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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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Government taking measures to expand tax net: Miftah Ismail

ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister's Adviser on Finance, Economic Affairs and Revenue Miftah Ismail said on Monday that the government is taking several measures for enhancing the tax net to increase revenue with the consultation of all stakeholders. "The mobilisation of domestic resources through reforms in taxation is essential to ensure sustainable financing of development as the government would not depend on foreign loans," he said in an interview with a private news channel. Appreciating his
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Obama lists Mohsin Hamid's Exit West as one of the best books of 2017

Former US president Barack Obama included Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid?s Exit West in the list of one of best books he read in 2017. In a social media post, he shared: ?During my presidency, I started a tradition of sharing my reading lists and playlists. It was a nice way to reflect on the works that resonated with me and lift up authors and artists from around the world. With some extra time on my hands this year to catch up, I wanted to share the books and music that I enjoyed most. From
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How did Bollywood celebs celebrate New Years?

2018 is here and Bollywood celebrities welcomed in the New Year with style. Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan spent the New Year in Switzerland along with their son Taimur. Pictures shared by designer Manish Malhotra showed the couple looking stunning.  Here's one of Taimur smiling for the camera.  Big B ? Amitabh Bachchan celebrated the New Year with his family and particularly enjoyed taking some pictures with his grandchildren.
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Nawaz fears Shehbaz?s ascent in Saudi circles, claims Aitzaz Ahsan

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/5f8fad5344af42fb9b47e55d08935d42.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9MS8xLzIwMTggODowODoyNiBBTSZoYXNoX3ZhbHVlPUZJbWo4eUFqeWFycjcrMGYzbU90TXc9PSZ2YWxpZG1pbnV0ZXM9NjAmaWQ9MQ== style=center] LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Aitzaz Ahsan claimed on Monday that former premier Nawaz Sharif and brother Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif are undergoing a ?conflict?, explaining that Nawaz is
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First supermoon of 2018 to light up skies tonight

The moon will appear to be 16 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter tonight. Photo: nationalgeographic.com  KARACHI: The first supermoon of the New Year, Wolf Moon, will be visible to people tonight (Monday night), confirmed Institute of Space and Planetary Astrophysics Professor Dr Javed Iqbal. The moon will appear to be 16 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter tonight, remarked Dr Iqbal. He also shared that two supermoons will be visible this month; the next month will become visible on
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Title of Shah Rukh Khan?s new movie to be revealed today

The title of Shah Rukh Khan?s new movie will be revealed today (Monday) at 5PM. The actor announced this to his fans on Twitter. The film directed by Aanand L Rai also stars Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma. This is the first collaboration between Shah Rukh Khan and Aanand L Rai. Shah Rukh Khan who is known as the King of Bollywood is looking to bounce back from a year where he failed to deliver a blockbuster hit. 2018 releases for Khan Raees and Jab Harry Met Sejal were only modera
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India rules out possibility of cricket series with Pakistan

Indian captain Virat Kohli shakes hands with Pakistani players after a match in June 2017. Photo: AFP NEW DELHI: India has once again made clear its stance that, for the time being, there will be no bilateral cricket series between the two countries, even at neutral venues.  According to a report in the Indian media, Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj indicated the government's stance at a meeting of the consultative committee attached to the ministry that offered a review of rel
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WhatsApp messaging service returns after global outage

A man poses with a smartphone in front of displayed WhatsApp logo in this illustration September 14, 2017. Photo: Reuters   WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered a global outage for about an hour on Sunday before the problem was fixed. ?WhatsApp users around the world experienced a brief outage today that has now been resolved?, a WhatsApp spokeswoman said in an emailed statement. The cause of the outage, about an hour long, was not immediately known. In India,
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Kim vows North will mass-produce nukes, missiles

Pyongyang dramatically ramped up its efforts to become a nuclear power in 2017, despite a raft of international sanctions and increasingly bellicose rhetoric from the United States-AFP SEOUL: Kim Jong-Un vowed North Korea would mass-produce nuclear warheads and missiles in a defiant New Year message Monday suggesting he would continue to accelerate a rogue weapons programme that has stoked international tensions. Kim, who said Monday that he always had a nuclear launch button on his desk, has
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Liverpool car park blaze destroys hundreds of vehicles on New Year's Eve

Firefighters tackle a fire during a serious blaze in a multi-storey car park in Liverpool, Britain, December 31, 2017. REUTERS LIVERPOOL: Firefighters in the northern English city of Liverpool were battling a huge fire at a car park on Sunday that destroyed hundreds of vehicles and prompted the evacuation of multiple buildings in the surrounding area. Police said all cars inside the multi-storey Kings Dock car park, which has a capacity of 1,600 vehicles, had been destroyed, and owners should c
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Eight, including LEAs personnel, injured in successive bomb blasts in Chaman

A scene of the incident CHAMAN: Around eight people, including police and Levies officials, were injured on Monday morning in back to back bomb blasts on Chaman?s Mall Road. According to the police, the first blast occurred near the office of the Special Branch on Mall Road in which one person was injured.  In the second blast, which occurred near a police picket, around seven people were injured, including three police and Levies officials.  The Mall Road has been closed for traffic after t
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Govt dropped ?inflation bomb? on New Year: Bilawal slams hike in fuel prices

Pakistan Peoples Party Chairperson Bilawal slammed the hike in fuel prices on New Year and remarked that government dropped an ?inflation bomb? on the nation. Photo: File   KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari slammed the hike in fuel prices on New Year and remarked that the government dropped an ?inflation bomb? on the nation. He further remarked that the government is resorting to open rivalry and robbing the people of their due rights. Reacting to the remarks
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Aerial firing on New Year?s Eve injures 19 in Karachi

Youth caught on camera while drive-by aerial firing (Photo:File) KARACHI: Nineteen people, including a woman, were injured in various parts of the city  aerial firing during the New Year celebrations, in violation of clear orders by the Sindh government. Majority of firing incidents took place in the Nazimabad area. The wounded have been shifted to various hospitals for treatment. Chief Minister and Home Minister Sindh had ordered police to take strict action against those resorting to aeria
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Saudi Arabia hikes gasoline prices

Diesel rates for trucks were left unchanged. Photo: Saudi Gazette/File  DUBAI: Saudi Arabia raised local gasoline prices on Monday, state news agency SPA reported. The initiative, aimed at more efficient energy use, coincides with an ambitious reform plan to boost sources of revenue and wean the world?s top crude exporter away from oil. It said Octane 91 will sell for 1.37 Riyals a litre, up from 0.75 Riyals, while Octane 95 will sell for 2.04 riyals a litre, up from 0.90 Riyals.  Diesel rate
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These are political cases, observes CJP in hearing against Nawaz as PML-N president

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar observed on Monday that the petitions challenging Nawaz Sharif?s appointment as Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz are political in nature. A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar is hearing several petitions against Nawaz's presidency, including those by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid, MNA Jamshaid Dasti, National Party and the Pakistan Peoples Party. The petitions s
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Reports of Nawaz-Saudi deal ?baseless?: spokesman

The statement said that Nawaz has had long-standing relations with the country and there is no truth in these reports ISLAMABAD: The spokesman for former premier Nawaz Sharif has condemned as ?baseless? reports and claims by politicians that he is in contact with Saudi Arabia to escape accountability, and said Nawaz accepted court verdicts and is facing cases. The statement said that Nawaz has had long-standing relations with the country and there is no truth in these reports. He has even used
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Hundreds of Indonesian couples ring in the new year at mass wedding

Couples take part in a mass wedding organised by the city government as part of New Year's Eve celebrations in Jakarta, Indonesia. Photo: REUTERS  JAKARTA: Hundreds of Indonesian couples celebrated New Year?s Eve on Sunday night by tying the knot in a mass wedding in the capital Jakarta. Nearly 450 couples gathered in a large tent in the city centre just hours before midnight to pray with their families before signing marriage certificates. Government officials oversaw each brief ceremony. ?W
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Latest 'Star Wars' passes $1 billion mark in third week: Disney

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is expected to surpass another Disney film, Beauty and the Beast, as the year´s top-earning film. Photo: Star Wars: The Last Jedi   LOS ANGELES: The latest episode in Disney´s colossally popular Star Wars series has passed the $1 billion mark in worldwide revenues after just three weeks, a Disney spokesperson confirmed Sunday. That helped provide a positive spin to what has been a year of ups and downs for Hollywood, while giving a clear boost to Disney, now the only s
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Costa Rican plane crash kills 12, including 10 US citizens

SAN JOSE: A Costa Rican plane crashed into woodland off a popular tourist beach on Sunday, killing 10 US citizens and two local pilots, the Costa Rican government said. The accident occurred in the mountainous area off the Punta Islita beach town in the province of Guanacaste, about 230 km (140 miles) west of the capital of San Jose. Enio Cubillo, director of Costa Rica?s civil aviation agency, said the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan aircraft operated by local company Nature Air had crashed minutes
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Deputy killed, six wounded in Colorado shooting

WASHINGTON: A sheriff´s deputy was killed and six others, including four deputies, were wounded Sunday in what police called a "disturbance" in a residential suburb near Denver, Colorado. The lone suspect was killed at the end of a two-hour standoff at an apartment complex in Highlands Ranch, 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of Denver, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock told reporters in a televised briefing. Spurlock said he believed the suspect, whose identity had not yet been confirmed, was
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Iran protesters rally again, defying warning of crackdown

LONDON: Anti-government protesters demonstrated in Iran on Sunday in defiance of a warning by authorities of a tough crackdown, extending for a fourth day one of the most audacious challenges to the clerical leadership since pro-reform unrest in 2009. Giving his first public reaction to the protests, President Hassan Rouhani appealed for calm, saying Iranians had the right to protest and criticize the authorities. But he warned, according to official media: ?The government will show no toleran
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New year celebrations inductive of our achievements as nation, says DG ISPR

ISLAMABAD: Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Asif Ghafoor in his new year message tweeted that the jubilations and celebrations we see across the country tonight are indicative of our achievements and resolve as a nation. He added that as a nation, the country owes the achievement who gave their blood and lives for us. Remembering and thanking our ?Ghazis & Shuhada? for their noble sacrifices. Separately, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed
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Nation to decide country?s fate in 2018, says Nawaz

ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his new year message said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz completed milestone projects despite facing negative politics and political instability. Nawaz said that census was held after 19 years, positive developments were made in regards to mainstreaming Federal Administrative Tribal Areas (FATA), more than 10,000 megawatts were added in national grid by the federal government. He said that in 2018, the nation will decide from their vote whet
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2018 to be exciting as nation on threshold of change: Imran

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has urged the nation to thank Almighty Allah for making 2017 a year that has given a hope for justice as the entrenched corruption mafia crumbled because of the Supreme Court the [Panama case] joint investigation team (JIT). In a series of tweets on Sunday, Khan said the Supreme Court and Panama case JIT brought the powerful under the rule of law. He said: "The unravelling of the corrupt mafia has led to Sharif's cry of despair: 'Muj
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Pope, in year-end message, says 2017 was marred by war and lies

Pope Francis arrives to lead the First Vespers and Te Deum prayer in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican December 31, 2017. REUTERS VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis in his year-end message said that 2017 had been marred by war, lies and injustice, and he urged people to take responsibility for their actions. At his last public event of the year, an evening vespers service in St. Peter?s Basilica, the pontiff said that humanity had ?wasted and wounded? the year ?in many ways with works of death, wi
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