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Pak-US engagements productive for mutual reasons: FO

Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakaria - AFP file photo  ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakaria on Thursday termed the recent engagements between his country and the United States as a productive step for bilateral relations between the two countries.  During the weekly media briefing, the spokesperson said the recent developments from both sides have produced positive results especially owing to the visit of US delegation to Pakistan and the meeting bet
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Pakistan draw match with South Korea in Asia Cup 2017

Picture Asia Hockey Federation  DHAKA: Pakistan drew its match with South Korea in the Super-4 stage of Asia Cup 2017. Pakistan started off well against South Korea with Ijaz Ahmed scoring a goal in the closing moments of the first quarter. The green-shirts maintained the lead in the next two quarters despite several attacks by the Korean?s. South Korea broke through in the fourth quarter of play with an equaliser and the match ended in a draw. In their final match of the tournament, Pakist
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US expects Pakistan to take decisive action against terrorists: Tillerson

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Hamas calls US comments on unity deal 'blatant interference'

Gazans wave the flags of Egypt and Palestine as they celebrate a unity agreement reached in Cairo between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah on October 12, 2017 - AFP   GAZA CITY: Hamas accused the United States of "blatant interference" in Palestinian affairs Thursday after US President Donald Trump's envoy demanded they disarm and recognise Israel in any unity government. "This is blatant interference in Palestinian affairs because it is the right of our people to choose its governme
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Solar panels offer a lifeline in Rohingya refugee camps

Solar panels were among the few precious possessions Rohingya refugees grabbed as they fled their villages in Myanmar - AFP   BALUKHALI, Bangladesh: The squalid camps in Bangladesh that are now home to nearly 600,000 newly arrived Rohingya have no running water and barely any toilets, but they do have power -- thanks to a proliferation of solar panels. That means refugees can charge their phones and power electric lights and fans, a lifeline in tents that become baking hot in the strong sun.
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Nawaz says Constitution protects his basic rights

Nawaz Sharif appears in the accountability court on Sept 26. Photo: File  ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has argued that the six-month deadline and appointment of a monitoring judge in the corruption cases against him and his family has no example in legal history.  Speaking through his representative Zafir Khan after being indicted in the Avenfiled properties case in the accountability court on Thursday, Nawaz said a transparent trial is his right.  "The Constitution protects
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Gimmick or game-changer: Is Virtual Reality the future of film?

Virtual Reality will change the face of cinema in the next decade -- but only if content keeps up with the advances in technology, industry experts at the Busan International Film Festival predict - AFP   BUSAN, South Korea: Virtual Reality will change the face of cinema in the next decade -- but only if content keeps up with the advances in technology, industry experts at the Busan International Film Festival predict. VR is already being heavily promoted by the tech giants, with Facebook and
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The references against the Sharif family

The Supreme Court, in its final judgment in the Panama Papers case on July 28, directed the National Accountability Bureau to file three references against the Sharif family.  Avenfield properties reference  A reference against Nawaz Sharif, daughter Maryam, sons Hussain, Hasan and son-in-law MNA Capt (retd) Safdar, relating to the Avenfield properties (flats 16, 16-A, 17 and 17-A Avenfield House, Park Lane, London, United Kingdom), was directed to be filed by NAB.  "In preparing and filing t
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15,000 under fives die from preventable illnesses each day: UN

NEW DELHI: Despite a dramatic fall in the infant mortality rate, 15,000 children aged under five still die each day around the world from preventable diseases, a UN report said Thursday. The report warned that because some African and South Asian countries are lagging behind in giving better treatment, more than 60 million young children will die between now and 2030 from illnesses that can be cured. In 2016, an estimated 5.6 million children died before reaching their fifth birthday, said the
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Indictment shining example of rule of Constitution, law: Sheikh Rashid

AML leader Sheikh Rashid ISLAMABAD: Awami Muslim League (AML) leader Sheikh Rashid hailed the accountability court?s indictment of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam and son-in-law MNA Capt (retd) Safdar on Thursday. Speaking to Geo News following the indictment of the three in the Avenfield properties case, Rashid said such verdicts are witnessed when the Constitution and law are alive. He said he never doubted the National Accountability Bureau?s (NAB) proceedings in th
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Harry Potter exhibition blends wizardry with history

LONDON: A new exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book?s publication is offering ?muggles? with an interest in magic the chance to view rare memorabilia, combined with historic artifacts referenced in the popular series. ?Harry Potter: A History of Magic,? held in the British Library in London, features Potter memorabilia including author J.K. Rowling?s first annotated sketch of Hogwarts school, as well as her handwritten list of its teachers and subjects. As
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Militants kill 43 soldiers in bomb attack on military base in Kandahar

File photo/ Reuters KANDAHAR: Militants carried out suicide bombing attack on an Afghan National Army base in Maiwand district in Kandahar late on Wednesday night, killing at least 43 military personnel, said Afghan media reports. Of 60 soldiers manning the base in the southern province of Kandahar, 43 were killed, nine were wounded and six were missing after Taliban militants stormed the base in the middle of the night, the ministry said in a statement. The militants sought entry into the b
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?What a brave nation? - Bus attack hero hails Sri Lanka cricketers? return

This photograph taken on October 8, 2017 shows bus driver Meher Muhammad Khalil, who drove the Sri Lankan cricket team to safety when it came under a gun and grenade attack by militants in March 2009, preparing to start his shift at a bus terminal in Lahore/AFP LAHORE: Driver Meher Muhammad Khalil became a hero when militants attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team bus on a busy street in Lahore in 2009, holding his nerve under gunfire to whisk them to safety. Eight years later he is ready to welc
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Thirty years ago this week, Wall Street slid into the abyss

NEW YORK: Thirty years ago, before heading to work at the New York Stock Exchange, Peter Kenny left his home in lower Manhattan and made a detour to the nearby Our Lady of Victory church to pray to St. Jude, the Roman Catholic patron saint of desperate and lost causes. The reason was the stock market crash known as ?Black Monday? on October 19, 1987. ?Blessed mother get me through this,? he prayed. Kenny, now senior market strategist at Global Markets Advisory Group in New York, was a newly
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Aizaz briefs US senator on Pakistan?s success in war against terrorism

Ambassador Aizaz Chaudhry met Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and briefed her on bilateral relations and Pakistan's successes in war against terrorism, on October 18,  2017 WASHINGTON, DC: Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry met with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) at the Capitol Hill, where he apprised the senator, who is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, on Pakistan?s successes in the war against terrorism, besides briefing her on Pakistan?s perspec
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Plastic pipes catch fire in Multan

MULTAN: The Water and Sanitation Agency?s (WASA) plastic pipes caught fire in Multan?s Chungi No. 9 area on Thursday. Shortly after the blaze intensified, rescue teams reached the site of incident. According to rescue sources, the plastic pipes caught fire when a garbage dump was burned. Due to the intensity of the blaze, flow of traffic was halted to save the public from any untoward incident, the traffic police said. 
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Canada's Quebec province to ban face coverings in public sector

Women gather to protest against Quebec's proposed Charter of Values in Montreal, September 14, 2013/REUTERS QUEBEC CITY: Quebec will ban face coverings for people giving or receiving provincial government services under a law passed on Wednesday that rights groups have criticized as marginalizing Muslim women in the mainly French-speaking Canadian province. While the law, which takes effect by July 1, 2018, does not specify which face coverings are prohibited, the debate has largely focused on
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For the first time 'Sicilian Mafia' appearing in courts: Maryam

Maryam Nawaz appears before the accountability court on Oct 19, 2017. Photo: Geo News  ISLAMABAD: Maryam Nawaz said on Thursday that it is for the first time the ?Sicilian Mafia? is appearing before the courts.  The former prime minister's daughter was likely referring to a reference to the notorious mafia by the Supreme Court in June this year while hearing a contempt case against the then ruling party member Senator Nehal Hashmi.   Hashmi, in a leaked video, had threatened those "investigati
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Army vows to secure 'every inch' of Pak-Afghan border by 2018

geo_embedgallery ANGOOR ADDA: Pakistan's military took the rare step of flying international media to the border with Afghanistan Wednesday to showcase its efforts to harden the porous, militancy-wracked frontier: a chain-link fence shrouded in barbed wire. The roughly 10-foot tall fence ? which Pakistan announced it had begun building in March ? stretches through parts of the rugged tribal districts of North and South Waziristan along the Afghan b
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Court likely to indict Nawaz, daughter and son-in-law today

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam and son-in-law MNA Capt (retd) Safdar are expected to be indicted today in the corruption references filed against them in an accountability court.  The references were filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in light of the Supreme Court's July 28 verdict in the Panama Papers case.  Though Maryam and Safdar are reportedly in the country, the former premier is in London with his sons ? who, too, are accused. However,
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Five killed in Ukraine when car ploughs into crowd

KIEV: Five people were killed Wednesday when a car ploughed into a crowd of pedestrians in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, local police said, ruling out a terror link. The Kharkiv police department said six others were hurt, although the extent of their injuries remained unclear. But local police spokesman Yaroslav Trakalo told the Ukrainska Pravda news site that two women's condition was "very serious". The police statement said the female driver of the SUV vehicle had been deta
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Guess what? Herbal remedies in Asia linked to liver cancer, says study

Aristolochia clematitis, a plant that contains aristolochic acids. Image Courtesy: National Cancer Institute MIAMI: Researchers have uncovered widespread evidence of a link between traditional Chinese herbal remedies and liver cancer across Asia, a study said Wednesday. The findings suggest stronger measures are needed to prevent people from consuming chemicals called aristolochic acids (AA), which are derived from the woody vines of the Aristolochia plant family, said the report in the journ
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California fire toll rises to 42

This photo ? released on October 18, 2017, by Airbus DS and taken by Constellation DMC satellite ? shows wildfires in California, with the black zones highlighting areas devastated by the fire, October 15, 2017. AFP/Handout via Airbus DS/DMC Constellation/UK-DMC 2 SAN FRANCISCO: The death toll from California's wildfires rose to 42 on Wednesday, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said, as rescuers found another body. The latest victim was found in Sonoma Count
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Chelsea and Roma share spoils in six-goal thriller

Chelsea and AS Roma served up a rip-roaring 3-3 draw at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday as both clubs stayed firmly on course for a place in the last 16 of the Champions League. Edin Dzeko scored twice on his 100th appearance for Roma in an enthralling contest as the Italians stormed back from 2-0 down to lead 3-2 with 20 minutes remaining, only for Eden Hazard to salvage a point for Group C leaders Chelsea with a header. The goal flow began in the 11th minute when David Luiz?s curler put Chelsea
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Second US judge orders freeze on Trump travel ban

Demonstrators at a #NoMuslimBanEver rally and march "to protest discriminatory policies that unlawfully target and hurt American Muslim and immigrant communities across the country", Washington, October 18, 2017. AFP/Jim Watson  WASHINGTON: A second judge ordered a freeze on President Donald Trump's newest travel ban order on Wednesday, saying it was essentially targeted at Muslims in violation of the US Constitution. Maryland federal judge Theodore Chuang said the ban affecting travellers fr
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