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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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'Can't take away development projects' despite Nawaz's ouster: Asif warns opponents

SIALKOT: Opponents of Pakistan's former prime minister managed to have him ousted but they would never be able to take away "his development projects", the Minister of Foreign Affairs said Saturday while addressing a workers' convention here in the city. "You had him ousted from his role (as the Prime Minister) but you cannot take away his developmental projects," warned Khawaja Asif, referring to ex-premier Nawaz Sharif, who was recently named the Quaid of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML
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France mourns 'hero' officer who took place of hostage in attack

Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame ? the gendarme who voluntarily took the place of a hostage during a deadly supermarket siege in southwestern France on March 23, 2018 ? died a day later, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb announced. Gendarmerie Nationale/Handout via REUTERS PARIS: France will pay a national tribute to a security officer who died from gunshot wounds after voluntarily taking the place of a female hostage during a supermarket siege by a militant, President Emmanuel Macron said on S
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Trump moves to limit transgender individuals from military service

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One as he departs for Palm Beach, Florida, from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, US, March 23, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Friday that bans some transgender individuals from serving in the US military, but gives the armed forces latitude in implementing policies. The memorandum said transgender individuals with a history of gender dysphoria, defined as ?those who may require substantial medi
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Turkey takes full control of Syria's Afrin: military source

Turkish forces patrol an area in Afrin, Syria March 22, 2018. Photo: Reuters AFRIN: Turkey?s military and its Syrian militant allies have taken full control of northwest Syria?s Afrin region, a Turkish army source said on Saturday, as aid workers distributed food to people in the area. Turkish forces and the Syrian fighters swept into the main Afrin town last Sunday after an eight-week campaign to drive out the Kurdish YPG militia, which Ankara regards as a terrorist group. A military source
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Will personally receive Imran if he comes to watch PSL final: Sethi

Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Najam Sethi on Saturday, March 24, 2018 said that he would personally receive Imran Khan if the former cricketer accepts his invitation to watch the PSL final in Karachi. Photo: Geo News 1 KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Najam Sethi on Saturday said that he would personally receive Imran Khan if the former cricketer accepts his invitation to watch the PSL3 final match.  Speaking on Geo News' programme Jirga, the PCB chief said that he had extended
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Will personally receive Imran if he comes to watch PSL final: Sethi

Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Najam Sethi on Saturday, March 24, 2018 said that he would personally receive Imran Khan if the former cricketer accepts his invitation to watch the PSL final in Karachi. Photo: Geo News 1 KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Najam Sethi on Saturday said that he would personally receive Imran Khan if the former cricketer accepts his invitation to watch the PSL3 final match.  Speaking on Geo News' programme Jirga, the PCB chief said that he had extended
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Huge crowds turn out for student-led US gun protests

Huge crowds of Americans took to the streets from coast to coast on Saturday to demand gun control at emotional protests fueled by teenagers who survived a mass shooting last month at a Florida high school. Photo: AFP file  WASHINGTON: Huge crowds of Americans took to the streets from coast to coast on Saturday to demand gun control at emotional protests fueled by teenagers who survived a mass shooting last month at a Florida high school. Bundled against the cold but fired up with passion, hun
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Australia admit ball tampering in third Test against South Africa

Australia captain Steve Smith has said his side deliberately tried to tamper with the condition of the ball on the third day of the third test against South Africa at Newlands on Saturday in an orchestrated attempt to gain an advantage. Photo: Reuters file  CAPE TOWN: Australia captain Steve Smith has said his side deliberately tried to tamper with the condition of the ball on the third day of the third test against South Africa at Newlands on Saturday in an orchestrated attempt to gain an adva
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Sana Mir, Nahida Khan power Pakistan to series sweep

DAMBULLA: The Pakistan bowling attack rattled Sri Lanka in the third and final match of the ICC World Championship one-day international series to help Pakistan complete a 3-0 sweep with a 108-run win in Dambulla. Pakistan posted 215/9 on the back of a steady Nahida Khan innings from the top and useful contributions from Javeria Khan, Bismah Maroof, Sidra Ameen and Nida Dar, which was followed by a brilliant bowling show that shot Sri Lanka out for 107 in 41.3 overs. Mir was the pick of the P
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De Villiers drives South Africa on amid Bancroft scrutiny

CAPE TOWN: South Africa opened up a potentially match-winning lead over Australia on day three of the third test on Saturday as the tourists? Cameron Bancroft came under scrutiny for an object in his pocket. AB de Villiers made a patient, unbeaten half-century as South Africa closed on 238 for five in their second innings at Newlands, extending their advantage to 294 runs on a wicket that has significant sideways movement. Yet attention was diverted from the match situation when Bancroft was s
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Battle of champions: Peshawar Zalmi clash with Islamabad United for PSL glory

Peshawar Zalmi skipper Darren Sammy and Islamabad United captain Misbah-ul-Haq pose with the PSL trophy ahead of the final in Karachi     KARACHI: The National Stadium will light up on Sunday to welcome cricket?s homecoming to Pakistan?s biggest city, as fans will flock to the sold-out National Stadium in thousands to witness two great teams face off against each other for Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2018 trophy.  Neither of the teams is any stranger to the gold: Islamabad United, under the s
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PM calls for new Senate Chairman, says Sanjrani holds no respect

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/3ed98d52dfa829bd3b7636d3aee27eb7.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9My8yNC8yMDE4IDc6MDY6MTIgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1CSlYyZkt1MWsrN1gvcjlwS29Jbm5nPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] LAHORE: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday urged the members of the opposition to jointly nominate a new Senate chairman. Addressing the inauguration ceremony of first ever CCV cable and Aluminiu
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The longest flights in the world

PERTH: Qantas on Saturday launched the first non-stop passenger service linking Australia and Europe, with a Boeing 787 Dreamliner departing Perth for London on one of the longest flights in the world. The service makes Qantas one among a handful of airlines that operate on such long-distance intercontinental routes. Here are some of the world´s longest flights: Auckland to Doha - 17 hr 40 min Qatar Airways Flight 921 is currently the longest commercial journey in the world, flying passenge
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US poised for largest gun control protest in a generation

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida -- where 17 people were shot dead on February 14 by a 19-year-old former classmate -- have been the driving force behind the march WASHINGTON: Galvanised by a massacre at a Florida high school, hundreds of thousands of Americans are expected to take to the streets in cities across the United States on Saturday in the biggest protest for gun control in a generation. The student-organised "March For Our Lives" is to feature
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PM calls for new joint Senate Chairman, says Sanjrani holds no respect

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/3ed98d52dfa829bd3b7636d3aee27eb7.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9My8yNC8yMDE4IDc6MDY6MTIgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1CSlYyZkt1MWsrN1gvcjlwS29Jbm5nPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] LAHORE: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday urged the members of the opposition to jointly nominate a new Senate chairman. Addressing the inauguration ceremony of first ever CCV cable and Aluminiu
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French gendarme who took place of hostage dies of gunshot wounds

Arnaud Beltrame, 44, a gendarme who once served in Iraq, had been raced to hospital fighting for his life after being shot by the gunman during the siege at the Super U store in the southwestern town of Trebes near the Pyrenees mountains PARIS: France was in mourning on Saturday for a French security officer who died from gunshot wounds after voluntarily taking the place of a female hostage during a supermarket siege by a militant. Arnaud Beltrame, 44, a gendarme who once served in Iraq, had be
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Portuguese pilot held after being found drunk in cockpit

German police entered the cockpit and found the 40-year-old in a "highly intoxicated condition" on Friday evening, a statement said BERLIN: The co-pilot of a Portuguese airline was detained in Stuttgart after being found drunk in the cockpit just before take off, German police and prosecutors said Saturday. German police entered the cockpit and found the 40-year-old in a "highly intoxicated condition" on Friday evening, a statement said. An airport official had sounded the alert after finding
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Gujranwala DC committed suicide: investigative sources

Gujranwala's Deputy Commissioner (DC) Sohail Ahmed Tipu was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his residence on Thursday, March 22, 2018. Photo: Geo News file   GUJRANWALA: Authorities made an important breakthrough into the death of Gujranwala's Deputy Commissioner (DC) Sohail Ahmed Tipu on Saturday. Tipu was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his residence on Thursday.  According to information obtained investigative sources, the forensics lab where samples collected from the body were s
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PM Abbasi leaves behind official protocol on private visit to United States

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/18f76c2b68e551e1655751e3a8183189.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9My8yNC8yMDE4IDI6NDU6MzQgUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1GNzlDM25SbFROb3Z0V2QxSXVCWURBPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] LONDON: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was seen at an airport in the United States with
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Defamation suit: Imran using delaying tactics, says Shehbaz?s lawyer

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/207ef6a10c8b27b012f402875afc8e5f.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9My8yNC8yMDE4IDI6MjI6NDUgUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1lNE9jUm9TcTFBZUg2alhqd2VBUWR3PT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] LAHORE: Counsel for Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday told a sessions court that Pak
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Defamation suit: Imran using delaying tactics, say Shehbaz?s lawyer

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/207ef6a10c8b27b012f402875afc8e5f.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9My8yNC8yMDE4IDI6MjI6NDUgUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1lNE9jUm9TcTFBZUg2alhqd2VBUWR3PT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] LAHORE: Counsel for Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday told a sessions court that Pak
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Waqar predicts Kamran won?t be selected in national team

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/4ea4fb79ae8099be976b793d4ba85d49.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9My8yNC8yMDE4IDE6NTM6MDAgUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT04ZnlEOFlSTStZckxOU2ZxWVhNNjNnPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] KARACHI: Islamabad United coach Waqar Younis said on Saturday that Peshawar Zalmi opener Kam
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Imran has only lied, taken u-turns: Bilawal

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/c7bd30f25da875a4458efe8192cad289.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9My8yNC8yMDE4IDE6MTA6MzggUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1EbVFwUHl1MFYzTHpEcVhoMTloYmlRPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] BANNU: Pakistan Peoples Party Chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari came down hard on political rival
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Zalmi?s Wessels says foreign players ?feel like royalty? in Pakistan

KARACHI: Peshawar Zalmi wicketkeeper-batsman Riki Wessels said on Saturday that the Pakistan Super League final in Karachi is probably more than a game of cricket for the people, and hopefully the Zalmi team will give the fans what they want from the team. Speaking in a brief interview to the franchise?s media team, the England player said that the foreign players been looked after very well in the country, adding, ?haven?t felt threatened at all. It has been a good experience. There is a pass
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Aitzaz Ahsan?s fine paid in Supreme Court

LAHORE: Nephew of eminent laywer Aitzaz Ahsan on Satuday paid a fine of Rs10,000 slapped by the Supreme Court earlier this month for failing to appear in a case pertaining to infant formula milk. Ahsan in the next hearing had said that the order by the two-member bench damaged his reputation as he had never been slapped even a single rupee fine during his entire career. The PPP leader instead claimed he was punished for his farewell speech in the Senate, and requested the court to withdraw the
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