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  1. Waqas Dar
    Photo: Getty Images LONDON: Three-time champion Novak Djokovic admitted on Saturday that he has rediscovered his passion for tennis after making the Wimbledon fourth round for the 10th time.

    The former world number one eased to a 6-4, 6-1, 7-6 (7/2) win over Ernests Gulbis of Latvia to set up a last-16 clash with unseeded Adrian Mannarino of France.
    It´s a far cry from 12 months ago when Djokovic was bundled out in the third round by Sam Querrey, a defeat which precipitated a decline which saw him relieved of all the four majors he had held at the same time.
    On Saturday, his former coach Boris Becker said he had witnessed enough in the first week of Wimbledon to confirm that the Serb has rediscovered his love of the sport.
    "Boris knows me very well. So he´s right when he says that the passion is back," said Djokovic.
    "I´ve been feeling better on the court in the last couple of months.
    "But especially on the grass court this season so far, every match that I´ve played, I felt very comfortable.
    "When you´re playing well, then you´re feeling well, then you´re even more motivated and passionate to see how far it can take you."
    Second seed Djokovic will take a 1-0 career lead over left-handed Mannarino into Monday´s last-16 clash.
    Twelve months ago he defeated the Frenchman in the second round.
    "I´m delighted with the performance. I thought I raised the level of tennis," said Djokovic after making the second week without dropping a set.
    "Comparing to the first couple of matches and the last couple of weeks I think this was the most focused I was on the court."
    Gulbis, now ranked at a lowly 589 after once reaching 10 in the world in 2014 when he defeated Roger Federer on his way to the French Open semi-finals, fired 37 unforced errors to Djokovic´s meagre 12.
    "It´s not easy obviously playing on grass against a big server like that," said Djokovic of his childhood friend Gulbis who he has now defeated six times in seven meetings.
    "I´m very pleased with the way I´ve felt, the way I´ve played."


  2. Waqas Dar
    Supporters rally in favour of their candidate in Hunza Nagar. Photo: Geo News GILGIT: Voting for the by-poll at Gilgit Baltistan Legislative Assembly-4 in Hunza-Nagar began at 8am today and will conclude at 5pm.
    There are 18,505 registered voters in the constituency, which fell vacant in February 2017 after the incumbent representative, Islami Tehreek Pakistan?s (ITP) Muhammad Ali Sheikh passed away due to cardiac arrest.
    A total of 40 polling stations have been set up in the constituency, with 20 set up for men, 16 for women and four combined.
    A strong contest is expected between ITP?s Mohammad Baqar Haider and Pakistan Peoples Party?s Javed Hussain.
    The number of registered male voters is 10,018 and female voters 8,870 in the constituency. 


  3. Waqas Dar
    Maybe the signature handshakes have gotten too old.
    US President Donald Trump on Saturday doubled back ? twice! ? to fetch the hat of a Marine who stood guard as the former was about to go aboard his aircraft.
    The incident occurred at the Andrews Air Force Base, near Washington, where Trump hopped from the inbound plane from Germany ? after G20 summit ? to his presidential helicopter.

    Trump retrieved the white hat from the ground, went to put it back on the Marine's head, and patted him on his arm, when the strong winds blew it off again.
    The American president then went back one more time to get the officer's hat but handed it to a fellow officer, allowing to climb the stairs up into his helicopter.

    The soldier remained strictly in his position ? showing discipline ? and didn't move once, not even to look where his hat had flown off to.
    Trump was attending the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, for the past two days. There, he met with global leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.


  4. Waqas Dar
    With "Dangal" smashing records, Salman suffering a rare flop and Shah Rukh without a major hit in four years, the crown for now is firmly placed on Aamir´s head. Photo: AFP/file MUMBAI: Three Indian actors sharing a surname have ruled Bollywood box offices across three decades, but the success of wrestling blockbuster "Dangal" means it´s Aamir who´s currently king of the Khans.
    Known as the "Khans of Bollywood", Aamir, Shah Rukh, and Salman have been the undoubted superstars of the Hindi film industry since the mid-1990s, taking it in turns to reign supreme.
    But with "Dangal" smashing records, Salman suffering a rare flop and Shah Rukh without a major hit in four years, the crown for now is firmly placed on Aamir´s head.
    "The Khans used to be on a par but Aamir has moved ahead and Shah Rukh is kind of lagging behind recently," film trade analyst Ramesh Bala said of the trio who all turn 52 this year and who are not related.
    "Dangal" has set new and previously unimaginable parameters for the box office potential of a Bollywood movie since it was first released in India in December last year.
    It quickly became the highest-grossing Bollywood film ever, knocking another of Aamir´s movies off the top spot, and has made close to 20 billion rupees ($310 million) worldwide.
    Khan plays the role of wrestling coach Mahavir Singh Phogat who defies the odds by raising his daughters Geeta and Babita Phogat to become champion wrestlers. Geeta won gold for India at the 2010 Commonwealth Games while Babita topped the podium at the 2014 edition.
    Critics say the movie resonated because it was a patriotic story about a triumphant underdog that dealt with India´s skewed attitude towards girls, and credit a large part of Aamir´s success to his careful choosing of movies with a message.
    "Aamir is one person who really puts a lot of thought and effort into selecting films that are relevant to an Indian audience. There are very few actors who really do enough of that," film distributor Akshaye Rathi told AFP.
    Audiences lapped up Aamir´s 2014 satirical science fiction comedy "PK", number two on the all-time Bollywood grossing list, for its questioning of religious superstitions.
    His 2009 hit "3 Idiots" appealed for its coming of age tale about students struggling to deal with the pressure of becoming engineers.
    ´Genius´
    Rathi also points to the fact that Aamir does one film every two years on average, while Salman and Shah Rukh regularly release two a year.
    "Aamir has been very consistent for a very long time. He doesn´t do as many films as Shah Rukh or Salman and the more films you do the higher the chance that one misses," Rathi explained.
    Salman´s annual Eid holiday release is usually a blockbuster shoo-in, but the latest, "Tubelight" bombed.
    Critics panned the script and said the star´s portrayal of a "village idiot" failed to resonate with his largely young Indian male fan base.
    Bala blames Shah Rukh´s failure to register a hit since "Chennai Express" in 2013 on "experimenting with different genres", including romance, action and drama.
    Aamir is lauded for taking on challenging roles. For "Dangal" he gained and then lost again 25 kilogrammes (55 pounds) in weight while cinemagoers adored his portrayal of a humanoid alien stranded on Earth in "PK".
    "As a star he doesn´t enjoy so much of a fan following as he enjoys the trust of the audience for his craft. People believe at the back of their minds that if Aamir appears in a film there will be something, different, something novel in it," said Rathi.
    "Dangal" has made around $180 million more than "PK" in global sales thanks to a record-breaking run in the hugely profitable Chinese market, where Aamir has worked hard at building his brand, becoming the biggest Indian star there.
    "Aamir has time and again proven his marketing genius and his genius when it comes to choosing the right script, delivering a terrific performance and enthralling the audience," said Rathi.


  5. Waqas Dar
    In March, President Donald Trump  signed a bill authorising $19.5 billion in funding for NASA. Photo: REUTERS/file  CAPE CANAVERAL: The White House has championed a new era of US leadership in space, but its aspirations are complicated by tight budgets, vacancies in top posts and the rising role of private industry in aerospace innovation, experts say.
    During a speech Thursday at NASA´s Kennedy Space Center, Vice President Mike Pence delighted hundreds of space agency employees and contractors by pledging that "under President Trump, we will achieve more in space than we ever thought possible," including a "return to the Moon" and "American boots on the face of Mars."
    But as the flag-waving enthusiasm faded, some were left wondering what exactly Pence meant.
    ´Moon´ could mean anything -- commercial, robotic, international or otherwise, said Phil Larson, a White House space adviser under president Barack Obama and formerly an official with privately owned SpaceX.
    Larson described a series of recent space-themed orations by Pence as "no cake, just icing."
    John Logsdon, former head of the George Washington University Space Policy Institute, agreed.
    "I think (Thursday´s) speech was, of course, short on substance because there is no substance," Logsdon said.
    No one in top slots
    Some are skeptical of the White House´s soaring rhetoric because crucial leadership positions remain unfilled.
    For instance, the US space agency set a dubious record on the Fourth of July: the longest span of time that a newly elected president has gone without naming a new NASA chief.
    The previous record was a 164-day stretch in 1971 under President Richard Nixon.
    NASA is currently headed by an "acting administrator" -- engineer Robert Lightfoot, who took over when former astronaut Charles Bolden, an Obama appointee, stepped down.
    Also empty is the chief of the White House´s Office of Science and Technology and Policy, once a key player in crafting NASA´s agenda.
    Revived space council
    It is common for incoming presidents to review their predecessor´s space plans and issue a course correction early on.
    Although Trump may be late in the process, "he has now created a mechanism for taking a look at the current program," Logsdon explained.
    That mechanism is the revival of the National Space Council -- announced last month -- accompanied by an external advisory group of industry experts.
    Pence, a long-time space enthusiast, is heading the National Space Council, now in its third iteration after last shutting down in 1993.
    The council aims to guide space policy by including the secretaries of state, defense, commerce, transportation and homeland security, along with intelligence and military leaders and the NASA chief.
    The council will hold its first meeting before summer is out, Pence said.
    Follow the money
    After that, the dollars allocated to NASA -- and the projects they fund -- will tell much of the story.
    "Any big changes are likely to come next year," Logsdon said.
    Trump´s proposed budget for NASA -- which has yet to be hammered out by lawmakers -- called for $19.1 billion in spending, a 0.8 percent cut from the previous year.
    The proposal canceled plans to drag a small asteroid into orbit around the Moon, where astronauts could study it at length; it also erased several Earth science missions and axed a NASA education office -- but it laid out no new visions.
    The next budget for NASA is to be unveiled in February 2018.
    "Everybodyis waiting, everybody is impatient in the space community," said Logsdon.
    How big a private role?
    On one side are champions of the old way of doing business, whereby NASA oversaw the building of rockets and spaceships, paid for by lucrative US government contracts.
    A modern-day example is aerospace giant Lockheed Martin being paid billions by the US government to construct NASA´s Orion deep-space capsule, which may one day carry humans to Mars.
    On the other side is the burgeoning private space industry, with players like SpaceX and Boeing building the next generation of spaceships to ferry astronauts to low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station.
    Already, SpaceX and another private company, Orbital ATK, have received billion-dollar-plus NASA contracts to help build cargo ships to tote supplies to the orbiting outpost, but the companies took on a large share of the funding -- and the risk -- themselves.
    It remains unclear which way of doing business in space will win out under Trump.
    His call for the US to exit the Paris climate accord angered the CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, who walked away from his advisory role to the president after the announcement earlier this year.
    But analysts doubt that SpaceX -- or other top players -- would refuse a spot at the table when it comes to forging the future of US spaceflight.
    Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, an industry group, said he was "upbeat" about the new National Space Council.
    "I think there is a great role that commercial industry will play in helping shape the national agenda moving forward."


  6. Waqas Dar
    Switzerland's Roger Federer returns against Germany's Mischa Zverev at Wimbledon on July 8, 2017. Photo: AFP  LONDON: Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic marched into the business end of Wimbledon as they reached the last 16, while women's top seed Angelique Kerber scraped through on Saturday.
    Seven-time champion Federer made it into the fourth round for the 15th time with a 7-6 (7/3), 6-4, 6-4 win over Germany's Mischa Zverev.
    The Swiss great said: "I'm very happy now to sit back, relax a day and come back strong, hopefully, on Monday", when he faces Grigor Dimitrov, who has been nicknamed "Baby Fed".
    "Every time I play against him he's stronger than the time before.
    "I'm ready for a tough one but sure again, another exciting match because he's a great shotmaker."
    All the men's and women's fourth round matches take place on Monday.
    Third seed Federer was joined by Djokovic, who fended off being a break down in the first set and taken to a tie break in the third before beating Ernests Gulbis 6-4, 6-1, 7-6 (7/2).
    "I'm delighted with the performance. I thought I raised the level of tennis," said three-time champion Djokovic after making the second week without dropping a set.
    The second seed next faces Adrian Mannarino, who overturned French compatriot and 15th seed Gael Monfils in a five-setter.
    Kerber pushed to the brink
    Kerber looked mightily relieved after saving her world number one status in a tense 4-6, 7-6 (7/2), 6-4 win over US world number 70 Shelby Rogers.
    The German star was a break down in the second set but did just enough to claw her way into Monday's fourth round where she will face Garbine Muguruza.
    "It was for sure a really important win for me, especially because it was a really up-and-down match," Kerber said.
    In a bizarre interlude, Sam Querrey took one game to beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
    Their match was suspended Friday at 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (7/5), 1-6, 6-5 due to bad light. They came back Saturday but it was all over in minutes as the US 24th seed broke serve.
    "My opponent was good today. He did three, four good shots, and yeah, that's it," said Tsonga.
    Querrey said: "It's really the most anti-climactic way to finish a match."
    He faces South Africa's Kevin Anderson for a quarter-final spot.
    Canadian sixth seed Milos Raonic, last year's beaten finalist, downed Spain's 25th seed Albert Ramos-Vinolas 7-6 (7/3), 6-4, 7-5 to book a fouth round spot against Alexander Zverev.
    The German 10th seed beat Austrian qualifier Sebastian Ofner 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.
    Dimitrov given a leg-up
    Bulgarian 13th seed Dimitrov had an easy ride when Israeli Sela was forced to pull out at 6-1, 6-1 down after struggling with a right thigh injury.
    Tomas Berdych, the 2010 finalist, beat David Ferrer in straight sets.
    The Czech 11th seed will play Austrian eighth seed Dominic Thiem who saw off Jared Donaldson of the United States in straight sets.
    Spain's world number 15 Muguruza, the 2015 runner-up, comfortably beat Sorana Cirstea 6-2, 6-2.
    The out-of-sorts Romanian had witnessed the horrific knee injury suffered Thursday by her last opponent, Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
    The American wept as she relived the sickening injury which has left her facing surgery to repair a dislocated knee.
    "I have had lots of injuries in my career but this is definitely the worst," she said Saturday from her hospital room in Wimbledon.
    "I will be out for a while but I will get through this."
    Wozniacki, Radwanska dig deep
    Wozniacki dug herself out of trouble when pushed to the brink by Anett Kontaveit, but the Danish fifth seed eventually beat the world number 38 from Estonia 3-6, 7-6 (7/3), 6-2.
    She next plays 24th seed Coco Vandeweghe, considered by some as a dark horse for the title, who beat US compatriot Alison Riske 6-2, 6-4.
    The deft Agnieszka Radwanska, the 2012 beaten finalist, came back from a set down to beat Swiss 19th seed Timea Bacsinszky 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 on Centre Court.
    The Polish ninth seed next faces Russian eighth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova, the 2004 US and 2009 French Open champion, who cruised through with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Slovenian qualifier Polona Hercog.
    Croatia's Petra Martic, ranked 135, is the last qualifier still going at Wimbledon after beating Kazakh wild card Zarina Diyas 7-6 (8/6), 6-1.
    Martic next faces Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova, who eased into the last 16 of a major for the first time with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine.


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    Actor Shia LaBeouf exits the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse following an appearance in New York, March 20, 2015. Photo: REUTERS/file  WASHINGTON: US film star Shia LaBeouf was arrested in Georgia early Saturday after becoming "aggressive" towards a police officer and behaving in a "disorderly" fashion, authorities said.

    According to the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department, LaBeouf was arrested in the early hours after he approached a bystander and a police officer, asking for a cigarette.
    He was released hours later after posting a $7,000 bond, Pete Nichols, spokesman for the Chatham County Sheriff´s Department told AFP.
    It is the latest in a series of arrests for "Transformers" star LaBeouf, with at least one past incident also involving "disorderly" behavior.
    "When LaBeouf wasn´t given a cigarette, he became disorderly, using profanities and vulgar language in front of the women and children present," the police department said in a statement.
    The officer told to LaBeouf to leave the area but he refused and grew aggressive, the statement read.
    When the officer attempted to place LaBeouf under arrest, he ran to a nearby hotel before eventually getting arrested in the lobby.
    LaBeouf was charged with obstruction, disorderly conduct, and public drunkenness.
    LaBeouf is in Georgia to film the "Peanut Butter Falcon," a movie co-starring Dakota Johnson.
    Also known for films such as "Disturbia" (2007) and Lars von Trier´s "Nymphomaniac" (2013), LaBeouf was arrested in January when he allegedly grabbed and pushed a man outside the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, where the film star had set up an anti-Donald Trump installation.
    LaBeouf has said the charges against him were subsequently dropped.
    He was also arrested in June 2014 at a Broadway musical after causing a disturbance in the theater.


  8. Waqas Dar
    An Air India aircraft takes off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad, India, July 7, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS India is considering selling state-owned Air India in parts to make it attractive to potential buyers, as it reviews options to divest the loss-making flagship carrier, several government officials familiar with the situation said.
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet gave the go-ahead last month for the government to try to sell the airline, after successive governments spent billions of dollars in recent years to keep the airline going.
    Air India - founded in the 1930s and known to generations of Indians for its Maharajah mascot - is saddled with a debt burden of $8.5 billion and a bloated cost structure. The government has injected $3.6 billion since 2012 to bail out the airline.
    Once the nation's largest carrier, its market share in the booming domestic market has slumped to 13 percent as private carriers such as InterGlobe Aviation's IndiGo and Jet Airways have grown.
    Previous attempts to offload the airline have been unsuccessful. If Modi can pull this off, it will buttress his credentials as a reformer brave enough to wade into some of the country's most intractable problems.
    His office has set a deadline of early next year to get the sale process underway, the officials said, declining to be named as they were not authorized to speak publicly about the plans.
    The timeline is ambitious and the process fraught, with opinion divided on the best way forward: should the government retain a stake or exit completely, and should it risk being left with the unprofitable pieces while buyers pick off the better businesses, officials said.
    Already, a labour union that represents 2,500 of the airline's 40,000 employees has opposed the idea of a sale even though it is ideologically aligned to Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party.
    Officials who have to make it happen are grappling with the sheer scale of the exercise. Air India has six subsidiaries ? three of which are loss-making ? with assets worth about $4.6 billion. It has an estimated $1.24 billion worth of real estate, including two hotels, where ownership is split among various government entities.
    No one has properly valued the company's various businesses and assets before, two officials with direct knowledge of the process said. Earlier this month, about $30 million worth of art, including paintings by artist MF Husain, went missing from its Mumbai offices, chairman Ashwani Lohani said.
    "The exercise is complex and there is no easy way out," said Jitendra Bhargava, operational head of Air India in 1997-2010. "At this juncture, selling even part of Air India is far from certain."
    Lohani declined to comment on the sale process. The prime minister's office and the civil aviation ministry also declined to comment.
    BACK TO TATA?
    A committee of five senior federal ministers, led by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, is expected to meet this month and begin ironing out the finer details of the plan. Besides deciding about the size of the stake sale, the panel will set the bidding norms. It will also take a call on the carrier's debt, demerger and divestment of its three profit-making subsidiaries.
    Modi's office has said the government has no business being in hospitality and travel, suggesting the prime minister wants to sell as much of Air India as possible, the officials said.
    Analysts say the government may prefer to keep the airline in Indian hands. At least two potential Indian suitors ? the Tata Sons conglomerate and IndiGo - have shown early interest.
    In recent weeks, officials in Modi's office and from the civil aviation ministry met Ratan Tata, the patriarch of the $100 billion-a-year Tata Sons, to gauge the company?s interest in a deal, a close aide to Modi said.
    Tata would be an attractive buyer for the government. The company founded and operated Air India before it was nationalised in 1953.
    "Seems like Tata will come forward and make the best offer," the aide said, adding the government would be keen to see that jobs are not lost.
    Tata, however, already has two other airline joint ventures in India, and it's not clear what parts of Air India it would be interested in. A Tata spokeswoman declined to comment.
    IndiGo said on Thursday it was interested in the international operations and in Air India Express, a low-cost carrier.
    Modi's office has told officials to work out exactly how much each of Air India's subsidiaries are worth to make it easier to break up the carrier if needed, two of the officials said. The government is expected to appoint outside consultants to help with the exercise.
    Anshuman Deb, aviation analyst at ICICI Securities, said splitting the airline will maximize value for the government.
    "Let us be realistic. It's very clear that a single buyer cannot buy an entire state-owned company," said a senior aviation ministry official involved in the process.


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    The five justices of the Supreme Court in the original Panama Papers case bench. Photo: File  The five-member Panama case bench delivered its judgment in the case on April 20, 2017. 
    Two judges, Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, authored dissenting judgments calling for the disqualification of the premier but the majority judges decided in favour of a further probe to determine the premier's culpability. 
    Here is a breakdown of the final judgment, endorsed by all five judges: 
    "By a majority of 3 to 2 (Asif Saeed Khan Khosa and Gulzar Ahmed, JJ) dissenting, who have given separate declarations and directions, we hold that the questions how did Gulf Steel Mill come into being; what led to its sale; what happened to its liabilities; where did its sale proceeds end up; how did they reach Jeddah, Qatar and the U.K.; whether respondents No. 7 and 8 in view of their tender ages had the means in the early nineties to possess and purchase the flats; whether sudden appearance of the letters of Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jaber Al-Thani is a myth or a reality; how bearer shares crystallized into the flats; who, in fact, is the real and beneficial owner of M/s Nielsen Enterprises Limited and Nescoll Limited, how did Hill Metal Establishment come into existence; where did the money for Flagship Investment Limited and other companies set up/taken over by respondent No. 8 come from, and where did the Working Capital for such companies come from and where do the huge sums running into millions gifted by respondent No. 7 to respondent No. 1 drop in from, which go to the heart of the matter and need to be answered. Therefore, a thorough investigation in this behalf is required.
    Panamagate: A timeline of how it unraveled
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    In normal circumstances, such exercise could be conducted by the NAB but when its Chairman appears to be indifferent and even unwilling to perform his part, we are constrained to look elsewhere and therefore, constitute a Joint Investigation Team (JIT)."
    JIT's terms of reference
    "The JIT shall investigate the case and collect evidence, if any, showing that respondent No. 1 or any of his dependents or benamidars owns, possesses or has acquired assets or any interest therein disproportionate to his known means of income. Respondents No. 1, 7 and 8 are directed to appear and associate themselves with the JIT as and when required. The JIT may also examine the evidence and material, if any, already available with the FIA and NAB relating to or having any nexus with the possession or acquisition of the aforesaid flats or any other assets or pecuniary resources and their origin. The JIT shall submit its periodical reports every two weeks before a Bench of this Court constituted in this behalf. The JIT shall complete the investigation and submit its final report before the said Bench within a period of sixty days from the date of its constitution. The Bench thereupon may pass appropriate orders in exercise of its powers under Articles 184(3), 187(2) and 190 of the Constitution including an order for filing a reference against respondent No. 1 and any other person having nexus with the crime if justified on the basis of the material thus brought on the record before it."
    Panama case JIT meets to begin probe into Sharifs? money trail
    JIT has decided to seek assistance from FIA and experts from private sector: sources
    Post-JIT scenario
    "It is further held that upon receipt of the reports, periodic or final of the JIT, as the case may be, the matter of disqualification of respondent No. 1 shall be considered. If found necessary for passing an appropriate order in this behalf, respondent No. 1 or any other person may be summoned and examined."
    Special bench's role
    "We would request the Hon?ble Chief Justice to constitute a Special Bench to ensure implementation of this judgment so that the investigation into the allegations may not be left in a blind alley." 


  10. Waqas Dar
    US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the their bilateral meeting at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017. Photo: REUTERS President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday he thought his US counterpart Donald Trump had been satisfied with his assertions that Russia had not meddled in the US presidential election.
    Speaking at the end of a G20 summit in Germany where the two leaders met face-to-face for the first time, Putin said he believed he had been able to establish a personal relationship with Trump, and that the initial groundwork had been laid for an improvement in US-Russian ties.
    Their meeting, on the sidelines of the Hamburg summit, was subject to intense scrutiny, following allegations that Moscow had tried to help Trump win the White House, and a Washington investigation into the Russia ties of Trump associates.
    Putin was pressed by reporters at a news conference to share details of the discussion he had with Trump about alleged Russian election interference. Russia has denied trying to influence the US election.
    "(Trump) asked a lot of questions on this subject. I, in as much as I was able, answered these questions. It seems to me that he took these (answers) on board and agreed with them, but in actual fact, it's best to ask him how he views this," Putin told one reporter.
    Pressed again later in the same news conference by reporters about what precisely Trump had told him, Putin said: "He started to ask pointed questions, he was really interested in particular details. I, as much as I could, answered him in a fairly detailed way.
    "I believe it would not be entirely appropriate on my part to disclose details of my discussion with Mr Trump. He asked, I answered him. He asked pointed questions, I answered them. It seemed to me that he was satisfied with those answers," Putin said.
    Putin also spoke warmly of Trump's personal qualities. The two men have spoken by telephone since Trump won the US presidential election last year, but had not met until the G20 summit in Hamburg.
    "I believe that we have established personal relations already," Putin told a news conference.
    "The TV Trump is very different from the person in reality. He is absolutely precise, he reacts as you would expect to his interlocutor, he analyses fairly quickly, answers questions that are put to him.
    "It seems to me that if we build our relations the way that our conversation went yesterday, then we all have grounds to believe that we can, at least in part, restore the level of cooperation that we need," Putin said.
    He said in particular that the Trump administration was taking a more pragmatic stance on the conflict on Syria. A ceasefire deal for southern Syria that was announced during the summit was the result of that new approach, Putin said, and represented a "breakthrough."


  11. Waqas Dar
    Eight people died and 25 were wounded in various incidents ? including firing and road accidents ? around the country late Saturday night, Geo News reported.
    Van-rickshaw accident
    A van and rickshaw met collision near Lucky Shah Sadar on the Indus Highway last night, killing five and injuring four others, police said. 
    Bus flips over
    A bus travelling from Gwadar to Karachi overturned near Kund Malir, leaving three dead and 11 wounded as a result.
    The wounded people have been shifted to District Hospital, Othal, rescue sources stated.
    Firing in Karachi, Lahore, RYK
    One person was injured due to firing in Mansehra Colony in Karachi's Landhi, rescue sources explained.
    A stray bullet wounded a policeman in Karachi's Sharafi Goth area. The officer ? Assistant Sub-Inspector Riaz ? was stationed in Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP)-Malir's office, police sources said.
    One person was injured in Lahore's Shahdara area for resisting during a robbery, police officials explained. However, the suspects managed to escape arrest after looting the citizen.
    Two other people were wounded for resisting during a robbery in Basti Jora of Rahim Yar Khan's Sadiqabad area, rescue officials said.
    Triple collision
    Five people were wounded in an accident on Nazir Hussain bridge in Hyderabad's Latifabad when a passenger van, car, and a motorcycle crashed into each other, rescue officers stated.


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    An ECP official checking a voter's identity during the PS-114 by-election. Photo: Geo News  KARACHI: Polling for the PS-114 by-elections began at 8am Sunday and is expected to continue unabated till 5pm.

    Apart from the police, around 2,000 Rangers personnel have been deployed in and around the polling stations to ensure the voting process goes smoothly in the hotly contested by-polls.
    During a visit to the constituency early Sunday morning, Sindh Rangers DG Maj Gen Mohammad Saeed assured voters to exercise their right of casting the ballot without fear.
    There are a total of 193,000 registered voters in the constituency, according to the Election Commission of Pakistan.
    The constituency comprises the localities of Mehmoodabad No 1 to Mehmoodabad No 6, Chanesar Goth, Manzoor Colony, Akhter Colony, Azam Basti, Kashmir Colony, Defence View and the KAECHS (Karachi Administration Employees Cooperative Housing Society).
    All 92 polling stations of the constituency have been declared ?sensitive? in terms of security.
    In a statement, Sindh IG AD Khawaja issued instructions to ensure the polling is carried out in a transparent and impartial manner. He said the relevant SHOs will remain in their areas till the voting is concluded.
    The provincial police chief also directed to ensure the implementation of Section 144, which has been imposed in the area in light of the by-election. 
    Do-or-die contest 
    The by-poll has turned into a do-or-die contest among the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Muttahida Qaumi Movement- Pakistan (MQM-P) and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
    In the May 2013 general elections, PS-114 was bagged by Irfanullah Marwat on a PML-N ticket but his victory was declared void by the election tribunal in July 2014.
    On May 11, the Supreme Court dismissed Marwat?s appeal challenging the election tribunal?s decision paving the way for the by-polls.
    The by-poll campaign took an interesting turn recently when Marwat announced to support the PTI, which has fielded one of its founding members, Haroon.
    In the 2013 polls, PML-N?s Marwat bagged 37,130 votes while MQM?s Rauf Siddiqui got 30,305 votes. Moreover, PTI?s Israr Abbasi got 13,807 votes while PPP?s Sajjad Ahmed Pappi only 3,827 votes.


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    Pakistani commuters travel on a street during a heavy rain shower in Karachi on June 28, 2017. AFP/Rizwan Tabassum  KARACHI: Various areas of the metropolis experience persistent drizzle, as of late Saturday night, Geo News reported.

    Areas, including Shahrah-e-Faisal, Federal B. Area, Malir, and surroundings felt the cool as light rain washed over the city through Saturday evening well into the night.
    Light rain is forecasted for the Friday-Sunday period in some locales of Sindh and Balochistan.

    Heavy rain forecast in the north
    The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has forecasted heavy rain in certain areas of northern Pakistan as well as Islamabad itself.
    The expectation for Tuesday through Thursday remains of light showers in various locales of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), FATA, Gilgit-Baltistan, and southern Punjab.
    Rivers and canals in Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Dera Ghazi Khan, and Islamabad, alongside some areas of KP and Kashmir, are predicted to overflow due to the monsoon rains.
    Consequently, this is expected to flood the low-lying areas of Sindh and Punjab, as well as some parts of Balochistan.
    There is also a risk of landslides in Malakand, the Hazara division, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Kashmir.


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    US President Donald Trump stands beside his chair at the G20 leaders' summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 8, 2017. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz  HAMBURG: Leaders from the world's leading economies broke with US President Donald Trump on climate policy at a G20 summit on Saturday, in a rare public admission of disagreement and blow to multilateral cooperation.
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel, keen to show off her skills as a mediator two months before a German election, achieved her primary goal at the meeting in Hamburg, convincing her fellow leaders to support a single communique with pledges on trade, finance, energy and Africa.
    But the divide between Trump, elected on a pledge to put "America First", and the 19 other members of the club, including countries as diverse as Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Argentina, was stark.
    Last month Trump announced he was pulling the United States out of a landmark international climate accord clinched two years ago in Paris.
    "In the end, the negotiations on climate reflect dissent ? all against the United States of America," Merkel told reporters at the end of the meeting.
    "And the fact that negotiations on trade were extraordinarily difficult is due to specific positions that the United States has taken."
    The summit, marred by violent protests that left the streets of Hamburg littered with burning cars and broken shop windows, brought together a volatile mix of leaders at a time of major change in the global geopolitical landscape.
    Trump's shift to a more unilateral, transactional diplomacy has left a void in global leadership, unsettling traditional allies in Europe and opening the door to rising powers like China to assume a bigger role.
    Tensions between Washington and Beijing dominated the run-up to the meeting, with the Trump administration ratcheting up pressure on President Xi Jinping to rein in North Korea and threatening punitive trade measures on steel.
    Trump-Putin
    Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time in Hamburg, a hotly anticipated encounter after the former real estate mogul promised a rapprochement with Moscow during his campaign, only to be thwarted by accusations of Russian meddling in the vote and investigations into the Russia ties of Trump associates.
    Putin said at the conclusion of the summit on Saturday that Trump had quizzed him on the alleged meddling in a meeting that lasted over two hours but seemed to have been satisfied with the Kremlin leader's denials of interference.
    Trump had accused Russia of destabilising behaviour in Ukraine and Syria before the summit. But in Hamburg he struck a conciliatory tone, describing it as an honour to meet Putin and signalling, through Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, that he preferred to focus on future ties and not dwell on the past.
    "It was an extraordinarily important meeting," Tillerson said, describing a "very clear positive chemistry" between Trump and the former KGB agent.
    In the final communique, the 19 other leaders took note of the US decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord and declared it "irreversible".
    For its part, the United States injected a contentious line saying that it would "endeavour to work closely with other countries to help them access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently."
    French President Emmanuel Macron led a push to soften the US language.
    "There is a clear consensus absent the United States," said Thomas Bernes, a distinguished fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. "But that is a problem. Without the largest economy in the world, how far can you go?"
    Jennifer Morgan, executive director at Greenpeace, said the G19 had "held the line" on Trump's "backwards decision" to withdraw from Paris.
    On trade, another sticking point, the leaders agreed they would "fight protectionism including all unfair trade practices and recognise the role of legitimate trade defence instruments in this regard."

    The leaders also pledged to work together to foster economic development in Africa, a priority project for Merkel.
    Violent protests
    Merkel chose to host the summit in Hamburg, the port city where she was born, to send a signal about Germany's openness to the world, including its tolerance of peaceful protests.
    It was held only a few hundred meters from one of Germany's most potent symbols of left-wing resistance, a former theatre called the "Rote Flora" which was taken over by anti-capitalist squatters nearly three decades ago.
    Over the three days of the summit, radicals looted shops, torched cars and lorries. More than 200 police were injured and some 143 people have been arrested and 122 taken into custody.
    Some of the worst damage was done as Merkel hosted other leaders at for a concert and lavish dinner at the Elbphilharmonie, a modernist glass concert hall overlooking the Elbe River.
    Merkel met police and security forces after the summit to thank them and condemned the "unbridled brutality" of some of the protestors, but she was forced to answer tough questions about hosting the summit in Hamburg during her closing press conference.


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    British Columbia wildfires as seen near 100 Mile House in British Columbia, Canada, July 7, 2017. BC Wildfire Service/Handout via REUTERS  KAMLOOPS, BRITISH COLUMBIA: Some 180 wildfires raged over a massive section of Western Canada's British Columbia on Saturday, prompting the evacuation of 3,000 households and the province's first state of emergency in 14 years.
    The blazes were scattered across hundreds of kilometres of the interior portion of the province, burning through bone-dry forests used for logging and rolling grasslands that are home to ranches. High temperatures and winds complicated firefighting efforts.
    "The weather situation is not favourable," said John Rustad, the provincial minister in charge of firefighting operations. "There is very aggressive fire behaviour that makes it very difficult to directly attack."
    The spate of wildfires began on Friday when 138 new fires were reported, most of them sparked by lightning in dry electrical storms.
    No injuries or deaths were reported. Provincial officials said they did not know how much damage had been caused, though evacuees said they had left behind farm animals and witnessed the destruction of homes and other buildings.
    Some evacuees made their way to a makeshift emergency centre at a sporting facility in Kamloops, some 250 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.
    Some people said they were not given adequate time to pack up their goods. Others, who had been away from their homes on vacation, feared they would lose cherished belongings in the fires.
    Chalky red fire retardant dust was splashed on some vehicles that passed through areas that were sprayed with the substance from "water bomber" planes used to fight the fire.
    Canada's federal government on Saturday offered to help British Columbia respond to the fast-spreading wildfires, though provincial authorities said they may have enough resources already.
    Rustad said that he expected about 260 personnel from other jurisdictions in Canada to support a team of more than 1,600 people helping respond to the fire.
    "We are bringing a tremendous amount of resources to bear," he said, noting that their main priority was "to keep people safe."
    British Columbia last declared a state of emergency in August 2003, which was also to deal with wildfires.


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    A ride in Aladdin Park in Gulshan Iqbal area crashed, injuring at least six people, Karachi, Pakistan, July 8, 2017.  KARACHI: A ride in an amusement park here in the city's Gulshan-e-Iqbal area crashed due to unidentified reasons, causing six people to be injured, rescue sources said.
    People wounded in the accident at Aladdin Park have been shifted to Jinnah Hospital for immediate medical treatment, rescue officials added.
    Interior Minister of Sindh Suhail Anwar Khan Siyal took urgent notice of the incident and ordered Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP)-East to submit a report in this regard.

    However, Superintendent of Police (SP)-Gulshan Ghulam Murtaza appeared unaware of the Aladdin Park accident, saying that "no such incident has taken place here".


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    Nelsan Ellis ? the face behind the glitzy, sassy Lafayette Reynolds in HBO?s famed TV series True Blood ? passed away late Saturday night at the age of 39, his manager said as per a leading international media outlet.
    The American actor died due to heart problems ? that have not been identified yet ? and left behind his grandmother, seven siblings, father, and son Breon, BBC reported.
    Ellis had starred in True Blood ? a renowned TV show ? from the start, in 2008, to the end, 2014, when the series concluded.

    In its statement regarding the news, HBO mentioned the team was ?extremely saddened to hear of the passing of Nelsan Ellis? and that the actor ?was a long-time member of the HBO family whose groundbreaking portrayal of Lafayette will be remembered fondly?.
    ?He was a great talent, and his words and presence will be forever missed,? Emily Gerson Saines ? his manager ? commented.
    The admired actor has appeared in The Help (2011) alongside Hidden Figures actress Octavia Spencer and How to Get Away with Murder star Viola Davis.
    Numerous celebrities took to Twitter to express their shock and sadness at Ellis' sudden demise.


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    Manchester United's Wayne Rooney in Stockholm, Sweden, May 24, 2017, Reuters/Andrew Couldridge/Livepic  Manchester United's former England captain Wayne Rooney was pictured at Everton's training ground on Saturday ahead of a proposed transfer back to the boyhood favourites he first joined aged nine.

    Sky Sports News reported that he would be having a medical.
    With a fee agreed for Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku to move in the opposite direction, the way appeared to be clear for the 31-year-old Rooney to leave Old Trafford after 13 years.
    Rooney has played more than 550 games for them, scoring 253 goals to become their all-time leading scorer.

    However, last season, he was no longer an automatic selection under manager Jose Mourinho and also lost his place in the England squad.
    United were expected to fly to the United States without him to continue their pre-season preparations on Sunday.


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    Artillery explosions and gunfire could still be heard during Saturday afternoon and a column of smoke billowed over the Old City riverside, the Reuters correspondent said.
    A US-led international coalition is providing air and ground support to the eight-month campaign to wrest back Mosul, by far the largest city seized by Daesh in 2014.
    Almost exactly three years ago, the ultra-hardline group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared from Mosul a "caliphate" over adjoining parts of Iraq and Syria.
    'Fighting for every meter'
    Dozens of Daesh insurgents were killed on Saturday and others tried to escape by swimming across Tigris, state TV said. Most of those making a last stand were foreigners, it added.
    Iraqi commanders say the militants were fighting for every meter with snipers, grenades and suicide bombers, forcing security forces to fight house-to-house in the densely populated maze of narrow alleyways.
    "The battle has reached the phase of chasing the insurgents in remaining blocks," the Iraqi military media office said in a statement. "Some members of Daesh have surrendered," it added.
    The road where the soldiers celebrated was scarred with gaping holes from explosions and rubble from a flattened multi-storey shopping mall.
    Rubbish and ammunition boxes were strewn around and the only civilians seen were a group of about 15 women, children and elderly, some of them wounded, sheltering in a damaged petrol station. Security forces medics were giving them first aid.
    Months of urban warfare has displaced 900,000 people, about half the city's pre-war population, and killed thousands, according to aid organizations.
    Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared the end of Daesh's "state of falsehood" a week ago, after security forces took Mosul's medieval Grand al-Nuri mosque - although only after retreating militants blew it up.
    Stripped of Mosul, Daesh's dominion in Iraq will be reduced to mainly rural, desert areas west and south of the city where tens of thousands of people live. The militants are expected to keep up attacks on selected targets across Iraq.
    The United Nations predicts it will cost more than $1 billion to repair basic infrastructure in Mosul. In some of the worst-affected areas, almost no buildings appear to have escaped damage and Mosul's dense construction means the extent of the devastation might be underestimated, UN officials said.
    The fall of Mosul also exposes ethnic and sectarian fractures between Arabs and Kurds over disputed territories or between Sunnis and the Shi?ite majority that have plagued Iraq for more than a decade..
    Mosul is a majority Sunni city who has long complained of being marginalized by the Shi'ite-led governments installed after the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.
    Meanwhile, Iraq's regional Kurdish leader said this week that the government in Baghdad had failed to prepare a post-battle political, security and governance plan.


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    Bollywood diva Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor ended their much talked about relationship last year and it was only recently that the ?Jagga Jasoos? actress spilled the beans on her relationship.

    Katrina was recently asked if she found it difficult to cope up, she said that no matter how difficult it was it is something that will stay with her.
    According to a Pink Villa report she was quoted as saying: "A really big lesson for me in the last year or so has been to not have a strong opinion about what the other person should do. That other person could be my mother, sister, husband, boyfriend, lover ? whoever it is, we are all individuals. I may have an opinion on what?s right by me for you to be doing. But that?s what my version of what is right. It doesn?t need to be yours, too. But whatever a person does, I believe they are doing it for themselves. One individual should never deny another the right to do whatever they want to."
    The couple had their breakup during the shoot of their upcoming film ?Jagga Jasoos? and the media spotlight refused to leave the two after their decision to part ways. The former lovers refused to speak about their ordeal and gave a statement here and there over the subject.
    Katrina, Ranbir click first selfie post-breakup
    Bollywood diva Katrina Kaif and heartthrob Ranbir Kapoor are probably the most talked about couples in the Indian film industry. While the two have reportedly moved on but rumours suggested the...
    According to the latest details, the two powerhouse performers, who had created an enviable chemistry in ?Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani?, won?t be working together after their to-be-released film, ?Jagga Jasoos?.


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    As the day approaches nearer, the anticipation of Game of Thrones fans touches new heights.
    Season 7, the second last season, is scheduled to be aired on July 16 grabbed fans interest when HBO revealed the names and synopsis of its first three episodes.
    The first episode titled Dragonstone, written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, sees Daenerys Targaryen?s home coming to Westeros after several betrayals and hard-fought battles. The episode further shows Cersei Lannister tying up lose ends and Jon Snow preparing to defend the North.
    The second episode titled Stormborn will be aired on July 23 and revolves around Tyrion Lannister planning the conquest of Westeros. The episode will also show an unexpected visitor for the Mother of Dragons and Jon Snow dealing with pressing problems in his quest.
    Set to be aired on July 30, The Queen?s Justice, shows Jamie Lannister learning important lessons and Daenerys running her infant kingdom.
    After the defeat of the Bolton's and the return of Stark family to the North, it remains to be seen which kingdoms will fall and which will survive.


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    Delegates attend the official dinner at the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld The final statement from Group of 20 leaders on Saturday exposed a divide between the United States and other G20 members on the Paris accord aimed at combating climate change.

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel, hosting the two-day G20 summit, said she was pleased all club members besides the United States had agreed the Paris climate accord was irreversible.
    "I think it's very clear that we could not reach consensus, but the differences were not papered over, they were clearly stated," Merkel told reporters at the end of the two-day meeting.
    She said she did not share the view of British Prime Minister Theresa May who said on Friday she thought Washington could decide to return to the climate agreement.
    In the final communique, the G20 leaders took note of the United States' decision to withdraw from the landmark accord.
    "The leaders of the other G20 members state that the Paris Agreement is irreversible," the statement read.
    On trade, another sticking point, the leaders agreed they would "fight protectionism including all unfair trade practices and recognize the role of legitimate trade defense instruments in this regard."
    Trump, who on Friday found chemistry in his first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, congratulated Merkel on her stewardship of the summit.
    "You have been amazing and you have done a fantastic job. Thank you very much chancellor," he said.
    Future ties
    Trump and Putin on Friday discussed alleged Russian meddling in the US election but agreed to focus on future ties rather than dwell on the past, a result that was sharply criticized by leading Democrats in Congress.
    For Merkel, the summit was an opportunity to show off her diplomatic skills ahead of a federal election in September, when she is seeking a fourth term in office.
    She treated the leaders to a concert at Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie on Friday night, where they listened to Beethoven while their aides began an all night slog to thrash out the consensus on trade that had eluded the leaders.
    Trade policy has become more contentious since Trump entered the White House promising an "America First" approach.
    Merkel chose to host the summit in Hamburg, the port city where she was born, to send a signal about Germany's openness to the world, including its tolerance of peaceful protests.
    As the leaders met on Saturday, police helicopters hovered overhead. Overnight, police clashed with anti-capitalist protesters seeking to disrupt the summit.
    In the early morning, heavily armed police commandos moved in after activists had spent much of Friday attempting to wrest control of the streets from more than 15,000 police, setting fires, looting and building barricades.
    The summit is being held only a few hundred meters from one of Germany's most potent symbols of left-wing resistance, a former theater called the "Rote Flora" which was taken over by anti-capitalist squatters nearly three decades ago.
    Police said 200 officers had been injured, 134 protesters temporarily detained and another 100 taken into custody.


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    ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leaders held a top level meeting on Saturday decided that Nawaz Sharif will remain the prime minister and the party would utilise all the legal and constitutional options if needed after submission of the JIT report.
    The high-level meeting of the PML-N leaders, chaired by the premier, discussed the political situation of the country.
    The prime minister said that he presented himself before the Joint Investigation Team for the supremacy of the law.
    ?My entire family was summoned, but we were not informed about the allegations against us,? he said.
    PML-N leaders express reservations over JIT
    Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique, who was also present in the meeting, said that the JIT has been controversial since day one.
    Two members of JIT are enemies of Nawaz: Asif Kirmani
    Imran is trying to come in power with JIT?s support, alleges Kirmani
    He said that the JIT should have been headed by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), while expressing reservation over the inclusion of security agencies in the process of investigation.
    ?Under which law, the permission to tap phone calls was given,? asked Rafique.
    Inclusion of former Qatari PM mandatory for investigation: Khawaja Asif
    Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said that it was mandatory to include former Qatari prime minister in the investigation process. 
    He warned that failure to do so would lead to the rejection of the JIT report.
    The federal ministers also demanded that the JIT?s performance should also be made public and the masses should be informed what the PM and his family have been interrogated about. 



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    Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Political Affairs Asif Kirmani on Saturday said there are two members of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) who are ?enemies of Nawaz Sharif?.
    Kirmani alleged that everyone knows where the sympathies of State Bank of Pakistan?s Amer Aziz and Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) representative Bilal Rasool lie.
    He further said that the relationship between Imran Khan and the JIT is well known.
    ?Imran is trying to come in power with JIT?s support,? claimed the special assistant to the prime minister.
    He also raised questions over the selection of JIT members and said and asked if it was a coincidence or not.
    Referring to Qatar?s prince, Kirmani said the JIT report will remain incomplete without Al-Thani?s statement as he was the main witness in the case.
    ?The people will reject such an incomplete report,? said Kirmani. 
    The final report from the JIT, formed under orders of the Supreme Court to probe the finances of the first family, will be submitted on July 10. 




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    LAHORE: Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Saturday that the Joint Investigation Team has become controversial.

    The JUI-F chief is currently on a two-day visit to Lahore, where he spoke to media.
    ?We keep on listening to Imran?s rant, don?t see the need to comment on it,? he said while referring to the PTI chief's statements.
    Fazal said that Imran Khan detaching from the PTI would be in the best interest of the party.
    On the subject of Panama case, he said that the issue is in the Supreme Court and he cannot give a statement on it.
    The JUI-F chief said that he never played the part of a mediator between the government and army.
    While responding to a question, Fazal said that the ruling party is contending that conspiracies are being hatched against it and it should reveal the name of those behind it. 


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