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LONDON: British police rearrested Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya on Tuesday amid an ongoing extradition request from India, where he is accused of fraud. Mallya left India in March 2016 owing more than $1 billion after defaulting on loan payments to state-owned banks and allegedly misusing the funds. The flamboyant financier, who co-owns Formula One team Force …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelISLAMABAD: A lawyer filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Tuesday challenging the Election Act 2017, a law passed a day earlier that has paved the way for deposed PM Nawaz Sharif to become the head of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). The petitioner, Advocate Zulfiqar Bhutta, has asked the court that the law be declared null …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelChief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa presided over a meeting of corps commanders on Tuesday to discuss matters relating to security and defense. Express News reported on Tuesday that the country’s law and order situation and border issues discussed at the meeting held at the General Headquarters Rawalpindi. The progress of Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad and …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelSTOCKHOLM/LONDON: Three US scientists won the 2017 Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday for opening up a new era of astronomy by detecting gravitational waves, ripples in space and time foreseen by Albert Einstein a century ago. The work of Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne crowned half a century of experimental efforts by scientists …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelDUBAI: A Saudi was executed Monday in Riyadh, the official SPA news agency reported, taking to 100 the number of people put to death in the kingdom so far this year. The man was sentenced to death for murdering another Saudi man and an appeals court upheld the ruling, SPA said without elaborating. Amnesty International condemned …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelBHILWARA: Gulabi Kumawat was an elderly widow living in a modest home in India’s Rajasthan state, until the day she was branded a witch by fellow villagers and her life went catastrophically wrong. Beaten. Buried. She was set alight and left for dead. Somehow Kumawat escaped the pit and lived to tell the tale, first fleeing …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelBERLIN: Germany’s Sept 24 national election has shown the country is divided by new, less visible “walls”, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday, the anniversary of German reunification. Speaking 27 years after East and West Germany were reunited following the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, Steinmeier said the election, which saw the far-right enter parliament, …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelVice Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi will replace Admiral Muhammad Zakaullah as the Pakistan Navy chief. “On the advice of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the President has approved the appointment of Vice Admiral Zafar Mahmood as the Chief of the Naval Staff,” read a Pakistan Navy statement. “Admiral Zakaullah shall complete his tenure on October 6, …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelAn associate professor of the University of Karachi has been missing for the last 18 days, Express News reported. Dr Muhammad Ismail of the university’s Department of Islamic Studies was picked up the law-enforcement agencies, claims his wife Amna Ismail. “Some law-enforcement personnel came to our house in the early hours of September 15,” she told reporters. “They …
October 3, 2017 | by RaheelOver one in five countries have an official state religion and a majority of them are Muslim states. A recent report by Pew found Islam to be the official religion in 27 countries spread over Asia, Sub-Sahara and North Africa and the Middle-East. A further 20 per cent of the states have preferred or favoured …
October 3, 2017 | by Raheel