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Top al Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan targeted in strikes

The United States carried out strikes in Afghanistan on Sunday targeting two of al Qaeda’s most senior leaders in the country, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. The U.S. military is still assessing the results of the strikes against the two leaders who were targeted at command-and-control locations in remote areas of Kunar province, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a ...

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ISI’s cars for sale

RAWALPINDI – In an unprecedented offer, Inter-services Intelligence’s (ISI) have showcased their secret stash cars for auction. The extraordinary and exclusive sale offers a huge variety of car brands, including Cultus, Honda City, Corolla, Toyota Crown, Bolan, etc. put for sale. “The auction has been stationed at Golra Depot and today is the last day,” a source confirmed to Dunya Today.

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Plebiscite only solution of Kashmir Issue, PM

Islamabad – The only peaceful, plausible, logical, and conceivable solution to the Kashmir dispute, which is also consistent with the international law and norms, is the implementation of the UN Security Council resolutions on Kashmir, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in his message on 27 October 2016. 27 October 1947 marks one of the darkest chapters of human history, which ...

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Islamic State holds up Iraqi army south of Mosul

Islamic State fighters kept up on Wednesday their fierce defence of the southern approaches to Mosul, which has held up Iraqi troops there and forced an elite army unit east of the city to put a more rapid advance on hold. Ten days into what is expected to be the biggest ground offensive in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion of ...

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Issued a death warrant of Imdad Ali

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan issued a death warrant on Wednesday for a paranoid schizophrenic convicted of murder, his lawyers said, after the Supreme Court ruled his condition was not a permanent mental disorder and therefore not legally relevant. Imdad Ali, 50, was certified by government doctors as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia in 2012, following his conviction for the 2001 murder of a ...

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“Afghan Girl” from iconic photo, Arrested in Peshawar

Pakistani authorities on Wednesday arrested the green-eyed Afghan woman who became a symbol of her country’s wars 30 years ago when her photo as a girl appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine, her family said. Sharbat Gula, who grew up in a refugee camp and is now in her 40s, is accused of having a forged Pakistani identity ...

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Microsoft announces 3D features for new Windows update

Microsoft Corp on Wednesday announced a free update to its Windows operating system that lets users take photos and edit content in three dimensions, in a bid to raise excitement for its declining computing business. The Windows 10 Creators Update, coming in early 2017, lets users on mobile devices take three-dimensional photos by scanning an object as they walk around ...

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school children among 22 dead in Idlib strikes

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said air strikes killed at least 22 people in a village in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province on Wednesday, seven of them children. The Observatory, a British-based war monitor, said warplanes struck several locations in the Haas village, including an elementary and middle school, killing at least one teacher as well as the children. A ...

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Clinton leading among young voters, Harvard poll finds

Democratic White House candidate Hillary Clinton is leading among likely voters aged 18 to 29, according to a Harvard University opinion poll released on Wednesday. The former U.S. secretary of state had the support of 49 percent of likely voters, ahead of Republican rival Donald Trump’s 28 percent support, a substantially wider lead than Democratic President Barack Obama had over ...

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Pakistan Listed Among Top 10 Reformers In World

World Bank group’s doing business report has listed Pakistan among the top ten reformers in the world. World Bank group’s annual report on the ease of doing business said, a record 137 economies around the world have adopted key reforms that make it easier to start and operate small and medium-sized businesses. The new report finds that developing countries carried ...

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