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Former COAS Raheel Sharif gets NOC to head Saudi-led military alliance

ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: The federal government has granted a No Obejection Certificate to former Chief of Army Staff General (retd) Raheel Sharif to join a Saudi Arabia-led military alliance of Islamic countries, the defence minister said Friday. Federal Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said Sharif was given permission to head the military alliance after due process. Our correspondent in Lahore confirmed that Sharif departed for Riyadh earlier today on a special aircraft which had arrived in Lahore
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Panamagate JIT to remain as ineffective as Model Town's: Aitzaz Ahsan

ISLAMABAD: The Joint Investigation Team — ordered to probe the prime minister's involvement in Panamagate — would remain ineffective, just like the one formed for the Model Town incident has, said PPP's Aitzaz Ahsan on Friday.   "They get 14 people martyred in Model Town [Lahore], nothing happens," Ahsan said. "A JIT was formed for that incident as well but nothing has happened yet." He added they rejected the JIT that has yet to be formed. Ahsan was talking to the media after a chaotic Nation
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HBO releases brand new pictures of Game of Thrones Season 7

Game of Thrones continues to tease its fans. and this time with new pictures. Yes, it's actually true. Game of Thrones has once again given a sneak peek of the show by releasing brand new pictures from the show. While the pictures were released by HBO which provide the early look of the show, the GOT fans instantly dived into the sea of speculations. Check out the pictures below!
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Elon Musk on mission to link human brains with computers in four years: report

Tesla Inc founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk said his latest company Neuralink Corp is working to link the human brain with a machine interface by creating micron-sized devices. Neuralink is aiming to bring to the market a product that helps with certain severe brain injuries due to stroke, cancer lesion etc, in about four years, Musk said in an interview with website Wait But Why. "If I were to communicate a concept to you, you would essentially engage in consensual telepathy," Musk said i
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Panama Papers law firm boss sees tax shelter boom in US

PANAMA CITY: The co-founder of the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal says the fallout has set off a "thriving" boom in the creation of tax shelters in the United States. Juergen Mossack, who partnered with Ramon Fonseca to create the Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca, said in a document obtained Thursday by AFP that after the Panama Papers leak a year ago, the number of new tax shelters created has fallen by 30 percent in Panama and elsewhere. "However, jurisdictions such as De
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Imran Khan announces rally in Islamabad next Friday to demand PM's resignation

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has announced to hold a protest rally in the capital next Friday to demand resignation from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over the split verdict by the Supreme Court in Panama leaks case. Speaking to media after a chaotic session of the National Assembly, Khan reiterated his demand that the Prime Minister step down, following the apex court’s ruling that further investigation was needed into corruption allegations levelled by the oppos
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Chaos erupts in NA as opposition demands PM?s resignation

ISLAMABAD: The opposition leader, Khursheed Shah, demanded on Friday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigns from his position. The demand was made at a National Assembly session held Friday morning. However, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's Sheikh Aftab said Nawaz is the elected representative of the people of Pakistan and would not step down from his position. But the opposition leaders said Joint Investigation Team was a "drama" and that nothing would come out of it. Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer
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Ali Musa Gilani indicted in ephedrine quota case

ISLAMABAD: The son of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Musa Gilani, including 11 others were indicted in the ephedrine quota case on Friday. The case was being heard by the special court judge, Irum Niazi. The case has been adjourned till May 12. The Anti Narcotics Force had alleged that Musa was involved in illegal allotment of the drug, ephedrine.
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Panama verdict: PML-N observes ?Thanksgiving?, PTI marks ?Day of Riddance?

ISLAMABAD: With no clear winners or losers following the eagerly-anticipated verdict by the Supreme Court in the Panama leaks case, the ruling PML-N and the opposing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf have both decided to observe Friday as ‘Thanksgiving day’. PML-N said it would observe Friday as 'Thanksgiving Day', after the Supreme Court declared there was insufficient evidence to disqualify Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and ordered further investigations into corruption allegations levelled by the oppos
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Scientists find footprint of unknown ancient reptile in Spain

BARCELONA: Scientists have discovered a fossilised footprint from about 247 to 248 million years ago in the Pyrenees mountains in Spain that they believe was made by a previously unknown species of reptile. The footprint was found among a series of tracks made by the ancestors of crocodiles and dinosaurs – a group known as archosauromorphs, the researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology said in a statement. The scientists dubbed the new s
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Turkey's Erdogan to meet US President Trump on May 16-17

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he would meet his US counterpart Donald Trump in Washington on May 16-17, in their first meeting since Trump took office in January. Ties between the United States and Turkey have deteriorated sharply since a failed military coup in July and disagreements over US support for a Kurdish militia group fighting Daesh in Syria. Turkey sees the group as an extension of the outlawed PKK, which has waged a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish autonomy in
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Britain´s Queen Elizabeth celebrates 91st birthday

LONDON: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 91st birthday on Friday, with the world's longest-reigning monarch taking a step back from royal duties to allow the younger generation to step forward. A gun salute at London's Tower Bridge and at Hyde Park will mark the Queen's birthday, a notably more low-key affair after a year of festivities to mark her hitting 90. A thousand beacons were lit around the country on April 21, 2016, and other events last year included street parties and a pa
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Misbah, Pakistan?s redeemer from scandal to supremacy

KARACHI: Misbah-ul-Haq defied critics and his advancing age to take Pakistan from the depths of a major spot-fixing scandal to the world´s number one Test team, becoming their most successful captain along the way. The 42-year-old, who will retire at the end of the West Indies Test series starting Friday, completed Pakistan´s climb to the top of the rankings with a hard-fought draw in England in 2016, exorcising the ghosts of the tainted visit six years earlier. Derided for his cautious battin
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Neymar named among Time Magazine?s ?Most Influential?

LOS ANGELES: Barcelona´s Brazilian superstar Neymar, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James were among seven sports figures named Thursday in Time Magazine´s annual list of the world´s most influential people. Polarizing NFL free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick also appeared on the list that included pioneers, artists and leaders. Chicago Cubs general manager Theo Epstein, 2016 Olympic gold-medal gymnast Simone Biles and Ultimate Fighting Cha
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French policeman, suspect killed in Paris shooting, city on high alert

PARIS: A known terror suspect shot dead a French policeman and wounded two others Thursday on Paris´s Champs Elysees in an attack claimed by Daesh days before a presidential election. Observers had long feared bloodshed ahead of Sunday´s vote in France following a string of atrocities since 2015 and the violence is likely to thrust security to the front of voters´ minds. The shooter opened fire with an automatic weapon on a police van on the world-famous boulevard at around 9:00 pm (1900 GMT),
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French policeman killed in Paris attack claimed by Daesh

PARIS: A known terror suspect shot dead a French policeman and wounded two others Thursday on Paris´s Champs Elysees in an attack claimed by Daesh days before a presidential election. Observers had long feared bloodshed ahead of Sunday´s vote in France following a string of atrocities since 2015 and the violence is likely to thrust security to the front of voters´ minds. The shooter opened fire with an automatic weapon on a police van on the world-famous boulevard at around 9:00 pm (1900 GMT),
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MTV Video Music Awards back to LA

The MTV Video Music Awards, one of the year's most headline-grabbing pop culture events, is returning to Los Angeles. The music and youth lifestyle network announced Thursday that the gala will be broadcast live on August 27 from The Forum arena in Inglewood, which is adjacent to Los Angeles. The VMAs have alternated between New York and Los Angeles, with Miami and Las Vegas also past host cities. The awards last year took place at New York's Madison Square Garden. The VMAs recognise top music
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You say Austria, I say Australia: Airbus trips up on tricky typo

SYDNEY: Austria and Australia are 16,000 km (9,940 miles) and two keystrokes apart, as European aircraft manufacturer Airbus discovered to its chagrin this week. The Financial Times, citing fine print in the company's 2016 financial accounts, reported on Monday that Airbus was being investigated by authorities in Australia for offences such as bribery or fraud. The Airbus accounts did indeed say Australia, but a company spokesman said that was, in fact, a typographical error. "It should read
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Civil war flick set in Trump's US set for Cannes film festival

A tongue-in-cheek action movie about a Trump-era civil war between redneck Texans and East Coast liberals will feature in the Director's Fortnight sidebar at next month's Cannes film festival, organisers said Thursday. "Bushwick" -- which is set in the newly-hip district of Brooklyn of the same name -- is one of five US films in the line-up which tries to take the temperature "of a divided America". In the shoot-'em-up film, which has already been snapped up by Netflix, a force of rightwing so
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Sleep doctors call for later school start times

Starting classes at middle school and high schools no earlier than 8:30 a.m. would help teens arrive alert, healthy and ready to learn, US sleep medicine specialists say. “The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends that teens between 13 and 18 years of age should sleep 8 to 10 hours per night on a regular basis to promote optimal health,” lead author of the new AASM position statement Dr Nathaniel Watson told Reuters Health in an email. “Biology and school start times may share the blam
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German finance minister calls on US to stay engaged in global economy

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble issued a plea to the United States to remain engaged in the global economy and not to try to score gains at the expense of other countries. He also repeated a rejection of charges from Trump administration officials that Germany's trade surplus is a sign of unfair policies imposed in Berlin. "All of us have benefited greatly" from global integration and trade in recent decades, and Washington has been a leader in the process, the official said in a sp
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Five killed in violent incidents in different cities

PESHAWAR/FAISALABAD/GUJRANWALA: At least five people, including a policeman, were killed and four wounded in separate incidents in various cities late Thursday, police officials said. In Peshawar, unknown assailants opened fire on a vehicle near Patang Chowk, within the remits of Faqirabad police station. The incident left two people dead and wounded four others, police said. The injured persons were shifted to the city's Lady Reading Hospital. Policeman shot dead in Faisalabad Unknown assai
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Tesla recalling cars to address brake defect

Tesla is recalling 53,000 cars to address a manufacturing defect that could prevent parking brakes from releasing, the company said Thursday. Tesla described the move as a "voluntary" recall taken after determining that Model S and X vehicles manufactured between February and October of last year "may contain a small gear that could have been manufactured improperly by our third-party supplier," the company said on its website. There have been no reports of accidents or injuries relating to th
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Ajax hit back with 10 men to stun Schalke, Lyon win marathon shootout

ZURICH: Ajax Amsterdam, trailing 3-0 and down to 10 men, scored two late goals to overcome Schalke 04 in the Europa League quarter-finals on Thursday while Olympique Lyonnais won a 16-kick penalty shootout against Besiktas. Manchester United needed an extra-time goal from Marcus Rashford to beat Anderlecht 2-1 and go through 3-2 on aggregate while a 1-1 draw away to Racing Genk was enough to give Celta a 4-3 aggregate win. Four-times European champions Ajax, leading 2-0 from the first leg, app
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Rashford scores winner but Man United suffer Ibrahimovic blow

MANCHESTER: Manchester United needed an extra-time winner from Marcus Rashford to defeat Anderlecht 2-1 at Old Trafford on Thursday and move into the last four of the Europa League with a 3-2 aggregate victory. While the result keeps open a possible path to next season's Champions League for Jose Mourinho's side, it came at a high price with defender Marcos Rojo and forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic both suffering possibly serious knee injuries. United took the lead in the 10th minute through Henrikh
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