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The Senate passed a bill with a majority vote on Monday against the controversial clause in the electoral reforms law that paved way for deposed PM Nawaz Sharif to become the head of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) again. Shibli Faraz of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) presented the bill, Express News reported. He told the Senate …
October 23, 2017 | by RaheelKARACHI: After a three-day winning streak, the KSE-100 Index was back to its losing ways and plunged over 600 points to fall below the 41,500 level. Political uncertainty and profit-taking were to be blamed with the cement sector dampening mood further. At close, the benchmark KSE 100-share Index registered a decrease of 604.35 points or 1.44% …
October 23, 2017 | by RaheelWest Indian cricketer Chris Gayle appeared in a Sydney court on Monday and vehemently denied ever exposing his genitals to a masseuse in a dressing room, per The Guardian. The hard-hitting batsman told the judge he was distraught when the Age newspaper accused him of the lewd act, which he says never happened and was …
October 23, 2017 | by RaheelJERUSALEM: Israeli police detained 15 suspected Jewish extremists following an undercover investigation into a group accused of tracking down and threatening Arab men dating Jewish women, authorities said Sunday. Among those arrested was Benzi Gopstein, a prominent leader of the Israeli extreme-right group Lehava. Arrests and searches for evidence were carried out simultaneously at addresses in …
October 23, 2017 | by RaheelPESHAWAR: The forensic science department of Khyber Medical College (KMC), Peshawar apologised on Monday for refusing to store body of a transgender who was found dead in Darmangi area of the city last week. In a letter to the provincial health department in response to The Express Tribune’s story published on Saturday, the department said the body was not kept in …
October 23, 2017 | by RaheelJERUSALEM: Israel accused Hezbollah on Monday of orchestrating shelling across the Golan Heights frontier in order to stoke Israeli-Syrian fighting, and called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his big-power ally Russia to curb the Lebanese guerrillas. Twice last week, mortar rounds or rockets launched from Syria hit areas of the Golan that Israel has held …
October 23, 2017 | by RaheelUS army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who last week pleaded guilty on Monday to deserting his post in Afghanistan in 2009, has said his captors were more “honest” with him than the army has been since his release three years ago, Fox News reported. Bergdahl was held captive by the Afghan Taliban-allied Haqqani network in Afghanistan …
October 22, 2017 | by RaheelKARACHI: The paramilitary force and Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Sunday to have busted a newly emerged militant group – Ansarul Sharia Pakistan – allegedly involved in over half a dozen cases of terrorism, including the assassination attempt on the leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly, Khawaja Izharul Hassan. Security officials claimed to have …
October 22, 2017 | by RaheelKARACHI: General (retd) Pervez Musharraf has said he will return to Pakistan before the general elections. The country needs a third force and we shall expel the thieves and those who plundered Pakistan from politics, the former military dictator and head of All Pakistan Muslim League said. He said that honest leadership will win with the …
October 22, 2017 | by RaheelA man in Kozhikode district of India’s Kerala state was caught on a CCTV camera attacking a woman, pushing her against the wall and then attacking her as she lies on the ground. The video shows Jamsheer, a 33-year-old painter, walking down a lane. He looks at the woman walking a few metres behind him, The News Minute reported. …
October 22, 2017 | by Raheel