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Geo News Blog delivers the latest breaking news, world headlines, politics, current affairs, and international updates from Pakistan and around the world, updated through trusted RSS sources.

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State Bank maintains policy rate at 6% for next two months

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Friday decided to maintain policy rate at 6.0 percent for the next two months. An SBP release said the latest information since MPCs meeting in January 2018 reveals that the prospects of achieving an...
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Water Commission orders cleansing Karachi of garbage

KARACHI: The Supreme Court-constituted Water Commission ordered on Friday the relevant authorities to cleanse Karachi of garbage, warning them of strict action in case of dereliction of duty.The Water Commission gave directions to deputy...
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Khadija stabbing case: Lahore sessions court reduces sentence of convict

LAHORE: A district and sessions court on Friday in its decision on an appeal shortened the sentence of the convict in Khadija stabbing case to five years from seven years. The court, however, rejected Shah Hussain?s appeal to completely annul the sentence. On July 29, 2017, a court in the provincial capital sentenced the main accused, Shah Hussain, for stabbing his classmate Khadija Siddiqui at least 23 times on Lahore?s Davis Road.  The attacker had managed to flee from the scene of the cri
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PM Abbasi says visited CJP as a ?faryadi? of the country

SARGODHA: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday said he had visited the Chief Justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar as a 'faryadi' (complainant) of the country.  He was referring to the reported remarks of Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar during a hearing on Thursday wherein he had said his job was to listen to the pleas of every 'faryadi'. If CJP had used ?faryadi? he should have stuck to it: Nawaz Former PM made the remarks while interacting with reports inside the c
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Bairstow salvages England after Southee, Boult strike

Trent Boult celebrates after trapping Dawid Malan, New Zealand v England, 2nd Test, Christchurch, 1st day, March 30, 2018/Getty Images CHRISTCHURCH: Jonny Bairstow was in sight of his fifth Test century after a late run spree with Mark Wood lifted England to 290 for eight at stumps on day one of the second Test in Christchurch on Friday. England had been in trouble at 164 for seven before Bairstow (not out 97) and Wood (52) put on 95 for the eighth wicket. Tim Southee and Trent Boult did all
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Pakistan revival strengthens with Windies T20s

Pakistan have won 14 of the 17 T20 internationals since Sarfraz took over as captain in September 2016 KARACHI: Pakistan will take another significant step towards the revival of international cricket as World Twenty20 champions the West Indies feature in three back-to-back Twenty20 internationals in Karachi from Sunday. The Pakistan Cricket Board have put in place stringent security arrangements for the West Indies team, with 8,000 policemen and paramilitary personnel guarding the visitors in
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Visited CJP as a faryadi of this country: PM Abbasi

SARGODHA: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday said that his party had made efforts to end the gas and electricity deficit in Pakistan.   He was addressing the public in Sargodha.  "Our government was faced with a lot of issues when we came to power," he said. "Electricity and gas load-shedding were realities that Nawaz told me to tackle when I first became the prime minister."  Lashing out at his political rivals, Abbasi said former presidents Pervez Musharraf and  Asif Ali Zardari,
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If PM has reservations he should challenge Senate polls: Shah Mehmood

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Friday that if Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has reservations over the election of the Senate chairman then he should challenge it, otherwise he should refrain from criticism. The PTI leader was addressing a gathering, where he asked the prime minister to retract his statements regarding Sadiq Sanjrani, in which he alleged that the newly-elected chairman Senate holds no respect as votes in his favour were bought. He
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First hijab-wearing Muslim to compete in Miss England

Maria Mahmood from Birmingham is set to become the first hijab-wearing Muslim to compete in Miss England. The 20-year-old who hopes to change mindsets about Muslims through the beauty pageant is through to the semi-finals. And if she wins, she aims to compete in Miss World. "Muslims are associated with negative things like terrorism. I?m determined to do my bit to challenge those views," Maria told The Mirror. "It's pretty rare for a Muslim woman to be in a beauty pageant but there?s nothing
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Malala Yousafzai plans on a permanent return to Pakistan

A Geo News screengrab of Malala Yousafzai during her interview with Hamid Mir  ISLAMABAD: Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner and education activist, said on Friday that she plans on a permanent return to Pakistan after completing her education. Malala who is pursuing a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University spoke to Hamid Mir, anchor of Geo News programme Capital Talk, in her first interview to a news channel since returning to Pakistan after bein
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MQM-P warns of protest if urban Sindh not given rights

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan Bahadaurabad faction's leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said on Friday his party would stage protests if the people of urban Sindh are not given their due rights by the state authorities. Speaking in a press conference at the party's head office, Siddiqui said that he was glad to meet Dr Farooq Sattar at the party's office, adding that the matters between the party factions can be resolved through dialogue. He admitted that the party's organisational s
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ECP to appoint judicial officers as DROs, ROs for general elections 2018

Photo: File ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday said judicial officers of lower courts will be appointed as district returning officers (DROs) and returning officers (ROs) for general elections 2018. The ECP said letters in this regard have been dispatched to the concerned registrars of high courts and lists of district and session judges, additional session judges, senior civil judges and civil judges has been requested. The step was taken by the ECP in light of sub
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Starc out of fourth South Africa Test, IPL with stress fracture

Mitchell Starc in action, Australia v England, 5th Test, Sydney, 4th day, January 7, 2018/Getty Images JOHANNESBURG: Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc has been ruled out of the fourth test against South Africa and the upcoming Indian Premier League due to a stress fracture in his leg, Cricket Australia said on Friday. His place in the team for the fourth test that started at the Wanderers on Friday was taken by Chadd Sayers. Starc was due to play in the IPL for the Kolkata Knight Riders, w
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Egypt´s Sisi wins second term with 96.9% of vote: state media

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Photo: Reuters Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has won a second term with 96.9 per cent of valid votes, state media reported on Friday, raising a previous tally from the preliminary count. The flagship state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram also raised its estimate of turnout in the March 26-28 election to 42.08 per cent, saying 25 million of Egypt´s 60 million registered voters had cast ballots. On Tuesday, the paper had reported that Sisi was reelected with 92 per cent
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Sohai Ali Abro tells all about upcoming film Motorcycle Girl

Photo: File Pakistani actor Sohai Ali Abro has said her upcoming film Motorcycle Girl aims to empower more women to ride motorcycles. ?The idea behind the film is to make it okay for women to ride motorcycles on the streets of Pakistan and get rid of the notion that it is something abnormal,? Sohai said during her appearance on Geo Pakistan. The actor lamented that when women are seen riding motorcycles in Pakistan it?s seen as abnormal and people take pictures of them and post them on social
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Sharif family involved in financial crimes, says Fawad Chaudhry

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry said on Friday it is proven now that the Sharif family is involved in financial crimes.  Speaking in a press conference. he said that the PTI is closely monitoring the ongoing trial of Sharif family in the accountability court, adding that it must be noticed that the former prime minister's son, Hasan and Hussain Nawaz, have refused to present themselves before the court.  
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Referee warned about Smith, Warner in 2016: report

Daryl Harper warned of the disgraced duo 'being involved in a ball-tampering incident' in domestic cricket in 2016 SYDNEY: A match referee warned of disgraced Australian cricketers Steve Smith and David Warner "being involved in a ball-tampering incident" in the domestic Sheffield Shield in 2016, a media report said Friday. The report came after Smith and Warner were stripped of the captaincy and vice-captaincy and banned for a year from the sport after being caught up in a plot to alter the c
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OGRA recommends Rs5.26 per litre decrease in price of petrol

Photo: File The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority has recommended a decrease of Rs5.26 per litre in the price of petrol with effect from April 1. The regulator on Friday recommended in a summary to the Petroleum Division that the price of petrol be reduced by Rs5.26 per litre bringing the rate down from the existing Rs88.7 to Rs82.81 per litre. However, the summary recommended minor increases in the rates of other petroleum products for the month of April. The price of high-speed diesel has be
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Pakistanis among 17 illegal migrants? killed in Turkey bus crash

Picture of the minibus crash in Igdir, eastern Turkey on March 30, 2018 - AFP   ANKARA: At least 17 people have been killed and another 36 wounded after a bus carrying illegal immigrants hit a lighting pole in eastern Turkey and burst into flames, local media reported on Friday. The bus, which crashed late Thursday on the Igdir-Kars highway, was carrying nationals from Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Images in Turkish media showed smoke rising from
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