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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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What to look out for at NAPA International Theatre and Music Festival

Photo: NAPA The NAPA International Theatre and Music Festival 2018 kicks off in Karachi today. The festival which runs from March 15 to March 31 at Zia Mohyeddin Theatre, NAPA features performances from across the globe. This year the festival will feature performances from 10 countries, including Pakistan. The countries performing at the festival include Germany, England, Egypt, Iran, UAE, Palestine, Czech Republic, Switzerland and the US. Pakistan is taking part in three theatre collaborat
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Spotted marsupial returns to mainland Australia after half century

A species of spotted marsupial devastated by foxes has been returned to the wild in mainland Australia for the first time in almost 50 years in a rare and landmark conservation success story. Photo: WWF/Australia  SYDNEY: A species of spotted marsupial devastated by foxes has been returned to the wild in mainland Australia for the first time in almost 50 years in a rare and landmark conservation success story. The eastern quoll -- a furry carnivore about the size of a domestic cat -- disappear
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PTI seeks Sindh CM's resignation after audit reveals Rs273 billion-worth of corruption

PTI MPA Khurrum Sher Zaman. Photo: File  KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) submitted a resolution in the Sindh Assembly on Thursday seeking the resignation of Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah. The resolution, submitted by PTI MPA Khurrum Sher Zaman, was submitted in response to the revelation of Rs273 billion-worth of misappropriation in the provincial government?s affairs unearthed in the auditor general?s report for 2016-17. Talking to the media, Zaman said the highest level of corruption
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MQM-P to support PTI candidate for Senate opposition leader

KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) announced on Thursday its support for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate in the contest for the Senate's opposition leader.  The development came after a PTI delegation called on the MQM-P leaders in Bahadurabad.  Addressing the media alongside PTI local leader Imran Ismail and Senator Azam Swati, MQM-P's Faisal Sabzwari said the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had destroyed Sindh in 10 years.  He added that it is not appropriate
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Chinese ambassador calls on COAS

Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Thursday. Photo: Inter Services Public Relations1 RAWALPINDI: Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Thursday.  Matters of mutual interest including regional security were discussed in the meeting, according to Inter Services Public Relations statement.  Ambassador Jing also appreciated Pakistan Army?s achievements and efforts for peace and stab
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Pakistani truck art features Turkish president

Truck featuring Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Photo: Anadolu Agency Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become the latest foreign leader to be honoured with a massive portrait on a truck in Pakistan. Despite the fact that Gulzar Ahmad has never been to Turkey or met a Turkish citizen in his life, he told Anadolu Agency he got Erdogan?s portrait painted on his truck because he believed the Turkish president was an ?ideal leader?. ?I love the Turkish president who represents Mu
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Peshawar Zalmi face Karachi Kings in do-or-die clash

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/642939565e3cd84c6238e1b5391c0cc1.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9My8xNS8yMDE4IDg6MzE6MDYgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1MNkt4N1Y3eFlGRWtITk5JMmkxTy9BPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] SHARJAH: It's do-or-die for Peshawar Zalmi as they face Karachi Kings in today's first encou
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Protesting over-charging, PTI lawmaker wears garland of electricity bills to NA

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/e7ec77d95530d52e09eb40e13e1de888.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9My8xNS8yMDE4IDg6Mjc6MDYgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1xWVdaT3pRTkc3K052UFdnRkl5cldnPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA Sajid Nawaz Khan wore a garland of electricity bills to the National Assembly session Thursday to protest ?overcharging of power consumers?. During the session,
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Donatella Versace says label will stop using fur in products

Donatella Versace has said her family's luxury fashion label will no longer use real furs in its products, Photo: Reuters/file   LONDON: Donatella Versace has said her family's luxury fashion label will no longer use real furs in its products, according to an interview with a British magazine. The Italian fashion queen and Versace's creative director told The Economist´s 1843 magazine that it would stop the practice, without providing further details on the change. "Fur? I am out of that," Ve
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Pierce Brosnan says Indian paan masala brand 'cheated' him

Photo: File Hollywood actor Pierce Brosnan has told Indian authorities that he was ?cheated? by a paan masala company that had employed him to promote its brand. Brosnan had been asked to explain why he was in an ad for Pan Bahar which is linked with an addictive form of tobacco. According to a senior official, the actor said the company, Ashok & Co, did not disclose the hazardous nature of the product. "In a written reply to the Delhi State Tobacco Control Cell, the actor stated that he
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Russia could use chemical weapons in New York, US ambassador warns UN

US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, delivers remarks during a United Nations Security Council meeting. Photo: Reuters The United States said Wednesday that Russia was responsible for a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in England, and urged the UN Security Council to hold Moscow accountable. "The United States believes that Russia is responsible for the attack on two people in the United Kingdom, using a military-grade nerve agent," US Ambassador Nikki Haley told an emergency counci
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Panama Papers law firm Mossack Fonseca to shut down after tax scandal

Mossack Fonseca law firm sign is pictured in Panama City, in this April 4, 2016. Photo: Reuters  Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm at the center of the ?Panama Papers? scandal, said on Wednesday it was shutting down due to the economic and reputational damage inflicted by its role in the global tax evasion debacle. The so-called Panama Papers, which consist of millions of documents stolen from Mossack Fonseca and leaked to the media in April 2016, provoked a global scandal after showing
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Raiwind blast: Funeral prayers of martyred policemen offered in Lahore

The funeral prayers of five police officers martyred in Raiwind blast were offered Thursday morning. Photo: Geo News sceen grab1 LAHORE: The funeral prayers of five police officers martyred in Raiwind blast were offered Thursday morning. At least five police personnel and four citizens were martyred Wednesday evening in a suspected suicide attack in the Raiwind area on the outskirts of Lahore, officials said. The funeral prayers, which were held at Qila Gujjar Singh police lines, were attende
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Nepal chief justice sacked for faked date of birth

Controversy over Gopal Parajuli's date of birth has been brewing for months. Photo: AFP Nepal's divisive Chief Justice Gopal Parajuli was sacked on Wednesday (March 14) for faking his date of birth in order to remain in office longer. The controversy over Parajuli's date of birth has been brewing for months after he charged a prominent activist and Nepal's largest newspaper with contempt of court for raising concerns about his multiple birthdays. A judicial council concluded that Parajuli shou
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Pakistan 'happier' than India, Afghanistan: UN report

Pakistan cricket fans. Photo: AFP  Pakistan is the 75th happiest country in the world, according to an annual survey issued on Wednesday. Pakistan ranks higher than Bangladesh (115), India (133) and Afghanistan (145) in the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network?s (SDSN) 2018 World Happiness Report which ranked 156 countries according to things such as GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, social freedom, generosity and absence of corruption. Finland is the world?s hap
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CJP takes notice of Aabpara road closure in Islamabad

A security official stands guard at the Constitution Avenue in Islamabad in 2009. Photo: AP  ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar took suo motu notice of the closure of a road in Aabpara area of the city on the pretext of security.  The notice was taken while the Supreme Court was hearing cases related to the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and other issues.  "We will not allow the barricading of roads on the pretext of security," the chief justice remarked.  The court
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Mahira shares thoughts on if she'd be biggest Bollywood star if it wasn?t for border divide

Photo: Instagram Mahira Khan is arguably Pakistan?s biggest celebrity transcending borders with a global fan base. Last year, the actor made her Bollywood debut alongside India?s biggest star Shah Rukh Khan in Rahul Dholakia?s Raees and she's making history as L?Oréal?s first Pakistani ambassador. But Mahira, herself, doesn?t think she would?ve been the biggest Bollywood star if it wasn?t for the India-Pakistan divide. ?Truly, I don?t,? she responded when asked if she thinks she would?ve been
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Toys 'R' Us to close doors, leaving void for toy lovers

Toys ?R? Us Inc, the iconic US toy retailer, is shuttering all its US stores after failing to find a buyer or reach a restructuring deal with creditors to push its indebted business out of bankruptcy. Photo; file  NEW YORK: Toys ?R? Us Inc, the iconic US toy retailer, is shuttering all its US stores after failing to find a buyer or reach a restructuring deal with creditors to push its indebted business out of bankruptcy, the company said on Thursday. Toys ?R? Us is seeking approval to impleme
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Alia turns 25, shares new stills from Raazi

Alia Bhatt is celebrating her 25th birthday on March 15, 2017. Photo: file  Alia Bhatt, who is celebrating her 25th birthday today, took to Instagram to share two new stills from her upcoming movie Raazi. In one still, Alia can be seen donning a grey burkha with an intense look on her face, while in the other still the actor is sporting a light blue t-shirt and maroon jacket and seems to be in deep conversation with another character. The Dear Zindagi star also shared that the movie?s trailer
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SC indicts State Interior Minister Tallal Chaudry for contempt of court

PML-N leader and state interior minister Tallal Chaudry outside the Supreme Court today. Photo: Geo News  ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court indicted on Thursday State Interior Minister Tallal Chaudry's for contempt of court. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan read out the charges against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader, to which Chaudhry pleaded not guilty. Chaudry had been summoned in person for today's hearing after his indictment was deferred for a day on Wedn
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Judicial system needs to be reformed, says Nawaz during corruption hearing

Former PM Nawaz Sharif entering the accountability court earlier today. Photo: Geo News  ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday that the country's judicial system requires reforms as delayed and lack of justice are the major issues faced by the public. He made the remarks while talking to journalists inside the accountability court hearing corruption cases against him and his family.  With regards to the recent Senate elections and the dissolution of the Pakistan Muslim
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California teacher accidentally discharges gun in class

At least one California high school student was injured superficially when a teacher accidentally discharged a gun in class during a firearms safety course, police said on Wednesday. Photo; file  LOS ANGELES: At least one California high school student was injured superficially when a teacher accidentally discharged a gun in class during a firearms safety course, police said on Wednesday. The incident, which occurred Tuesday, came as a police officer assigned to a school in the state of Virgin
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India eyeing Boeing's Super Hornet in latest twist to air force procurement

A F/A-18E Super Hornet of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA-31) comes in to land onboard the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H W Bush (CVN 77), in the Gulf Aug 12, 2014. Photo: Reuters 1 NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE: Boeing Co, considered the frontrunner in the race to supply the Indian navy with new fighter jets, is now in contention for a much bigger $15 billion order after the government abruptly asked the air force to consider the twin-engine planes. Until recently, Lockheed Martin Corp?s
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Nawaz reaches accountability court for Avenfield reference hearing

The Federal Judicial Complex where the accountability court is located. Photo: File  ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has arrived at the accountability court hearing corruption cases against him and his family.  The accountability court will hear the Avenfield properties reference against Nawaz, daughter Maryam and son-in-law MNA Capt (retd) Safdar today.  During today's hearing, former Panama case joint investigation team (JIT) head Wajid Zia recorded his statement. He will conti
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Messi majestic as Barcelona crush Chelsea

Barcelona?s Lionel Messi in action with Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger and N'Golo Kante. Photo: Reuters BARCELONA: Lionel Messi scored two brilliant goals and created another for Ousmane Dembele as Barcelona thrashed Chelsea 3-0 on Wednesday to reach the Champions League quarter-finals 4-1 on aggregate. Messi opened the scoring after two minutes and eight seconds, the quickest goal of his career, slipping the ball through Thibaut Courtois' legs from a tight angle. The Argentine forward created the
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