BANNU: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested two terrorists of a banned outfit and recovered explosives and ammunition hidden at a primary school building here on Monday. The recovered ammunition included 61 rockets, 50 mortars shells and huge quantity of explosive material. 30 suspects arrested in Kohat Police arrested 30 suspects with arms during a...
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Father shoots dead daughter over domestic dispute
LAHORE: A father shot dead his 18-year-old daughter after exchange of hot words with her over some domestic dispute in Barki area of the provincial capital on Monday. The body of the deceased was shifted to a mortuary for postmortem. Police registered a case against the murderer and started conducting raids for his arrest. One...
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Salman Taseer’s killer Mumtaz Qadri hanged at Adiala Jail
RAWALPINDI: Mumtaz Qadri, an Elite Force commando convicted of killing former Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, was executed at the Adiala Jail on Monday at around 4.30am. Mumtaz Qadri, who was the bodyguard of Salman Tasser, shot him dead in broad daylight in Islamabad’s Kohsar Market on January 4, 2011 for what he claimed for his...
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New JNU posters term India ‘jail of different nationalities’
NEW DELHI: New posters have surfaced in Delhi’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus in which India has been termed a ‘jail of different nationalities’. The posters have come up in support of Jammu and Kashmir’s right for self-termination. The death of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula has also been condemned in the poster, reported India...
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Indian President sparks fresh debate calls for revision of IPC
NEW DELHI: Amidst a national debate over the use of sedition charges against Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students, President Pranab Mukherjee has called for a revision of the Indian Penal code to meet the needs of the 21st century. Speaking at an event in Kochi on the occasion of the year-long celebrations of the 155th...
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Partition, Babri, now, India’s most polarised years: Chidambaram
NEW DELHI: There have been only “three occasions,” when India has been most “polarised,” said former Union Finance Minister and Home Minister P Chidambaram: the Partition, the demolition of the Babri Masjid and now. “How many of us realise how polarised the Indian society has become? Please talk to your Muslim friends, please talk to...
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No toilet at govt school in Modi’s home town Vadnagar
GANDHINAGAR: Though Gujarat Government claims that it has built the highest number of toilets in the country, government schools in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home town Vadnagar and chief minister Anandiben Patel’s home town Vijapur in Mehsana district do not have toilets. This information was revealed by state education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama in the...
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Delhi police say foreign funds not used for JNU event
NEW DELHI: The Delhi police said no foreign funding was involved in the February 9 incident on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus where students allegedly raised anti-national slogans. Sources said the police came to this conclusion after JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, both charged with sedition in the February 9 event, were...
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There are doubts over Afzal Guru’s role in Parliament attack: P Chidambaram
NEW DELHI: Nearly three years after the United Progressive Alliance government ordered the hanging of Afzal Guru, P Chidambaram, who held the home and finance portfolios in that government, said that he felt it was possible to hold an “honest opinion” that the case was “perhaps not correctly decided” and that there were “grave doubts...
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Two death row convicts hanged
LAHORE: Two death row convicts were hanged in central jails of Gujranwala and Sahiwal on early Thursday morning. A death row prisoner Imran Sabir was executed in the Central Jail Sahiwal. He was convicted for killing three persons in 2003. Another death row convict, Arshad, was hanged in Central Jail Gujranwala. He had molested a...