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Police ordered to produce Ayyan on June 21

Model Ayyan Ali. Photo: AFP RAWALPINDI: Ayyan Ali?s request seeking exemption from appearance in the currency smuggling case was rejected by the Customs court on Tuesday. The judge had summoned Ayyan to the court on Tuesday but she failed to show up. Following this, the judge issued warrants of arrest, and directed the police to ensure the suspect?s presence in court on June 21. The model was arrested on March 14, 2015 from the Islamabad airport on charges of money laundering after customs off
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Police ordered to produce Ayyan in court on June 21

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/961b6823eb84f6cb8f492a926042ab85.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ni82LzIwMTcgNjoyMzowOCBBTSZoYXNoX3ZhbHVlPXcxdGJWeUZGVTZwczNJcjJ3UUJVT2c9PSZ2YWxpZG1pbnV0ZXM9NjAmaWQ9MQ== style=center] RAWALPINDI: Ayyan Ali?s request seeking exemption from appearance in the currency smuggling case was rejected by the Customs court on Tuesday. The judge had summoned Ayyan to the
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Agriculture, CPEC to raise Pakistan's growth to 5.5 percent in 2017/18: World Bank

The World Bank on Monday said robust agriculture sector and Chinese-led infrastructure development would lead to 5.5 percent growth in Pakistan?s economy during the fiscal year 2017-18. The Washington-based lender also projected the country?s growth at 5.8 percent in FY19 and the subsequent fiscal year. ?In Pakistan, favourable weather and increased cotton prices are supporting agricultural production, and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor infrastructure project and a stable macroeconomic e
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Will not let Taliban bring down the govt: Afghan president

File photo  We will not let Taliban take down the Afghan government, said Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday.  He was speaking at the Kabul Process ? a multinational peace conference hosted by Afghanistan ? which began on Tuesday under the chair of the Afghan president. Ghani explained that the purpose of the conference is to defeat terrorism and ensure peace. "Foreign fighters have increased in the last two years," he said, adding that this is the last chance for the Taliban to become p
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Kuwait's emir urges Qatar to ease tensions leftright 2/2leftright

Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah addresses a plenary meeting of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, New York September 26, 2015. Photo: Reuters   DUBAI: Kuwait's emir urged Qatar's Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani on Monday to calm tensions with allies and refrain from escalating the worst diplomatic rift among Gulf Arab states. Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah "expressed his wish" that Qatari ruler "work o
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Arundhati Roy releases first novel in 20 years

Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize for her last novel, The God of Small Things. Photo: AP/file  NEW DELHI: Arundhati Roy´s eagerly-awaited second novel goes on sale Tuesday, two decades after her prize-winning debut The God of Small Things propelled her to global fame and launched her career as an outspoken critic of injustice in her native India. Roy became the first Indian woman to win the prestigious Booker Prize with her 1997 work, which sold around 8 million copies and turned the young aut
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Dylan's Nobel speech: songs only need to move you, not make sense

Nobel prize winner Bob Dylan said on Monday that unlike literature his songs were meant to be sung not read and that they only needed to move people, not to make sense. The Swedish Academy's decision to award last year's prize for literature to Dylan, who had "created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition", was seen by some as a slap in the face by some mainstream writers of poetry and prose. In his Nobel lecture, the notoriously media-shy Dylan said: "Our songs are a
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Kuwait's emir urges Qatar to ease tensions

Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah addresses a plenary meeting of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, New York September 26, 2015. Photo: Reuters   DUBAI: Kuwait's emir urged Qatar's Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani on Monday to calm tensions with allies and refrain from escalating the worst diplomatic rift among Gulf Arab states. Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah "expressed his wish" that Qatari ruler "work o
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Pakistan awaiting Trump admin?s policy on Afghanistan: Aizaz Chaudhry

Pakistani Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said his country will have plenty of economic opportunity in coming years that could be at risk from violence in neighboring Afghanistan. Photo: APP/file  WASHINGTON: Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said that Pakistan Army has eliminated terrorists from the tribal areas. Pakistan is no longer a safe haven for the terrorists, he remarked in an interview with The Washington Times. However, the success of the operations
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Pakistan, India attending 25-nation Kabul peace summit today

File photo  Pakistan will participate in a multinational peace conference ? Kabul Process ? hosted by Afghanistan on Tuesday.  The peace conference on Afghanistan will include discussions on the talks with Taliban, as the capital reels from a wave of bombings and clashes that left more than 100 people dead and hundreds wounded in the last week. Much of Kabul remains in lockdown ahead of the conference, with tighter than usual security including more armed checkpoints and armoured vehicles patr
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Australian prime minister says Melbourne siege 'a terrorist attack'

Members of Australian police's bomb squad unit walk near the site of the incident. Photo: Reuters Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Tuesday police were treating a deadly siege in the southern city of Melbourne as an "act of terrorism" after a claim by the Islamic State group that one of its fighters was the gunman responsible. Police shot dead gunman Yacqub Khayre on Monday after he held a woman hostage inside an apartment building in Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city
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Pakistani pilgrims stranded at Doha airport

Qatar Airways plane. Photo: Reuters/File KARACHI: Dozens of Pakistanis were left stranded at Doha airport after Saudi Arabia banned all flights from Qatar Airways into its airspace following the diplomatic disruption in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia, Gulf states cut ties with Qatar; Iran blames Trump Egypt, Bahrain, UAE all accuse Qatar of supporting terrorism, extremism; Qatar denies charges On Monday, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and Egypt, among other countries, cut off all
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Hundreds of Pakistanis stranded at Doha airport amid Saudi-Qatar row

Qatar Airways plane. Photo: Reuters/File KARACHI: Hundreds of Pakistanis were left stranded at Doha airport after Saudi Arabia banned all flights from Qatar Airways into its airspace following the diplomatic disruption in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia, Gulf states cut ties with Qatar; Iran blames Trump Egypt, Bahrain, UAE all accuse Qatar of supporting terrorism, extremism; Qatar denies charges On Monday, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and Egypt, among other countries, cut off a
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Asian stocks stumble, oil creeps up as markets ponder fallout of Mideast tension

Asian stocks retreated on Tuesday after Wall Street's stumble overnight, while oil inched up from the previous day losses as lower Libyan oil production assuaged concerns that the severing of ties with Qatar by other Arab states could impede a deal to cut crude output. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS fell 0.2 percent in early trade, pulling back from a two-year high hit on Monday. Japan's Nikkei .N225 dropped 0.4 percent. South Korean markets were clos
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Massachusetts judge allows right-to-die lawsuit to move forward

Retired Massachusetts physician Roger Kligler, a plaintiff in a right-to-die lawsuit, speaks to reporters outside a courtroom in Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston, Massachusetts, US, on March 8, 2017. PHOTO: Reuters  A Massachusetts judge ruled that two doctors may move forward with a lawsuit seeking an order that the state's murder and manslaughter laws do not apply to physicians who offer lethal medications to terminally ill patients. Superior Court Judge Mary Ames in Boston in a rulin
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Apple debuts HomePod speaker to bring Siri into the living room

Members of the media photograph a prototype Apple HomePod during the annual Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California, US June 5, 2017. Photo: Reuters  Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday introduced the HomePod, a voice-controlled speaker that can make music suggestions and adjust home temperatures, taking aim at Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) Alexa feature and Echo devices. The move is the first into a completely new area by Apple for more than two years as the world's most valu
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Contractor charged with leaking document about US election hacking: sources

An aerial view of the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters in Ft. Meade, Maryland, U.S. January 29, 2010.  Photo: Reuters  The US Department of Justice on Monday charged a federal contractor with sending classified material to a news organisation that sources identified to Reuters as The Intercept, marking one of the first concrete efforts by the Trump administration to crack down on leaks to the media. Reality Leigh Winner, 25, was charged with removing classified material from a gover
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Westerly wave likely to enter upper parts of the country on Tuesday: MET

A westerly wave is likely to enter upper parts of the country on Tuesday and expected to persist during the next 2-3 days, the Pakistan Meteorological Department forecasted. 7 easy hacks to beat the heat We have compiled a few tips for you to beat the heat this summer. Thunderstorm and rain with gusty winds are expected in the next twenty-four hours at scattered places in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Sargodha, Faisalabad divisions, FATA, Islamabad, Gilgi
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Storm in Peshawar leaves two injured

PESHAWAR: An overnight storm in the wee hours of Tuesday broke the distressing heatwave in Peshawar and adjoining areas. According to Met Office, howling winds were recorded at up to 87 kilometres per hour. The weather turned pleasant following the windstorm, as sweltering temperature came down much to the relief of the residents of Peshawar and adjoining areas. According to rescue authorities, the violent winds have left two people injured. The Provincial Disaster Management Authority has
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Contractor charged with leaking document about US election hacking

WASHINGTON: The US Department of Justice on Monday charged a federal contractor with sending classified material to a news organisation that sources identified to Reuters as The Intercept, marking one of the first concrete efforts by the Trump administration to crack down on leaks to the media. Reality Leigh Winner, 25, was charged with removing classified material from a government facility located in Georgia. She was arrested on June 3, the Justice Department said. The charges were announced
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6.2-magnitude quake injures 2 in Peru: authorities

A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake shook northern Peru on Monday, injuring at least two people and damaging at least one home, authorities said. The quake struck east of the city of Mancora at a depth of 18 kilometers (11 miles), the Peruvian Geophysical Institute said. "Two people have been reported injured and a home has been damaged" in the northern Tumbes region, the National Civil Defense Institute said on Twitter. Peru sits on the so-called Ring of Fire, an earthquake-prone zone spanning
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US seen trying to calm waters between Qatar and Saudi Arabia

WASHINGTON: The United States will quietly try to calm the waters between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, current and former US officials said on Monday, arguing that the small Gulf state was too important to US military and diplomatic interests to be isolated. US officials were blindsided by Saudi Arabia's decision to sever diplomatic ties with Qatar in a coordinated move with Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, the current and former officials said. In announcing the decision to cut ties, S
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Top US diplomat in China quits over Trump climate policy

WASHINGTON: David Rank, the chargé d'affaires of the US Embassy in Beijing, has left the State Department over the Trump administration's decision to quit the 2015 Paris agreement to fight climate change, a senior US official said on Monday. A State Department spokeswoman confirmed Rank's departure, but said she was unable to verify Twitter posts that said he resigned as he felt unable to deliver a formal notification to China of the US decision last week to quit the agreement. "He has retired
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Owner of largest Star Wars memorabilia collection robbed

The owner of the largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia said on Monday a longtime friend had robbed him of more than 100 items, including rare vintage US and foreign carded action figures. Steve Sansweet, who runs Rancho Obi-Wan, a non-profit museum north of San Francisco, said the theft took place over several months in late 2015 through 2016. "There were more than 100 valuable items stolen, the majority of them vintage US and foreign carded action figures, many of them rare and importan
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Murray, Wawrinka charge into French Open last eight

Andy Murray racked up his 650th career win to reach the French Open quarter-finals Monday where he was joined by 2015 champion Stan Wawrinka. World number one Murray, the runner-up in Paris to Novak Djokovic in 2016, brushed aside Karen Khachanov of Russia 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. However, instead of discussing the match in the traditional on-court TV interview, Murray took the microphone to remember the 29 people who died in the recent outrages in London and Manchester. "Obviously there was terrible t
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