Starting from this year, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is prepared to launch a miniature form of the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) in every September. On Friday, BCCI President Anurag Thakur announced at the end of the board’s working committee meeting in Dharamsala that the club will be launched about abroad […]
Jun 27 2016 | Posted in
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Adviser to the Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz on Monday expressed his opinion regarding India’s failure to gain entry into the Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG) blaming it on Pakistan’s rigorous lobbying. Talking to reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad, Aziz stated: “Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif personally wrote letters to 17 […]
Jun 27 2016 | Posted in
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The Functional Committee on Human Rights is set to delve into the issue of rising ‘honor killings’ specially the incidents of burning women alive this week. The Senate Chairman, Mian Raza Rabbani brought the matter before the committee on June 9th. The committee led by Senator Nasreen Jalil of the Muttahida Quami Movement will converse […]
Jun 27 2016 | Posted in
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Team of investigators looking into Amjad Sabri’s murder case, claim to be close to solving the mystery regarding who killed the sufi qawwal. The team of police officers looking into the case claim that they have made a major breahtrough in their probe as they have detained a close aide of the murdered qawwal for […]
Jun 27 2016 | Posted in
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A Singapore Airline flight caught fire while making an emergency landing at Changi Airport on Monday. The incident caused major panic among flyers but thankfully no one was hurt. The Singapore Airlines plane was on its way to Milan, when the pilot noticed something wrong and decided to head back to Singapore to make the […]
Jun 27 2016 | Posted in
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A recently passed fatwa by an Islamic scholar belonging to the Barelvi school of thought, allows transgender men to marry transgender women and vice versa. The fatwa also covers other aspects of the rights of transgender community and it comes at a time when transgender people are highly discriminated against in the society. “A transman […]
Jun 27 2016 | Posted in
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Top civilian and military leaders convened in Karachi for a high-level security meeting on Sunday to review the current security situation in the metropolis following recent terrorist attacks. The meeting was attended by Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif, Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, DG ISI Geneal Rizwan Akhtar and other senior […]
Jun 27 2016 | Posted in
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United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, David Cameron has said that he will resign as the prime minister of the country after majority of the Britons voted to break free from European Union (EU). In the historical referendum where UK nationals were asked whether they wanted to stay with the EU or part ways, 51.9 percent voted […]
Jun 24 2016 | Posted in
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A masked gunman stormed into a cinema in a quite German town of Viernheim on Thursday afternoon and created panic in the area. The gunman, whose identity is still not known, took hostages before being killed by the police. According to the details provided by eye witnesses, the gunman entered the cinema wielding a rifle […]
Jun 24 2016 | Posted in
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A woman from Karachi has come forward with the claim that the sketch released by the Sindh police of Amjad Sabri’s killer, closely resembles that of her missing son. The woman, identified as Hameeda Begum, belongs to Karachi’s Gizri neighborhood and she called a TV talk show, during which she made these revelations. Hameeda Begum […]
Jun 24 2016 | Posted in
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Britain has cast its vote in the referendum, deciding to part ways with the European Union (EU) and set off an on uncertain path. Thursday’s landmark referendum showed that Britain does not want to remain with the EU, making this the biggest setback to European efforts to forge greater unity since World War Two. The […]
Jun 24 2016 | Posted in
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Tanzilur Rehman, a seventeen-year-old would never have believed that he would meet his favorite icon, John Cena and get to watch him fight at a Real American Wresting (RAW) event. His dream came through when Make-A-Wish Foundation decided to do something about his wish. Suffering from muscular dystrophy, Rehman is a fan of the World […]
Jun 23 2016 | Posted in
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