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Germany draws up rules of the road for driverless cars

The latest model is the first Google driverless car consisting of all the different elements needed to get around, including steering and brakes. Photo: Google/EPA  BERLIN: Protecting people rather than property or animals will be the priority under pioneering new German legal guidelines for the operation of driverless cars, the transport ministry said on Wednesday. Germany is home to some of the world's largest car companies, including Volkswagen, Daimler, and BMW, all of which are investing
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Morgan Freeman to get Screen Actors lifetime award

Morgan Freeman. Photo: AFP LOS ANGELES: Morgan Freeman, the versatile actor known for playing gods, presidents and pimps, will be honoured with the 2017 lifetime achievement award by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) at its annual ceremony in January. Freeman, 80, whose prolific career spans 50 years and more than 100 movies, will join the likes of past recipients Lily Tomlin, Debbie Reynolds and Dick Van Dyke when he gets the honour at a Los Angeles ceremony on Jan. 21. SAG announced the award on
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Trump has no understanding of Afghanistan, region's history: Imran

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan Wednesday said that US President Donald Trump has no understanding of Afghanistan and the region's history. Speaking to media here, Khan said no Afghan had been involved in 9/11 attacks in the United States, nor there was any terrorist outfit in Pakistan at that time. "We participated in this war at the behest of the US, it wasn't our war," he maintained.
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JIT treatment of Sharif family was not right, PML-N leaders hit back

ISLAMABAD: In a press conference on Wednesday, Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique said the Joint Investigation Team discriminated against the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family. Commenting on the Supreme Court's decision to disqualify former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Rafique said that despite accepting the court's decision and giving it due respect, the Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) does not agree with the decision.  Railways Minister Saad Rafique, during the p
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Pakistan wants recognition for contributions, COAS tells US Amb

RAWALPINDI: US Ambassador to Pakistan David Hale called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday at the GHQ.  According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) wing of the Pakistan Army, during the meeting, Ambassador Hale said the US values Pakistan's role in the war against terror and is seeking cooperation from Pakistan to resolve the Afghan issue.  Laying emphasis that peace in Afghanistan was important for Pakistan as for any other c
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Interior minister chairs high-level security meeting

Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal. Photo: File  ISLAMABAD: A high-level security meeting chaired by Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal is underway in Islamabad. Chaired by Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal, the meeting is being attended by Chief Minister Punjab Shehbaz Sharif, Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah, Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak, and Chief Minister of Balochistan Sanaullah Zehri. Head of National Counter Terrorism Authority Ahsan Ghani, DG IB Aftab Sultan, Governor KP
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Bahria Town, KMC sign garbage-lifting agreement

Bahria Town chief Malik Riaz and Mayor Karachi Waseem Akhtar address ceremony in Karachi KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and Bahria Town have signed an agreement for providing garbage lifting services in the metropolis. This was announced by Bahria Town chairman Malik Riaz and Mayor Karachi Waseem Akhtar in a ceremony held here. Akhtar said that Malik Riaz decided to work with KMC after seeing the city lined with heaps of garbage and dirt. ?I consider this day a lucky day [
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Pakistan?s six largest sugar mills default on Rs2.65bn

The country?s six largest sugar mills owe Rs2.65 billion to the Trading Corporation of Pakistan, the government?s trading wing, an audit report said. In a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee, it was revealed that Tandlianwala Sugar Mills Limited, owned by Humayun Akhtar Khan, is the biggest defaulter and owed 1.15 billion to the government. According to the audit report, TMK Sugar Mills, owned by Mohsin Tabani, is at the second place and has defaulted by 640.74 million, followed by Abdul
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Two FC personnel martyred in Turbat attack

QUETTA: Two Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were martyred when their check-post was attacked in Turbat area of Balochistan on Wednesday. Security officials said three FC personnel were also injured in the attack, adding that the attackers fled as FC personnel returned fire following the assault.  The injured were shifted to a hospital for treatment.  Following the incident, authorities launched a search operation to look for the attackers.  The FC, a paramilitary force, is deployed across the
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Sharapova determined to prove point on US Open return

Sharapova makes her first Grand Slam appearance next week since serving a 15-month doping suspension NEW YORK: Former world number one Maria Sharapova makes her first Grand Slam appearance next week since serving a 15-month doping suspension, bringing renewed passion and resolve to the US Open. The 30-year-old Russian was given a wildcard into the tournament by the US Tennis Association (USTA), a move critics complained about earlier in the season but another key step in the road back for the f
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?Shameful? to accuse parties of supporting MQM-London for not attending APC: Khuhro

PPP leader Nisar Ahmed Khuhro. Photo: Geo News KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples? Party (PPP) leader Nisar Ahmed Khuhro said on Wednesday that it is shameful to accuse any political party of supporting Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)?s London faction on the reasoning that it did not attend the all-parties conference of MQM-Pakistan the day before. Khuhro said that neither did the PPP receive any formal invite for the now-postponed multi-party conference nor did the MQM inform them about the agenda of t
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Pakistan plans to raise $500 mn to $1 bn via sukuk or Eurobond: sources

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan plans to raise between $500 million to $1 billion in debt via an Islamic sukuk bond or a Eurobond later this year, two government sources told Reuters, amid growing concerns about the country´s dwindling foreign currency reserves. In the annual budget announced in May, the government said it would raise $1 billion via a sukuk bond in the 2017/2018 fiscal year (July-June). Pakistan in October 2016 raised $1 billion via an oversubscribed US dollar sukuk. Two officials at the
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At least 30 dead as air strike hits hotel in Yemen: reports

DUBAI: At least 30 people were killed in an air strike that hit a hotel north of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, the armed Houthi movement said. Al Jazeera television said dozens of people were killed and wounded in the attack in the Arhab area. A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, which is fighting the Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen, was not immediately available for comment. Reuters was not immediately able to independently confirm the reports. The Houthis, who control Sanaa and n
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Pakistan?s sacrifices in fight against terrorism unparalleled in world, says Iqbal

Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Wednesday that if an elected prime minister can be punished by the courts than a person who violated the Constitution can also be punished for his crime. Referring to former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, the interior minister said that he can give interviews to TV channels but cannot appear before the court [where he is facing charges of treason, among others]. The government has been directly and indi
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Jirga marries off minor girl to 80-year-old man in Rahim Yar Khan

RAHIM YAR KHAN: Yet another minor girl fell victim to the barbaric practice of ?vani? when a jirga ordered to marry off a 10-year-old to an 80-year-old man in Rahim Yar Khan. The decision was taken to 'punish' the girl's grandfather, Hanif, who chose to enter into a love marriage with a woman three years ago, angering the elders of the family. The jirga, as a result, decided to compensate for the ?love marriage? by declaring ?vani? for the minor girl. According to the girl?s father Ashraf Khok
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Torso found in Denmark belongs to submarine journalist: police

A photo of Swedish journalist Kim Wall who was aboard a submarine 'UC3 Nautilus' before it sank. Photo: Reuters  COPENHAGEN: Police on Wednesday identified a headless female torso washed ashore in Copenhagen as that of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who they believe was killed by a Danish inventor on board his home-made submarine. Wall, who was researching a story on inventor Peter Madsen, went missing after he took her out to sea in his 17-metre submarine on August 10. He denies a charge of mur
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Linkin Park plans public memorial for late singer

The late Chester Bennington NEW YORK: Rockers Linkin Park said Tuesday that they were planning a public memorial for frontman Chester Bennington, a month after he committed suicide. The band in a Facebook post revealed that the "special public event" would take place in Los Angeles, saying that more details would be announced later. "Just wanted to say thank you to all our fans around the world for the tremendous outpouring of love, which has strengthened our spirit during this incredibly diff
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Oil prices fall on concerns of oversupply as Libyan output recovers

SINGAPORE: Oil prices fell on Wednesday, weighed down by concerns of oversupply as Libyan output improves and as US. gasoline inventories rose despite the peak summer driving season. Brent crude futures LCOc1, the international benchmark for oil prices, were at $51.64 per barrel at 0721 GMT, down 23 cents, or 0.4 per cent, from their last close. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures CLc1 were at $47.59 a barrel, down 24 cents, or 0.5 per cent. Libya's Sharara oil field, the country's
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Will not accept constitutional amendment meant to protect one person: Awan

Babar Awan talks to media outside ECP ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Babar Awan on Wednesday said that his party will not accept any constitutional amendment introduced to protect merely one person, adding that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is left with no option to escape. Articles 62, 63 require parliament's review: PM Khaqan Abbasi Prime minister says he will hold consultations with all political parties for amendment in Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution
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Trump unshackled: President defends Charlottesville response at raucous rally

President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, US, Aug 22, 2017. Photo: Reuters  PHOENIX: US President Donald Trump revved up supporters on Tuesday with a defence of his response to a white supremacist-organised rally in Virginia and a promise to shut down the US government if necessary to build a wall along the border with Mexico. Under fire for saying "both sides" were to blame for the violence between white supremacists and left-wing counter protesters in Virginia on
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Typhoon batters Hong Kong, south China; streets flooded, flights canceled

Waves triggered by Typhoon Hato are seen in Hong Kong, China August 23, 2017. Photo: Reuters HONG KONG: Typhoon Hato, a maximum category 10 storm, slammed into Hong Kong on Wednesday lashing the Asian financial hub with wind and rain that uprooted trees and forced most businesses to close, while in some places big waves flooded seaside streets. There were reports of 34 people injured in Hong Kong while in the city of Macau, across the Pearl River estuary, three people were killed, authorities t
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Five killed, dozens injured in suicide bombing in Afghanistan

LASHKAR GAH: At least five people were killed and 42 wounded when a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb near a police headquarters in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Wednesday, officials said. The explosion struck a crowd of policemen and soldiers who had gathered to collect their pay in Helmand's capital city, Lashkar Gah, provincial police chief Abdul Ghafar Safai said. Two local women, two soldiers, and a child died in the blast and their bodies were taken to the hospital, along with mo
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SECP submits record of Dar?s companies in NAB

LAHORE: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has submitted records of companies owned by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, his wife, two sons and daughter-in-law in the National Accountability Bureau?s (NAB) Lahore office. The records, required as part of the bureau?s investigation into Dar?s assets in light of the Panama papers verdict, were submitted by SECP Joint Director Ali Adnan to NAB?s combined investigation team. The seven companies are: CNG Pakistan, Spencer Distributi
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NA-120 by-poll: ECP issues notice to federal minister Pervaiz Malik

Federal Commerce Minister Pervaiz Malik. Photo: File  ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued on Wednesday a notice to Federal Commerce Minister Muhammad Pervaiz Malik for violation of rules and regulations in the NA-120 by-poll. Acting on the request of Pakistan Peoples? Party candidate in the constituency, Faisal Mir, Malik has been sent a notice for running the electoral campaign of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz candidate Begum Kulsoom Nawaz. The petitioner alleged that
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Won't support amendments to Article 62, 63 to 'save one person': Khursheed Shah

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/a145636e4e3a39135687c2e6c13969ec.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9OC8yMy8yMDE3IDY6NDM6NTUgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1uUWRGMkdoS09wMWNFRTBGZklTWHBBPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] ISLAMABAD: Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah has said the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will not support any amendment to Articles 62, 63 of the Constitution just to ?save one person?
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