Vijayawada, AP Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu met with Australian Consul General Sean Kelly regarding opportunities to breathe new life into the relationship between the two nations. They discussed potential projects on a number of key areas of Australian expertise, including mining, road transport, and education and so on. The …
Read More »In Afghanistan, at least 50 civilians have been killed by militants in northern province yesterday. Officials said that a checkpoint manned by local police was attacked in the Mirzawalang area of Sar-e Pul province. The assailants then entered the village and shot dead mainly Shia Muslim civilians including women and children. A spokesman for the provincial Governor said they were killed in a brutal, inhumane way. He reported that seven members of the Afghan security forces has also been killed, as well as a number of insurgents. A combination of Taliban and Islamic State group fighters including foreigners were involved. He said both are Sunni Muslim militant groups. The Taliban denied killing civilians, saying that its fighters had killed 28 members of a government-supported militia in the area. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack.
in northern province yesterday. Officials said that a checkpoint manned by local police was attacked in the Mirzawalang area of Sar-e Pul province. The assailants then entered the village and shot dead mainly Shia Muslim civilians including women and children. A spokesman for the provincial Governor said they were killed …
Read More »China Releases 15-Page ‘Doklam Statement’, Cites Document From 2006 to Accuse India of Trespass
Beijing, Aug 2: China on Wednesday released a 15-page statement on Doklam, reiterating its charge against India of violating the borders. Beijing cited a diplomatic ‘nop-paper’ from 2006, when the two sides bilaterally decided to adhere to the boundary alignment treaty inked between China and Great Britain in 1890, to …
Read More »At least 29 killed in Afghan Shiite mosque attack
Afghan security personel inspect the site of a suicide bomb attack at a Shiite mosque in Herat on August 1, 2017 A suicide bomber and a gunman killed at least 29 people and wounded 63 at a packed Shiite mosque in Afghanistan’s main western city of Herat Tuesday, the …
Read More »Hafiz Saeed’s house arrest extended for two more months
August 01, -The Punjab Government on Monday issued a notification to extend the house arrest of Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed for two more months. The JuD chief had been placed under house arrest on January 31 for 90 days. Subsequently, his house arrest was extended for another …
Read More »PTI to observe thanksgiving day over Panama verdict
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is all charged up to observe ‘Thanksgiving Day’ over the disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad’s Parade Ground on Sunday. The opposition party is energetic to celebrate the Supreme Court verdict on Panama case which came in their favour i.e. the disqualification …
Read More »Nawaz sharif vacates PM House, departs for Murree
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif vacated the Prime Minister’s House on Sunday and departed for Murree along with members of the Sharif family. The former premier, his wife Kulsum Nawaz, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and his son-in-law Captain Safdar vacated the PM House two days after a five-member bench …
Read More »‘Credit goes to PTI’: Opposition reacts to PM’s disqualification
Opposition party politicians were elated as the Supreme Court disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a landmark decision on the Panama Papers case Friday. The apex court had in April declared there was “insufficient evidence” to oust Sharif over the graft allegations engulfing his family, and ordered a six-member …
Read More »Supreme Court’s complete order in Panama Papers case
This judgment is in continuation of our judgments dated 20.04.2017 in Constitution Petitions No. 29, 30 of 2016 and Constitution Petition No. 03 of 2017 which ended up in the following order of the Court : “By a majority of 3 to 2 (Asif Saeed Khan Khosa and Gulzar …
Read More »IS cuts ears of 23 elements who fled battles in Western Nineveh
Nineveh – The Islamic State has cut the ears of 23 of its elements over charges of “cowardice” and leaving the fighting fronts, Alsumaria News reported on Thursday. A local source told Alsumaria that a judge of the militant group’s so-called sharia court issued a decision to cut the ears …
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