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Asteroid grazes past Earth in 'critical' rehearsal

PARIS: A house-sized asteroid grazed past Earth Thursday, passing harmlessly inside the Moon's orbit, as predicted, to give experts a rare opportunity to rehearse for a real strike threat in future. Dubbed 2012 TC4, the object´s passing allowed scientists to practice spotting incoming objects, predicting their size and trajectory, and tracking their passage with a global network of telescopes and radars. "We pretended that this was a critical object and exercised our communication," said Detl
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Karachi honour killing: teams dispatched to KP to arrest prime suspect

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/2c8a3070faa009ccac94d1ccff0af786.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9MTAvMTIvMjAxNyAxMjozNDo1NyBQTSZoYXNoX3ZhbHVlPU8rWWtneVl1cUxud0dlbVZ5eHdNQXc9PSZ2YWxpZG1pbnV0ZXM9NjAmaWQ9MQ== style=center] KARACHI: Police teams were dispatched to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday to arrest the prime suspect in the case of a couple?s electrocution in Karachi. A tribal jirga (council) had ordered the couple's exe
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Imran should appear before ECP, advises Shah

Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah while speaking to media on October 12, 2017. Photo: Geo News screen grab   KARACHI: Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah advised the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairperson Imran Khan to appear before the Election Commission of Pakistan.  While speaking to media on Thursday, the Pakistan Peoples Party leader remarked that Imran should avoid the embarrassment of being taken to the court by police officials. ?It is better for Imran to appear before the court himself a
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Pakistan Army rescues five foreign hostages kidnapped in 2012

File Photo  RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Army on Thursday recovered five foreign hostages who were kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2012, said a statement released by the Inter-Services Public Relations. The rescue was the result of an intelligence-based operation conducted by the forces.  The hostages, including a Canadian, his US National wife and their three children, were rescued from the custody of terrorists.  The foreign nationals were captured in Afghanistan by terrorists, added the Pakistan
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Request 'military family' to trace missing husband, wife pleads to COAS

ISLAMABAD: Rubina Shaheen Chaudhry, wife of Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Habib Zahir in a letter to Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa requested ?military family? to help her out in tracing her missing husband. Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Zahir, the retired army officer reportedly went missing during a visit to Nepal in April. According to his family, Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Zahir went to Nepal looking for a job. Zahir left for Nepal on April 5 and the next day reached the country?
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Military fully capable, joint operations should be mutual: Nisar

TAXILA: Former interior minister and Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz leader Nisar Ali Khan said on Thursday that Pakistan?s military is capable enough and if there is the concept of joint operations then it should be mutual. The former interior minister was addressing a press conference in Taxila, where he made the statement when asked about the purported speech by Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif offering the US an in-sync operation against the Haqqani network. He said that Pakistan has proof that
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State, society lost even after 70 years: Senate chairman

Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani. Photo: Geo News  ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani said on Thursday that today our society and state are still lost despite the passage of 70 years. Talking about the supremacy of Parliament, Rabbani, a senior leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party, said Parliament has to make the budget and decide the number of Supreme Court judges. Speaking at a seminar at the National Press Club, Rabbani said we need to make [people] understand that Parliament is the jugula
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Sale of cars on the rise in Pakistan

File photo  ISLAMABAD: The sale of cars in the country rose to 50,640 units during the first quarter of fiscal year 2017-18 compared to the sale of 41,405 units during the same period of last year showing an increase of 22.3 per cent. On year on year basis, the sale of passenger cars witnessed an increase of 11 per cent as it rose to 15,639 units in September 2017 from 14,088 units in September 2016, latest data issued by Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association (PAMA) revealed. The brea
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Link found between Islam and Vikings

An astonishing discovery was made by Uppsala University researchers in Sweden recently, according to which they found Arabic characters woven into funeral clothes of the Viking graves. The words were ?Allah? and ?Ali?. The recent findings have opened a gateway of questions regarding the civilisation and the influence of Islam on the Vikings, whose age spanned from late 8th century to the mid-11th century. The clothes, belonging to the 9th and 10th century, were left ignored as they were consi
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China says it has right to bar people from Hong Kong after British activist turned away

HONG KONG/BEIJING : China said on Thursday it had the right to bar people from Hong Kong, a day after a British activist was denied entry into the former British colony, and that it had complained to Britain after it demanded an explanation. Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997 under a ?one country, two systems? principle that promises it a high degree of autonomy and freedoms not enjoyed on the mainland. But critics have accused the government of bending to the will of Communist Party l
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Naval chief visits Quaid's Mausoleum on maiden trip to Karachi

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/c81d7464efc045e28d17877dcbda6d05.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9MTAvMTIvMjAxNyA5OjQ3OjI1IEFNJmhhc2hfdmFsdWU9cHh6YzVBOHkvcHN2QzVTKy9Wb0tDQT09JnZhbGlkbWludXRlcz02MCZpZD0x style=center] KARACHI: Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi visited Karachi on Thursday, his first trip after assuming charge of
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Philippines drugs war to target 'big fish', police units disbanded

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte?s ferocious war on drugs will shift to a higher gear to target ?big fish?, officials said on Thursday, moving away from street level operations to go after big networks and suppliers. Duterte issued a directive on Tuesday ordering the police to halt activities in the anti-drug campaign and leave all operations to the drug enforcement agency, amid unprecedented scrutiny of police conduct. The national police chief disbanded all 18 regiona
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Hockey Asia Cup: Pakistan to face Japan tomorrow

After a comprehensive 7-0 win over the hosts Bangladesh in their opening fixture of the 10th Hockey Asia Cup, Pakistan next faces Japan on Friday at Dhaka's Maulana Bhashani Stadium. Japan were beaten 1-5 by India in their first match. Japan is yet to reach the podium at the Asia Cup though they have finished fourth no less than four times. This will be the fifth meeting between the two countries in Asia Cup. Pakistan outclass Bangladesh with incredible 7-0 win Abu Mahmood stars wit
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Ukraine detains two top defence officials in graft case

Poroshenko says Ukraine has reached a 'point of no return for judicial reform'. Photo: AFP Ukraine's anti-corruption bureau said Wednesday it had detained a deputy defence minister and another top military official for allegedly embezzling millions in state funding through an illegal oil-purchase scheme. The announcement was the highest-profile indictment against any official since the Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) launched a graft case against the now-deposed tax service chief Roma
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PFA to ban banaspati ghee production, sale by 2020

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/1a3545d02f59fdb7264cc5aeaca006fc.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9MTAvMTIvMjAxNyA4OjU4OjIwIEFNJmhhc2hfdmFsdWU9bU9iVUdxcDltbXhGWFpqZlVVbG92QT09JnZhbGlkbWludXRlcz02MCZpZD0x style=center] LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) will place a complete ban on the production and sale of banaspati ghee by 2020. The decisio
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Myanmar army chief says Rohingya Muslims not native, refugee numbers exaggerated

Myanmar's General Min Aung Hlaing takes part during a parade to mark the 72nd Armed Forces Day in the capital Naypyitaw, Myanmar  YANGON: Rohingya Muslims are not native to Myanmar, the army chief told the US ambassador in a meeting in which he apparently did not address accusations of abuses by his men and said media was complicit in exaggerating the number of refugees fleeing. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing gave his most extensive account of the Rohingya refugee crisis aimed at an internati
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Kurds offer talks with Baghdad over airport, banks ban

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) offered to hold talks with Iraqi authorities on the status of Kurdish airports, border posts and banks, on which they placed restrictions following an independence referendum. Baghdad took the measures in an attempt to isolate the KRG after last month?s referendum. The government in Baghdad, which declared the vote illegal, imposed a ban on direct international flights to the northern region. It also demanded that the KRG hand over c
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Capt (retd) Safdar challenges indictment in IHC

Captain (retd) Safdar/File photo ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif?s son-in-law Captain (retd) Safdar on Thursday approached the Islamabad High Court challenging his impending indictment in a corruption reference. Capt (retd) Safdar, through his counsel, filed a petition in IHC requesting it to stop the accountability court from indicting him on October 13 (tomorrow). In his petition, he stated that according to law a period of seven days is allowed before indictment. Nawaz, his d
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CM Punjab inaugurates speedo bus service in Multan

MULTAN: Chief Minister Punjab Shehbaz Sharif inaugurated the speedo bus service on Thursday here as an initiative to propagate rapid mass transportation system in the province. The CM Punjab was addressing the inauguration ceremony in Multan. The CM Punjab said that no government worked for Southern Punjab as the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government did. He said that a clean water project costing Rs24 billion is in the pipeline for southern Punjab. While criticizing arch rival party, th
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Floods, landslides kill 37 in Vietnam, scores missing

Collapsed bridge in Vietnam/REUTERS  HANOI: At least 37 people have died and another 40 are missing as floods and landslides ravage north and central Vietnam, destroying homes and leaving rescuers scrambling to find survivors, disaster officials said Thursday. Tens of thousands were evacuated after heavy rains lashed swathes of the country this week, as forecasters warned of more bad weather to come. Northern Hoa Binh is the hardest hit with 11 dead and 21 missing, prompting a state of emergen
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Contempt of court: ECP issues non-bailable arrest warrants for Imran

PTI Chairman Imran Khan. Photo: Geo News ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued on Thursday non-bailable arrest warrants of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan in relation to a contempt of court case against him. The five-member ECP, bench headed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (retd) Sardar Raza Khan, heard the case.  The ECP ordered the police to arrest Imran and present him before the commission on October 26. However, the PTI has said it w
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ECP issues non-bailable arrest warrants for Imran Khan

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/9e5b19a04f5a23c8ae54fc124dca874f.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9MTAvMTIvMjAxNyA4OjE0OjEzIEFNJmhhc2hfdmFsdWU9TU5PckVxbXBFSVNEQk0yY2piQm5YQT09JnZhbGlkbWludXRlcz02MCZpZD0x style=center] ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued on Thursday non-bailable arrest warrants of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI
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SC resumes hearing Jahangir Tareen disqualification case

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court resume hearing on Thursday the petition filed by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Hanif Abbasi seeking the disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen today.  Sikandar Bashir Mohmand, Tareen's counsel, is presenting his arguments to the three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar. The chief justice observed that though the land was on lease, the earnings received from it would qualify as Tareen's as
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Australia tightens English requirements for foreign students

SYDNEY: Australia is tightening English language requirements for foreign students in what it said Thursday is a bid to improve standards across the country´s Aus$28 billion ($22 billion) international education market. There are more than 550,000 international students in Australia, according to government data, which lists the lucrative sector as the country´s third-largest export earner. Currently, prospective overseas students can take an intensive English course to prepare for further st
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Hot, dry weather continues to scorch Karachi

KARACHI: Hot and dry weather is to prevail in the city on Thursday as part of the continuing heat wave. Maximum temperature in the coastal city is likely to remain between 40 and 42 degrees Celsius, as the sea breeze is not blowing during the day leading to the rise in the mercury, the Met Office said. On Wednesday, the department predicted that the temperature will likely drop after Saturday and the weather will turn slightly pleasant afterwards. Karachi scorches for fourth consecut
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