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The ‘lion’ will need to be sacrificed if the democracy is to be saved, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto said, taking a jibe directly at the PML-N’s government and its three-year performance Pakistan is being run by an incompetent prime minister for the last three years, claiming the government will not be able to complete its tenure if ...

An Indian fringe group on Friday celebrated the “victory” of U.S. presidential contender Donald Trump, hailing his friendship with diaspora Indians and backing his call to ban immigration by Muslims from countries hit by Islamic militancy. With drums banging and speakers blaring, the Hindu Sena, or Hindu Army, gathered at Jantar Mantar – New Delhi’s answer to London’s Speakers’ Corner ...

U.S. employers maintained a strong pace of hiring in October and boosted wages for workers, which could effectively seal the case for a December interest rate increase from the Federal Reserve. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 161,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said on Friday. August and September data was revised to show 44,000 more jobs created than previously reported. ...

Chairman Senate Raza Rabbani said that an inquiry of former information minister Pervaiz Rashid will go through the parliament. “Designations are temporary, the way he handled his responsibilities was exemplary and the upper house stands with him,” said Rabbani. “Judges are inquired under Article 209 and the personnel of the armed forces are also inquired under the departmental law, hence ...

Peshawar: Judge ordered on fridday the deportation of Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed “Afghan Girl” whose 1985 photo in National Geographic became a symbol of her country’s wars, after finding her guilty of illegally obtaining a Pakistani identity card. Gula, now in her 40s, also was sentenced to 15 days in jail and fined 100,000 rupees. She had been living in ...

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says people of Pakistan would frustrate designs of those trying to block the wheel of development. He was addressing a public meeting at Narh in Kahuta tehsil this afternoon. The Prime Minister said PML (N) always pursued the politics of development and safeguarding national interests and it would continue to pursue this path vigorously. He said ...

  Pakistan will not attend a global tobacco control conference in India next week, Saira Afzal Tarar said on Friday, the latest fallout of strained diplomatic ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours. India is hosting the biennial conference of the only global treaty aimed at deterring tobacco use, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Delegates from about 180 nations ...

New Zealand spinner Mitchell Santner has been ruled out of this month’s opening test against Pakistan with a fractured wrist, the country’s cricket board said on Friday. The 24-year-old left-armer was struck on his right wrist while training with the Northern Districts and is also doubtful for the second match of the two-test series. Santner, who has played 10 tests ...

Prime Minister Theresa May told European Union leaders on Friday she is confident a court ruling that could delay Britain’s departure from the bloc will be overturned, and that she can stick to her Brexit timetable. A spokesman said May had told German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker she believed her case that the government, not ...

A car bomb attack by Kurdish militants in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir on Friday killed eight people and wounded more than 100, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said. Yildirim told reporters that one suspected member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was also killed in the blast.