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Lahore: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the authorities and the political and religious parties to take effective steps to stop the faith-based violence and bloodletting in Balochistan. In a statement issued on Friday, the Commission said: “HRCP has serious concerns over the recent attack in Quetta where four women from the Hazara community were killed ...

Unknown Blogger   Life is always full of surprises. Forest Gump has summed it in best way when he says life is a box of chocolate, you never know what you are going to get. For a Pakistani journalist, life is more surprising than anywhere else on this planet. Cyril Almeida is our Forest Gump as he gets the chocolate ...

  INDORE, India  – India beat New Zealand by 321 runs in the third and final test to complete a 3-0 sweep in the series at Indore’s Holkar Stadium on Tuesday. Resuming on 18 for no loss, the hosts declared their second innings on 216 for three to set New Zealand a 475-run victory target in the first test match ...

U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to help send people to Mars within the next 15 years, pledging to work with private companies to “to build new habitats that can sustain and transport astronauts on long-duration missions in deep space.” “We have set a clear goal vital to the next chapter of America’s story in space: sending humans to ...

BEIJING – Police in the Chinese capital on Tuesday blocked off streets near a major military building, as hundreds of people wearing green camouflage uniforms chanted and waved national flags to protest against the loss of their posts.   China last year announced it would cut troop levels by 300,000, targeting the bulk of the reductions by the end of ...

A Turkish prosecutor  ordered the detention of 125 police officers in the investigation of a religious movement the government blames for an unsuccessful military coup, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.   Authorities were conducting raids in Istanbul, and among the officers being sought were 30 deputy police chiefs, Anadolu said. No one was immediately available at the prosecutor’s office to ...

A prominent Pakistani journalist says he has been barred from leaving the country after he wrote an article, denied by the authorities, about a rift between the government and the powerful military. Cyril Almeida’s name has been placed on the Exit Control List, his newspaper Dawn reported on Tuesday. An interior ministry spokesman said he could not confirm the order ...

World number two Andy Murray has urged his British compatriot Kyle Edmund to become more “self-centred” and do things his own way after the 21-year-old broke into the world’s top-50.   Edmund has been Murray’s training partner during the off-season, with the three-times grand slam champion inviting him to training blocks in Miami and most recently Dubai.   “Kyle really ...

Singapore’s central bank on Tuesday shut down a second Swiss bank in the city-state and fined banks DBS and UBS in its biggest crackdown on alleged money-laundering activities connected with Malaysian sovereign fund 1MDB.   The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said in a statement it had ordered Falcon Private Bank’s Singapore branch to cease operating because of “a persistent ...

Intense physical exertion or extreme emotional upset can each trigger a heart attack, and the risk may be highest if the two are combined, according to a new study. “Our study is the largest study exploring this issue, and unlike previous studies we included people from many different countries and ethnicities,” said lead author Andrew Smyth of the Population Health ...