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Obama surprises students with a visit to DC school

WASHINGTON: Students of a school in Washington were in for a surprise when former US president Barack Obama popped into their classroom to give them encouragement at the start of the new year. After meeting the students, Obama posted a video on his Instagram account with the heading ?These young people that I met at McKinley Tech today are the reason I'm hopeful about the future. To all the young people headed back to school around the country: Make us proud. You're the next generation of lead

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Video of Azan in Spain?s Alhambra goes viral

A video of a Syrian, Mouaz Al-Nass, went viral after he gave the Azan in Spain's Alhambra Palace.  Nass said he felt the walls of the palace, built by Muslims, missed ?hearing the call to Allah?. Courtesy Mouaz Al-Nass Facebook Mouaz Al-Nass was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.  According to the information available on his Facebook page, he studied Inshad and Maqamat under experts while studying Tajweed and Fiqh under his father, Dr. Samir Al-Nass, a scholar from Syria.  Mouazz p

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LHC bench to hear police officials declared guilty in Benazir?s murder case

RAWALPINDI: A divisional bench of the Lahore High Court will hear the appeal of two former police officials who were awarded prison sentence of 17 years each in murder case of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. During the hearing before Rawalpindi bench of Lahore High Court it was decided the police officials? appeals will be heard on September 11. The divisional bench will comprise Justice Muhammad Tariq Abbasi and Justice Habibullah Amir. The appeals were filed by former city police

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Turkey cautions citizens about travel to ´anti-Turkey´ Germany

ANKARA: Turkey cautioned its citizens on Saturday to take care when traveling to Germany, citing what it said was an upswing in anti-Turkish sentiment ahead of a German national election later this month. The advisory is likely to further exacerbate tensions between the two NATO allies, whose ties have soured following last year's failed coup against Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his subsequent crackdown on alleged coup supporters. "The political leadership campaigns in Germany are base

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Egypt archaeologists unearth goldsmith's tomb near Luxor

An Egyptian antiquities worker is seen in the recently discovered tomb of Amenemhat, a goldsmith from the New Kingdom, at the Draa Abu-el Naga necropolis near the Nile city of Luxor, south of Cairo, Egypt, September 9, 2017. Photo: REUTERS  LUXOR: Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a tomb of a prominent goldsmith who lived more than 3,000 years ago, unearthing statues, mummies and jewellery in the latest major find near the Nile city of Luxor. Egypt?s Minister of Antiquities Khaled Al-Ana

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Upcoming movie My Pure tells story of ?the toughest woman in Sindh?

A scene from the movie My Pure Land directed by British-Pakistani director Sarmad Masud. Photo: Internet   My Pure Land is a modern-day feminist Western, set to hit UK cinemas on 15 September, will take you on an incredible journey through its protagonists. Based on a true story, British-Pakistani director Sarmad Masud?s debut movie portrays the moment Pakistani woman Nazo Dharejo and her two daughters defended their land from the 200 heavily armed men that sought to claim it as a part of a fa

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Sri Lanka to play T20 in Lahore, announces PCB

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Saturday announced the schedule of the upcoming series between Pakistan and Sri Lanka and confirmed that a T20 match will be played in Lahore. The match in Lahore is scheduled for October 29.  "The five-match ODI series between the two teams will be played in three cities i.e. Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah starting from October 13, 2017. Furthermore, the first two T-20I matches will be played in Abu Dhabi followed by the third T-20I to take place in L

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WhatsApp users can now text, video call at the same time

WhatsApp finally rolled out its picture-in-picture feature for video calls. The new update allows users to return to the home screen or any other app during a video call. However, the feature will be available for devices on Andriod 8.0 Oreo. The PiP feature allows users to text and video call at the same time. Photo: Android police  The instant messaging app has been testing the picture-in-picture for video calls since July.  The testing was being done in its beta programme version, thoug

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12 drown at Karachi's Hawkesbay beach

Twelve people drowned at Hawkesbay Beach in Karachi late Saturday afternoon. Photo: Geo News KARACHI: Twelve people drowned at Hawkesbay Beach in Karachi late Saturday afternoon. Nine bodies were recovered while a search operation for the remaining bodies is underway, rescue sources said.   Three Saudi nationals, including vice-consul general's son, drown at Hawkesbay beach Bodies of all three Saudi nationals were retrieved, says police On August 26, the son of Saudi vice-council

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Nawaz's review petition is in public's court: Maryam

LAHORE: Maryam Nawaz on Saturday said Nawaz's case was the first of its kind where the verdict was announced before court proceedings.  "Corruption, Panama, and Iqama are all excuses to target Nawaz Sharif," she said while addressing a Traders Convention in Lahore. She said she had brought her father's review petition to the traders' community's court.  "Was it not Nawaz who brought the country out of the power crisis," she said, adding each time her father was handed over a 'broken Pakistan,

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IGP Sindh cancels transfers, postings post July 7

Inspector General of Police Sindh AD Khawaja. Photo: File KARACHI: Sindh's Inspector General of Police (IGP) AD Khawaja on Saturday cancelled all transfers and postings ordered by the Sindh Government from July 7 onward. A notification issued by the IGP's office directed all officers transferred and posted to new assignments after July 7 to resume their previous duties. In a verdict passed on Thursday, the Sindh High Court (SHC) dismissed the provincial government's order to remove Khawa

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Data swamped US spy agencies put hopes on artificial intelligence

WASHINGTON: Swamped by too much raw intel data to sift through, US spy agencies are pinning their hopes on artificial intelligence to crunch billions of digital bits and understand events around the world. Dawn Meyerriecks, the Central Intelligence Agency's deputy director for technology development, said this week the CIA currently has 137 different AI projects, many of them with developers in Silicon Valley. These range from trying to predict significant future events, by finding correlation

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Mysterious flashes light up sky in Mexico after earthquake

Mysterious flashes of light lit up the sky in Mexico after the country was struck by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake on Friday. Photo: courtesy Independent  Mysterious flashes of light lit up the sky in Mexico after the country was struck by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake on Friday, according to Forbes.   The earthquake has been the strongest to hit the country in 100 years, which led to more than 30 deaths and tsunami warning.  People shared on social media the video of the strange blue and green f

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Abbasi becomes first PM to fly in F-16 sortie

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/4fada73630b2b6a44c0cafa929053bb2.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9OS85LzIwMTcgMToxMzo1MiBQTSZoYXNoX3ZhbHVlPXgva1BrK2ZHOSs5QTEvSmdwenA2b3c9PSZ2YWxpZG1pbnV0ZXM9NjAmaWQ9MQ== style=center] ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday visited the newly established Airpower Center of Excellence (ACE) at an operational air base of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF)

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FO summons Myanmar's envoy, records protest over oppression of Rohingyas

Photo: File ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Saturday summoned Myanmar?s ambassador to Pakistan U. Win Myint and registered its strong protest over the ongoing violence against the Rohingya Muslims. Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua conveyed a strong protest of the government and people of Pakistan at the ongoing violence against the Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine State in Myanmar. The foreign secretary called for effective measures to prevent the recurrence of such violence, providing securit

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How terrorists are using social media

Social media is one of the main platforms for terrorists to recruit youth. We spoke to IT experts to understand what measures can be taken to stop the spread of terrorism via social media.  [embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/fe8adb2c35170c2aa78dc65dfcd96c03.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9OS85LzIwMTcgMTE6MzU6MjIgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT05cHJaVlpFcXVYZUhEVzJRKy9oTnpnPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center]

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Al-Qaeda member formed Ansarul Shariah: DG Rangers Sindh

KARACHI: Sindh Rangers Director General Major General Mohammad Saeed said on Saturday that an Al-Qaeda member formed Ansarul Shariah.  Speaking to a news channel, Major General Saeed said that the students affiliated with Asarul Shariah did not come from any one specific university. He said well-educated students from different academic institutes were members of the group, adding, as many as three members of the group have Masters degree in Applied Physics. Maj Gen Saeed reiterated that no

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Senior actor Iftikhar Qaisar seriously ill, admitted to hospital

PESHAWAR: Renowned actor Iftikhar Qaisar, has been admitted to Lady Reading Hospital after his health deteriorated on Saturday.  Iftikhar's son, Hasnain said his father, who has been unwell for some time now, was kept under the open sky for nine hours and was not admitted to the hospital's ward.  However, the hospital administration said the delay was due to Iftikhar's test results. The administration added that he has now been admitted to the hospital and the actor is now under treatment.  M

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Terrorists in educational institutions; when you can't tell who is, who isn't

Those involved in terrorism have often been termed as people who were misguided because of lack of knowledge that made them believe in the propaganda used to brainwash them, but when the educated youth of a society turn towards terrorism it shakes the foundations of society and the families affected. Abdul Karim Sarosh Siddiqui, a student of the University of Karachi was just one such youth. His actions have destroyed the dreams and aspirations of his family and have left his fellow students in

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Fight against corruption, a national duty: NAB Chairman

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has received nearly 350,000 complaints during the present management's tenure, with over Rs 50 billion of ill-gotten money recovered and deposited in the national exchequer.  It was revealed during a meeting in the capital that over last three-and-a-half years NAB's overall conviction rate has stood at 76 percent.  NAB Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry was briefed by the Prosecutor General Accountability (PGA) NAB Waqas Qadeer Dar, during a high

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Independence Cup tickets still up for grabs online, at BoP branches

A lucky fan poses with the ticket  LAHORE: All hope is not lost, yet. Fans desperate to join in on the action at Gaddafi Stadium for Pakistan vs World XI T20 matches can still purchase their tickets online and at 20 Bank of Punjab branches across the city. The Pakistan Cricket Board on Saturday informed fans through Twitter that ticket denominations of Rs2,500, Rs4,000 and Rs6,000 have been made available online again, after e-ticket reservations were closed earlier this week following a sell-o

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Maryam is inexperienced, trying to save family?s ?kingdom?: Yasmeen Rashid

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Yasmeen Rashid on Saturday attacked Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Maryam Nawaz?s inexperience and said she uses bullet-proof vehicles to campaign for NA-120 by-poll. NA-120 by-poll: PTI threatens sit-in if concerns not addressed Yasmin Rashid demanded ECP take notice of the violation of code of conduct by the ruling party ?Maryam says people should vote for her mother [in NA-120 by-poll] so that her father could be saved,? Rashee

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Six detained from Karachi?s Gulistan-e-Johar

KARACHI: Law Enforcement Agency's personnel took into custody on Saturday six people from Karachi?s Gulistan-e-Jauhar. The LEAs are investigating the attack on Muttahida Quami Movement-Pakistan?s Khawaja Izhar, under which important suspects have been arrested in raids so far. The suspects were detained during an overnight raid. According to sources, there has been no further information regarding the suspects? political affiliation or identities. All the suspects have been shifted to an unk

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Lahore court issues notice to Imran in defamation suit

LAHORE: A civil court on Saturday again issued a notice to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan over failure to submit a reply in the Rs10 billion defamation suit filed by Chief Minister Punjab Shehbaz Sharif. The court has sought Imran?s reply by September 25. Punjab CM sends Rs10 billion defamation notice to Imran Khan The petition has been filed under sections 4 and 9 of the Defamation Ordinance, 2002 Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif had filed a suit thro

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Sessions court summons reply from Ayesha Gulalai in PTI defamation case

LAHORE: A Sessions Court on Saturday summoned a reply from Ayesha Gulalai on October 16 in light of a legal notice served to her by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) central media coordinator Javed Badar earlier this month. Badar had served the legal notice on August 2 through his lawyer Ahsan Javed to the former PTI member and MNA Ayesha Gulalai for defaming the party leadership. The notice demanded that she reply to the legal notice within ten days in the form of an unconditional apology

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