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Khalil Khan
Joined on: Apr 23, 2014 Published stories: 282

Articles By Khalil Khan

Black city agitation against white police

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“I do not feel represented,” he repeated like a mantra Thursday Etoya Dickerson, a black twenties protesting against the police station of Ferguson’s death on Saturday of a young African American by shooting of a policeman. Dickerson’s words and those of other residents of this poor town outside St. Louis (Missouri), in the Midwestern United […]

Pakistan cricket team at verge of defeat in second test

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Pakistan cricket team is at verge of defeat in second test in Colombo against the host cricket team. Pakistan team slumped to 127-7 by stumps on the fourth day at the Sinhalese Sports Club. Sri Lanka team gave Pakistan a target of 271 to level the two test matches series. Pakistan batsmen were unable to […]

Governor Punjab contact MQM to discuss political situation

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Governor Punjab Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar telephoned MQM Chief Altaf Hussain and discussed the current political situation with him on August 17m 2014 according to a press statement. Muhammad Sarwar appreciated Altaf Hussain’s role to resolve the ongoing political crisis and termed it very timely.   Meanwhile, MQM Chief also applauded his efforts for resolving the […]

Militants killed 80 Yazidis in Iraq for not converting to Islam

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The militans of the Islamic State (EI) have killed 80 Yezidi men near the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq, after they refused to convert to Islam, as reported Saturday Efe quoting several witnesses. The murderers drove the 80 Yezidi tribal home of Sheikh Ahmed Yasua in Kuyua village near Sinjar, 90 miles from Mosul, […]

Altaf Hussain stresses political dialogue for resolving issues

Altaf-Hussain

MQM leader Altaf Hussain has said all political forces should respect one another and they should resolve issues through dialogue in a press statement on August 15, 2014. Altaf Hussain expressed these views while talking to All Pakistan Muslim League’s central leader and eminent Barrister Ahmed Raza Kasuri on phone. Mr. Ahmed Raza Kasuri praised […]

Two suspected suicide bombers may target PTI and PAT rallies

Chaudhry-Nisar

Two suspected suicide bombers may target Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) sit-ins according the Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan who spoke to the reporters on Saturday August 16, 2014 in Islamabad. The Interior Minister told reporters that according to the intelligence reports from the government agencies, two suicide bombers have […]

Shahryar Khan will be new PCB chairman

Shahryar Khan

Shahryar Khan is expected to be declared the new Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board as no other person submitted the nomination papers for the position by the final deadline. Pakistan Cricket Board had asked for the submission of nomination papers for the vacant position of the chairman. However, Shahryar Khan was the only one […]

Mobile phone services resumed in Islamabad Red Zone

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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has started to resume the mobile phone services on the instructions of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan in the Islamabad Red Zone area on August 14, 2014. The cellular services including the mobile internet services were shut down on August 13, 2014 after direction from Interior Ministry on possible terrorism […]

Azadi march starts from Lahore towards Islamabad

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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has started the azadi march from Lahore towards Islamabad to protest the rigging in Islamabad and topple the government of Nawaz Sharif at 12:30PM on August 14, 2014.  Imran Khan is leading the azadi march after holding special prayers at his residence in Zaman Park, Lahore. Punjab government has decided to provide safe […]

French Mayor fined €3,000 for saying Hitler killed few Gypsies

Gilles Bourdouleix

French deputy and mayor of the town of Cholet, Gilles Bourdouleix, was sentenced Tuesday by a court to pay a fine of € 3,000 for remarks in which he claimed that Adolf Hitler perhaps did not “kill enough Gypsies”. Bourdouleix uttered the controversial phrase  in July 2013, during an altercation over agricultural land illegally occupied […]

Israel and Hamas in Cairo continue negotiation as truce expires

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When it’s midnight, will end the three-day truce that Israel and the Palestinian factions were taken to reach a political agreement to end Operation Margin Protector and restore calm to the two sides of the Gaza border. Time is running out and therefore contacts are accelerated in these final hours. At about eleven o’clock, the […]

France announces delivery of arms to Kurds of Iraq

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Without waiting for a possible European consensus on the issue, France announced on Wednesday morning to deliver weapons “in the coming hours” to the forces fighting the jihadists of the Islamic State (EI) in Iraq. The day before, the Permanent Representatives of the 28 EU countries in Brussels had failed to agree on a common […]

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