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    Google has paid tribute to renowned Pakistani artist Syed Sadequain on his 87th birthday with a doodle. Born on 30th June 1930, Sadequain is widely regarded as the best painter and calligrapher of Pakistan.

    Google said the doodle celebrates Sadequain?s legacy "as one of Pakistan?s most popular and prolific artists."
    Sadequain?s 'Crucifixion' sells for record Rs. 16 million at UK's Bonhams
    A mystery bidder offered top price for the artwork of legendary Pakistani artist
    Sadequain received national awards like the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz and Presidential Media of Honour and internationally was awarded the Paris Biennale Prize in 1961.
    He brought calligraphy to prominence and also painted murals, illustrations and even wrote poetry. Some of his murals such as the ?Quest for Knowledge? can bee seen on the ceiling of the Lahore Museum. The artist also has several works on display at the State Bank Money Museum which can be viewed here.
    He passed away in Karachi on February 10, 1987. 

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    MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski, pictured at a 2015 event in New York WASHINGTON: Donald Trump unleashed a brutal personal attack Thursday on respected female television host Mika Brzezinski, sparking an instant backlash, in the latest stunning salvo in the president´s ongoing war with the media.
    Trump´s Twitter outburst -- in which he describes the journalist "bleeding badly from a facelift" -- appears to have been triggered by Brzezinski´s sharp comments during the morning show she co-hosts with Joe Scarborough on the left-leaning MSNBC network.
    "I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don´t watch anymore)," wrote Trump, an avid cable news watcher.
    "Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year´s Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!" he tweeted.
    In recent days Trump has escalated his attacks on US media outlets -- which he accuses of peddling "fake news" about him -- singling out CNN over the retraction of a story about his administration´s supposed links with Russia, but also assailing rival cable networks, the New York Times and the Washington Post.
    But the vulgarity of his latest assault triggered a torrent of criticism including within his own party.
    "Inappropriate. Undignified. Unpresidential," tweeted Jeb Bush, Trump´s rival for the White House nomination last year, while the top Republican on Capitol Hill, House Speaker Paul Ryan, conceded the president´s comments were "not appropriate."
    "What we´re trying to do around here is improve the tone, the civility of the debate. And this obviously doesn´t help do that," Ryan told a news conference.
    ´Fights fire with fire´
    Trump´s spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders was staunch in defending her boss.
    "I think that the president has been attacked mercilessly on personal accounts by members on that program, and I think he´s been very clear that when he gets attacked, he´s going to hit back," she told the daily White House briefing.
    "I think the American people elected somebody who´s tough, who´s smart, and who´s a fighter, and that´s Donald Trump. And I don´t think that it´s a surprise to anybody that he fights fire with fire."
    "He´s not going to sit back and be attacked by the liberal media, Hollywood elites," she added.
    But at least half a dozen Republican lawmakers judged the president had crossed a line.
    "Please just stop," wrote Senator Ben Sasse on Twitter. "This isn´t normal and it´s beneath the dignity of your office."
    "This is not okay," agreed Kansas lawmaker Lynn Jenkins.
    The Trump-Brzezinski feud lit up the internet, where critics were reminded of Trump´s notorious attack last August on Fox reporter Megyn Kelly, who he said had "blood coming out of her wherever" after she challenged him in a campaign debate.
    ´Out of his mind´
    Brzezinski´s employer MSNBC sprang to her defense, tweeting: "It´s a sad day for America when the president spends his time bullying, lying and spewing petty personal attacks instead of doing his job."
    But the TV host herself -- whose father was Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to Jimmy Carter -- appeared uncowed. She responded with a post of her own, a photo of a young child reaching for Cheerios cereal.
    "Made for little hands," the caption read -- a schoolyard taunt that has been leveled against the image-conscious Trump since the days of his candidacy.
    In her Thursday show, Brzezinski had suggested the president was psychologically unhinged.
    "Everybody in Washington, in the administration, needs to look at this from... a point of view where they´re not lobotomized because you´re sitting in there and you´re so scared of him, and you think you need to suck up to the president."
    If a boss at NBC, MSNBC´s parent company, "started tweeting wildly about people´s appearances, bullying people, talking about people in the competition, lying every day, undermining his managers, throwing them under the (bus) -- that person would be thrown out.
    "There would be concerns that the person who runs the company is out of his mind."
    Early in the 2016 campaign the "Morning Joe" hosts were accused of being too friendly with Trump, a frequent guest on air.
    The relationship however soured last August, when Trump tweeted: "Some day, when things calm down, I´ll tell the real story of @JoeNBC and his very insecure long-time girlfriend, @morningmika. Two clowns!"
    Brzezinski, 50, is engaged to marry her co-host Scarborough, 54, a Republican former congressman.


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    Reality TV celebrities Kendall and Kylie Jenner apologized on Thursday after causing an uproar for selling pricey T-shirts featuring their faces over images of famed music groups and artists including The Doors, Pink Floyd, Ozzy Osbourne and slain rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.
    In the second recent marketing misstep involving members of the Kardashian family, Kendall and Kylie Jenner said they had withdrawn their $125 T-shirt line from sale a day after it was launched.
    "These designs were not well thought out and we deeply apologize to anyone that has been upset and/or offended, especially to the families of the artists," the Jenner sisters said in a statement.
    "We are huge fans of their music and it was not our intention to disrespect these cultural icons in any way," they added.
    The move followed outrage from relatives of some of the artists, and cease and desist letters from other musicians over unauthorized use of the images.
    "Girls, you haven't earned the right to put your face with musical icons. Stick to what you know ? lip gloss," Sharon Osbourne, the wife of Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, wrote on Twitter.
    Violetta Wallace, the mother of Notorious B.I.G, accused the sisters of exploitation and said no one had contacted the rapper's estate for permission.
    "This is disrespectful, disgusting, and exploitation at its worst!!!" Wallace said in an Instagram post. Notorious B.I.G, also known as Biggie Smalls or Christopher Wallace, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles in 1997.
    Kendall Jenner, 21, and Kylie Jenner, 19, are half-sisters of Kim Kardashian and appear in the "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" TV show. They are also both successful models in their own right with a large following on social media.
    In April, Kendall Jenner was featured in new Pepsi commercial that the soft drinks company pulled after it prompted outrage and ridicule by critics who said it trivialized political and civil rights protests.


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    PARIS: Half a degree Celsius of global warming has been enough to increase heat waves and heavy rains in many regions of the planet, researchers reported Friday.

    Comparing two 20-year periods -- 1960-79 and 1991-2010 -- between which average global temperatures jumped 0.5 C (0.9 F), scientists found that several kinds of extreme weather gained in duration and intensity.
    The hottest summer temperatures increased by more than 1 C (1.8 F) across a quarter of Earth's land areas, while the coldest winter temperatures warmed by more then 2.5 C (4.5 F).
    The intensity of extreme precipitation grew nearly 10 percent across a quarter of all land masses, and the duration of hot spells -- which can fuel devastating forest fires -- lengthened by a week in half of land areas.
    These changes were well outside the bounds of natural variability, according to the study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
    "We have to rely on climate models to predict the future," said lead author Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, a researcher at the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research.
    "But given that we now have observational evidence of around 1 C warming, we can also look at the real-life impacts this warming has brought," he said in a statement.
    In science, observed trends are generally seen as more reliable than projections, which can vary sharply depending on the assumptions made.
    Changes in climate -- sometimes defined as "average weather" -- can only be detected across time periods measured in decades or longer.
    0.5 C does matter
    Global warming caused mostly by the burning of fossil fuels began slowly in the early 19th century with the onset of industrialisation, but has accelerated rapidly over the last 50 or 60 years.
    The 196-nation Paris Agreement, inked in the French capital in 2015, vowed to cap the rise of the planet´s average surface temperature at "well under" 2 C (3.6 F), and to "pursue efforts" to block it at 1.5 C (2.7 C).
    To inform that effort, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- the UN´s top science advisory group -- will issue a report for policy makers in September 2018 on the feasibility of the 1.5 C target, and what impacts might be avoided if it is met.
    The new study -- one of thousands that will be reviewed by the IPCC -- suggests even a half degree rise is significant.
    "With the warming the world has already experienced, we can see very clearly that a difference of 0.5 C really does matter," said co-author Erich Fischer, a scientist at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
    Earlier research based on computer models, also led by Schleussner, concluded that 2 C of warming would -- compared to 1.5 C -- double the severity of crop failures, water shortages and heatwaves in many regions of the world.
    It also found that holding the rise in temperature to 1.5 C would give coral reefs -- the cornerstone of ecosystems that sustain half-a-billion people and a quarter of marine wildlife -- a fighting chance of adapting to warmer and more acidic seas.
    An extra half-a-degree on top, however, would expose most reefs to possible extinction by century´s end. 


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    Antonella Roccuzzo and Messi ROSARIO, Argentina: Football and showbiz stars gathered in Argentina for Latin America's celebrity wedding bash of the decade as Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi prepared to marry his childhood sweetheart Antonella Roccuzzo on Friday.
    Pop star Shakira and her husband, Messi's teammate Gerard Pique, were expected among the 260 guests, according to media and locals close to the event.
    They will join old friends of the couple and footballers, including his Barcelona strike partners Neymar and Luis Suarez, in Messi's northern hometown, Rosario.
    Suarez and other soccer stars were watched by curious locals as they stepped off private jets on Thursday at Rosario´s airport.
    The party will be a respite for Messi from his legal woes. A Spanish court last month rejected his appeal against a conviction for tax fraud.
    All-star guest list
    Brunette bride Roccuzzo, 29, will wear a dress by Rosa Clara -- a Spanish designer who has dressed actress Eva Longoria and Spain´s Queen Letizia.
    From 2200 GMT the guests will pack into the Hotel City-Center Casino, which stands right next to a crime-ridden slum run by drug gangs.
    This city of 1.2 million people is also a cradle of footballing talent, however.
    "Rosario lives and breathes football. That is another reason Lionel feels so comfortable here," the city´s mayor, Monica Fein, told AFP.
    "I think he is excited that through his wedding his friends (from abroad) will be able to get to know the city he loves so much."
    Roast gizzards
    The civil wedding ceremony and party will all take place inside the venue, and the guests will be lodged there too.
    Messi, 30, has reportedly asked chefs to cook local delicacies such as "locro" stew and "empanada" pasties for the feast.
    The star dish is a typical Argentine beef roast including chitterlings, gizzards and kidneys.
    Uruguayan pop bands Rombai and Marama plus singer Karina, wife of Argentina footballer Sergio Aguero, will perform at the dance.
    It is not known whether the guests will also get a song from Shakira, the Colombian diva famous for "Whenever, Wherever."
    Guards and reporters
    Organizers say 157 journalists have been accredited to cover the bash, but have been warned they will have no access to the guests.
    Security will be handled by a private team of Israeli specialists used by Messi for all his excursions.
    Messi and Roccuzzo live in Barcelona where he plays, but still return regularly to Rosario on holiday.
    The couple met as children. He moved to Spain when he was 13 to join FC Barcelona, but they kept in touch.
    "They are the love of each other´s lives," Messi's childhood friend Diego Vallejos told AFP.


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    PARACHINAR: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa reached Parachinar Friday morning, the military?s media wing, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said in a statement.

    The army chief will meet the tribespeople who started protesting after two blasts rocked Parachinar, Kurram Agency on June 23. 
    Won't let enemy fan sectarianism in country, says COAS
    Residents of Parachinar are holding a sit-in against the government following Friday's deadly blasts
    The grieving locals continued their protest on the eighth day, Friday, demanding safety and protection for all.
    On Thursday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced compensation money for the families of people killed and those who were injured in the Parachinar blasts on June 23.
    As per the announcement, Rs1 million will be given to the families of people killed in the blasts while Rs0.5 million has been announced for those left injured by the explosions.
    At least 75 people lost their lives and over 300 were injured in the back-to-back bombings that hit the city on June 23. The first blast occurred as people were busy shopping for Iftar and Eid in the Turi Bazaar area, close to a crowded bus terminal in Parachinar.
    The second explosion took place as people rushed to provide aid and rescue the wounded from the first explosion.



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    Mohammad Amir struck early on his Championship debut for Essex, Essex v Middlesex, Specsavers County Championship Division One, Chelmsford, 1st day, June 26, 2017/Getty Images LONDON: Pakistan pacer Mohammad Amir had a winning start in his debut for English county Essex as South African Simon Harmer?s nine-wicket haul led to a thrilling win over Middlesex in County Championship Division One on Thursday.
    Amir continued his rich seam of form from the Champions Trophy win over India, striking early for Essex and bagging two wickets for an economy of 3.31 in the first innings.
    Pakistan star Amir continues form in English county debut
    Amir strikes early for Essex, trapping Middlesex Nick Gubbins lbw as latest round of county championship gets underway
    Harmer then took nine for 95 as Essex beat Middlesex by an innings and 34 runs to extend their lead at the top of the First Division table to 29 points on the final day of the inaugural round of day-night fixtures.
    Middlesex appeared to be heading for a draw at Chelmsford with former England batsman Nick Compton making 120 and putting on 153 with Ireland´s Paul Stirling.
    But Harmer removed Stirling to spark a collapse that saw Middlesex lose their last seven wickets for just 58 runs to be dismissed for 262 under the lights.
    Simon Harmer struck early on the final day, Essex v Middlesex, County Championship, Division One, Chelmsford, 4th day, June 29, 2017/Getty Images Harmer removed Steven Finn in the penultimate over to complete Essex´s victory and take his wicket tally to 28 for 300 runs in the last two matches.
    Young Afghan Hamidullah Qadri stars on debut
    Hamidullah Qadri's 5-wicket haul led Derbyshire to their first County Championship victory for two years/Derbyshire Twitter  In the Second Division, Afghan teenager and fellow spinner Hamidullah Qadri had a debut to remember as his second-innings five-wicket haul led Derbyshire to their first County Championship victory for two years.
    The 16-year-old Qadri, born in Kandahar, is the youngest player to feature for Derbyshire in the Championship. He took five for 60 from 26.3 overs to skittle out hosts Glamorgan for 172 as the Midlands side secured a 39-run win in Cardiff.

    The first county cricketer to have been born in the 21st Century, Qadri´s haul saw Derbyshire complete their first Championship victory for 710 days.



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    LOS ANGELES: In the verdant rain forests of Hawaii, Jack Black, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan dodge simulated rampaging rhinos and hungry hippos as they filmed the long-anticipated sequel to the Robin Williams' 1995 adventure film Jumanji.
    The first trailer for Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle ? released on Thursday ? shows how four high school teenagers are transported into a Jumanji video game as adult avatars and find themselves pursued by jungle creatures and motorcycle assailants, jumping into waterfalls, and encountering perilous caves.
    The first Jumanji told the story of a boy trapped in the magical board game for 26 years. He is released as a grown man (Williams) when two children discover the game.
    As they start playing again, stampeding elephants and wild creatures escape from the Jumanji jungle into the real world, causing havoc in a small town.
    In the sequel, due out in theatres on December 20, viewers are meant to get a sense of being pulled back into the alternative world of the board game jungle.
    "This has the original energy and magic of the classic that everyone saw 20 years ago but this time, I like to tell people it's in the game," Black told Reuters Television in interviews from the Hawaii set of the film.
    "I'd say that our movie is on a grander scale because it's a whole universe of Jumanji," he added.
    To kick the sequel off, four high school teenagers forced to clean out their school's basement while in detention come across an old Jumanji video game. They soon wind up being transported into the game, as the adult video game avatars that they pick.
    A nerdy teen becomes the muscle-bound Johnson, a blonde cheerleader transforms into the bespectacled Black, an introverted girl becomes a skimpily-clad Gillan, while a buff football player transforms into the diminutive Hart.
    Johnson said the sequel pays homage to Williams, who committed suicide in 2014.
    "In terms of Robin and our story, it's done with so much love and respect that I think we're putting ourselves in a really good position, and I think fans will love it," he said.


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    A clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company on Thursday disclosed disappointing data from a key study that tested its chronic pain treatment in patients with osteoarthritis.
    Cara Therapeutics Inc's worse-than-expected results sent its shares down almost 32 percent after the bell on Thursday.

    The company had tested three dosages of its drug CR845 in 476 patients with osteoarthritis of the hip or knee, experiencing moderate-to-severe pain, against a placebo.
    Two dosages of the drug ? 1 mg and 2.5 mg ? failed to meet the main goal of reducing pain intensity in patients, while the 5 mg dose exhibited a statistically significant reduction in joint pain in patients with osteoarthritis of the hip, the company said.
    However, the 5 mg dose did not demonstrate a reduction in joint pain of the combined patient group.
    Cara is also evaluating CR845 for the treatment of pruritus, a condition that causes severe itching of the skin. Its stock tumbled to $17.40 during the after-market hours.


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    German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a session at the lower house of parliament Bundestag to deliver State of the Nation Address ahead of EU Summit and G20 in Berlin, Germany, June 29, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch  BERLIN/WASHINGTON: German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised to fight for free trade and press on with multilateral efforts to combat climate change at the G20 summit next week, challenging the "America First" policies of US President Donald Trump.

    In a defiant speech to parliament a week before she is set to host a summit of the world's top economic powers in Hamburg ? the northern port city where she was born, Merkel did not mention Trump by name but said global problems could not be solved with protectionism and isolation.
    Her remarks raised the prospect of an open clash with Trump at the summit. She later met with the European G20 leaders, who promised to present a united front in Hamburg, while making clear they preferred compromise to conflict.
    "These will not be easy talks," Merkel said. "The differences are obvious and it would be wrong to pretend they aren't there. I simply won't do this."
    The G20 summit will be held a little over a month after a G7 summit in Sicily exposed deep divisions between other western countries and Trump on climate change, trade and migration.
    A short while later, Trump announced he was pulling the United States out of a landmark agreement to combat climate change reached in 2015 in Paris.
    Ahead of the G20 summit, Trump's administration has threatened to take punitive trade measures against China, including introducing tariffs on steel imports.
    This has made for an unusually tense atmosphere before the summit and German officials acknowledge they have little idea what the final communique will look like.
    Asked about Merkel's comments, Trump's national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, said the US relationship with Germany was "as strong as ever" and played down the discord.
    "Of course there are going to be differences in relations with any country, and we'll talk frankly about those differences. The president enjoys those conversations," McMaster told reporters.
    The German hosts face a difficult challenge. Along with Trump, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan will be attending. All have strained relations with Merkel and other European leaders.
    The summit, in a convention centre in the heart of Hamburg, could also be disrupted by tens of thousands of protesters expected to descend on the city of 1.7 million.
    Existential challenge
    Merkel said she was "more determined than ever" to make the Paris accord a success since Trump's decision to pull out, calling climate change an "existential challenge".
    "We cannot wait until every last person on Earth has been convinced of the scientific proof," she said.
    "Anybody who believes the problems of the world can be solved with isolationism and protectionism is making a big mistake," Merkel said.
    Trump looks forward to discussing his economic rationale for quitting the deal during his G20 meetings, said Gary Cohn, his top economic adviser.
    "He?s going to ask for a fair and level playing field. We cannot be in a position where the United States is cutting and cutting emissions while others continue to grow," Cohn told reporters.
    French President Emmanuel Macron, in Berlin for the meeting of EU leaders, which included the prime ministers of Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Britain, said he hoped the United States would "return to reason" on climate. But he also stressed that it made little sense to try to isolate Trump in Hamburg.
    "The relationship with the United States is a long-term one and it is deep," Macron said. "I believe we must continue an intense dialogue with the United States because of these ties which are historic and enduring."
    At Macron's invitation, Trump will visit Paris a week after the July 7-8 G20 summit for Bastille Day celebrations. They spoke by phone on Tuesday and agreed to work together to respond to any new chemical attacks from the Syrian government.
    Donald Tusk, the former Polish prime minister who chairs summits of EU leaders, said in Berlin that European countries would speak with one voice in Hamburg, defending the rules-based international order that Trump has called into question.


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    Police secure a mosque in Creteil near Paris, France, June 29, 2017, after a man was arrested after trying to drive a car into a crowd in front of the mosque. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes  A man was arrested after trying to drive a car into a crowd in front of a mosque in the Paris suburb of Creteil on Thursday, police said, adding that no one was injured.

    The man's motives were unclear and he had not succeeded in reaching the crowd because of barriers in front of the mosque, police said in a statement.

    An investigation ? to be carried out by a regular police department rather than an anti-terrorism unit ? would determine if the man could be held accountable for his actions.
    Finsbury Park Mosque incident in London: How it unfolded?
    At least one person has been pronounced dead, with eight others injured
    According to Le Parisien newspaper, the man said he had wanted to avenge attacks linked to Daesh that have killed dozens in Paris over the past years.
    Last week, a man drove a van at Muslim worshippers leaving a mosque in London. He was charged with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder.



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    KARACHI: Heavy showers lashed different areas of the metropolis on Thursday evening, leaving several streets flooded and most localities without electricity.

    The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has predicted that rain will continue in Karachi for the next two hours and there are high chances of rain tomorrow (Friday).
    As many as 483 feeders have tripped - plunging a large number of localities into darkness, including Malir, Airport, Liaquatabad, Keemari, Gulshan Iqbal Block 10, Shershah, North Karachi and Federal B Area Block-2.

    K-Electric has also received complaints of broken electricity wires due to rain. 
    The power utility company has advised the people to keep themselves away from electric poles, PMTs and broken electric wires.

    No casualties have yet been reported.
    Rainwater has flooded the city`s main thoroughfares including Shahra-e-Faisal, near Gora Qabrustan. 
    Moreover, rainwater has entered houses and mosques of KBR society near Gujjar Nala; roads adjacent to Governor and CM house are reportedly heavily inundated.
    Government hospitals have declared rain emergency.
    Traffic Police have advised the commuters to ensure that they are driving with proper headlights and dry themselves before driving their vehicles.
    Elected district representatives and members of district administration are engaged in draining out the rainwater from their respective mandated constituencies and areas. 


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    Dasti has said he was being tortured in the jail. -Geo News Chief justice of Lahore High Court has taken notice of alleged torture of MNA Jamshed Dasti?s in jail on Thursday.
    The LHC chief justice has demanded a report on the matter from the sessions judge Sarghoda and the anti-terrorism court.
    The judges will send their report after visiting the jail on June 30.
    Dasti has said he was being tortured in the jail where he was imprisoned for forcefully opening a canal gate.
    He had also requested for protection. 
    Taking action on Dasti`s claim, Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has constituted a medical board to check the veracity of his claims. 
    The MNA was put behind bars by the Punjab police for forcibly opening a canal gate in Muzaffargarh on May 28, following which the irrigation department lodged a case against him.  



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    [embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/4955ad5f5bf708cba963b13202e40a69.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ni8yOS8yMDE3IDQ6NDU6MjMgUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT0zbkg0aXI5MnQxVjBKV0cyeS9qS0xBPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] NAUSHERO FEROZE: Former president and Co-Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Asif Ali Zardari was welcomed to the city on Thursday with fake trees planted on both sides of the road.

    The withered trees were tied to electric poles, sticks and stones to give a different .
    The trees were later fed on by cattle and were pulled out of the ground by the children.

    Zardari and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah had visited the city to address their workers earlier in the day. 


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    MUMBAI: Fans of Salman Khan have a lot to look forward to as the actor is set to appear in multiple films including Tiger Zinda Hai and Bharat.

    But, perhaps the most exciting news surrounding Salman is regarding the third instalment of the Dabangg franchise. The actor in a recent interview revealed that the script for Dabangg 3 had already been completed and shooting would start after he finishes work on Tiger Zinda Hai and an untitled movie.
    The first movie in the Dabangg series has been credited for reigniting Salman Khan's career Salman shared some of the details of the script, stating that Dabangg 3 would serve as a prequel and would show the main character, Chulbul Pandey before he became the Robinhood of his area. The movie will keep on fluctuating between the past and present. 
    According to Salman Khan Dabangg 3 would not be directed by Arbazz Khan but rather this time the responsibility would be placed on Prabhu Deva. 


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    Nahida Khan - Source: BBC News Nahida Khan, a Pakistani woman cricketer who was the highest run-scorer in Women`s World Cup match against South Africa, has given the credit of her success to her father.
    "My father backed me despite all the opposition from my family and tribe," she said while speaking in an interview to BBC. "He would say to people that Nahida is my daughter, I'm proud of her passion. He appreciated my struggle and that gave me all the confidence I needed as a budding cricketer."
    The 30-year-old international cricketer hails from Balochistan province.
    "My strategy going into bat is always quite simple: score maximum runs and attack the opposition."
    Pakistan team captain Sana Mir appreciates the presence of Nahida in team.
    "Nahida is a true fighter and she showed that on the field. It would have been a one-sided affair without her contribution with bat and ball," she opined on the match against South Africa - which Pakistan lost in a thriller.
    Pakistan's first female international cricket team was founded in 1997. Women cricket in Pakistan faced court cases and even death threats and the government banned them from playing in public for religious reasons.
    The Quetta-born player made her international cricket debut in 2009 in a match against Sri Lanka at Bogra, Bangladesh. She was also a member of the team who took part in the 2010 Asian Games and won a gold medal.
    Khan in her interview lamented that despite notable positive developments women cricketers still today face massive issues.
    "Even today, women cricketers have to practice in the same grounds as men due to a lack of facilities," she said. "In a society where any intermingling of the sexes is frowned upon, you can imagine the stigma that follows."
    She shared obstacles she faced before reaching in the national squad.
    "Once on my way back from practice, the rickshaw driver asked if I played cricket because he knew of a girl named Nahida - of questionable morals - who also played cricket with boys," she said.
    "I lied but every day I am more conscious of the fact that my success would not have been possible without my father's support.
    "He would shut everyone up who tried to warn him of some impending moral disaster or trouble in finding a marriage partner because I played cricket."
    However, according to Nahida, her other family members were not as supportive as her father.
    "My family used to say no one is going to marry me because I wear boys' clothes and play cricket," she adds."No one wants a girl like that in their family."


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    Tabu says Ajay and her cousin threatened to beat up boys she spoke to when they were children   MUMBAI: Bollywood actress Tabu will be appearing on screen with Ajay Devgan after nearly a decade when the two unite for Golmaal Again.

    The two actors are childhood friends and in a recent interview, Tabu joked that Ajay Devgan was the reason she never got married.
    The cast of Golmaal Again  Tabu revealed that as kids, Ajay and her cousin would spy on her and threatened to beat up any boys she spoke to. 
    Jokingly stating that she hopes Ajay repents for his deeds, Tabu stressed that the responsibility of her marriage was now on Ajay.  


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    KARACHI: The K-Electric Rapid Response team maintained strict vigilance on Thursday as the metropolis experienced another spell of monsoonal showers, claimed the spokesperson for K-Electric.
    The spokesman of the power utility maintained that the overall power supply system remained intact on the second day of rains as very few feeders were affected and were re-energised swiftly.
    Moreover, uninterrupted power supply to strategic installations, including Karachi airport, major hospitals and Dhabeji was also ensured, added the power utility.
    According to KE's spokesperson, the utility's helpline and ground teams continued to work round the clock to address any localised faults.
    KE continued to urge the public to stay away from broken wires, poles and transformers during the monsoon season.

    The consumers were also requested to inform the power utility of any broken wires or complaints by calling on 118 or 021-99000. 
    Queries may also be sent via SMS to 8119 or through KE's Facebook and Twitter pages.



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    Members of the Iraqi federal police advance through the Old City of Mosul. -AFP BAGHDAD: The Iraqi military announced on Thursday that special forces had recaptured the iconic Mosul mosque where Daesh chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his only known public appearance.
    A top special forces commander told AFP that while the Nuri mosque - which was blown up by Daesh last week - was close to being recaptured, it had not been retaken yet.
    "Counter-Terrorism Service forces control the Nuri mosque and Al-Hadba (minaret)," the Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
    But Staff Lieutenant General Abdulwahab al-Saadi said that while Iraqi forces were close to retaking the mosque, they were still some 20 metres (yards) away.
    The mosque and its famed Al-Hadba (hunchback) leaning minaret were Mosul landmarks and also held major significance in the history of Daesh rule in Iraq.
    Baghdadi appeared during Friday prayers at Nuri mosque in 2014, soon after Daesh seized Iraq's second city, calling on Muslims to obey him.
    Three years later, Baghdadi's fate and whereabouts remain unknown, and Daesh has lost much of the territory it overran in 2014. The militants blew up the mosque and minaret on June 21 as they put up increasingly desperate resistance to the advance of Iraqi forces.
    Officials from Iraq and the US-led anti-IS coalition said the destruction of the site was a sign of the militant group's imminent loss of Mosul, with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi calling it an "official declaration of defeat".
    The loss of the iconic 12th century minaret - one of the country's most recognisable monuments sometimes referred to as Iraq's Tower of Pisa -- left the country in shock.


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    The residents of Old Balara hid in their homes when gunfire erupted in their Manila district last September. They didn't see the police operation that killed seven drug suspects that night.
    But they witnessed the gory aftermath and it haunts them still.
    That night, Herlina Alim said she watched police haul away the men's bodies, leaving trails of blood. "They were dragged down the alley like pigs," she said. Her neighbour Lenlen Magano said she saw three bodies, face down and motionless, piled at the end of the alley while police stood calmly by.
    It was at least an hour, according to residents, before the victims were thrown into a truck and taken to hospital in what a police report said was a bid to save their lives. Old Balara's chief, the elected head of the district, told Reuters he was perplexed. They were already dead, Allan Franza said, so why take them to the hospital?
    An analysis of crime data from two of Metro Manila's five police districts and interviews with doctors, law enforcement officials and victims' families point to one answer: Police were sending corpses to hospitals to destroy evidence at crime scenes and hide the fact that they were executing drug suspects.
    Thousands of people have been killed since President Rodrigo Duterte took office on June 30 last year and declared war on what he called "the drug menace." Among them were the seven victims from Old Balara who were declared dead on arrival at the hospital.
    A Reuters analysis of police reports covering the first eight months of the drug war reveals hundreds of cases like those in Old Balara. In Quezon City Police District and neighbouring Manila Police District, 301 victims were taken to hospital after police drug operations. Only two survived. The rest were dead on arrival.
    The data also shows a sharp increase in the number of drug suspects declared dead on arrival in these two districts each month. There were 10 cases at the start of the drug war in July 2016, representing 13 percent of police drug shooting deaths. By January 2017, the tally had risen to 51 cases or 85 percent. The totals grew along with international and domestic condemnation of Duterte's campaign.
    This increase was no coincidence, said a police commander in Manila, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity. In late 2016, he said, police began sending victims to hospitals to avoid crime scene investigations and media attention that might show they were executing drug suspects. A Reuters investigation last year found that when police opened fire in drug operations, they killed 97 percent of people they shot.
    The Manila commander said police depended on emergency room doctors being too focused on the patients to care about why they were shot. The doctors "aren't asking any questions. They only record it: DOA," he said.
    But five doctors told Reuters they were troubled by the rising number of police-related DOAs. Four said many drug suspects brought to the hospital had been shot in the head and heart, sometimes at close range ? precise and unsurvivable wounds that undermined police claims that suspects were injured during chaotic exchanges of gunfire.
    Oscar Albayalde, Metro Manila's police chief, said he had never heard of officers taking dead suspects to the hospital to cover up crime scenes. "We will have that investigated," he told Reuters. If that investigation showed police were "intentionally moving these dead bodies and bringing them to the hospitals just to alter the evidence, then I think we have to make them explain."
    Duterte's office declined to expand on Albayalde's response to Reuters' questions.
    TROUBLED: Allan Franza, chief of Manila?s Old Balara district, where police fatally shot seven drug suspects last September. He said he felt uneasy when asked to take the corpses to hospital. REUTERS/Clare Baldwin1 According to police reports about the incidents, suspects shot during operations were "immediately rushed" to the hospital. "The most important (thing) is the life of the person," said Randy Llanderal, a precinct commander in Quezon City. The police reports reviewed by Reuters showed Llanderal had led or joined operations in which 13 drug suspects ended up dead on arrival.
    Llanderal said all suspects were shot in self-defense during legitimate operations.
    The Manila police commander, a retired senior officer and some doctors believe there is a cover-up. Hospitalising drug suspects who have been shot allows police to project a more caring image, said the Manila commander. The retired officer agreed. "It is basically a ploy to make the public believe that the police are mindful of the safety and survival of suspects," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
    The Manila commander said his officers were instructed to shoot at "sensitive areas." Suspects who survived were shot again to finish them off or smothered with their own clothing, he said.
    A Reuters examination of the Old Balara incident and similar operations also suggests that the purpose of hospital runs was to destroy evidence rather than save lives. Police manhandled gunshot victims and showed no urgency in getting them medical treatment, said three sets of family members and other witnesses.

    Removing bodies makes it harder to work out what really happened. "You obliterate the crime scene ? the evidence," said Rizaldy Rivera, an agent at the Philippines' National Bureau of Investigation who has investigated allegations of police brutality. Police forensic investigators at the scene, said Rivera, must carry out their work on what is effectively a "tampered crime scene."
    Scene of Crime Operatives, or SOCO units as police forensic teams are called, process crime scenes and conduct autopsies. Aurelio Trampe, the police general who oversees SOCO, said police officers haven't been removing bodies to alter crime scenes. He said they have the discretion to disregard crime-scene investigative procedures "just as long as they could save lives."
    SOCO can still collect evidence from bodies once they reach the hospital, but doesn't always do so. Instead, said SOCO forensic chief Reynaldo Calaoa, that task falls to a police investigator assigned to the case. That investigator often hails from the same station as the colleagues who killed the suspect.
    SHOOTING: The house in Manila?s Old Balara district where police fatally shot seven drug suspects last September. Pictured in April, 2017. REUTERS/Andrew R.C. Marshall  Such practices can leave the system open to abuse, said Raquel Del Rosario Fortun, an independent forensic scientist and chair of the University of the Philippines Manila pathology department.

    "They do the shooting, they do the killing - and they investigate themselves," she said. "Impunity, that's what's happening."
    COLD TO THE TOUCH
    Old Balara is part of Quezon City, the largest of the 17 cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila, and the most populous city in the Philippines.
    Old Balara district chief Franza said police insisted his staff of volunteer security guards bring drug-war casualties from operations to the hospital ? even when it was clear they were dead. Because he has assisted the police by transporting casualties, the victims' families have accused him and his staff of complicity in the killings, he said.
    In March, Franza decided he had enough. Keep responding to police calls, he told his staff, but don't take a body to the hospital without the go-ahead from SOCO crime scene investigators. "I decided not to take action which I think is not proper," said Franza.
    The seven victims from Old Balara arrived at East Avenue Medical Center stacked in a flatbed truck and another vehicle, said Jerome Paez, an attending physician at the emergency room that night. Most had been shot in the head and many also had multiple gunshots in their chests, he said. None were breathing or had a pulse.
    EMERGENCY ROOM: A drug suspect shot by police arrives at a public hospital in central Manila in June. He was declared dead on arrival. REUTERS/Dondi Tawatao  "All of them were cold to the touch," said Paez, who has dealt with 21 drug suspects pronounced dead on arrival.
    The victims had been refused admission earlier at Quezon City General Hospital's emergency room, a 15-minute drive away, because they were already dead, said district chief Franza. The hospital told Reuters it had no record of receiving patients from Old Balara that night.
    The Old Balara bodies were already in the morgue of East Avenue Medical Center by the time the mother of victim Elmer Gayoso arrived. She asked Reuters to withhold her name, saying she feared retribution from the police.
    Gayoso had been shot through the head and the heart, she said, and the headshot had destroyed his face. She said her husband identified him by scouring his corpse for familiar childhood scars. The wounds were so grave that she didn't believe that the police took Gayoso to the hospital to save his life.
    "That was their pretense," she said, weeping.
    The killings also troubled Paez, the ER doctor. "We documented everything, just in case in the future it is needed for the investigation," he said.
    Even if doctors at East Avenue Medical Center suspect a new arrival is dead, hospital protocol requires them to try to resuscitate the patient, said Paez. This is costly and wastes time at a big public hospital teeming with patients. In a recent visit by Reuters, old people wearing oxygen masks lay unmoving on gurneys. New patients arrived every few minutes.
    Asked about the number of drug suspects arriving dead at the hospital, the acting director of the East Avenue Medical Center, Victoria Abesamis, said: "I cannot categorically say that the police are bringing these dead bodies because they want to cover up. I think I will give them the benefit of the doubt."
    TRAINED SHOOTER
    Lawrence Bello and three other doctors at East Avenue Medical Center interviewed by Reuters also expressed unease about handling dead-on-arrival cases from police operations.
    Bello said the police would sometimes deliver bodies that were already displaying rigour mortis, which sets in several hours after death. East Avenue would get two or three such bodies per month, he said.
    Bello has dealt with 20 cases where suspects were dead on arrival following a police operation, according to Quezon City Police District data. One of them, Bello said, had a single gunshot wound. The bullet had entered below the chin and exited through the top of the head. Bello said he found the injury "quite questionable."
    Such an injury is usually associated with victims of suicide or execution, said Homer Venters of Physicians for Human Rights, a group based in New York that investigates mass atrocities. "It is very hard for that to happen when a person isn't fully compliant," he said. Venters didn't examine the body that Bello referred to.
    Patel Mayuga, another ER doctor at East Avenue Medical Center, has pronounced 10 victims of police shootings dead on arrival, according to Quezon City Police District data. Suspects who are dead on arrival usually have "clean shots" in the forehead or chest, suggesting the killings were intentional, said Mayuga. "If they are shot in the chest or head, there was time for the attacker to prepare," he said.
    Many other drug suspects brought to hospitals in Quezon City by police were also shot in the head and heart, often from less than a meter away, four doctors told Reuters.
    One January evening, police delivered five bodies in a small jeepney bus to the state-run Novaliches District Hospital in Quezon City. The floor of the jeepney bus was puddled with the victims' blood and excrement, recalled Lawrence Laguno, the ER doctor on duty. According to police, the victims had all pulled guns and opened fire on undercover officers during an anti-drug operation. They missed, and the police returned fire.

    IMPUNITY: Forensic pathologist Raquel Del Rosario Fortun told Reuters that crime scenes are open to abuse because the police ?investigate themselves?. REUTERS/Dondi Tawatao  "All suspects were seriously injured," said the police report. "Thereafter, wounded suspects were rushed to Novaliches District Hospital for medical treatment but pronounced dead on arrival by attending physician, Dr Lawrence Laguno."
    Laguno told Reuters that all five men had been shot in the head and chest, with almost the same entry and exit wounds ? injuries that looked to him both deliberate and impossible to survive. "It's unusual to have the same five patients with almost the same injuries," said the doctor. "It was a trained shooter. They knew what they were doing."
    Venters of Physicians for Human Rights said it is "incredibly rare" to sustain a tight grouping of gunshot wounds in a shootout. Venters, a medical doctor, has overseen research and investigations into extrajudicial killings. When bullets enter a body from the same direction and plane, it shows the target wasn't moving, he said. "Either they were surprised and shot, or they were subdued and shot."
    Willie Saludares, acting chairman of the emergency room at East Avenue Medical Center, said doctors didn't follow up on questionable cases, since how patients were killed wasn't their concern. "I'm sorry to sound too cold, but that's the way it is," he said. "I am only concerned about the health of the patient. I'm not doing investigative work."
    Nor, it seemed, were others. Saludares said that state agencies that investigate police killings, such as the Commission on Human Rights or the National Bureau of Investigation, didn't come to interview him. Saludares also said he was uncomfortable speaking freely and feared losing his job.
    MAKING INQUIRIES: Metro Manila police chief Oscar Albayalde told Reuters in June he hadn?t heard of his officers removing bodies from crime scenes. He promised to investigate. REUTERS/Dondi Tawatao  Chito Gascon, chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, said that if specific cases were brought to the agency's attention, its investigators should pursue them and secure testimony from doctors. But the Commission was stretched, he added. "The CHR, given its current capacity constraints, is only able to investigate and document a fraction of all the deaths that have been reported by the media," he said.
    The National Bureau of Investigation didn't comment.
    "THEY WEREN'T BREATHING"
    Police say they don't shoot to kill and that saving lives is paramount. But 17 witnesses interviewed by Reuters say their behaviour at crime scenes suggests the opposite.
    In September, in a district called Nagkaisang Nayon, precinct commander Llanderal led an operation that added six dead-on-arrival cases to the Quezon City body count. According to a police report, the suspects - five men and a woman - opened fire on undercover officers posing as drug buyers. They missed, and the officers returned fire.
    "When the smoke cleared," said the report, "all suspects sustained gunshot wounds on their body. Immediately thereafter, all suspects were rushed to Novaliches District Hospital for medical treatment but (were) pronounced dead on arrival." None of the officers were injured.
    Llanderal acknowledged that removing the bodies disturbed the crime scene, but insisted the suspects were alive. "They were still moving. All of them!" he said.
    Bereaved relatives and other witnesses told Reuters the bodies were taken to the hospital an hour or more after the shooting, and that none of the victims showed signs of life. "They weren't moving. They weren't breathing," said Feliciano Dela Cruz, the local district chief.
    "It's not possible they were alive," said Jocelyn Ceron, 47, whose husband, Ronaldo, was among the dead. "We saw them thrown in the back of a truck."
    Ceron said Ronaldo's body had six bullet wounds: three in the chest or torso, one in the leg, and one in each hand. Relatives said the other bodies each bore at least six gunshot wounds. Ceron showed Reuters photos of the crime scene.
    Llanderal confirmed that the photos were taken by police investigators and showed the immediate aftermath of his operation. One photo shows a woman lying face down in a blood-smeared alleyway. Others show a tiny room in which five men lie slumped in pools of blood or on the floor; two guns are clearly visible.
    Reuters shared the crime scene photos with Fortun, the independent forensic scientist. "Based on the pictures, they are apparently very dead," Fortun said of the six victims.
    For so many bodies to be crammed into a tiny room "doesn't seem consistent" with police claims that the suspects were shot while fleeing during a gun battle, she added.
    Relatives of Ronaldo Ceron believe the police executed him and others in cold blood. A neighbour called Maricol Amacna said she heard one of the men begging, "Don't kill me, sir!" The Commission on Human Rights says it is investigating the killings.
    The police have dismissed allegations of wrongdoing as "useless and baseless," and have issued commendations to Llanderal and his men for "the extraordinary courage you have displayed in the successful operation...which resulted in the neutralization" of the suspects.
    Llanderal denied executing drug suspects. "In police operations, we don't know where the bullets may hit," he said. "Some suspects retaliate, fight us. We are only defending ourselves."


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    ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) has recommended a decrease in the prices of petroleum products to the Ministry of Finance.

    The recommendation calls for a decrease in the price of petrol by Rs 3.30/litre and diesel by Rs 2.70/litre. If approved, the price decrease will take effect from July 1.
    Current POL prices
    HOBC: Rs 72.68/litre
    Premium: Rs 72.8/litre
    High Speed Diesel: Rs 81.4/litre
    Light Speed Diesel: Rs 44/litre
    Kerosene Oil: Rs 44/litre 


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    A senior Saudi official on Thursday denied as "baseless" a New York Times report that Prince Mohammed bin Nayef has been confined to his palace and barred from travelling abroad after being replaced by the king´s son as next in line to the throne.

    The official told Reuters that Mohammed bin Nayef, a veteran interior minister, was continuing to host guests and there were no restrictions at all on his or his family´s movements.
    Mohammed bin Nayef, who was admired in Washington for quashing an al Qaeda insurgency in the kingdom between 2003 and 2006, was relieved of all his duties a week ago.
    In his place as Crown Prince, King Salman appointed his son Mohammed bin Salman who also serves as defence minister and leads an ambitious reform agenda to end Saudi Arabia´s over-reliance on oil.
    Mohammed bin Salman´s promotion ended two years of speculation about a behind-the-scenes rivalry near the pinnacle of royal power, but analysts said he still has to win over powerful relatives, clerics and tribesmen.
    The New York Times, citing four current and former American officials and Saudis close to the royal family, said Mohammed bin Nayef has been "barred from leaving the kingdom and confined to his palace" in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.
    Reuters could not reach Mohammed bin Nayef for comment.
    But the senior Saudi official expressed shock at the report, which he described as a "fabricated story" and suggested that Mohammed bin Nayef may seek legal action against the newspaper.
    "What was published by the New York Times is untrue, completely false, and baseless," the official told Reuters, responding to a question on the New York Times report.
    "His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Nayef and his family is moving freely and hosting his guests unrestrictedly.
    Nothing has changed for Prince Mohammed, except for stepping down from his government positions," the official said.
    "He hosts guests and leaves his house on a daily basis since he has stepped down. Further, there are no restrictions on his movement whatsoever, either in or outside of Saudi Arabia."
    Although Mohammed bin Salman´s promotion to crown prince had long been expected among those who follow the royal family closely, the timing was a surprise, and puts the kingdom´s future in relatively untested hands.
    The promotion proceeded smoothly, with royal family members, senior officials and clerics participating in a traditional ceremony held in the Muslim holy city of Mecca in which they pledged allegiance to the new crown prince.
    Saudi state media, eager to show the change was going smoothly, repeatedly broadcast footage of the young Mohammed bin Salman kissing the hand of Mohammed bin Nayef, as his older cousin offered him congratulations.
    The Saudi official said Mohammed bin Nayef was "entitled to bring legal action against the newspaper and anyone who defames his reputation by publishing such false news about him".


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    PTI chief has realised that the prime minister will be honourably acquitted by the JIT. PESHAWAR: Minister of State for Information Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Thursday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has presented his entire family for accountability after allegations were levelled against him.
    She added opponents who are calling for accountability stand with the ?kings of corruption?.
    ?Imran Khan has always done politics on the grounds of a single hospital and a world cup win,? said Aurangzeb.
    ?Imran is not concerned about the prevalent issues in the country, he only indulges in negative politics by leveling false allegations.? added the minister for information broadcasting. 
    The minister also said that the PTI chief has realised that the prime minister will be honourably acquitted by the Joint Investigative Team probing him and his family. 
    ?Prime Minister Nawaz is not named in the Panama papers ? however the financial details of the premier`s son and his late father have been presented before the courts."
    She added that the prime minister has established that no one has immunity from accountability.

    She alleged that Imran Khan`s money trail for purchase of the Bani Gala property only appears on social media but has not been presented before the courts.
    Referring to the recent Parachinar blasts, she said it is wrong to give a sectarian colour to the attacks in Parachinar and through a specific agenda, sectarianism is being promoted as controversies was created on social media over aid to Parachinar affectees.




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    LAHORE: The SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry, an apex body of chambers in the region on Thursday said trilateral cooperation among Afghanistan, China and Pakistan would bring about prosperity and peace in the region.
    Talking to the media persons here, SAARC Chamber Vice President Iftikhar Ali Malik said: "We will continue to play a vital role for the promotion of trade with Afghanistan and special Afghan desk has also been set up to facilitate traders of either country. China is proposing a trilateral mechanism for cooperation for peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan and coordination of counter-terrorism actions between Pakistan and Afghanistan."
    He said China, Afghanistan, and Pakistan had a long tradition of interactions and Pakistan was one of the largest trading partners of Afghanistan as it exported goods and services worth approximately $3 billion annually.
    He said the next phase of CPEC, as part of the wider One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative, would be extended to Central Asia via Afghanistan.
    Malik added: "If we look into the CPEC, it has four main components: transit and trade, infrastructure, energy cooperation, and economic integration. Afghanistan can be helpful when it comes to all these components."
    Iftikhar Malik said Afghanistan was a natural transit corridor and most of its own infrastructure projects could be aligned with OBOR. He added there were very close people-to-people and business-to-business relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
    Giving suggestions to improve trade relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan, he said tariff rates should be reduced on essential commodities, non-tariff barriers lowered and trade facilitation eased to remove obstacles faced by Afghan businesses and lower the cost of transactions, adding that concessionary export refinancing facilities should be made available to Pakistani exporters for incremental flows of goods to Afghanistan.on essential commodities, non-tariff barriers lowered and trade facilitation eased to remove obstacles faced by Afghan businesses and lower the cost of transactions, adding that concessionary export refinancing facilities should be made available to Pakistani exporters for incremental flows of goods to Afghanistan.


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    KARACHi: Two children drowned on Thursday in the metropolis' Punjab Chowrangi area. 
    The children were playing in a pool of water which had accumulated in an under-construction underpass, said rescue sources. 
    Rescue services added that they have recovered a body from the area while the search for the second body is underway.
    The children were between the age of eight and ten. 
    The underpass is slated to be completed by September 2017. The cost of the project is estimated at Rs600 million. 
    After the completion of the underpass, traffic at Punjab Chowrangi will be signal-free. The length of the underpass will be 750 meters.




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