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Rangers Saturday arrested two leaders of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) London Secretariat minutes before their press conference in Karachi, reported. According to our correspondent, Professor Dr Hasan Zafar Arif and Kanwar Khalid Younis were detained by the paramilitary troops when they arrived at Karachi Press Club to hold a news conference. Both the MQM leaders are members of the party’s ...

Talking to the leadership of Jamiat Ulema Pakistan (JUP), he appreciated the role of the JUP for strengthening democracy in the country. He urged the JUP leaders to play their positive role in this national political issue. JUP President Pir Ijaz Hashmi and secretary general Awais Norani said that any attempt to damage the democratic process would not succeed. They ...

Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova raced to a 6-2 6-1 victory over Australian Daria Gavrilova to defend her Kremlin Cup title in Moscow on Saturday and secure a place at the season-ending WTA Finals. Kuznetsova was broken in her first service game to fall 2-0 behind but the 31-year-old broke back immediately to claim the first of 10 straight games as she ...

Iraqi forces battled to retake the Assyrian Christian villages of Tel Asqof and Batnaya north of Mosul on Saturday. The neighbouring Iraqi villages were seized by Islamic State in August 2014, prompting the residents to flee. Meanwhile, the Iraqi army also launched an operation on Saturday to take Qaraqosh, a Christian town about 20 km (13 miles) southeast of Mosul, ...

Leader of opposition in the national assembly Khurshid Shah has said locking down Islamabad by the PTI will be an illegal step. Talking to media in Sukkur, he said though it is the right of political parties to stage protests and sit-ins but locking down any city or institution is contrary to constitution and law. Khurshid Shah said PPP will ...

The impasse over the release of a film by top Bollywood director Karan Johar, featuring Pakistani actor Fawad Khan, ended on Saturday  as the former gave in to the conditions put forward by an Indian right-wing party. President of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), a regional party in Mumbai, Raj Thackeray; Johar and President of the Film and Television Producer’s Guild ...

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar says sick-minded people cannot tolerate the development of the country, launched by the government and they fear their defeat in the upcoming elections. He was addressing at a ceremony after inaugurating the new building of federation of Pakistan chamber of commerce and industry in Islamabad. Ishaq Dar said the opposition forces know that their political future ...

Twenty-six people were injured on Saturday morning when a double-decker bus crashed into a railway bridge in London, slicing its roof off, the Fire Brigade said. Three people who were trapped on the top deck had to be freed and five were taken to hospital after the pre-dawn collision in Tottenham, North London. “Two fire engines, a fire rescue unit ...

NEW YORK – AT&T Inc has reached an agreement in principle to buy Time Warner Inc for about $85 billion, paving the way for what would be the biggest deal in the world this year. The deal gives the telecom company control of cable TV channels HBO and CNN, film studio Warner Bros and other coveted media assets. The deal, ...

Donald Trump has repeatedly called this year’s presidential election rigged and has coyly said “I will keep you in suspense” on whether he would accept a Hillary Clinton victory, but many Republicans are less circumspect, according to a new poll. Only half of Republicans would accept Clinton, the Democratic nominee, as their president. And if she wins, nearly 70 percent ...