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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 exclude possibility of alliance with Imran: Khursheed Shah

SUKKUR: Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah said on Sunday that the Pakistan Peoples Party cannot exclude the possibility of either seat adjustment or contesting the general elections in 2018 with Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. While speaking to media in Sukkur, Shah said that there is no last word in politics, adding that Imran Khan and former president Asif Ali Zardari getting along with each other will be a good sign. The opposition leader while responding to
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'No personality, no class, scared' - Mourinho blasts Manchester United

Jose Mourinho launched an astonishing verbal tirade against his Manchester United players after they reached the FA Cup semi-finals MANCHESTER: Jose Mourinho launched an astonishing verbal tirade against his Manchester United players after they reached the FA Cup semi-finals, accusing them of "a lack of personality, lack of class and lack of desire." Just 24 hours after the United manager had made a memorable defence of his own record in the pre-match press conference, Mourinho turned his atte
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Bilawal doesn?t know how hardworking person earns money: Imran

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairperson Imran Khan. Photo: File KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairperson Imran Khan has criticised Pakistan Peoples Party chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, alleging the latter does not know how a hardworking person in the country earn bread and butter. Speaking to the media after his arrival in Karachi, Imran said Bilawal has made tall claims in multiple statements recently but is unaware of the actual issues faced by the people. About the issues pertaining
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Turkish-led forces seize centre of Syria's Afrin

Turkish-backed Syrian rebels enter the village of Qastal Koshk, north of Afrin, on March 16, 2018 following battles with Kurdish fighters. Photo: AFP 1 Turkish-backed rebels have seized the centre of Afrin city in northern Syria, Ankara said Sunday, as they made rapid gains in their campaign against Kurdish forces. "Units of the Free Syrian Army, which are backed by Turkish armed forces, took control of the centre of Afrin this morning at 8:30am (0530 GMT)," said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Local players of Quetta Gladiators, Peshawar Zalmi arrive in Lahore

Quetta Gladiators arrived in Lahore today where they will play an eliminator match on March 20 against Peshawar Zalmi. The team shared pictured on social media as the local members of the team landed at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport.  Similarly, Pakistani players of Peshawar Zalmi have also arrived in Lahore after a stopover in Karachi from Dubai.  They included Sarfraz Ahmed, Asad Shafiq, Rahat Ali, Mohammad Nawaz, Umar Amin and Hassan Khan. 
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India's Silicon Valley faces man-made water crisis

New apartments are still springing up all over Bangalore ? even though there is nowhere near enough mains water to supply those already living here. Photo: AFP  Every day more than 1,000 water tankers rumble past Nagraj's small plywood store in Bangalore, throwing up clouds of dust as they rush their valuable cargo to homes and offices in India's drought-stricken tech hub. Gleaming new apartment blocks are still springing up all over the city known as India's Silicon Valley ? even though there
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'House call': Lady doctors bring remote care to rural Pakistan

At the clinics in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, a nurse or paramedic examines the patient and sends all the information to the doctor, who then consults with the patient via Skype before making a diagnosis. Photo: AFP  In a remote Pakistani village surrounded by lush green hills, Mohammad Fayyaz brings his two-year-old son to a clinic so that a female doctor sitting hundreds of kilometres away can examine him. Healthcare in rural Pakistan and the careers of women doctors are being revolutionised as inte
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No truth to claims of establishment backing me: Sanjrani

Newly elected chairperson of the Senate, Mir Sadiq Sanjrani. Photo: File  QUETTA: Newly elected chairperson of the Senate, Mir Sadiq Sanjrani, has said there is no veracity in claims that the 'establishment' backed him. While speaking to the media in Quetta on Sunday, Sanjrani said senators from across Pakistan were in favour of him being elected as the chairperson of the Upper House of Parliament. He added the efforts of assembly members and chief minister Balochistan elected him and five oth
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FC soldier martyred, another injured in Mohmand Agency

Security officials deployed in the tribal areas. Photo: File  GHALLANAI: A Frontier Corps soldier was martyred while another was injured when their check post was attacked in an area of Mohmand Agency late at night on Saturday. According to the political administration, the security check post was attacked around 3am, hours after two polio workers were killed in the agency while five others were kidnapped. However, three of five in the polio team were released the same night, while two others
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Four killed, some trapped as fire hits hotel in Philippine capital

Smoke billows from the Resorts World building in Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines June 2, 2017. Photo: Reuters file  MANILA: A fire broke out at a hotel in the Philippine capital on Sunday, killing four people and trapping several on the fifth floor, a rescue official said. About 20 people were trapped in the Manila Pavilion Hotel, Johnny Yu, chief of the Manila Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office, told radio station dZMM. "We have reports coming in from the Bureau of Fire Protecti
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Russia expels 23 British diplomats as crisis over nerve toxin attack deepens

A Russian policeman walks outside the British embassy in Moscow, Russia. Photo: Reuters MOSCOW: Russia expelled 23 British diplomats on Saturday in a carefully calibrated retaliatory move against London, which has accused the Kremlin of orchestrating a nerve toxin attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter in southern England. Escalating a crisis in relations, Russia said it was also shutting down the activities of the British Council, which fosters cultural links between the two
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Janjua, Abdullah agree Taliban should utilise new, timely peace offer

NSA Nasser Janjua (second left) with Dr Abdullah (second right) in Kabul. Photo: Twitter  KABUL: Pakistan's National Security Adviser (NSA) Lt Gen (retd) Nasser Janjua met Afghanistan's Chief Executive Dr Abdullah Abdullah during his visit to the neighbouring country. Janjua was visiting Kabul on a one-day trip on the invitation of his Afghan counterpart, Haneef Atmar.  In the meeting, details of which were shared by Abdullah on his Twitter account, the two agreed that the Taliban should util
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Facebook critics want regulation, investigation after data misuse

Photo: File  SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc faced new calls for regulation from within US Congress and was hit with questions about personal data safeguards on Saturday after reports a political consultant gained inappropriate access to 50 million users? data starting in 2014. Facebook disclosed the issue in a blog post on Friday, hours before media reports that conservative-leaning Cambridge Analytica, a data company known for its work on Donald Trump?s 2016 presidential campaign, was given acces
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Asma Jahangir, Junaid Jamshed, Younis among 141 nominated for Civil Awards

Late Asma Jahangir (left), cricketer Younis Khan (centre), and late singer-turned-evangelist Junaid Jamshed (right). Photo: Geo News file  ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain will confer ?Pakistan Civil Awards? to 141 Pakistanis as well as foreign nationals on Pakistan Resolution Day to be celebrated on 23rd March. The awards will be given to honour individuals for showing excellence in the fields of science, technology, engineering, welfare, literature, arts, sports and media.  Former Cuban
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Former CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry cannot possess bulletproof car: IHC

Advocate Riaz Hanif Rahi had filed a petition against the provision of the government-maintained bulletproof car to Justice (retd) Iftikhar Chaudhry. Photo: Geo News file  ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday issued a written order against the possession of a bulletproof car by the former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Chaudhry. A day earlier, on Thursday, Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani of the IHC had issued notices to the interior, cabinet, law and justice secretarie
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Three of five kidnapped polio workers released in Mohmand Agency

GHALLANAI: Three of the five people in a polio team, who were kidnapped from Musakhel, Mohmand Agency, were released late at night on Saturday. The attack had also claimed lives of two polio workers in the area. According to the political administration of the agency, unidentified persons opened fire at a polio team, killing two of the workers on the spot and kidnapping five others. Subsequently, a search operation was conducted in the area following which three of the five, who were kidna
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Trump critics attack firing of FBI's McCabe as political move

Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe arrives to testify before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. May 11, 2017. Photo: Reuters   WASHINGTON: Democrats and other Trump administration critics on Saturday attacked the firing of the second-highest ranking official of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Andrew McCabe, as a politically motivated and vindictive move, while some Republicans praised US Attorney General Jeff Sessions for decisive acti
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Political parties to hold rallies in different parts of country

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto (left), Imran Khan (centre), and Nawaz Sharif (right). Photo: Geo News file SANGLA HILL/RAWALPINDI/KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz will hold a power show later today in Sangla Hill where party supremo Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam will address party workers. Chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto will also address a rally in Rawalpindi's Kotli Sattian. In Karachi, Muttahida Qaumi Movement - Pakistan's (MQM-P), PIB and Bahudarabad grou
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Sri Lanka lifts nationwide state of emergency

Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena listens to a speech during a Parliament session marking the 70th anniversary of Sri Lanka's Government, in Colombo, Sri Lanka October 3, 2017. Photo: Reuters COLOMBO: Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena said on Sunday he had lifted a nationwide state of emergency imposed on March 6 after Buddhist-Muslim clashes. "Upon assessing the public safety situation, I instructed to revoke the State of Emergency from midnight yesterday,? Sirisena said on his
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Illegal Pakistani immigrants deported back from Oman: FIA sources

Photo: File LAHORE: Numerous illegal Pakistani immigrants in Oman were deported back to their homeland, sources from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said on Saturday. A total of 49 illegal immigrants were deported from Muscat, Oman's capital city, back to Pakistan, according to sources at the agency, to which they were handed over upon their arrival. The FIA will launch a probe to investigate the illegal Pakistani immigrants, the sources added. The FIA has been active against human smu
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Lahore family that died in fire was killed: initial report

LAHORE: Four people of the same family who died Friday in an apparent fire here in WAPDA Town were actually killed, the initial report probing the deaths released by a hospital on Saturday disclosed. A man, his wife, and their two children were apparently burnt to death after a blaze erupted in their servants' quarter. Both the adults worked as domestic help and, therefore, resided in the premises of a private house, away from their home in the city's Green Town locale, according to police. Ac
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US Vice President Pence urges Pakistan to 'do more' against Taliban

(L) Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi speaks during an interview with Reuters at his office in Islamabad, Pakistan, November 8, 2013. (R) US Vice President Mike Pence speaks in Florida, US, August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed and Joe Skipper/Files  WASHINGTON: US Vice President Mike Pence told Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi that Pakistan "must do more" against the Taliban and other militants, the White House said on Saturday. "Vice President Pence reiterated President (Do
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Florida school was aware of bridge crack before fatal collapse

An aerial view shows a pedestrian bridge collapsed at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, US, March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/Files MIAMI: Engineers and state and university officials met hours before a new pedestrian bridge collapsed in southern Florida, killing six people, but concluded a crack in the structure was not a safety concern, Florida International University said on Saturday. The meeting on Thursday involved FIGG, which is the private contractor for the overall
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Putin on track for commanding win as Russians head to polls

A combination picture shows candidates in the Russian 2018 presidential election, including (top, L-R) Vladimir Putin, Pavel Grudinin, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Ksenia Sobchak, (bottom, L-R) Grigory Yavlinsky, Sergei Baburin, Boris Titov, and Maxim Suraikin. REUTERS/Staff/Files PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY: Russians began voting in a presidential election on Sunday set to give Vladimir Putin a commanding victory that could only be blemished if large numbers do not bother taking part because the result i
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Driver of private cab service shot dead in Karachi's Nagan Chowrangi

File Photo KARACHI: A firing incident Saturday night near the metropolis' Nagan Chowrangi left one person dead, rescue sources said, in what has emerged as the second reported case of a ride-hailing service's driver being shot to death. According to Dr Rizwan, the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) for Central District, the incident does not appear to be a robbery but a case of personal enmity since someone from inside the car opened fire. Careem captain shot dead in Rawalpindi Sa
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