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  • Omar Abdullah welcomes bail release of Hizb militant Liyaqat Shah

    Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has welcomed the release of Suspected Hizbul militant Liyaqat Shah on bail by a special NIA court in Delhi. He expressed hope that the National Investigation Agency will complete its probe soon. Liyaqat, 45, was arrested on March 20 while crossing the Indo-Nepal border in Gorakhpur with his family. He had said then that he had come to surrender ...

  • Suspected ISI spy held in Jaipur for leaking army secrets

    Police in Jaipur, Rajasthan, have confirmed the arrest of an army staffer for allegedly passing on classified information to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Additional Director General of Police (Intelligence) Rajasthan Dalpat Singh Dinkar said the accused person has been identified as Bidyut Kumar Sinha, adding that he was detained on May 14. Dinkar said Sinha aged 43, was ...

  • 12 killed 25 injured as in twin mosque blasts in Pakistan

    At least 12 people were killed and 25 others injured when twin blasts hit two mosques in Malakand town in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Friday afternoon, reported Xinhua citing local media. Both blasts took place almost simultaneously at about 2 p.m. local time in Bazdara Bala area of Malakand. Local paramilitary troops confirmed that the first blast happened before Friday prayer and ...

  • Kabul looking for tripartite mechanism with India and Pakistan

    Afghanistan's Ambassador to India Shaida M. Abdali has said his copuntry is keen on creating a tripartite mechanism with India and Pakistan that would enhance cooperation between the three nations in the short and long term. Speaking ahead of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit to India next week, Abdali said the proposed mechanism could also include a tripartite no-war pact. President ...

  • 10 killed 20 injured in blasts outside Pak mosques

    Ten persons were killed and 20 others injured when two bombs exploded near two separate mosques in Malakand Division's Bazdara. Deputy Commissioner Malakand Amjad Ali confirmed that the deaths, adding that the number of casualties was expected to increase, reports The Dawn. Emergency and rescue teams reached the site of incident where security forces cordoned off the area as investigations ...

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Mud

Mud

Like his previous film, the slow-burn, emotionally rending masterpiece Take Shelter (2011), Jeff Nicholss Mud balances precariously on a characters intense belief in something that may or may not be so. The stakes are decidedly different in the two films, although emotionally they are very ... ...

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  • UK police launches investigation into Pak MQM chiefs separating Karachi comments

    The London police are investigating complaints against UK-based Pakistani politician, Altaf Hussain, to see if he has violated UK law. Hussain, leader of the MQM party that controls Karachi, addressed supporters from London last Sunday after Pakistan's general elections. In response to accusations of electoral fraud, he is alleged to have threatened his accusers with violence, reports the ...

  • Pakistani PM to free 51 Indian fishermen as goodwill gesture

    Islamabad, May 17 (Xinhua-ANI): Pakistan interim Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has decided to release 51 Indian fishermen on humanitarian grounds in a goodwill gesture, the prime minister's office said Friday. These prisoners have already served their sentences, the office said in a statement. The prime minister expressed the hope that the Indian government will reciprocate the gesture ...

  • Pak election commission to begin thumbprint verification for votes in two weeks

    The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will begin the process of verifying votes by matching thumbprints with the NADRA database within two weeks, an official has said. The Express Tribune quoted ECP Secretary Ishtiaque Ahmed as saying, that following an appeal by the poll supervisory body, NADRA had agreed to boost the capacity of its verification system. The system has been introduced in ...

  • APML to launch movement to fight against political victimisation of Musharraf

    Former Pakistan military chief and president, Pervez Musharraf, has decided to launch a 'peoples' movement in order to clear his name and stay politically relevant as the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz comes to power next week. The movement called Tehreek-e-Muhibban-e-Pervez Musharraf (TMPM) will fight against political victimisation of Musharraf and his supporters, and will make efforts to get ...

  • Nawaz Sharifs PML-N invites JUI-F to join govt. in Centre

    Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has invited Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) to join its government at the Centre while turning down the latter's offer to form a coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where its rival Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has emerged as the largest party in May 11 polls. PML-N's central leader Shahbaz Sharif extended the offer to JUI-F chief Fazlur Rahman. ...

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