The federal cabinet on Tuesday decided against appointing Mushtaq Mahar as the Sindh inspector general of police (IGP) after cabinet members from the province expressed strong reservations over the matter. According to Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, Prime Minister Imran Khan directed Sindh Governor Imran Ismail to […]
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Amid uncertainty over the future of his post, Sindh’s police chief Dr Syed Kaleem Imam on Tuesday said that he would not be transferred from his position so easily, adding that a “big conspiracy” was being staged against him. Addressing the inauguration ceremony of the Sindh Police Martyrs Memorial at Central Police Office (CPO) in […]
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A day after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani shared his concerns over the arrest of Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) chief Manzoor Pashteen, the government’s chief spokesperson Firdous Ashiq Awan deemed his comments “equivalent to interfering in Pakistan’s internal affairs”. Ghani on Monday, via Twitter, had said that he was “troubled by the arrest of Manzoor Pashteen and […]
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JERUSALEM: Israel on Sunday officially gave its citizens the right to travel to Saudi Arabia for religious and business visits, in the latest sign of warming ties between the two states. The interior ministry’s announcement will have limited practical impact, as Israelis have been travelling to Saudi Arabia via third countries, especially Jordan. But Israel […]
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday visited Wuhan, the epicenter of an outbreak of a new coronavirus that has killed 80 and infected more than 2,700 people, as Beijing sought to signal how seriously it aims to respond to the developing crisis. Meanwhile, Wuhan said it would suspend visa and passport services for Chinese citizens until […]
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One protester was killed early on Monday in Iraq’s flashpoint city of Nasiriyah, a medic told AFP, as gunmen stormed the square where anti-government demonstrators had been camped out for months. The men arrived in Habbubi Square just after midnight, torching the tents where protesters had been sleeping and leaving nothing but charred shreds of fabric […]
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Governments need to implement “draconian” travel curbs to stop a mystery coronavirus in China becoming a global epidemic, a team of experts mapping the outbreak said on Monday. Scientists at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) presented a briefing warning that the spread of the deadly SARS-like virus that first emerged in the Chinese city […]
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An Afghan passenger plane crashed on Monday in Ghazni province, local officials said, but the number of people on board and their fate was not immediately known, nor was the cause of the crash. Arif Noori, the spokesperson for the provincial governor, said the plane went down around 1:10pm local time in Deh Yak district, […]
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JOHANNESBURG: Joe Root made a patient half-century as England set South Africa a world record target of 466 to win the fourth and final Test at the Wanderers Stadium on Sunday. The England captain scored 58 and played an anchor role before he was last man out as England were bowled out shortly before the […]
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IRRESPECTIVE of how they have played in this T20 series, the selection of Shoaib and Hafeez is not only tactically indefensible but thought provoking too. It is in a way admission of failure of the system. If two forty year old are still better than two twenty year old then God save our cricket. Or […]
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