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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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Reviving the glory of Lahore

LAHORE: Perched on scaffolding, restoration experts chip away at decades of grime and repair broken mosaic tiles in a bid to save the colossal murals depicting historic battles and regal ceremonies on the walls of Lahore fort. The painstaking work is part of efforts to preserve Lahore's crumbling architectural history as officials juggle conserving its diverse heritage with building modern infrastructure in Pakistan's chaotic second city. The metropolis, which once served as the capital of the
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Five things to look out for at 2019 Cricket World Cup qualifiers

Afghanistan´s incredible rise has continued to gain momentum over the last 12 months, led by teenage leg-spin sensation Rashid Khan HARARE: Qualifiers for the 2019 Cricket World Cup get under way in Zimbabwe on Sunday, with 10 teams battling it out for only two places at next year´s tournament in England and Wales. Two-time world champions the West Indies and Afghanistan are favourites to claim the remaining spots for the reduced 10-team World Cup, while fellow Test sides Ireland and Zimbabwe
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Quetta Gladiators take on Peshawar Zalmi tonight

SHARJAH: Quetta Gladiators, boosted by their two successive victories, will look to extend their winning streak when they take on a wobbly Peshawar Zalmi at the Sharjah Cricket Ground tonight.  After losing their first match to Karachi Kings, Sarfraz Ahmed's XI made a whirlwind comeback to beat Lahore Qalandars by 9 wickets and Islamabad United by 6 wickets. Defending champions Peshawar Zalmi, on the other hand, have had a lacklustre campaign so far this season. They lost to Multan Sultans in
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Vitamin D boosts recovery from burn injury

Photo: File ISLAMABAD: Burn wounds heal faster in people with high levels of vitamin D, reveals a study. The findings suggest that vitamin D supplements could be a simple and cost-effective treatment to cure burns, reported Medical Xpress, a web-based medical and health news service. Many patients are still at risk of poor recovery despite improvements in burn care over the last 10 years. The complications that burns lead to can range from delayed wound healing through to infections. Pati
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PTI leader Aleem Khan appears before NAB Lahore

PTI's Aleem Khan. Photo: File LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Aleem Khan appeared before the National Accountability Bureau Lahore in a case related to his offshore company. NAB Lahore summoned Aleem along with the details of his offshore company disclosed in the Panama Papers. The PTI leader had appeared before the probing committee in January, where he was asked to present details of Hexam Investment Overseas Limited, which according to records is owned solely by Aleem. Aleem had
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Derailment near Rahim Yar Khan halts rail traffic for over 48 hours

Construction work underway to restore the down track between Rahim Yar Khan and Tarinda. Photo: Geo News RAHIM YAR KHAN: Pakistan Railways was unable to restore the down track between Rahim Yar Khan and Tarinda 48 hours after railway traffic was suspended due to the derailment of a freight train.  According to latest reports received by Geo News, the down track is expected to be restored by Thursday afternoon.  Passengers are facing difficulties as the derailment of coaches of a freight train
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Leo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt team up for new Tarantino movie

Brad Pitt and Leo DiCaprio. Photo: File   LOS ANGELES: Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt ? two of Hollywood?s biggest stars ? are teaming up for Quentin Tarantino?s next project, a movie set in the 1969 Hollywood hippy era around the Charles Manson murders. Movie studio Sony Pictures said on Wednesday that the film was called ?Once Upon a Time in Hollywood? and will feature DiCaprio as the former star of a Western TV series, and Pitt as his longtime stunt double. It?s the first time the two acto
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Imran Khan slams 'shameful' fuel price hike

Photo: File  Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan criticised on Thursday the latest hike in petroleum prices, saying the burden of masses is being increased.  In a tweet, the PTI chief said it is shameful how the government refuses to collect taxes from the powerful. He claimed further that the government, by increasing fuel prices, allows the "Sharifs and others of their ilk to continue draining national resources" through money laundering. Pakistan Peoples Part
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Europe braced for fresh blizzards as deadly ice blast strands travellers

Women walk past a bike covered in snow during a heavy snowfall in Rome, Itlay. Photo: Reuters PARIS: Fresh heavy snowfalls and icy blizzards were expected to lash Europe Thursday as the region shivers in a deadly deep-freeze that has gripped countries from the far north to the Mediterranean south. Schools are shut and weather agencies predict the brutal cold will continue as the death toll from the freezing snap rose to around 48 since last Friday, with icy conditions causing accidents and end
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Court exempts Nawaz from today's hearing of Al Azizia, Flagship supplementary references

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Photo: File ISLAMABAD: The accountability court conducting corruption proceedings against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif began hearing the supplementary Al-Azizia Steel Mills and Flagship Investment Ltd references today.  The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had filed three interim corruption references against the Sharif family in September last year in light of the Supreme Court's July 28 verdict in the Panama Papers case. Recently, it filed supplem
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Court to hear Al Azizia, Flagship supplementary references today

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Photo: Geo News file ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has reached the accountability court for the hearing of the supplementary reference Al-Azizia Steel Mills and Flagship Investment Ltd. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had filed three interim corruption references against the Sharif family in September last year in light of the Supreme Court's July 28 verdict in the Panama Papers case. The court has summoned eight witnesses, in total
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Pietersen's 48 powers Gladiators to six-wicket win

geo_embedgallery SHARJAH: Kevin Pietersen's 48-run knock powered Quetta Gladiators to a six-wicket victory over Islamabad United in the first match of the Sharjah leg of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) on Wednesday.    Successive timely wickets by Quetta bowlers restricted Islamabad United to 134 runs in the first innings of the m
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Cabinet allows immediate balloting for 50pc quota of Hajj pilgrims for 2018

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Wednesday allowed the Ministry of Religious Affairs to immediately carry out Hajj balloting for 50 per cent of the total quota of Hajj pilgrims for 2018. The cabinet took the decision after reviewing current state of legal proceedings and the need to communicate maximum number of Hajj pilgrims to Saudi authorities before March 3, for finalising flight schedules. The secretary of Ministry of Religious Affairs briefed the meeting, presided over by Prime Ministe
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Two Pakistan Army soldiers martyred by Indian firing on LoC

RAWALPINDI: Two Pakistan Army soldiers were martyred on Wednesday when Indian forces opened unprovoked fire across the Line of Control (LoC), said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).  The latest incident of unprovoked firing occurred in the Bhimber sector of the LoC.  The martyred soldiers were identified as Sipahi Munir Chauhan and Sipahi Amir Hussain, added ISPR. The Pakistan Army responded and caused heavy damage to Indian posts in retaliatory action.  Four soldiers mart
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Free clinic opens for Yemenis impoverished by war

SANAA: Volunteer doctors are offering free medical services for a week at a clinic in the Yemeni capital Sanaa to treat people impoverished by a war which has killed thousands and wrecked the economy. The initiative, dubbed ?Breeze of Hope,? is the first by a group of nurses and doctors to conduct electrocardiograms, x-rays and other procedures that Sanaa residents cannot afford. Yemen has been hit by three years of civil war between the internationally recognised government backed by a Saudi
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´The Looming Tower´ brings 9/11 intel failures to TV

The show traces the rising threat of Al-Qaeda and puts a rarified CIA pressing for pre-emptive military action on a collision course with the law enforcement muscle of the FBI NEW YORK: Published 12 years ago, best-selling and Pulitzer-prize winning book "The Looming Tower" remains a definitive account of US intelligence failures that littered the path to the September 11, 2001 attacks. On Wednesday it airs as a television mini-series, narrating the power struggle between the CIA and the FBI,
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Facebook's EU regulator says WhatsApp yet to resolve data sharing issue

DUBLIN: WhatsApp has still not brought forward proposals to address EU regulators? concerns over the messaging service?s sharing of user data with parent company Facebook, Facebook?s European regulator said on Wednesday. The popular messaging service changed its privacy policy over a year ago to start sharing users? phone numbers and other information with Facebook. That drew widespread regulatory scrutiny across Europe, and WhatsApp subsequently suspended the data sharing for EU users. The I
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Greek PM makes small changes to cabinet, keeps finance, foreign ministers

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrives for a cabinet meeting in Athens, Greece, June 2, 2016. REUTERS   ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made limited changes to his cabinet on Wednesday after a minister bowed out in a housing allowance row, keeping his finance minister months before the country emerges from a bailout program in August. Tsipras switched some ministers around in an effort to improve government work and boost his party?s sagging popularity ratings, and also broug
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United lose momentum after Ronchi?s departure

SHARJAH: Quetta Gladiators won the toss and opted to field first against Islamabad United in the first match of the Sharjah leg of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) on Wednesday. Both the teams made changes in their squad as Misbahul Haq and JP Duminy have joined United's final playing-11, John Hastings and Mahmudullah will be playing for the Gladiators.  Fast bowler Anwar Ali gave an early breakthrough to Quetta after taking down United's opener Chadwick Walton for eight runs in his second over
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COAS interacts with army veterans in Karachi

General Qamar Javed Bajwa while interacting with Pak Army veterans in Karachi on Wednesday. ? ISPR RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday interacted with army veterans in Karachi, according to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). The army chief has been in the megapolis, where he would be visiting the Corps Headquarters Karachi on Thursday, the ISPR said in a statement. Veterans listen to the army chief as he speaks to them in Karachi on Wednes
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Egypt train collision kills at least 10

Rescue workers search at the wreckage after a train crash in Kom Hamada in the northern province of Beheira. -Reuters  CAIRO: Two trains collided Wednesday in northern Egypt killing at least 10 people and injuring 15 others, the health ministry said, the latest in a string of deadly rail accidents in the country. The crash between a freight train and a passenger train occurred at Kom Hamada in Behaira province. Footage aired by state television showed at least two carriages had derailed in a
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'Beast from the East' keeps Europe in deep freeze

A blizzard hits central London as temperatures remain below freezing. -AFP PARIS: Countries across Europe shut schools and rushed to shelter homeless people on Wednesday as a deadly blast of Siberian weather dubbed the "Beast from the East" kept the mercury far below zero. The death toll rose to at least 46 since Friday as a 75-year-old Dutchman went out to skate in the western village of Hank, only for the ice to crack beneath his feet. Three children and two adults also had to be rescued in
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Govt hikes petroleum prices, petrol goes up by Rs3.56 per litre

ISLAMABAD: The government on Wednesday hiked prices of petroleum products by as much as Rs6 per litre, according to the Ministry of Finance. The price of petrol was increased by Rs3.56, after which it would be available at Rs88.07 per litre. The price of diesel was hiked by Rs2.62 taking it to Rs98.45 per litre. The highest increase was recorded in the rate of Kerosene Oil i.e. Rs6.28. It would now be available at Rs76.46 per litre. The price of light diesel also went up by Re1, which would
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At least four security personnel martyred in Quetta suicide attack

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/6292f6afb4e5998527e37529e00e0f1b.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Mi8yOC8yMDE4IDM6Mzc6MjUgUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT03a0hPN0dacll5ZWxuUGNoTzVQWlVBPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] QUETTA: A suicide attack targetting a camp of the Frontier Corps (FC) and Levies martyred at least four security personnel on Tuesday evening, said security sources. The attack also injured at least six FC p
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?Pack of lies?: PTI rebuts claims Imran?s Bani Gala residence NOC is fake

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/c4ef80c400ea0e3b24d178db7a976c49.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Mi8yOC8yMDE4IDM6NTE6NTIgUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT0zdjhDZnJSOWtmSVZLUkJvSWJpQ1p3PT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] ISLAMABAD: Amir Kyani, president of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf?s (PTI) North Punjab chapter, on Wednesday rebutted a former local government official?s statement that the Bara Kahu union council did not issue th
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