WASHINGTON: The White House has dismissed a New York Times report suggesting that President Donald Trump was briefed on intelligence that allegedly showed Moscow had offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants in return for their killing of US soldiers in Afghanistan. The rewards purportedly gave incentives to the guerrillas to target US forces, just as Trump tries […]
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LAHORE: A reduced Pakistan squad left for the its first tour to England on Sunday, after sports activity was halted worldwide, for a three Test and as many T20Is after half the players and some members of the support staff tested positive for the coronavirus. Pakistan’s T20 captain Babar Azam tweeted a picture of some […]
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KARACHI: Power outages continued to affect daily life in the port city on Saturday as Karachi’s power supplier K-Electric’s promise of ending load-shedding within “48 hours” failed to come into affect. Areas in the city experienced 8 to 12 hours of persistent power outages, adding to the misery of residents already suffering from the sweltering […]
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OKARA: A local police officer was suspended after a woman accused him of assault and rape, authorities said Sunday. In this regard, District Police Officer (DPO) Omer Saeed Malik ordered an official inquiry and formed a committee to probe the allegations. A spokesperson for Okara police said the committee would carry out the investigation and […]
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ISLAMABAD: The first audit report has reported irregularities and corruption to the tune of Rs270 billion in 40 government departments and ministries under its tenure, down from the previously reported figure of Rs15.67 trillion in the audit year 2018-19. According to Geo News, the Auditor General of Pakistan prepared the report for 2019-20 after conducting […]
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In a strong reaction to Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan’s remarks about fake licenses of pilots, PALPA President Chaudhry Salman Saturday said the federal minister’s statements had jeopardized the jobs of the Pakistani pilots across the world. “We reserve the right to file a defamation suit against the aviation minister,” Chaudhry said, addressing a press […]
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Out-of-favour wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal believes that Prime Minister Imran Khan should question Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ehsan Mani on the deteriorating standard of cricket in the country. Akmal, 38, considered one of the better wicket-keeper batsmen, was unable to find a spot even in the sizable 29-man squad for the upcoming tour. He was […]
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HOUSTON: Authorities in the US on Wednesday have started imposing strict measures, that include quarantines and stay-at-home advice, as a spike in daily coronavirus cases hit record levels after surging across the nation’s South and West. Nearly four months after reporting its first death from COVID-19, the United States faces a deepening health crisis as […]
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ISLAMABAD: At least 150 Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) pilots were grounded over “dubious licenses”, the national flag-carrier said Thursday, a day after the preliminary report of the Karachi plane crash blamed the pilots and the air traffic control (ATC) for the incident. A PIA spokesperson said pilots who get their licenses verified would be allowed […]
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Pakistan was appalled over US State Department’s Annual Country Report on Terrorism for 2019 over being “selective in its characterisation of Pakistan’s efforts for countering terrorism and terrorist financing”. The Foreign Office, in a statement, on Thursday called the report “self-contradictory”, saying that it recognises the degraded threat of Al-Qaeda in the region but failed […]
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