BANGKOK – Activists in Thailand filed a petition on Friday seeking life bans for dozens of lawmakers of the Move Forward party, the latest in a series of moves to stifle a popular opposition that tried to review a tough law against insulting the monarchy. Complaints were submitted to the anti-graft commission to ban 44 […]
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DAKAR – Senegal heads to the polls on Feb 25 to choose a successor to President Macky Sall who is not seeking a third term. For the first time in the West African nation’s history, the incumbent is not on the ballot. His handpicked successor, Prime Minister Amadou Ba, is among 20 candidates cleared by […]
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Several fatalities were reported on Thursday after a small plane crashed into and demolished a mobile home in Clearwater, Florida, officials said. Images posted online by the Clearwater Fire & Rescue Department showed flames and smoke billowing from the destroyed home. “I can confirm that we have several fatalities both from the aircraft and within” […]
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MOSCOW – Russia’s election commission has found irregularities in the list of signatures that anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin submitted to back his bid to run against Vladimir Putin in an upcoming election, the TASS news agency said on Friday. Nobody expects Nadezhdin, 60, to win if he is allowed to run, given Putin’s long dominance […]
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RAWALPINDI – At least 24 terrorists were killed in an operation in the Mach and Kolpur complexes of Balochistan while four soldiers martyred, said ISPR on Friday. On the night between January 29 and 30, terrorists attacked Mach and Kolpur complexes in Balochistan, said the public relations department of the Pakistan Army (ISPR). But the […]
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ISLAMABAD – Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said on Friday, emphasizing the importance of sports, particularly mind games, in fostering both the physical and mental development of the youth, that the chess game helps to instill discipline in individuals’ thought processes. Addressing the launch of the Prime Minister’s National Mind Sports Initiative, the prime minister […]
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FAISALABAD – Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) will hold its power show in Faisalabad today (Friday). The preparations have been finalised for the public rally in Dhobi Ghat ground, Faisalabad. Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and PML-N chief organiser Maryam Nawaz will address the rally. Strict security arrangements have been made in Dhobi Ghat ground […]
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LAHORE – The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday sought reply from federal and provincial governments on a plea seeking permission for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf candidates to run their election campaign. The LHC conducted hearing of the petition against obstacles being placed to run the election drive. Justice Shehram Sarwar Chaudhry heard the petition filed by […]
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LAHORE – An anti-terrorism court on Friday extended the interim bail of the PTI founder in seven cases related to May 9 vandalism till February 3 (tomorrow). A junior of senior counsel Salman Safdar appeared in the court of Arshad Javed and informed him that the lawyer was busy with some cases in Islamabad. The […]
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ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday announced that it would hold its intra-party elections after the general election instead of Feb 5 as the party leaders and workers were preoccupied in poll campaign. A day earlier (Thursday), the party in a surprise move said it would hold the intra-party elections on Feb 5. […]
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