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• Pakistan opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif indicted in corruption case

  Lahore: Pakistan’s Opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif was indicted by an accountability court on Monday for corruption in a Rs 1,400 crore housing project. Shehbaz, 67, the president of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was indicted along with nine others in the Ashiana Iqbal Housing scam case. He along with other suspects appeared before the accountability court in […]

  • 18 Feb, 2019 02:30 PM
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• Saudi crown prince orders release of over 2,000 Pakistani prisoners

  Srinagar: The morning after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman promised to deliver “whatever we can do” for Pakistanis living in the kingdom, Pakistan Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry announced that MBS had ordered the immediate release of over 2,000 Pakistani prisoners in Saudi jails. Prime Minister Imran Khan at a ceremony held to welcome the […]

  • 18 Feb, 2019 02:26 PM
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• Govt forces lay siege to Shopian village, launch searches

  Srinagar: Government forces Monday launched a cordon and search operation in Krawoora village of southern Kashmir’s Shopian district. Reports said that a heavy contingent of government forces laid a siege to Bonpora locality of the area and started searches. The search operation was going on when this report was being filed.  

  • 18 Feb, 2019 02:18 PM
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• Pulwama attack: Jaish militants have moved to populated areas fearing retaliation, says army

  Srinagar: Army is constantly briefing Defence Minister and other senior govt functionaries on the developments in Kashmir in the aftermath of Pulwama militant attack. Army sources said that Jaish-e-Mohammed militants have moved from their hideouts to locations near populated areas fearing retaliation from forces, news gathering agency ANI reported. The report, quoting army sources, said that Pakistan […]

  • 18 Feb, 2019 02:06 PM
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• Curfew to be relaxed in Jammu parts today: Officials

  Jammu: Authorities on Monday said that they have decided to relax curfew in south city parts of Jammu as the curfew entered fourth straight day. The relaxation in the curfew will remain from  2pm to 5 pm. According to District Magistrate Jammu, curfew shall be relaxed in areas falling under Police Stations Gandhi Nagar (except […]

  • 18 Feb, 2019 01:57 PM
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• Malik drives to Geelani’s Hyderpora residence, holds hour-long meeting

  Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairperson Muhammad Yasin Malik on Monday drove to Hyderpora residence of octogenarian Hurriyat patriarch Syed Ali Geelani and held an hour-long meeting with him. Geelani, Malik and Hurriyat Conference (M) chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq are part of Joint Resistance Leadership that spearheaded the 2016 summer uprising after the killing […]

  • 18 Feb, 2019 01:35 PM
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• EJCC protests in Srinagar against attacks on Kashmiris in Jammu, other places

  Arif Bhat Srinagar: Employees Joint Consultative Committee (EJCC) on Monday staged a protest demonstration in Srinagar against the continued attacks on Kashmiris in Jammu and students outside the valley. Scores of EJCC members assembled in press enclave and chanted slogans “Stop targeting Kashmiri people living in India” and “Give protection to Kashmiri people, students and […]

  • 18 Feb, 2019 01:10 PM
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• Pulwama attack: Kashmiri students in Ambala terrified after threats, mob attacks; ‘want to return home’

  Srinagar: Kashmiri students lodged in the hostel of Maharishi Markandeshwar University (MMU) in Ambala’s Mullana village have requested police and district administration that they be sent back to Jammu and Kashmir, a media report said on Monday. “This request came a day after a Kashmiri student was allegedly beaten up by unidentified youths, and two […]

  • 18 Feb, 2019 12:57 PM
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• Pulwama attack: Pakistan calls back High Commissioner to India for ‘consultations’

  Srinagar: Pakistan on Monday called back High Commissioner to India Sohail Mahmood for consultations in the aftermath of Pulwama attack that left 49 CRPF personnel dead and several others injured. Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal tweeted:”We have called back our High Commissioner in India for consultations. He left New Delhi this morning.” Mahmood […]

  • 18 Feb, 2019 12:45 PM
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• Actor-turned politician Kamal Haasan bats for plebiscite in Kashmir, asks what government is ‘scared of’

  Srinagar: Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan, on Monday, asked why the government was not holding a plebiscite in Kashmir and questioned what the government was ‘afraid of’. Referring to Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) as ‘Azad Kashmir’, Haasan said that if India wanted to prove that it is a ‘better country’, then it should ‘not behave like this’. […]

  • 18 Feb, 2019 12:32 PM
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