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    Apple CEO Tim Cook on Friday warned graduates at MIT, a pioneer in fields like computers and robots, about technology's dehumanising aspects and urged them to infuse its development with their own values.
    "I?m not worried about artificial intelligence giving computers the ability to think like humans," Cook said in his commencement speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "I'm more concerned about people thinking like computers, without values or compassion, without concern for consequence."
    Speaking to thousands of students and their families at MIT's Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus, Cook praised the benefits of new devices and social media. But he also cautioned that the same technologies can divide people through threats to privacy or security, and said technology must be tempered with human knowledge.
    "Technology is capable of doing great things, but it doesn't want to do great things. It doesn't want anything," the Apple Inc (AAPL.O) chief executive said. "That part takes all of us."
    Cook?s speech did not break new ground for him as head of the world's most valuable technology company but added some context around some of his past decisions, such as taking controversial stances to protect privacy rights and investing heavily in green technologies.
    Cook has criticised President Donald Trump?s policies but offered only a gentle joke at the president's expense on Friday, telling students it is obvious they have taken over Trump?s Twitter account.
    ?I can tell college students are behind it because most of the tweets happen at 3 a.m.,? Cook said.
    His 15-minute talk stood in contrast to a lengthier graduation speech his predecessor, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, gave at MIT rival Stanford University in 2005, in which Jobs outlined his free-thinking background and told graduates to find work they loved.
    Cook took a more conventional career path to the top of Apple, where he became CEO in 2011 after stints at IBM and Compaq.
    Cook, who is openly gay but famously circumspect, gave few details about his own life on Friday except to outline what he described as a frustrating search for meaning until joining Apple.
    He said at one point he sought guidance in religion and last year met with Pope Francis, who Cook said reinforced his own sense that technology must be harnessed with strong values. He said Francis told him, ?Never has humanity had such power over itself, yet nothing ensures that it will be used wisely."


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    [embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/6ddd290883fd4ed033d23098b3238e0d.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ni8xMS8yMDE3IDY6NDc6MDAgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1tdVQ5akVaUFJyckJhNTFTZ1VGTjh3PT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] RAWALPINDI: The anti-smuggling cell of the Customs department seized 1,225kg worth of smuggled items from a bus in an operation in Dhudial, Chakwal on Sunday.

    A statement by the Customs department said the confiscated items include Indian milk, 0.1 million CDs as well as 60,000 cigarettes, among other items. The market value of the seized goods is said to be Rs6 million.
    One person has been arrested while the bus has also been seized by Customs officials.
    The bus is said to have originated from Peshawar. Photo: Geo News  Officials said the bus had originated from Peshawar and was going to deliver the goods somewhere in Punjab.
    On receiving intelligence about the smuggling bid, Customs teams stopped the bus near Balkasar but it sped away and was finally stopped in Dhudial. 


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    KABUL: An Afghan commando who opened fire on American troops killed three of them and wounded another, US and Afghan officials said, in an insider attack that was claimed by the Taliban.
    The so-called "green-on-blue" attack on Saturday is the latest in a line of incidents where Afghan soldiers have turned their weapons on international forces they are working with.
    It also comes as the Taliban ramp up their campaign against the Western-backed government in Afghanistan, and as US President Donald Trump mulls sending more troops into the lengthy conflict.
    Nangarhar provincial spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told AFP the Afghan commando had opened fire on US troops during an operation in the volatile Achin district.
    "The (Afghan) soldier was also killed in the return fire," he said.
    The Pentagon said the families of the three dead soldiers were being informed.
    "One US soldier was wounded and has been evacuated for medical treatment," a spokesman added. "This incident is under investigation."
    The Taliban claimed responsibility for the deaths, saying the attack was carried out by an infiltrator.
    Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed on Twitter that four US soldiers were killed in the attack. The insurgents are known to exaggerate battlefield claims.
    Achin is also contested by militants of the Islamic State group.
    In April, the US military dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat on a complex of caves in Achin used by IS fighters.
    The deployment of the so-called Mother Of All Bombs killed dozens of jihadists but fighting in the area has continued.
    American troops have partnered with Afghan soldiers in raids against IS Khorasan, claiming the local offshoot of the jihadist group based in Iraq and Syria is steadily losing ground in Afghanistan.
    Mistrust bred by errant air strikes 
    Green-on-blue attacks have been a major problem during NATO's long years fighting alongside Afghan forces.
    Western officials say most insider attacks stem from personal grudges and cultural misunderstandings rather than insurgent plots.
    Saturday's attack came just hours after an errant US air strike killed and wounded at least six Afghan policemen in southern Helmand province, in the latest "friendly fire" incident.
    Such strikes have bred deep mistrust between local and foreign forces.
    Three US troops were wounded in March when an Afghan soldier opened fire in Helmand, in the first known insider attack on international forces this year.
    Similar incidents have also plagued Afghan troops, depleting morale and causing mistrust within security ranks.
    The latest killings come at a time of intensified violence and when the United States is considering sending more troops to Afghanistan.
    The Afghan conflict is the longest in American history, with US-led NATO troops at war there since 2001, after the ousting of the Taliban regime.
    US troops in Afghanistan number about 8,400 today, and there are another 5,000 from NATO allies, who mainly serve in a training and advisory capacity.


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    SRINAGAR: Indian troops, in Indian occupied Kashmir, martyred a Kashmiri youth in Bandipora district on Saturday, raising the number of killed in fake encounters in the territory to seven since Friday.
    The Kashmiri youth was martyred by Indian troops during a military operation in Bandipora?s Gurez area. The troops had killed six youth during a similar operation in Uri area of Baramulla district, Friday evening.
    Occupational troops also launched a siege and search operation in Vessu area of Islamabad district following an attack on the convoy of Indian paramilitary force. One person was injured during the exchange of firing between the attackers and the troops.
    Indian forces conducted a cordon and search operation in Srinagar?s Lal Chowk area, causing huge inconvenience to the people. Indian army personnel damaged several residential houses in Shopian?s Narpora area following youth pelting stone on their vehicles.


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    [embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/58a5d995e7e8773e1da9a186a73e6bea.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ni8xMS8yMDE3IDU6NDQ6MjQgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1zUGVHbk1VdEs0bTFBQWJQUkh4UjdRPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has claimed that the Panama case Joint Investigation Team (JIT) is working as an election cell of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.

    Qadri was talking to reporters on his return to the country from Canada on Sunday morning.
    The PAT chief also alleged the PML-N?s manifesto is being prepared by the JIT, adding that the leaked picture [of Hussain Nawaz] is also a ?drama? of the ?election cell?.
    ?We have to bring all the opposition parties on one platform against the ?Lahore Throne?,? he said, referring to the ruling party.
    Talking about the Model Town tragedy, he said its investigation has been stalled, as they are unable to get a date for an appeal hearing.
    Tahirul Qadri returns to Pakistan, announces protests on June 17
    Qadri also spoke on the Panama Papers scandal and said that he knew nothing could be achieved from it
    Around 14 PAT workers were killed and 100 injured during clashes with police in Lahore?s Model Town locality in 2014.
    ?We will go to the Supreme Court when the lower court makes a decision,? he said further, adding that the real perpetrators of the tragedy have yet to be summoned by the court.
    ?We are striving hard to change the system, it?ll only happen when the downtrodden and the oppressed rise up for their rights. I will do all I can to bring the people together,? said the PAT chief.
    He also dismissed the practice of ?elections? in the country, saying no elections are held here, ?it is all a drama.?
    Qadri did not comment when asked on his possible 'alliance' with Imran Khan this time around. 
    In June of last year, Qadri had made calls for protest over the Model Town tragedy after returning from Canada. 
    Qadri and Khan were partners in the 2014 sit-in in Islamabad against 'rigging' in the 2013 elections. However, the two later parted ways over differences on various issues. 
    Panama JIT
    The JIT probing the global financial dealings of the prime minister's family has recently been mired in controversy, with subjects of the investigation accusing it of being biased and indulging in character assassination. 
    Panama case: NBP president alleges mistreatment by JIT members
    He has written to the Supreme Court registrar, saying he felt as a death sentence convict
    Recently, the JIT, headed by Federal Investigation Agency Additional Director  Wajid Zia, too informed the Supreme Court Panama case implementation bench of 'hurdles' being faced by them. 
    The apex court has reiterated repeatedly that the high-profile probe team will not be given more than the 60-day time frame given to it to wrap up the investigation in light of the April 20 Supreme Court judgment in the Panama case. 


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    First lady Melania Trump reads the children's book "Party Animals" at the 139th annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, April 17, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts  WASHINGTON: The US first couple has hardly gotten off to a conventional start. Now, after a period spent apart, it's in for a very public test: life together in the Petri dish that is Washington.
    President Donald Trump, for instance, all but ignored First Lady Melania ? left clambering out of a limo in a sumptuous, light blue designer dress and bearing a goodwill gift ? as he bounded up the White House steps in January to greet President Barack Obama and wife Michelle on Inauguration Day.
    More recently the Slovenian former model appeared to swat away an outreached presidential hand as the couple walked along a red carpet upon arriving in Israel last month. The moment, captured on video during Trump's first and very high profile overseas visit as president, quickly went viral.
    But now it seems it's time for the uber-wealthy Trumps ? separated for months by political triumph and a parenting choice ? to come together under another fancy roof.
    After staying in New York in Trump Tower since the election so their young son Barron could finish the school year, 47-year-old Melania Trump and the boy are reportedly moving to Washington next week to take their place in the White House.
    The Washington-news website Politico, quoting people familiar with the family's plans, reports that Melania and 11-year-old Barron will move in on June 14, the day Trump turns 71. CNN also said the move will be next week, but did not specify a date.
    The reported move comes amid the seemingly endless barrage of self-inflicted wounds, damaging Russia-related news leaks, vicious White House infighting and other turmoil that have hobbled and distracted the Trump presidency since it set up shop in the executive mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on January 20.
    Normally, when a new US president takes over, his family is an automatic component of the transition.
    Michelle Obama and the then young presidential daughters Malia and Sasha were instantly, albeit discreetly in the case of the girls, a part of the new US presidential hearth.
    But Melania is the first First Lady in modern history to delay her arrival in Washington after an election win.
    During the week at least, Trump has been living alone in the vast, private quarters of the White House as he fends off the flood of reporting over Russia having allegedly meddled in the 2016 US election with the aim of helping him defeat Hillary Clinton.
    His family's arrival is not going to change much other than to give his marriage an air of stability, Katherine Jellison, a history professor at Ohio University who specialises in first lady studies, told Politico.
    "The move helps to give the impression that the president is currently in a stable, solid marriage and that his home life is under control," she was quoted as saying.
    Melania low key so far
    Michelle Obama was very active politically on issues such as education and women's empowerment during her husband's two terms in office.
    Articulate and personable, she became wildly popular and even generated talk that she might make a good presidential candidate someday. She has said she is not interested.
    But Melania Trump has mostly kept a low profile since her real estate mogul husband became president.
    Arguably, her biggest public outing came last month when she and Trump visited the Middle East and Europe on a trip that the White House later praised as a resounding success for the political and diplomatic neophyte president.
    Trump has said that among other achievements he rallied Arab support for fighting Daesh.
    Critics say the high point of the trip was that the presidential couple did not commit any major diplomatic gaffes as they visited the centres of the Islamic, Judaic, and Roman Catholic worlds, then NATO.
    Trump's wife did stumble badly during the presidential campaign when, in a speech to the Republican National Convention in July, she made remarks that at times mimicked the wording and themes of a speech Michelle Obama gave in 2008 at the Democratic convention.




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    Supporters of the opposition party 'Self determination' (Vetevendosje) during an electoral rally in Pristina, Kosovo June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Agron Beqiri PRISTINA: Kosovars vote on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election, hoping to elect a government that can improve the Balkan state's impoverished economy and make progress in joining the European Union (EU).
    About 1.9 million Kosovars, of which nearly half a million live abroad, are registered to vote in the third election since Kosovo declared independence in 2008.
    Polling stations open at 7 AM (10 AM PST) and will close at 7 PM (10 PM PST).
    The new government will have to tackle unemployment running at 30 percent and improve relations with its neighbours, especially Serbia, a pre-condition for both countries to move forward in the European Union accession process.
    The West sees the integration of the Western Balkan countries in the European Union as a way to stabilise a region still recovering from wars in the 1990s.
    Early elections were called in May when the government of Prime Minister Isa Mustafa lost a no-confidence vote, accused by the opposition of failing to meet its pledges to improve the lives of the youngest population in Europe.
    Opinion polls put a coalition led by former prime minister Ramush Haradinaj as the frontrunner. His small Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) party signed a pre-election deal with the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), the biggest in the country and in power since 2007.
    A victory for Haradinaj, however, would probably complicate relations with Serbia, which has issued an international warrant for his arrest for war crimes.
    A coalition led Mustafa's Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and the leftist opposition party Vetevendosje (VV) which wants to unite all Albanians in one state are vying for second place in the vote, according to opinion polls.
    In a calm election campaign, almost all the political parties promised to boost economic growth to up to 8 percent a year and to raise public sector wages by up to 40 percent.
    "These economic promises will not materialise without foreign investment or building new economic capacities that will lower unemployment," analyst Imer Mushkolaj said. "Unemployment and poverty are the main problems in Kosovo's society."
    Kosovo's economy has been growing steadily and is forecast to expand by four percent in 2017 but the growth is mainly down to remittances from some one million Kosovars living abroad.

    The new government will also have to try to strike a border demarcation deal with Montenegro, which is the last condition for the EU to grant visa-free travel for Kosovars.
    Neighbours Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia have already secured visa-free travel with EU member states.
    Kosovo declared independence in 2008, nine years after NATO bombing drove out Serbian forces accused of killing and expelling Kosovo Albanian civilians during a two-year counter-insurgency.
    Serbia still refuses to recognise its independence.


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    French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at his home on a bicycle in Le Touquet, on the eve of the first round of the parliamentary election, France June 10, 2017. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer  PARIS: French voters head to the polls on Sunday for the first of two rounds of a parliamentary election expected to give new President Emmanuel Macron a solid majority that should allow him to carry out far-reaching reforms.
    Just a month after the 39-year old ex-banker defied the odds to be elected to the head of the euro zone's second-largest economy, opinion polls forecast his one-year-old party will top voting this Sunday and win most seats in the June 18 run-off.
    "We want a big majority to be able to act and transform France over the next five years," Mounir Mahjoubi, a junior minister in Macron's government, told Reuters as he was canvassing for support in the northern Paris constituency where he is a candidate.
    The latest opinion polls forecast that Macron's centrist Republic On the Move (LREM) party and its center-right Modem allies will get at least 30 percent of the votes on Sunday, with the conservative The Republicans and its allies at around 20 percent and the far-right National Front around 17 percent.

    That outcome would transform into a landslide majority in the second round, opinion polls show.
    While elections in the lower house of parliament's 577 constituencies can be tricky to predict, especially with a total of 7,882 candidates vying for those seats, even LREM's rivals have been saying they expect Macron to get a majority.
    Their strategy over the past days has rather been to urge voters to make sure the opposition will be big enough to have some weight in parliament. "We shouldn't have a monopolistic party," ex-prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve, a Socialist, told Reuters.
    The survival of the Socialist Party, which ruled France for the past five years but is forecast to get just between about 15 and 30 seats, is at stake, as is the unity of The Republicans, which poll second but are divided on whether to back Macron.
    The National Front, reeling from a weaker-than-expected score for chief Marine Le Pen in the presidential election, could miss its target to get enough lawmakers to form a parliamentary group, though it is expected to do much better than the two deputies it had in the previous legislature.
    Macron pledged overhaul
    In a country with unemployment hovering near 10 percent and that is at risk of breaking its public deficit commitments, Macron was elected president in May on pledges to overhaul labour rules to make hiring and firing easier, cut corporate tax and invest billions in areas including job training and renewable energy.
    "If we really want him (Macron) to change things he needs a majority," 67-year-old voter Irena Plewa, a pensioner, said at a bustling Paris food market.

    Polling stations open at 8 AM (11 PM PST) and close at 6 PM (9 PM PST) in most cities and two hours later in Paris and other big cities. Results will then slowly start trickling in, alongside opinion polls estimates of the results.
    Very few lawmakers are expected to be elected directly in the first round.
    To achieve that, a candidate would need more than half of the votes and that must account for at least a quarter of registered voters. With many fresh faces among the candidates, a political landscape divided among many forces from the far-left to the far-right and abstention predicted to be at over 40 percent, that is unlikely to happen in many constituencies.


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    Former US Attorney General John Ashcroft Washington, September 21, 2007. REUTERS/Larry Downing The government of Qatar has hired John Ashcroft, the US attorney general during the September 11 attacks, as it seeks to rebut accusations from US President Donald Trump and its Arab neighbours that it supports terrorism.
    Qatar will pay the Ashcroft Law Firm $2.5 million for a 90-day period as the country seeks to confirm its efforts to fight global terrorism and comply with financial regulations including US Treasury rules, according to a Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filing on Friday with the Justice Department.
    "The firm's work will include crisis response and management, program and system analysis, media outreach, education and advocacy regarding the client's historical, current and future efforts to combat global terror, and its compliance goals and accomplishments," according to a letter by Ashcroft firm partner Michael Sullivan included in the filing.
    Qatar faces isolation by fellow Arab countries after Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Egypt severed ties with Doha on Monday, accusing it of supporting militants and their adversary Iran. Qatar denies the allegations.
    The crisis is a major diplomatic test for the United States, which is a close ally of countries on both sides but has given mixed signals on whether to isolate Qatar or bring it into talks with other Gulf countries.
    Trump on Friday accused Qatar of being a "high level" sponsor of terrorism in remarks made shortly after his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, pushed Qatar's Arab neighbours to "immediately take steps to de-escalate the situation".
    The Ashcroft firm was hired to do a compliance and regulatory view of Qatar's anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing framework, Sullivan said in an email.
    "Qatar is confident that the review and analysis will confirm that Qatar has significant measures in place to prevent and detect efforts to launder funds and/or to use its financial systems to finance terrorist organisations," he said.

    Ashcroft was US attorney general under President George W. Bush from February 2001 to February 2005, turbulent years in which US policies and laws were reshaped by the so-called war on terrorism that followed the 2001 al Qaeda attacks.
    Ashcroft's firm includes an array of former senior government officials including Sullivan, a former US attorney in Massachusetts appointed by Bush to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).


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    Italy's Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni addresses a news conference during a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, December 15, 2016. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir  ROME: Italians are electing municipal mayors on Sunday in a test of parties' support ahead of a parliamentary election to be held by next spring at the latest.
    Some 9 million voters will elect mayors in more than 1,000 towns and cities, with runoffs to be held on June 25 where no candidate gets more than 50 percent in the first round.
    The political climate ahead of the vote became even more hostile this week after a deal on electoral reform among the main parties broke down in parliament amid bitter recriminations.
    The collapse of that accord seems to have reduced the chances of a snap election in the autumn, but the coalition backing Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni is fragile and analysts say an early vote still cannot be ruled out.
    Although Sunday's vote will be one of the last before the general election, local factors mean it may not provide a clear reflection of the parties' national standings.
    Moreover, in many of the contests, the parties have taken a back seat and chosen to camouflage themselves in broad "civic list" coalitions rather than present their own individual candidates.
    The largest city at stake is Palermo, where incumbent mayor Leoluca Orlando, a veteran anti-mafia campaigner backed by Italy's ruling Democratic Party (PD) and other centre-left groups, is expected to see off his rivals from the center-right and the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement.
    A closer contest is expected in the northern port city of Genoa, where the center-right hopes to win control from the incumbent center-left. The city is home to 5-Star's founder, comedian Beppe Grillo, but the movement's prospects there have dwindled due to a local internal split.
    The center-right, dominated by the Northern League and Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, is favourite in Verona in the northeast, while the centre-left is expected to keep control of L'Aquila, the capital of the central Abruzzo region.
    5-Star is running neck-and-neck with the PD nationally, according to opinion polls, but it often struggles in local elections due to its loose organisation and lack of high-profile candidates, and it is expected to score few successes on Sunday.

    In the northern city of Parma, its first ever mayor, elected in 2012, is running as an independent after falling out with the party leadership last year and is favourite to win against rivals from the center-right and center-left as well as 5-Star.
    Exit polls will be published for the main cities when polls close at 11 PM local time and first projections based on the actual vote count will be released about 45 minutes later.


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    Aseman Airlines has signed a final deal to buy 30 Boeing (BA.N) 737 MAX jets in Iran's first new business with the US planemaker since President Donald Trump took office vowing to take a tougher stance toward the country.
    Aseman and Boeing had signed a tentative deal in April. Iran's state news agency IRNA reported that representatives of Aseman and Boeing signed the final agreement in the capital Tehran on Saturday.
    "I am very pleased that after a year of negotiation with Boeing, the contract to buy 30 Boeing 737s was signed today," Aseman CEO Hossein Alaei was quoted as saying by IRNA after the signing ceremony.
    Owned by Iran's civil service pension foundation but managed as a private company, Aseman is Iran's third-largest airline by active fleet size, according to the CAPA consultancy.
    Alaei said Aseman was ready to order another 30 of the same planes once the delivery of the first order was finished.
    IRNA reported that the deal for 60 jets would be worth $3 billion, saying Aseman would pay five percent and seek financing for the rest.
    Boeing has already agreed to sell 80 aircraft to flag carrier IranAir under a deal between Tehran and major powers that led to the lifting of most sanctions in return for curbs on its nuclear technology development activities.
    Trump has said he opposes the nuclear sanctions pact but has not stated a public view on the aircraft deals reached under the accord. The US aerospace industry says they support Trump's agenda for protecting US manufacturing jobs.


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    Smoke is seen during an attack on the Iranian parliament in central Tehran, Iran. Tasnim News Agency/Handout via REUTERS  Iran said its security forces on Saturday killed the mastermind of a twin attack on Tehran that left 17 people dead this week, as security was tightened around the country to prevent other possible plots.

    Daesh has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombings and gun attacks on parliament and the mausoleum of the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on Wednesday.
    "The mastermind and main commander of terrorist attacks on the parliament and Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini was killed today by the security forces," intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency.
    Alavi said that in the last month the intelligence ministry had identified and crushed "a terrorist team" almost every day but had not publicised it to avoiding spreading fear among the public.
    Iranian authorities have also arrested seven people it suspects of helping militants involved in attacks, a judiciary official said on Saturday.
    Ahmad Fazelian, a provincial judiciary official, said the seven, suspected of "providing support for the terrorist team", were detained in Fardis, about 50 kilometres west of Tehran, the judiciary's online news agency Mizan reported.
    On Friday, authorities announced the arrests of 41 suspects in connection with the twin Tehran attacks.
    Separately, the head of the judiciary in Fars province said seven people were detained in the southern Larestan area for possible ties to Daesh, Iran's ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.

    Tehran police said the car the attackers used on Wednesday was discovered on Saturday in the city centre.
    "The terrorists first went by car to the mausoleum and after dropping two of them off, went to the city centre to attack parliament," the police said in a statement published on state media.


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    BACKGROUND: Stormy clouds surround Big Ben in Westminster, central London, Britain, June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne; RIGHT: British Prime Minister Theresa May and her husband walk into number 10 Downing Street after addressing the country in London, Britain, June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth  LONDON/BELFAST: British Prime Minister Theresa May secured a deal on Saturday to prop up her minority government but looked increasingly isolated after a botched election gamble plunged Britain into crisis just days before the start of talks on leaving the European Union.

    Her Conservatives struck an outline deal with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) for support on key legislation. It was a humiliating outcome after an election that May had planned to strengthen herself ahead of the Brexit push.

    Instead, voters stripped the Conservatives of their parliamentary majority. As May struggled to contain the fallout, her two closest aides resigned.
    Newspapers said foreign minister Boris Johnson and other leading party members were weighing leadership challenges. But Johnson said he backed May.
    May called the early election in April when opinion polls suggested she was set for a sweeping win. He aides, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, quit on Saturday following sustained criticism of the campaign within the party.
    Gavin Barwell, the Conservative lawmaker who lost his seat on Thursday and has experience working as a party enforcer in the parliament, was named the new chief of staff.
    The change was unlikely to significantly quell unrest within the party. Most of May's cabinet members have kept quiet on the issue of her future, adding to speculation that her days as prime minister are numbered.
    A YouGov poll for the Sunday Times newspaper found 48 percent of people felt May should quit, while 38 percent thought she should stay.
    More complicated
    The DUP, whose 10 seats in the new parliament give May just enough support to pass legislation, agreed in principle to a "confidence and supply" arrangement, Downing Street said.
    That means it will support a Conservative minority government on key votes in parliament without a formal coalition deal.
    A source close to the DUP said the party was seeking more funding for the province and concessions for former British soldiers in exchange for supporting May.
    Still, the deal with the DUP risks upsetting the political balance in Northern Ireland. It aligns London more closely with the pro-British side in the divided province, where a power-sharing government with Irish nationalists is suspended.
    The Observer newspaper said the DUP arrangement fell short of a full coalition agreement because of concerns among some Conservative lawmakers about the socially conservative DUP's positions on gay rights, abortion, and climate change.
    The turmoil engulfing May has increased the chance that Britain will fall out of the EU in 2019 without a deal. Previously, she said she wanted to take Britain out of the EU's single market and customs union in order to cut immigration.
    Her party is deeply divided over what it wants from Brexit. The election result means businesses still have no idea what trading rules they can expect in the coming years.
    EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said it may now be possible to discuss closer ties between Britain and the EU than May had initially planned, given her election flop.
    "For instance, if London were to stay in the customs union, then it would not have to renegotiate all trade agreements," he told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper.
    The pound on Friday fell 1.7 and 1.4 percent against the US dollar and the euro, respectively.
    After confirming on Friday that her top five ministers, including finance minister Philip Hammond, would keep their jobs, May must name the rest of her team, who will take on one of the most demanding jobs in recent British political history.
    May has said Brexit talks will begin on June 19 as scheduled, the same day as the formal reopening of parliament. She confirmed this to German leader Angela Merkel in a phone call on Saturday.
    She also reiterated that she would seek a reciprocal agreement early in the talks on rights of EU and British citizens, Downing Street said.
    Elmar Brok, a German conservative and the European Parliament's top Brexit expert, told the Ruhr Nachrichten newspaper that the two-year talks would now be more complicated.
    "May won't be able to make any compromises because she lacks a broad parliamentary majority," he said.
    'She's staying, for now'
    Britain's largely pro-Conservative press questioned whether May could remain in power.
    The Sun newspaper said senior members of the party had vowed to get rid of May but would wait at least six months because they feared a leadership contest could propel the Labour party into power under Jeremy Corbyn, who supports renationalisation of key industries and higher taxes for business and top earners.
    Survation, the opinion polling firm that came closest to predicting correctly the election's outcome, said a new poll it conducted for the Mail on Sunday newspaper showed support for Labour now 6 percentage points ahead of the Conservatives.
    "She's staying, for now," one Conservative Party source told Reuters. Former Conservative cabinet minister Owen Paterson, asked about her future, said, "Let's see how it pans out."
    May had repeatedly ruled out the need for a new election before changing her mind. Labour stunned even its own supporters by taking enough seats from the Conservatives to deny them a majority.
    The Times newspaper's front page declared that Britain was "effectively leaderless" and the country "all but ungovernable".
    "The Conservatives have not yet broken the British system of democracy, but through their hubris and incompetence they have managed to make a mockery of it," it said in an editorial.
    If May is to honour the wish of the 52 percent of voters who opted last year to take Britain out of the EU, she must find a way to bridge the differences within her party.
    Its eurosceptic wing has long been a thorn in the side of Conservative prime ministers. On the other hand, pro-Europe Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said she wanted to be involved in "looking again" at Britain's aims for Brexit.
    Davidson was one of the few Conservative success stories in the election as the Scottish wing of the party won 13 seats.
    She has said she favours retaining the greatest possible level of access to Europe's single market. Davidson also said she had received reassurances from May that the party's deal with the DUP would not involve a rollback of gay rights.
    'Get on with the job'
    Johnson's backing, nevertheless, dismissed reports that he might be planning a leadership challenge after May's 'bullet to the foot'.

    The Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday newspapers said that allies of Johnson were pushing him to challenge May for the party's leadership.
    "Mail on Sunday tripe ? I am backing Theresa May. Let's get on with the job," Johnson said on Twitter on Saturday.


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    A statement from the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Battalion, a militia which controls Zintan, a mountainous region south-west of Libya?s capital Tripoli, said Saif al-Islam was released late on Saturday.
    The most prominent of Gaddafi's sons, Saif al-Islam, 44, was captured in Zintan in November 2011 as he was fleeing to neighbouring Niger after opposition fighters seized Tripoli.
    Saif al-Islam, the most prominent of Gaddafi?s eight children, was sentenced to death in July 2015 by a court in Tripoli in a mass trial of former Gaddafi government officials, ALJAZEERA reported.

    He is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
    The commander of the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Battalion, Ajmi al-Atiri, was set to release a video statement explaining the details of the release.
    Since the Gaddafi's four-decade rule ended in 2011, Libya has struggled to establish basic institutions and rule of law, with militias and former fighters challenging the authority of the weak central government.


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    File photo KARACHI: A First Information Report (FIR) has been filed in the Shahrah-e-Noor Jahan police station against the person who attempted a fatal assault at Jamal Ahmed ? a member of Sindh Assembly belonging to Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) ? near his North Nazimabad residence here on Saturday, Geo News reported.

    The FIR was registered on behalf of Ahmed?s guard Bakht Ali and includes charges of attempted murder on the MPA.
    An unknown man astride a motorcycle shot at Ahmed in his locale as the latter was about to leave for a tour of Shadman Town ? his area, but the murder attempt was futile. The MQM-P leader's guard reacted right away, resulting in an exchange of gunshots, but the attacker managed to flee.
    Subsequently, security officials reached the scene to collect forensic evidence, especially as the assailant had left behind his bike.
    The security officers, however, have not issued any comments explaining what had transpired, expect that they ?are verifying whether the attacker was specifically targeting the MPA or not?, a local media outlet reported.
    MQM-P Rabita Committee member Kanwar Naveed Jameel in a press conference condemned the murder attempt and asked for action to be taken against the assailant.
    Jameel, highlighting the attempt on Abdul Rashid Godil earlier, mentioned how the party has asked for higher security following threats to its members but nothing has been done in response. He stressed for action against the perpetrator.
    Ahmed won PS-110 constituency of Karachi in 2013.



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    A shallow westerly wave is affecting upper and central parts of the country and is likely to persist during the next two days, the Pakistan Meteorological Department said on Sunday.
    Hot and dry weather is expected in most parts of the country in the next twenty-four hours.
    However, rain and thunderstorm with gusty winds are expected at isolated places in Bannu, Kohat, Sargodha, D.I. Khan, Hazara, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Multan, D.G. Khan, Bahawalpur divisions, FATA, Islamabad, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Kashmir.
    Past weather:
    Rain and thunderstorm with gusty winds occurred at isolated places in Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sargodha, D.G. Khan, Multan, Malakand, Hazara, Kohat divisions, Islamabad, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Kashmir. The weather remained hot and dry in other parts of the country.
    Rainfall in the last 24 Hours (mm):
    Punjab: Chakwal 61, Gujrat 11, Murree 08, Mandibahauddin 04, Sargodha 03, Mangla 02, D.G.Khan, Jhelum, Sialkot 01, KP: Kakul 06, Balakot 05, Kohat, Dir 02, Kashmir: Garidupatta, Kotli 07, Rawalakot 04, Gilgit-Baltistan: Bagrote 04.
    Today's highest maximum temperatures:
    Dadu 46°C, Larkana, Jacobabad, Sibbi, Dalbandin, Nokkundi, Sukkur 45°C.


    Data courtesy: Pakistan Meteorological Department 


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    Image: Airbus BERLIN: Three male passengers were detained on Saturday evening in Cologne, Germany after their easyJet flight from Ljubljana, Slovenia to London made an unscheduled landing there, Cologne police said in a statement.
    The aircraft landed 6 PM local time (9 PM PST) at Cologne-Bonn Airport after passengers reported that the men were talking about "terrorist matters," according to the statement.
    The men, however, were not identified by then.

    Police carried out security checks on the aircraft and questioned passengers after all 151 passengers were evacuated safely from the Airbus 319 aircraft using emergency slides and led through transit gates, the airport said in a statement on its website.
    "Passengers [also] had to undergo a check immediately after landing," the statement added.

    Cologne Bonn Airport said on Twitter that "there are currently delays of departures" due to an operation being carried out by the police.

    Federal police seized a backpack that belonged to one of the men, and bomb squad officers exploded it outside of the aircraft, police said. They gave no information on the contents of the backpack and said officials continued to investigate the backpack.
    The men continued to be questioned late Saturday evening. Other passengers were also being questioned, police said.
    10 aircraft were diverted to other airports as a result of the police investigation, the airport said, as air traffic was interrupted between 7-10 PM, with 20 departures delayed.

    Bild newspaper quoted a spokesman for the German federal police as saying the pilot decided to land the aircraft in Cologne after passengers told airline personnel they had heard the men using words including "bomb" and "explosive".

    No comment was immediately available from federal police.
    According to WDR, a German media outlet, flight operations resumed after two hours.
    The airport, in a new statement, said operations had been "partially resumed", as take-offs were given the green signal, but landings were on hold.
    Germany remains on high alert following several jihadist attacks there and in other European countries. Authorities Friday evacuated Germany´s biggest rock festival, the three-day "Rock am Ring," over fears of a possible terrorist threat, which proved unfounded.



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    French police officials gather at the entrance to Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on June 6, 2017. AFP/Martin Bureau  PARIS: An Algerian man who attacked a policeman with a hammer outside Notre Dame cathedral was a loner with a deep interest in Daesh's extremist propaganda, the Paris prosecutor said Saturday.

    Farid Ikken, a 40-year-old doctorate student, was shot and wounded by another policeman during Tuesday's attack in which he shouted: "This is for Syria".

    He was officially charged late Saturday with the attempted murder of law enforcement officials and association with terrorists and jailed ahead of a hearing.
    He had previously been receiving hospital treatment for a gunshot wound to the leg.
    Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Ikken was an educated man who under questioning told investigators he had radicalised himself over a period of 10 months.
    Examination of a laptop and four USB keys found at the man's apartment in Paris revealed a "lone wolves' manual" compiled by Daesh, the prosecutor told a press conference.
    Police shoot, injure attacker outside Paris?s Notre-Dame cathedral
    Police sealed off the area in front of the cathedral, where the attacker lay injured on the ground
    Investigators also found photographs of last week's extremist attack in London in which eight people were killed and videos "glorifying" earlier attacks in Paris and Brussels.
    "He had never shown any sign of radicalisation to those close to him, he had never been convicted, he was unknown to the intelligence services and so far, no signs of contact with anyone in Iraq or Syria have been found," Molins said.
    Worrying diversity of profiles
    "He, therefore, appears to have the profile of a neophyte that the services fighting terrorism fear as much as hardened cases," he added.
    "It shows the diversity of profiles and that anything is possible."
    The prosecutor confirmed that Ikken had recorded a video pledging allegiance to Daesh. He had opened an account on the Telegram messaging service but did not appear to have contacted anyone.
    Other extremist suspects in France have received guidance through Telegram messages sent by extremists in Iraq and Syria, but there was no sign it had happened in this case.
    He had approached a group of police officers outside Notre Dame and suddenly aimed a hammer at the back of the head of one of them.
    Alerted by one of his colleagues, the policeman was able to bend partially out of the way, avoiding a harder and potentially more harmful blow, the prosecutor said.
    Ikken was also found to be carrying two kitchen knives.
    France has been repeatedly targeted in extremist attacks since 2015.
    In the bloodiest attack, 130 people were killed in Paris on November 13, 2015, in carnage claimed by Daesh.
    France is part of the US-led international coalition fighting Daesh and has carried out airstrikes against militants in Syria.
    Around 50,000 police will provide security for the first round of parliamentary elections on Sunday.


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    Richard Hammond, the host of the BBC America series ''Richard Hammond's Crash Course,'' speaks at the Cable portion of the Television Critics Association Summer press tour in Beverly Hills, California, US, August 1, 2012. REUTERS/Fred Prouser  Former Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond was airlifted to the hospital in Switzerland on Saturday following a dramatic car crash while filming for his new show, but his injuries were not serious, a spokesman said.
    Hammond, 47, was driving an electric sports car during filming for The Grand Tour when the crash happened, the spokesman for the show said.
    "Richard was conscious and talking, and climbed out of the car himself before the vehicle burst into flames," a spokesman for The Grand Tour said in a statement.
    "He was flown by air ambulance to hospital in St Gallen to be checked over, revealing a fracture to his knee," it said. "The cause of the crash is unknown and is being investigated."
    Jeremy Clarkson, his friend and colleague, said the crash "was the most frightening but incredibly, and thankfully, Richard seems to be mostly OK".

    Hammond was involved in a much more serious crash over a decade ago when filming for his old show Top Gear. He suffered serious brain injuries and was in the hospital for five weeks after a Vampire drag racer he was driving burst a tire and left the course at 463 kilometres/hour at Elvington airfield, near the British city of York, in September 2006.
    Hammond recovered and returned to broadcasting and to Top Gear, which aired in more than 200 countries and was watched by 350 million viewers worldwide.

    He left the BBC show along with colleagues Jeremy Clarkson and James May when Clarkson was fired in 2015 for physically attacking a member of the production team.
    The Grand Tour, an Amazon series, reunites the old Top Gear team. Saturday's accident occurred during the filming of its second series.


  20. Waqas Dar
    Image: Twitter (@jwbergiii) THE HAGUE: A car driver hit eight people outside Amsterdam Central Station on Saturday, injuring two seriously, after being warned about parking illegally, but police said there was no indication that the driver was carrying out an attack of any kind.

    "The suspect has been interviewed, and it appears not to have been intentional. But we are investigating further," Amsterdam police said on their Twitter account.

    The Amsterdam incident happened when police approached a black Peugeot which was badly parked, and the driver tried to speed away, according to Dutch media.

    Two people were admitted to hospital with serious injuries, and others were treated at the scene after the car hit the crowd and then crashed into a wall. Several ambulances and police were swiftly on the scene on the busy streets outside the station in the heart of the canal-lined Dutch capital.

    The driver was arrested and taken for questioning.
    The news came a week after three attackers in a van mowed down pedestrians in London before going on a stabbing spree, killing eight people and injuring 48.

    The Netherlands has been on high alert following a slew of attacks around Europe in recent months, including last month´s Manchester suicide bombing and two recent attacks in London.


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    LEFT: Picture of Adam West as it appears on his Twitter profile; RIGHT: Actor Adam West, who portrayed the title character in the 1960's television series Batman, poses atop the original Batmobile used in the hit series during an appearance at the first annual RetroFest in Santa Monica, California, US, August 14, 1999. REUTERS/Staff/File Photo  Adam West, who earned a place in American pop culture history with his campy portrayal of the title character in the classic 1960s TV series Batman, has died at age 88, his family said on Saturday.
    West, who was so closely identified with Batman for the rest of his life that it was both a blessing and a curse for him, died on Friday evening after a short struggle with leukaemia, his representative told Variety.
    "He was the greatest. We'll miss him like crazy," his family said on the actor's Twitter page.

    The live-action Batman show, starring West along with Burt Ward as his sidekick Robin and a collection of colourful villains, was inspired by a long-running comic book series. It ran only three seasons from 1966 to 1968 on the ABC network but became a television phenomenon and cult classic. It also spawned a Batman feature film in 1966.
    West portrayed Batman and his alter ego Bruce Wayne as painfully earnest, straight-laced, clean-cut, and trustworthy. The darker aspects of the Batman character - mined so successfully in later film versions - were ignored.
    The show's various memorable villains ? Cesar Romero as the Joker, Frank Gorshin as the Riddler, Burgess Meredith as the Penguin, and Julie Newmar as Catwoman ? were allowed to chew the scenery. Numerous Hollywood luminaries stepped in to play Batman's demented adversaries in the show's 120 episodes.
    "He was bright, witty, and fun to work with," Newmar said on Saturday in a statement. "I will miss him in the physical world and savour him always in the world of imagination and creativity," he added.
    After the series' cancellation, West found it difficult to land other acting jobs ? even though he was an established film and TV actor ? because he had become so linked to the Batman role
    Eventually, however, he came to accept that his identity was closely intertwined with the masked crime-fighting hero in the black cape whether he liked it or not. He often was hired to play a comically fictionalised version of himself in live-action and animated roles and became a successful voice actor.

    On the long-running animated series Family Guy, he provided the voice of the character Mayor Adam West. He played himself for years on the animated The Fairly OddParents and appeared on the venerable animated series The Simpsons. West also voiced the Caped Crusader and other characters in numerous animated incarnations of Batman.
    'Curious stirrings'
    "We had some very good writers for the original show," West said in a 2010 interview with the Slice of SciFi website. "They saw the craziness, the comedy. You know, just as he's about to put her in (jail), Batman says to Catwoman, 'You give me curious stirrings in my utility belt.' That's funny stuff."

    geo_embedgallery In protecting Gotham City from super criminals, Batman and Robin invariably would find their lives threatened in some fiendish trap, only to escape using their endless ingenuity.

    For example, Robin was once nearly swallowed alive by a giant clam in an episode with the Joker. Batman and Robin were nearly turned into frozen desserts ? Frosty Freezies ? in an episode with famed film director Otto Preminger as Mr. Freeze.
    Like some other actors who became inseparable in the minds of fans from a character they played ? Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock on Star Trek is another example ? West long resented his association with Batman but learned to like it.
    "I think it was a very simple deduction. I think any intelligent person would come to the same conclusion," he said in 2010. "And that is: if I am being turned down for other roles because of my association with Batman, then maybe what I should do is really embrace Batman. Pursue it and keep it alive, which is what I've been trying to do for 30 years."

    Bob Kane, who created Batman in 1939, seemed to agree. West kept a drawing of Batman by Kane, who inscribed it as: "To my buddy, Adam, who breathed life into my pen and ink creation."
    While struggling to land post-Batman acting roles, West turned to making personal appearances wearing the Batman cape and cowl ? some rather undignified, as when he appeared on a Memphis pro-wrestling program opposite wrestler Jerry "The King" Lawler.
    West was born as William "Billy" Anderson in Washington state in 1928. He took the name Adam West when he came to Hollywood in 1959.
    Pre-Batman, he co-starred in the 1965 Three Stooges feature film The Outlaws Is Coming and the 1964 sci-fi film Robinson Crusoe on Mars. But it was his performance in a TV commercial that caught the notice of the Batman producers.
    "They'd seen a series of commercials I'd done for Nestle Quick instant milkshake, in which I did a kind of spoof on the James Bond character," West told Bizarre magazine in 2004. "They saw the commercials and thought, 'Hey, maybe this is the guy that can play the character in the way that we envision it.'"


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    Rangers personnel are seen during snap checking in Karachi in this file image. KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers Sindh busted a gang of fraudsters using vehicle with fake military number plate in Karachi, they said in a statement on Saturday.

    Rangers' personnel, during snap checking near Safoora Chowrangi, stopped a suspicious vehicle with a Pakistan Army number plate, which was being escorted by two private security guards riding on a motorbike.
    When questioned, the suspects, Rehan Ali and Syed Rizwan Ali, impersonated themselves as "relatives" of some military officers.

    The vehicle with fake Pak Army number plate seized from fraudsters. While the two suspects riding on motorbike, Muhammad Zahid and Ghaffar, had rented uniforms from a private security company to materialise their fraudulent scheme.

    Paramilitary personnel also seized a rifle and a 9mm pistol from them.
    The suspects were handed over to police for taking legal action against them.


  23. Waqas Dar
    LAHORE/BAHAWALNAGAR: At least six people died in separate incidents after light and heavy rain lashed several cities in Punjab on Saturday, according to rescue sources.

    Several cities in Punjab, including Lahore, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Gujranwala, Kasur, Bahawalnagar, Multan and Lodhran, received light and heavy rain on Saturday. 
    Four people died in Bahawalnagar alone, after thunderstorm hit the city in southern Punjab.
    In Lahore, a man died and three others were wounded after roof of a house collapsed in Chauhang area. A woman died in a similar incident in Faisalabad.
    Over 28 people were reported injured in different incidents in Multan and Lodhran.
    The rainfall resulted in tripping of several feeders of Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco), suspending power supply to large part of the region.
    The cities affected by subsequent outages included Lahore, Sheikhupura, Kasur and Nankana Sahib.


  24. Waqas Dar
    BAHAWALPUR: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday handed death sentence to a man for uploading blasphemous content on social media.

    According to the CTD, the accused used to upload blasphemous and hateful content on social networking sites.
    He was arrested by Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) a year ago and a case was lodged against him under relevant clauses of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
    The ATC conducted hearings of the case in New Central Jail Bahawalpur, over a year's period. The court today handed death sentence to the accused.
    This is first case in which an accused has been sentenced to death over blasphemy on social media.
    He, however, can file an appeal against the ATC verdict in high court and the Supreme Court.


  25. Waqas Dar
    BAHAWALPUR: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday handed death sentence to a man for uploading blasphemous content on social media.

    According to the CTD, the accused used to upload blasphemous and hateful content on social networking sites.
    He was arrested by Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) a year ago and a case was lodged against him under relevant clauses of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
    The ATC conducted hearings of the case in New Central Jail Bahawalpur, over a year's period. The court today handed death sentence to the accused.
    This is first case in which an accused has been sentenced to death over blasphemy on social media.
    He, however, can file an appeal against the ATC verdict in high court and the Supreme Court.


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