RAWALPINDI: Six cricket teams, including international players, participating in Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2020 will reach Islamabad today (Monday). The teams will be given foolproof security. Pakistan Rangers, local police, Quick Response Force, Special Branch personnel and traffic police will be deployed to ensure foolproof security for the teams. Pakistan Rangers will be deployed at […]
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Afghanistan has detected its first novel coronavirus case, the country’s health minister said Monday, involving a patient who had recently travelled to Iran, where 12 people have died from the outbreak. “I announce the first positive coronavirus (case) in Herat,” health minister Firozuddin Feroz told a press conference, calling on citizens to avoid travel to […]
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China’s “incredibly difficult measures” in tackling the coronavirus that emerged late last year has probably prevented hundreds of thousands of cases in the country, the head of a visiting World Health Organisation (WHO) delegation said. Bruce Aylward, speaking at a joint press briefing with officials from China’s National Health Commission (NHC), said multiple data sources […]
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The Iranian health ministry confirmed on Monday that 12 people from the city of Qom have died from the novel coronavirus — the highest number outside of China. According to the health ministry, total infections have risen to 61 while death toll rose to 12. Meanwhile a lawmaker, Qom representative Ahmad Amirabad Farahani, has refuted […]
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Harvey Weinstein was convicted on Monday at his sexual assault trial, sealing his dizzying fall from powerful Hollywood studio boss to archvillain of the #MeToo movement. The verdict followed weeks of often harrowing and excruciatingly graphic testimony from a string of accusers who told of rapes, forced oral sex, groping, masturbation, lewd propositions and excuses […]
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More than 30 people were injured on Monday after a car plowed into a carnival parade in the western German town of Volkmarsen, Bild newspaper said on Monday. Police confirmed the incident but said it was too early to say exactly how many people were hurt or whether it was an accident or the driver had deliberately […]
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LAHORE: Lauding PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari for speaking truth about PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif being the ‘selected prime minister’, Special Adviser to Prime Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan says this vision of the PPP leader contradicts his father Asif Ali Zardari’s ideology. “Bhutto-Zardari will soon be admonished by his father,” she added. Responding to Bhutto-Zardari’s […]
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ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman Javed Iqbal has said that striking a plea bargain deal is deemed conviction and it is prevalent in 30 other countries. “As per clause 25-b of [the National Accountability Ordinance] NAO, plea bargain is deemed conviction as the accused not only accepts his/her guilt but also agrees to pay […]
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The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday accepted for hearing a petition to stop the Aurat March 2020, scheduled to be held on March 8, and summoned Additional Director Cybercrime Wing of the Federal Investigation Agency and Deputy Inspector General Operations on February 27. The petition, a copy of which is available, filed by Judicial […]
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The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday issued notices to the federal and provincial government on a petition seeking an inquiry into the deaths of more than 10 people in Karachi’s Keamari area due to a toxic gas leak. A two-judge bench, headed by Justice Ali Mazhar, also issued notices to the federal and provincial […]
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