing a red line for PPP: Bilawal

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday said any attempt by the government to arrest Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah without evidence will cause an irreparable damage to the federation besides putting his party on a collision course with the Centre, media reports said. “There is no reason morally, constitutionally and […]

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Seeking electric power over treacherous terrains

Seeking electric power over treacherous terrains

Two news reports have come out recently that apparently seem unrelated, but if looked slightly deeper, should make it evident that these are but two faces of the same coin. Both relate to Pakistan’s participation in cross-border cooperation in energy infrastructure projects with some other countries in the region, especially on building electric power interconnections. […]

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Reply to Indian rejoinder

Reply to Indian rejoinder

In a strongly-worded reply, Vidisha Maitra, the first secretary of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, called the Prime Minister of Pakistan’s address “hate speech” and said it attempts to ‘sharpen differences’ and ‘stir up hatred.’ She pointed out that the General Assembly rarely witnesses such misuse or “abuse” as she called it, of an […]

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Pakistan hits back at India for criticising PM’s speech at UN

Pakistan hits back at India for criticising PM’s speech at UN

Pakistan has hit back at India for criticising Prime Minister Imran Khan’s speech in the UN General Assembly, saying the Pakistani leader had only put a spotlight on New Delhi’s ‘indefensible actions’ against the Kashmiris and other minorities across the country. “It is obvious that India neither wants to face up to the truth about […]

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Pelosi says public opinion shifting in support of impeachment inquiry

Pelosi says public opinion shifting in support of impeachment inquiry

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday that public opinion is now on the side of an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump following the release of new information about his conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Pelosi this week announced her support for an investigation after the surfacing of a whistleblower complaint that […]

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Dark skies: UN meeting reveals a world in a really bad mood

Dark skies: UN meeting reveals a world in a really bad mood

The planet is heating. Island nations are slipping away. A Pakistan-India nuclear war could be a “bloodbath.” Governments aren’t working together like they used to. Polarization is tearing us apart. Killing. Migration. Poverty. Corruption. Inequality. Sovereignty violations. Helplessness. Hopelessness. “The problems of our times are extraordinary,” Ibraham Mohamed Solih, president of the Maldives, an Indian […]

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Shutter-down strike in parts of Balochistan after Chaman blast

Shutter-down strike in parts of Balochistan after Chaman blast

A shutter-down strike was observed in different cities of Balochistan on Sunday over the killing of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) leader Maulana Hanif in a blast in Chaman a day earlier. On the call of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, all the businesses and public transport in several cities of the province, including Quetta, Pishin, […]

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Pakistan’s request for funds for Hafiz Saeed a sign of transparency: US

Pakistan’s request for funds for Hafiz Saeed a sign of transparency: US

The United States has welcomed the UN Security Council’s decision to allow Pakistan to let Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed use his bank account for personal expenses, as it shows that Islamabad is working towards accountability for its counter-terrorism efforts as part of its commitments to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). “It’s counter-intuitive, but […]

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Firdous urges JUI-F to dedicate ‘Azadi March’ to Kashmir cause

Firdous urges JUI-F to dedicate ‘Azadi March’ to Kashmir cause

Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday advised chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and other opposition parties to dedicate their ‘Azadi March’ to Kashmir cause and join the government’s efforts to represent the public sentiment in true spirit. Talking to reporters at the Islamabad International Airport, the special […]

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ToRs for judicial inquiry into Nimrita’s death issued

ToRs for judicial inquiry into Nimrita’s death issued

The Sindh government has finally issued terms of reference (ToR) for a judicial inquiry into the alleged murder of Nimrita Kumari, a final year BDS student at Bibi Aseefa Dental College (BADC), Larkana, who was found dead in mysterious conditions on September 16 in her hostel room. In this connection, section officer (judicial) Home Department, […]

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Chairman NAB’s excellent performance speaks louder than words

Chairman NAB’s excellent performance speaks louder than words

Corruption is mother of all evils. National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is an apex national anti-corruption organisation, which was established in 1999 to eradicate corruption and recover looted money from the corrupt and deposit it in national exchequer. NAB has its headquarters in Islamabad and eight regional bureaus in Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, Quetta, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), […]

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Pakistan Navy conducts live missile firings

Pakistan Navy conducts live missile firings

Pakistan Navy is conducting Operational Exercise RIBAT-2019 to review operational preparedness of Pakistan Navy. To consolidate Fleet Fire Power, successful live missile firings were also held from surface and air platforms during the exercise, affirming the impressive war fighting capabilities of Pakistan Navy. The exercise is aimed at validating various operational concepts and tactical war […]

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Local people from every district to be hired to execute 10 billion trees project

Local people from every district to be hired to execute 10 billion trees project

Advisor to Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam Sunday said that for timely completion of 10 billion trees project, services of locals from every district would be hired to establish new nurseries across the country. Addressing a meeting on climate change, Aslam said funding for the project has been started to all the […]

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One dead, hundreds more diagnosed with dengue

One dead, hundreds more diagnosed with dengue

As many as 596 more people were diagnosed with dengue fever in Islamabad over the last 24 years. Sources said a total of 526 people were diagnosed with the mosquito-borne disease at government-run hospitals and 70 at private medical facilities. Of them, 307 were tested positive for the deadly disease at the Polyclinic, 162 at […]

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Three new HIV positive cases emerge in Ratodero

Three new HIV positive cases emerge in Ratodero

Three new HIV positive cases have emerged on Saturday, at the screening camp working uninterruptedly at Taluka Headquarter Hospital (THQ), Ratodero, since April 25, 2019. The toll has climbed to 1,094 out of which 218 are adults and 876 are children. Out of 218 adults 56 are males and 162 females. Out of 876 HIV […]

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Representatives of 24 US universities visit Millennium College

Representatives of 24 US universities visit Millennium College

Keeping alive the rich legacy of college counselling for over 30 years, students university applications support, portfolio building and global reach, Flagship Millennium College (MC) Campus I-9/3, Islamabad, in collaboration with the United States Education Foundation Pakistan USEFP hosted the South Asia Tour 2019 in which 24 leading universities from the United States participated and […]

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NAB arrests minister’s alleged ‘frontman’

NAB arrests minister’s alleged ‘frontman’

The National Accountability Bureau on Sunday arrested Zabardast Mahar, a former UC nazim and the influential political figure of Ghotki. The NAB Sukkur arrested Zabardast Mahar during a raid at his residence in Rohri. According to sources, Mr Mahar is the alleged ‘frontman’ of provincial Transport Minister Syed Owais Qadir Shah. The Sindh High Court […]

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Indonesia quake death toll rises to 30

Indonesia quake death toll rises to 30

The death toll from a powerful earthquake that rocked Indonesia’s remote Maluku islands rose to 30 on Sunday, including several toddlers, the disaster agency said. On Thursday, terrified residents ran into the streets as buildings fell in around them when the 6.5-magnitude tremor struck, sparking landslides that buried at least one of the victims. Among […]

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Efforts afoot to solve problems of all cities, villages: CM

Efforts afoot to solve problems of all cities, villages: CM

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government was putting in place effective measures to solve problems of every city and village in the province, Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Sardar Usman Buzdar said on Sunday. “We will leave no stone unturned to fulfill needs of the people because the PTI believes in equal progress and prosperity of all […]

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AJK president seeks US Congress help to end Indian repression against Kashmiris

AJK president seeks US Congress help to end Indian repression against Kashmiris

Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan has said that the role of US Congress is important to bring an end to Indian repression against the Kashmiri people, and as such it should hold a debate and pass a resolution on the alarming situation of Indian-held Kashmir. Addressing a gathering of the Association of […]

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GCU Endowment Fund gets donation of Rs 1 million

GCU Endowment Fund gets donation of Rs 1 million

gcuThe Endowment Fund Trust of Government College University (GCU)Lahore got a donation of one million rupees in order to provide financial support to the needy and deserving students of the university. The cheque was received by the Executive Committee of Endowment Fund Trust Secretary Professor Dr Khalid Manzoor Butt from Lahore Chamber of Commerce and […]

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Clean Karachi campaign a major success: Baloch

Clean Karachi campaign a major success: Baloch

The Clean Karachi campaign has been a major success of the Sindh government and until now millions of tonnes of waste had been transferred from Karachi to landfill sites and this work will continue on a permanent basis, said Provincial Minister for Human Settlements Ghulam Murtaza Baloch He said this while visiting various areas of […]

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Unemployment complete failure of government

Unemployment complete failure of government

To block the passing of rickshaw papers and to challan them without any reason is the oppressed step of the government. There is an increase in unemployment due to unemployed rickshaw drivers, which is the complete failure of the government. Owing to the rise in the price of electricity, gas and eatable products, the matters […]

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Burning issue: Indonesia fires put palm oil under scrutiny

Burning issue: Indonesia fires put palm oil under scrutiny

A brutal Indonesian forest fire season that left Southeast Asia choking in smog has renewed scrutiny of major palm oil and paper companies, with activists accusing them of breaking promises to halt logging. The monster blazes sent a pall of acrid smoke over the region for weeks, closing schools and airports and causing a spike […]

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ECAP elects new executive body

ECAP elects new executive body

The Environmental Consultants Association of Pakistan (ECAP) has elected its executive body for the year 2019-21 during its general elections held on Sunday in Lahore. Syed Nihal Asghar was elected as president, Muhammad Azeem (secretary general), Dr Samia Saif (senior vice president), Farhan Akhtar Awan (vice president), Aleem Butt (secretary information) while Shamila Arfan, Abdul […]

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HU holds 2nd TEDx event

HU holds 2nd TEDx event

As part of its philosophy of inspiring new ideas and bringing together diverse communities, Habib University (HB), held its second TEDx event on September 28th, 2019. Prominent speakers addressed the important social issues that were being faced by the people of South Asia. The day-long gathering at the HU campus served as a platform where […]

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Pakistan slams India for skipping mention of Kashmiris’ plight that PM Khan highlighted

Pakistan slams India for skipping mention of Kashmiris’ plight that PM Khan highlighted

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan on Saturday night hit back at India for criticizing Prime Minister Imran Khan’s speech in the UN General Assembly, saying the Pakistani leader had only put a spotlight on New Delhi’s “indefensible actions” against the Kashmiris and its minorities across the country. “It is obvious that India neither wants to face up […]

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India committing state terrorism in Kashmir for last 30 years: Pakistan

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NEW YORK: Pakistan on Saturday submitted its right to reply in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in response to Indian remarks on Prime Minister Imran Khan’s speech.

First Secretary of the Indian External Affairs Ministry Vidisha Maitra while exercising her right to reply had said, “Rarely has the General Assembly witnessed such misuse, rather abuse, of an opportunity to reflect. Words matter in diplomacy. Invocation of phrases such as ‘pogrom’, ‘bloodbath’, ‘racial superiority’, ‘pick up the gun’ and ‘fight to the end’ reflect a medieval mindset and not a 21st-century vision.” 

In response, Zulqarnain Chheena, a diplomat of the Pakistani mission, while exercising his right to reply said PM Imran had exposed the real cruel face of Indian state terrorism before the world community.

Chheena said India is committing state terrorism in occupied Jammu and Kashmir for the last thirty years.

He added the Indian government was carrying forward the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) agenda. “The killers of Mahatma Gandhi are now ruining the secular face of India in occupied Kashmir,” he asserted.

Chheena further said Pakistan arrested Indian spy Kulbushan Yadev who admitted involvement in various incidents of terrorism inside Pakistan.

He added, PM Imran in his speech to UNGA, highlighted Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir and on minorities inside India.

PM Imran in his address to UNGA on Friday, heavily criticised Indian PM Narendra Modi and his party’s ultra-nationalist hardline style of governance.

The prime minister said that India ended the special status of occupied Kashmir, flouting 11 resolutions of the UN Security Council.

“It is the responsibility of the UN to ensure that Kashmiris get their right to self-determination,” PM Imran said.

“India must lift this inhuman curfew,” PM Imran said, adding, that ‘picked-up persons’ from the valley should be released by India.

Due to these issues, eight million people under lockdown in the valley are likely to get radicalised, he said. 

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US welcomes UN’s decision to allow JuD chief Hafiz Saeed to use bank account

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NEW YORK: The United States has welcomed United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) decision to allow Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed to use his bank account for personal expenses, saying it shows that Islamabad is working towards accountability for its counter-terrorism efforts as part of its commitments at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

“It’s counter-intuitive, but this is actually a positive step,” US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells said.

“Countries are required under the obligations of the listings that for any UN-designated individuals, you account for whatever money flow is permitted, such as the family expenses of Hafiz Saeed,” Wells said. “So actually having these submissions indicates a level of transparency and a key requirement of FATF.”

“We welcome this step,” she added.

Earlier this week, the UNSC allowed Saeed, to draw money from his bank account for basic expenses.

According to reports, Pakistan had approached UNSC with a request to let the JuD chief to use his bank account for personal expenses.

“The Chair has the honour to refer to his draft letter to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan communicating the Committee’s decision with respect to the intention of the Pakistani authorities to authorize certain expenditures to the benefit of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed to cover basic expenses,” a note by the chair said.

Reports further said UN has allowed Saeed to withdraw approximately $1,000 to cover necessary basic living expenses for him and his family.

On July 17, the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested Saeed while he was travelling from Gujranwala from Lahore. He was taken into custody as part of the government’s crackdown against banned organizations under the National Action Plan. 

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Land ‘occupied’ by Sharif family recovered

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LAHORE: Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) on Saturday said it has recovered around 36 kanals of government land in Sahiwal illegally occupied by the Ittefaq Sugar Mills, a factory owned by the family of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, for the last 37 years.

The revenue department has estimated the value of the land at Rs22.5 million.

ACE Sahiwal Regional Director Shafaqat Ullah told The Express Tribune that contrary to the traditional method of waiting for a complaint to be filed before the anti-graft body took action, they used different sources to identify illegally occupied lands on the orders of the new ACE chief Gohar Nafees.

A few days back, he added, the ACE was informed by a source that the Ittefaq Sugar Mills was illegally possessing 36 kanals of government land since 1982.

He assigned the ACE Pakpattan circle officer to examine the records of the revenue department and took up the matter with the Pakpattan assistant commissioner and the revenue field staff.

The information was verified after a thorough examination of the records.

Later, Pakpattan assistant commissioner ordered that state land be vacated under Sections 32 and 34 of the Colonisation Act on September 28.

On Saturday, a team comprising ACE, revenue department and police officials went to the site and found that 16 kanals of the occupied land was vacant but stores and a laboratory had been built on the remaining 20 kanals.

However, they were partially demolished because the mills had been shifted to Rahim Yar Khan.

The occupants were unable to present any document including a stay order to justify their possession of the land, which was later handed over to the revenue department.  “It is also worth mentioning that no rent has been paid since 1982 and that amount would be in billions,” Shafaqat Ullah added.

The location of the mills is very important as it is situated on Pakpattan Road in Sahiwal.

“I have ordered an inquiry into why the revenue department remained silent over this illegal possession of land and why there was no assessment of the lagan and its payment,” he added. The official further said the recovery of the land was part of the ACE’s crackdown on land grabbers in Sahiwal.

A few days ago, the ACE Sahiwal recovered a public park occupied by land grabbers. The land measuring six kanals and 11 marlas is valued at Rs327.5 million. The land was designated for Kanaan Park in Sahiwal. However, land grabbers were illegally using it as a private taxi stand.

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Pakistan ranked 15th most powerful military in world

The Pakistan military has been ranked as the 15th most powerful military by Global Firepower’s 2019 Military Strength Ranking. 

According to the rankings, the three most powerful militaries in the world are United States, Russia and China followed by India, France, Japan, South Korea and United Kingdom.

Global Firepower ranks the militaries of 137 countries by giving weightage to a complex number of factors and not just sheer numbers of soldiers or weapons. It looks at a large number of different criteria, including the diversity of each country’s weapons, manpower, population, geography and its state of development. While it gives bonus points to countries with nuclear weapons, it does not factor in their nuclear stockpiles in the final score. While landlocked countries are not penalised for not having navies, countries that do have navies but their fleets lack diversity are penalised.

The Global Firepower ranking utilises over 55 factors to determine a country’s PowerIndex score. The formula allows smaller, more technologically advanced countries to compete with larger, less developed ones. A perfect PowerIndex score is 0.0000, which is realistically unattainable. The closer countries are to that number, the more powerful their military is. For example, the Power Index rating for the US is 0.0615. For Pakistan, the figure stands at 0.2798 and for India, it is 0.1065.

According to the ranking, Pakistan has an estimated total of 1,204,000 military personnel, total aircraft strength of 1342 (ranked 7th out of 137), 348 fighter aircraft, 197 total naval assets and a defence budget of $7billion. India, meanwhile, has an estimated 3,462,500 military personnel, a total aircraft strength of 2082 (4th out of 137), 4,184 combat tanks, 295 total naval assets and one aircraft carrier. India’s defence budget is $55.2billion.

The three countries with the least powerful armies, according to the ranking, are Bhutan, Liberia and Suriname, which rank 137, 136 and 135 respectively.

Top 25 most powerful militaries in 2019: 

1. The US 

2. Russia 

3. China 

4. India

5. France 

6. Japan 

7. South Korea

8. United Kingdom

9. Turkey

10. Germany

11. Italy

12. Egypt

13. Brazil

14. Iran

15. Pakistan 

16. Indonesia

17. Israel

18. North Korea

19. Australia

20. Spain

21. Canada

22. Taiwan

23. Vietnam

24. Poland. 

25. Saudi Arabia

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PM Imran Khan departs for Pakistan after completing his successful US trip

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NEW YORK: Prime Minister Imran Khan along with his delegation departed for Riyadh by a commercial flight back to Pakistan.

The prime minister, who was accompanied by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood, was seen off at New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport by Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Maleeha Lodhi.

The prime minister’s plane will land in Jeddah, where he will stay for three hours, before departing for Islamabad.

On Friday evening, the plane carrying PM Khan with his entourage back to home after his historic address to the United Nations General Assembly had routed back to New York due to a technical fault.

Meanwhile, a grand reception is being planned for the returning  PM after his historic speech in the UNGA.

According to details, a grand reception to commemorate Pakistan’s successful diplomatic efforts at the United Nations General Assembly, related to US visit was being planned with special emphasis on recognition of the Prime Minister’s efforts in this regard.

Chief organiser Saifullah Niazi has reportedly ordered party workers to prepare for the occasion and receive the Prime Minister at the airport in glorious fashion, stamping their love and affection for their leader and his exhaustive efforts to highlight the plight of Kashmiris and the injustices being committed around the globe against Muslims and poorer human beings.

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An Open Letter to People and Governments of US, UK, France and Germany

Brigadier (R) Dr. Ahsan ur Rahman Khan

I am a retired Army officer, war veteran, post-retirement PhD, post-PhD visiting teaching faculty of universities, and a keen student of history, behaviour pattern of people, and current affairs. I am aware of the history of your nations. I visited your countries during the decades of 1980-1990, keenly re-evaluating my book knowledge while inter-acting with your officialdom and public.

I am writing to you because your nations, including your governments, claim to take pride in upholding the human values. Let me inform you that in the decades of 1950-1960 people in my country respected your nations for that. However, since many years now you are allowing your governments, elected by you, to openly sell human values for economic, strategic and financial benefits. The extremely inhuman war mongering and military aggressions of US in different parts of the world, submissively supported by European governments, spreading widespread human calamities in target countries, surely presents a very negative picture of the national character.

And worst is happening now. Your governments are acting spineless to act against India’s RSS/BJP Modi government’s actions – of contemptuously refusing to abide by the existing United Nation Security Council’s Resolution giving the right of self-determination to people of Kashmir to decide their affiliation through plebiscite; and then, for over 50 days by now completely locking down Indian occupied Kashmir (IOK) under curfew, blocking all means of communication; as also the extremely inhuman treatment meted out to the Muslim majority citizen of IOK including night raids to torture and kidnap/arrest thousands of boys and men, raping women, and denying them access to medical and food facilities, etc – all these are being reported by world media. But what the governments elected by you are doing – just meekly showing ‘concern’, even by the government of US which is otherwise too quick on clamping stringent sanctions on the non-pliant countries. Reasons for such dismaying response of your governments to Indian government’s grave violations of human rights are now well-known – US’ president has even gone to the extent of joining hands with Modi in his public meeting in Houston to earn the goodwill of Indian-American vote bank for his 2020 election; Mr. Macron’s French government is to earn in billions by selling Rafale jet fighters to India; UK and German governments also have their interests with India.   

Don’t you know that the target of Dharm Jagran Samiti (DJS) movement of Indian militant party RSS, as declared by its leader Rajeshwar Singh in 2014, is to compel the Muslims and Christians in India either to convert to Hindu religion or otherwise be finished by 31 December 2021. You may read it in UK’s Daily Mail of 19 December 2014—-https://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/article-2879597/We-free-India-Muslims-Christians-2021-DJS-leader-wows-continue-ghar-wapsi-plans-restore-Hindu-glory.htm,—– or watch RSS leader Rajeshwar Singh announcing that target in youtube ——- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTGZ0MdWbxI—— Don’t you know that Modi is an old member of RSS?

Knowing all these facts, if you as a nation and your chosen governments are still not prepared to compel India’s RSS/BJP Modi government to revoke such grave oppression of IOK Muslims, and are rather trying to earn Modi government’s friendship for your own interests, then I leave you to ponder upon the following verses of Holy Bible:-

“Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” Psalm 82:3-4.

Matthew 6:24, “No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.” (Context: This is one of Jesus’ various teaching in the Sermon on the Mount. This same quote also appears in Luke 16:13.)

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Voters would prefer the short-term disruption of a No Deal Brexit over a Jeremy Corbyn Government

Nearly half of voters would be happy for the UK to leave the EU without a deal if the alternative scenario was Mr Corbyn as Prime Minister. Just 35 per cent preferred to have him in No 10.

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Journalist accuses PM of squeezing her inner thigh at private lunch in 1999

Charlotte Edwardes said that in 1999 the prime minister - then the editor of the Spectator magazine - grabbed a chunk of her flesh from her upper leg.

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American model Jennifer Arcuri 'told friends she was having a sexual affair with Boris Johnson'

Among those who Ms Arcuri confided in were university classmates and a Conservative Party activist who said: 'She told me they were sleeping together.

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Dominic Cummings thinks PM will thrive despite constant scandals

Dominic Cummings told Downing Street staff that Bill Clinton was more popular as he ignored the Monica Lewinsky scandal and concentrated on his political agenda instead.

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Boris Johnson's model friend claimed the Duke of York was 'a real cutie'

Jennifer Arcuri 'adored fairy tales' and often entertained romantic notions of faraway England. In 2014 the entrepreneur was hoping to ingratiate herself with the Duke of York.

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Boris Johnson apologised to Queen after Court ruled the prorogation of Parliament was unlawful

Boris Johnson 'got on to the Queen as quickly as possible to say how sorry he was' after the Supreme Court ruled his shutting down of Parliament was 'unlawful, void and of no effect' on Tuesday.

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Actress who lost her dream role after quoting Bible on Facebook sues for religious discrimination

The day after Seyi Omooba was cast in the production, the emergence of an old Facebook post in which she quoted the Bible to express her Christian beliefs led to her being sacked as a 'homophobe'.

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Duchess of Sussex urges 'all young women and campaigners' to conquer obstacles in their way

Meghan Markle urged 'all young women organisers, activists and campaigners' to 'keep at it' during an event to honour South Africa's female leaders in Cape Town.

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No 10 probes MPs' 'foreign collusion' amid plot John Bercow to send 'surrender letter' to Brussels

Downing Street has launched a major investigation into alleged links between foreign governments and the MPs behind the 'Surrender Act' which could force Boris Johnson to delay Brexit.

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Dominic Raab warns Remainer bill would force the UK to roll over to anything Brussels demands

Dominic Raab vowed that Boris Johnson will be able to defy the 'Surrender Act' stipulating that he must ask for a delay to Brexit if he can't secure a deal.

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Royal couple are listening to advice from 'formidable' team leading the fightback against criticism

Duke and Duchess of Sussex were warned that their royal tour of Africa could make or break their reputation. However their new team of aides have orchestrated some 'magic' moments.

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Meghan Markle clutches Archie as she prepares to fly to Johannesburg for next leg of royal tour

The Duchess of Sussex was seen cradling four-month old Archie at Cape Town International Airport in South Africa today as they made their way to a scheduled British Airways flight to Johannesburg.

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British gran jailed for smuggling £1m of cocaine bemoans of 'very hard conditions' in prison

British grandmother, Sue Clarke, who was jailed in Portugal for smuggling £1 million of cocaine on a cruise has complained about the 'very hard' conditions she has suffered in custody.

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Ewan McGregor's model daughter Clara, 23, reveals rape and abortion ordeal

The 23-year-old daughter of Scottish actor Ewan (pictured together) delved into her mental health struggles in a bid to help those feeling the same way.

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Two boys, 15, and two 14-year-old girls were in black Audi stopped by armed police

Two 15-year-old boys and two 14-year-old girls fled from officers in Enfield this morning before finally being stopped by firearm officers in Langston Road, Loughton.

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How I was tricked into killing Kim Jong Un's brother: Young mother is tracked to remote village

Siti Aisyah (pictured) gives an interview that proves the truth is stranger than fiction. Remorseful but angry, Siti describes how it feels to have been so ruthlessly exploited.

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Edinburgh University accused of 'racism' for conference where white people cannot ask questions

A Q&A event - Resisting Whiteness 2019 - will bar Caucasian guests from speaking from the floor at the prestigious the Pleasance Theatre (pictured).

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Tesco worker who ranted about answering shoppers' queries leaves 10.3k Instagram fans in stitches

Jade Pinner, 19, from Basildon, Essex, made a named for herself after sharing an explosive clip last night of her complaining about working at the supermarket.

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The PM’s words shake the world

The PM’s words shake the world

Warning of a ‘bloodbath’ in Indian-held Kashmir, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday demanded immediate lifting of inhumane curfew and sought support of the world community in giving the Kashmiris their right to self-determination. “This is a test for the United Nations. You guaranteed the right to self-determination to the people of Kashmir,” he reminded […]

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US presses India to ‘rapidly’ ease restrictions in Kashmir

US presses India to ‘rapidly’ ease restrictions in Kashmir

The United States wants India to quickly ease restrictions imposed in Held Kashmir, a senior US official said while reiterating President Donald Trump’s willingness to mediate to ease tensions between India and Pakistan over the territory. Trump met separately this week with both Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. While […]

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Election tribunal sends NA deputy speaker packing

Election tribunal sends NA deputy speaker packing

The election tribunal of the Balochistan High Court on Friday ordered a re-election in the NA-265 constituency (Quetta-II) after declaring the election held there as null and void, a private TV channel reported. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Qasim Khan Suri had been elected from the area back in 2018. Suri was later elected to hold the […]

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Pakistan listed among top 20 improvers in doing business

Pakistan listed among top 20 improvers in doing business

Pakistan has been listed among the ‘Top-20 improvers in Doing Business for the year 2020’ by the World Bank. World Bank Country Director for Pakistan Patchamuthu Illangovan on Friday lauded the collective efforts made by the federal and provincial authorities concerned in achieving the landmark. “With 6 reforms, #Pakistan emerges among top 20 reformers globally […]

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Cross-border terrorism on decline due to fencing: COAS

Cross-border terrorism on decline due to fencing: COAS

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa Friday said cross-border terrorist incidents are gradually reducing due to solidification of Pak-Afghan border, especially the ongoing fencing. “However, enduring peace inside Pakistan is linked to peace in Afghanistan for which Pakistan is playing its role,” the army chief said while interacting with tribal elders from […]

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Afghans brave threats to vote in presidential election today

Afghans brave threats to vote in presidential election today

Voters across Afghanistan will go to the polls on Saturday (today) to cast their ballots in the country’s twice-delayed presidential election under tight security as officials say over 70,000 security personnel have been deployed to thwart any attacks by the Taliban, who have declared to disrupt the election. Afghans are seemed divided on holding the […]

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Let Kashmiris decide their future themselves: Imran

Let Kashmiris decide their future themselves: Imran

The future of Kashmir should be decided by the Kashmiri people, Prime Minister Imran Khan said, and called on the United Nations Security Council to implement its decades-old resolutions that gave them the option to join either India or Pakistan. “It is their (Kashmiris) right to decide, whatever they want,” he told a cheering audience […]

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‘Used and dehumanised’: Dozens of boys found chained in Nigeria

‘Used and dehumanised’: Dozens of boys found chained in Nigeria

More than 300 boys and men, some as young as five and many in chains and bearing scars from beatings, have been rescued in a raid on a building that purported to be an Islamic school in northern Nigeria, police said on Friday. Most of the freed captives seen by a Reuters reporter in the […]

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Deadly brain-eating amoeba lurking in Karachi’s warm waters

Deadly brain-eating amoeba lurking in Karachi’s warm waters

Jamshed Khan started complaining of headaches one Monday night earlier this month – three days later he was dead. As the pain spread from the 19-year-old Karachi medical student’s head to his spine, he grew feverish and began vomiting. A doctor in the family’s Surjani neighbourhood advised immediate hospitalisation, but with roads closed by processions […]

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Trump reels as Democrats move quickly on impeachment

Trump reels as Democrats move quickly on impeachment

Democrats vowed Friday to move quickly on the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump, saying the evidence of abuse of power from his Ukraine phone call and attempts to cover up wrongdoing were already clear. An intelligence whistleblower’s complaint showing Trump pressuring Ukraine’s president to supply dirt on election rival Joe Biden left the White […]

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World needs to unite on fighting terrorism: Modi

World needs to unite on fighting terrorism: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the 74th session of the UN General Assembly on Friday and said the world needs to unite and have a consensus on fighting terrorism. “Terrorism is one of the biggest challenges before humanity,” Modi said in a 20-minute speech. “The largest number of supreme sacrifices made by soldiers of any […]

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Kashmir Solidarity Day observed at PHC in London

Kashmir Solidarity Day observed at PHC in London

The Pakistan High Commission in London on Friday expressed solidarity with the people of Kashmir to remind the world of the plight of the residents of occupied valley. A large number of Pakistani community, friends of Pakistan from other communities and media representatives attended the gathering in an expression of solidarity with the oppressed Kashmiri […]

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PML-N leader Rana Afzal Khan dies at 70

PML-N leader Rana Afzal Khan dies at 70

PML-N leader and former state minister for finance Rana Afzal Khan passed away on Friday after suffering from a heart ailment. He was 70. Khan was under treatment at the Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology, where he was admitted after he complained of chest pains a few days ago. PML-N President and Leader of the Opposition […]

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Ex-PM Abbasi seeks additional facilities in jail

Ex-PM Abbasi seeks additional facilities in jail

An Accountability Court (AC) Friday sought reply from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on a petition seeking provision of additional facilities in Adiala Jail to former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. AC-I Judge Muhammad Bashir conducted hearing on the petition filed by Sadia Abbasi, sister of former prime minister Abbasi, seeking additional facilities for the […]

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TODAY’S CARTOON

TODAY’S CARTOON

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Cricket carnival

Cricket carnival

Thank you, Sri Lankan team, for giving us a new lease of cricket life. The team is here in Pakistan on a three-match series of One Day Internationals to be played in Karachi and as many Twenty20 internationals in Lahore. All matches are going to be watched by capacity crowds in all stands of the […]

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Innocence after 18 years on death row

Innocence after 18 years on death row

The Sup­reme Court’s decision to acquit a man falsely charged with blasphemy is more than a verdict about the innocence of an individual: it speaks volumes about our justice delivery system. Wajihul Hasan was sentenced to death in a blasphemy case in 2002 and he spent 18 years on death row until September 25, when […]

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Pakistan new strategic fit under CPEC

Pakistan new strategic fit under CPEC

In the present day method of globalization, the sources of threats have additionally diversified, and a multi-dimensional approach is required to address the new challenges. China believes that an army approach to dealing with safety troubles in South Asia will in addition damage the interests of nations in the region. Therefore, the pleasant strategy would […]

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Modi’s Houston circus and its aftermath

Modi’s Houston circus and its aftermath

Sunday, September 22nd, 2019 is being rued by the Indian Prime Minister. On this ominous day, Indian Diaspora organized the “Howdy, Modi: shared Dreams, Bright Futures” event at the sprawling NRG Football Stadium in Houston drawing about half a million-crowd. Modi, arriving in tandem with the US President Donald Trump, drew a deafening applause from […]

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Importance of Kartarpur Sahib: sacred for the Sikhs

Importance of Kartarpur Sahib: sacred for the Sikhs

Kartarpur is held in high esteem by the Sikh community. That is so because Guru Nanak Dev Ji (1469-1539), founder of the Sikh religion, lived there for over 17 years. He gave the name Kartarpur Sahib to the place. And it is at this place that his holy spirit left his mortal frame to re-join […]

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To mark the Kashmir solidarity day

To mark the Kashmir solidarity day

“We will snatch our freedom from India, we will fight for freedom, slogans pierce the sky” as gunshots are heard to silence the crowd. But the men, women, and children don’t panic. They shout again-‘we will die for the freedom’. They shout harder and louder than ever to make sure that they are being heard. […]

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Yvette Cooper's daughter, 20, pleads with Boris Johnson to stop using 'inflammatory' language

The daughter of Labour MP Yvette Cooper has warned Boris Johnson that she is 'scared every single day' for her mother's safety in an emotional Twitter post.

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More than 50% of young people in England going to university or college figures show

Figures for 2017/18 show 50.2 per cent of 17-30-year-olds in England went to a UK university or college that year, following a 0.3 percentage point rise.

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Inside story of Princess Beatrice's whirlwind engagement to Italian count's son Edo Mapelli Mozzi

The 31-year-old eldest daughter of the Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York, got engaged to Edoardo 'Edo' Mapelli Mozzi in Italy earlier this month. The wedding will take place next yea.

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Boris Johnson refuses to tone down divisive rhetoric

The Prime Minister faced a backlash after he repeatedly used the phrase 'Surrender Act' in a Commons debate to describe legislation passed by rebel MPs to block a No Deal Brexit.

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When it comes to abuse, here's the proof Labour and its cohorts are as bad as anyone else

During Wednesday's heated exchanges in the Commons, Labour MP Paula Sherriff described Boris Johnson's language as 'offensive, dangerous and inflammatory'.

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Thomas Cook's collapse could cost more than £500million

Losses from the collapse of Thomas Cook could reach more than £500million, with the effort to repatriate stranded holidaymakers on a fleet of chartered jets already set to cost £100million.

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The teething gels that contain sugar, alcohol and a controversial anaesthetic

A dentist from Public Health Wales asked the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to review the 14 teething products licensed in the UK.

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Jeffrey Epstein entertained Bill and Melinda Gates, Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew atParis apartment

Jeffrey Epstein butler said that Prince Andrew, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Steve Bannon were also guests at the residence - as were a number of very young, very thin and very tall girls.

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Boris Johnson's tax cuts will cost £26billion a year

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) challenged Boris Johnson's flagship policy to lift the thresholds for both higher rate income tax and National Insurance.

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Teenagers are less likely to do their homework if their mothers tell them to in a controlling tone

Scientists from Cardiff University analysed how 1,000 adolescents reacted to the same set of instructions when given out by women with varying tones of voice.

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Derby striker Mason Bennett filmed downing a pint of lager and throwing up in a urinal

Mason Bennett was filmed being sick in a pub toilet by his new Derby captain Tom Huddlestone just hours before crashing his car and being arrested for drink-driving.

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Takeshi 69 to reject witness protection when he gets out of prison 'because he wants to stay famous'

Tekashi, 23, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, was charged in November 2018 with a string of charges including racketeering and firearms offenses.

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Peter McLeod, 42, from Sunderland avoids jail for assaulting a police officer

Peter McLeod, pictured, was on licence when he attacked a police officer and threatened to chop him with an axe before punching him in the face in Gateshead in August.

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Children living in most polluted parts of country have 50 per cent chance of dying early

Researchers looked at 8million births in England and Wales between 2001 and 2012 and found those in the most polluted areas were 30 to 50 per cent more likely to die by one.

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Damning report reveals officers are exploiting crime victims and witnesses for sex

A report revealed today found that at least 415 officers and civilian staff have been accused of abusing their power for sexual gratification in the past three years - one every three days.

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Bank scammers are stealing £1million a DAY in fraud epidemic

Bank scam victims lost £207.5 million in the first six months of this year - more than £1.1 million a day. A staggering 57,549 cases of 'authorised push payment scams' were recorded by banks.

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Leaked email has Tesla CEO Elon Musk saying the company will deliver 100,000 cars and shares jump 6%

A leaked email to employees quotes Tesla CEO Elon Musk saying that the company will likely deliver 100,000 cars this quarter, causing a 6 percent spike in the automaker's shares.

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Tories targeting 50 marginals in upcoming election as Boris Johnson predicts 'functional majority'

The Prime Minister told his Cabinet that the strategy is to target 50 marginal seats and defend another 50, aiming for a 'functional majority' in the House of Commons.

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How British couple's greed led them to swap luxury life for a Lisbon prison

Judges convicted retired chef Roger Clarke, 72, and his ex-secretary wife Sue, 71, of drugs trafficking at Lisbon's main criminal court and on Thursday sentenced them to 8 years in prison.

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Amber Guyger had a taser when she shot neighbor Botham Jean

Amber Guyger, 31, is on trial after she shot dead 26-year-old Botham Jean in September last year when she was off-duty from the Dallas Police Department.

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Michael Winner's widow, 81, was battered and tied up during penthouse robbery by his vengeful ex

Michael Winner's widow, Geraldine, 81, yesterday told a court how she was violently attacked by her husband's former lover who stole her jewellery worth as much as £300,000.

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Cheerleader Brooke Skylar Richardson's parents give first interview since her acquittal

Richardson, her mother Kim and father Scott all took part in a CBS 48 Hours special that will air on Saturday at 10pm. She was not interviewed but her parents spoke about the trial.

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Pakistan Air Force Complex Kamra Successfully rebuilts its aircrafts

Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) Kamra has successfully rebuilt its JF-17 aircraft facility.

A ceremony has been held at the Aircraft Rebuild Factory in Kamra on Thursday to mark the occasion, a statement issued by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) said.

Two out of four JF-17 aircrafts were rebuilt in China whilst  the rest were locally rebuilt.

Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan was the chief guest of the ceremony.

Addressing at the occasion, the air chief said: “We are living in technology-intensive world, where self-reliance and indigenisation are key to effectively addressing modern challenges. The PAF has been relentlessly pursuing these goals and has achieved remarkable capability.”

In a first, China delivers overhauled JF-17 fighter jet to Pakistan

JF-17 overhaul was a substantial accomplishment which could not have been attained without the commitment and hard work deposited by the officers and technicians of Aircraft Rebuild Factory, he added.

The air chief also praised the  support of Chinese aviation industries including in the journey towards self-reliance.

Air Marshal Ahmer Shehzad, chairman PAC; Yang Ying, president of China National Aero-technology Import and Export Corporation (CATIC); Wang Wel, vice President Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC); Zhan Jianping, president China Aviation Industry Corporation (CAIC) along with other senior civil and defence officials were also present at the occasion.

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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Soap star Jason Donovan leaps out of bed to fight fire at neighbour's house

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: The blaze happened last Sunday, shortly after Donovan returned home to Notting Hill, where he lives with his wife Angela and their children.

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Boris Johnson planning to suspend Parliament again

The Prime Minister (pictured on ITV's Peston) told MPs he intends to press ahead with a Queen's speech in the coming weeks in order to bring forward a new agenda of UK policies.

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