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PTI ends alliance with QWP in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Sunday ended its alliance with Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government alleging it of not supporting PTI's stance on Panamagate issue. After breaking of the alliance, two QWP ministers, Sikandar Sherpao and Aneesa Zaib, have stepped down. Two special assistants, Karim Khan and Arshad Khan, have also tendered their resignations. QWP chief Aftab Sherpao said driving his party out of the provincial government was a violation of a w

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Could have removed Articles 62, 63 but didn?t: Saad Rafique

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim league Nawaz leader Saad Rafique said on Sunday that the ruling party had the choice to remove the Articles 62 and 63 (Sadiq and Ameen) of the Constitution but it did not, adding that if it had the opposition would have cried the move was aimed at hiding corruption. The PML-N leaders were addressing a press conference, where he said that the party has faced a lot of allegations, including being called a mafia. He said that the Articles 62 and 63 turned out to be 582

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PML-N?s PM candidate Khaqan Abbasi meets Fazl

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader and interim Prime Minister candidate Shahid Khaqan Abbasi met on Sunday with Jamiat Ulema Islam Maulana Fazl-ur Rehman, where the two leaders expressed resolve to work together in future. Following the meeting, the two coalition leaders spoke to media representatives. PML-N?s Abbasi said that the ruling party has accepted the Supreme Court?s decision completely and carried out the implementation. ?We believe that the public haven?t accepted the

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We want civilian supremacy in Pakistan: Khawaja Saad Rafique

Senior Pakistan Muslim League ? Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Saad Rafique. Photo: File Senior Pakistan Muslim League ? Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Saad Rafique in reaction to the Supreme Court`s decision to disqualify Nawaz Sharif tweeted on Sunday that the time has come to decide who will rule the country. The former railways minister took to the popular micro-blogging website to express his sentiments on the country?s political situation. Lashing out at the 'establi

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Pakistan is my country, its current scenario worries me: AJK PM

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/e35bd5c7c11d7602f99a58bc6e692192.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ny8zMC8yMDE3IDExOjA1OjQ2IEFNJmhhc2hfdmFsdWU9My9MbXVVUGJJMmNqNkE4d1FscExPQT09JnZhbGlkbWludXRlcz02MCZpZD0x style=center] ISLAMABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider has clarified his statement on Kashmiris being uncertain about siding with Pakistan after Nawaz Sharif?s disq

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Spanish Liga to file PSG complaint over Neymar

Brazilian superstar Neymar. Photo: skysports  MADRID: Spain´s football league chief Javier Tebas said he will file a complaint with UEFA for financial fair play breaches against Paris Saint-Germain over their pursuit of Brazilian superstar Neymar. PSG are rumoured to be weighing up a bid for the Barcelona forward at more than 200 million euros, enough to trigger the 25-year-old´s transfer release clause. "La Liga will file this complaint because it´s a problem for La Liga´s competitiveness. T

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Four names make rounds to replace Shehbaz as Punjab CM

LAHORE: As Shehbaz Sharif is likely to the leave his position as the chief minister of Punjab to become the new prime minister, names of four contenders have made rounds to take over the seat he would be vacating soon. According to sources, either of the four will be the new chief minister of Punjab ? Shehbaz?s son Hamza, Rana Sanaullah, Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman or Malik Nadeem Kamran. NA-120 election schedule expected to be announced next week By-election on NA-120 likely to be held

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Police encounter: families end sit-in after assurances

Families staged sit-in at Shahra-e-Pakistan. Source: Geo News  KARACHI: Family members of two suspects killed in an alleged police encounter have ended their sit-in at Shahra-e-Pakistan after negotiations with the local police administration. The protestors claimed that the men killed last night were tailors and were not involved in any criminal activities, whereas, police maintains that the deceased were involved in a number of heists and cases were registered against them. Police further ad

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Clashes near Yemen´s Mokha kill more than 40 troops, rebels

Yemeni fighter loyal to the Saudi-backed government holds a rocket launcher on his shoulder at a position taken from Huthi rebels northwest of the central city of Taiz, on April 20, 2017 PHOTO: AFP  ADEN: More than 40 troops and rebels have been killed in several days of clashes between Yemen´s Saudi-backed army and insurgents allied with Iran near the Red Sea port of Mokha, officials said Sunday. Fighting has intensified around the Khaled Ibn al-Walid military base east of Mokha since governm

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Bilawal calls for 'across the board accountability'

The PPP chairperson addressing the event in Larkana July 30, 2017. Photo: Geo News LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Sunday that the Supreme Court order [disqualifying Nawaz Sharif as prime minister] requires adherence by all. ?Accountability must be impartial and exhaustive. The PPP seeks to enact legislation for across the board accountability,? said the PPP chief, adding that he must categorically state that Nawaz Sharif?s removal poses no threa

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Alves urges ´friend´ Neymar to show courage

Paris Saint-Germain?s Brazilian defender Dani Alves celebrates after scoring a goal during the French Trophy of Champions (Trophee des Champions) football match between Monaco (ASM) and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) on July 29, 2017, at the Grand Stade in Tangiers. Photo: AFP  TANGIERS: Veteran Brazil international full-back Dani Alves said he is hopeful superstar Neymar will join him at Paris Saint Germain but insisted he isn´t using his personal friendship to sway the Barcelona forward´s decision

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Arab FMs to meet in Bahrain to discuss Qatar boycott

The foreign ministers of Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates meet in Cairo on July 5, 2017 to discuss the diplomatic crisis with Qatar. PHOTO: AFP1 DUBAI: Top officials of four Arab states boycotting Qatar are scheduled to meet in the Bahraini capital Sunday, as a political crisis that has split the Gulf enters its second month. The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt will meet in Manama in a bid to persuade Qatar to "end its su

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Oil tanker overturns on Mehran Highway

The overturned oil tanker pictured in Nawabshah on Sunday. Photo: Geo News NAWABSHAH: A private company?s oil tanker overturned on Mehran Highway in Nawabshah, Sindh Sunday afternoon. The tanker ? that departed from Karachi ? swerved and overturned after the driver tried to stop the vehicle to avoid collision with a donkey cart and motorcycle, according to officials. [embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/d6a7a13f9a7654e1b8bb4be0ef3298ce.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9

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Sheikh Rasheed acquires nomination papers for PM

AML chief Sheikh Rasheed (left) and PTI's Babar Awan at Parliament House July 30, 2017. Photo: Geo News  ISLAMABAD: Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rasheed acquired nomination papers for the election of the new prime minister on Sunday.  Rasheed, an ally of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), reached Parliament House on Sunday to get the nomination papers and was accompanied by PTI leaders Babar Awan and Murtaza Satti.  The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's Sheikh Aftab, Abdul Qadir Baloch and Shah

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At historic Aleppo hotel, nostalgia for a Syria lost

Interior view of the Baron Hotel July 14, 2017 ALEPPO: On the terrace of the Baron Hotel in Aleppo, the owner's widow, Roubina Tashjian, sorted through old photographs of its happier past in a more peaceful Syria. Founded by an Armenian family in 1911, the Baron played host to adventurers, writers, kings, aviators, Bedouin chiefs and presidents until war forced it to close five years ago. Tashjian sees the Baron as part of a Syria that values religious and ethnic diversity, openness to the out

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Opposition to decide on PM candidate on Monday

Opposition Leader Khurshid Shah. Photo: File  ISLAMABAD: Opposition Leader Khurshid Shah on Sunday called a session of opposition parties to nominate their prime ministerial candidate. The session will be held in Shah?s chamber at 10am on Monday. Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif will become his brother's successor in Parliament and the party's candidate for prime minister. "If you support anyone after me, I ask you to support Shehbaz Sharif," said Nawaz during the PML-N parliamentary par

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178 smuggled Central American migrants rescued from truck in Mexico

Mexican police patrol in Veracruz State, where scores of Central Americans being smuggled to the United States have been rescued from an abandoned truck. Photo: AFP  Scores of Central Americans being smuggled to the United States were rescued Saturday from an abandoned truck in Mexico, a near-tragedy with chilling similarities to a deadly incident last week in which 10 would-be migrants to the US perished. Authorities said a total of 178 people were found in the tractor-trailer truck in the to

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US proposes cigarette nicotine cut, shift toward e-cigarettes

Dr Scott Gottlieb is seen in this American Enterprise Institute photo released in Washington, DC, US. Photo: Reuters  WASHINGTON: The US government proposed cutting nicotine in cigarettes to "non-addictive" levels on Friday in a major regulatory shift designed to move smokers toward potentially less harmful e-cigarettes. Shares of major tobacco companies in the United States and the UK slumped in heavy trading volume after the proposal was unveiled by the head of the US Food and Drug Administr

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Tesla's Musk hands over first Model 3 electric cars to early buyers

Outside Tesla's Fremont, California factory, Musk showed off the $35,000 base vehicle with a range of 220 miles (350 km) on a charge that marks a departure from the company's earlier luxury electric cars. Photo: Reuters  CALIFORNIA: Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Friday the Model 3 had over half a million advance reservations as he handed over the first 30 to employee buyers, setting the stage for the biggest test yet of the company's strategy to become a profitable, mass marke

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Chinese woman undergoes plastic surgery to evade $3.7 million debt: media

Photo: File SHANGHAI: A 59-year old woman from the central Chinese city of Wuhan transformed her appearance through plastic surgery in order to avoid 25 million yuan ($3.71 million) of personal debts, state news agency Xinhua said. In a case highlighting the challenges facing China as it tries to establish a "credit society", police officers were reported to be "astonished" after apprehending the woman, who fled to the southeastern Chinese city of Shenzhen after a court in Wuhan ordered her to

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Indian troops martyr two Kashmiri youth in Pulwama district: KMS

Indian soldiers pictured assaulting Kashmiri protestors. Photo: File SRINAGAR: Two Kashmiri youth were martyred by Indian troops in Pulwama district on Sunday, the Kashmir Media Service (KMS) reported. The youth ? identified as Irfan Ahmad Sheikh and Abid Magray ? were martyred by Indian troops during a cordon and search operation in the occupied valley. Authorities suspended internet services in Pulwama district following the killings, KMS reported. Soon after the incident took place, people

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Muhammad Waseem knocks out Panama's Ivan Trejos

Waseem during the fight. Photo: Geo News Pakistan?s top professional boxer and two-time World Boxing Council (WBC) silver flyweight champion Muhammad Waseem knocked out Panama?s Ivan Trejos in Panama City. Waseem knocked out his opponent in the third round of the international ranking fight. This was the second fight for the 2014 Asian Games bronze medalist this month, after he knocked out Panama?s Eliecer Valdez on July 5 on his way to preparing for the world title bout.

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Barcelona edge out Real Madrid in thrilling Miami Clasico

Photo: FC Barcelona Twitter  Barcelona drew first blood against Real Madrid ahead of the new season with a 3-2 victory in a pulsating Clasico friendly on Saturday in Miami. The historic rivals will meet again twice in August in the Spanish Super Cup and this International Champions Cup match set the entertainment bar high, with Barcelona maintaining their 100 per cent record in pre-season. "Physically we are in good shape, the team is winning, we just have to correct our errors," Barcelona mid

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Chinese president inspects troops on military's 90th anniversary

Soldiers of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) take part in a military parade to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the army at the Zhurihe military training base in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, July 30, 2017. PHOTO: China Daily via Reuters  BEIJING: With flybys of advanced new jets and a mass rally of troops, Chinese President Xi Jinping oversaw a large-scale military parade at a remote northern China base on Sunday to mark 90 years since the founding of the

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Preparations under way for PTI?s rally in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD: Preparations were under way Sunday morning for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf?s celebratory rally at Parade Ground in Shakarparian area of the federal capital later in the day. PTI calls off Islamabad 'lockdown', to hold celebratory rally PTI chief praised the Supreme Court for summoning a reply from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on November 3 To ensure security at the rally site, 1,600 personnel will be deployed as per a security plan that has been issued especially for t

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