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TURKEY: At least one gunman shot his way into an Istanbul nightclub packed with hundreds of New Year’s revellers on Sunday, killing 35 people and wounding more than 40 in what the provincial governor described as a terrorist attack. One assailant shot a police officer and a civilian as he entered the Reina nightclub before opening fire at random inside, ...

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KABUL: The leaders of the Afghan unity government have invited the new Pakistani army chief General  Qamar Javed Bajwa to visit Afghanistan, the media wing of the Pakistani military said Saturday. According to a statement by Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Asif Ghafoor, the invitation was extended by the Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Chief ...

PESHAWAR: The Pakistan-China Joint Cooperation Committee has approved three Khyber Pakhtunkhwa projects. However, it is not immediately clear whether the much-touted alternate route connecting the proposed China-Pakistan Economic Corridor with Central Asian Republics via northern districts of the province is among the projects approved by the committee. Three alternate routes proposed by the KP government suggest linking the corridor with ...

There’s no stopping this Bolly star Priyanka presented the awards at the Emmy’s and Oscar’s last year and it looks like 2017 will be her year too. The 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards just released a list of presenters at the award show and (not surprisingly) PeeCee is on it! She will be presenting alongside Hollywood’s notable personalities like Nicole ...

President-elect Donald Trump has hailed the Russian President Vladimir Putin for declining retaliation against the latest moves by the Obama administration to expel diplomats. The Russian President declined to respond to Obama administration’s move after the country’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov suggested that several US diplomats should be expelled from Russia. However, Putin said chose not to act and invited ...

A Swedish court has ruled out deportation of five Afghan teens after convicting them of gang rape of a fellow minor refugee, it has been reported. The prosecutors have reportedly asked for the deportation of the five teens charged with the rape of their fellow refugee hailing from Afghanistan. The district court in Uppsala, north of Stockholm awarded a one year ...

China has blocked India’s request to add the head of the Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) to a UN Security Council blacklist of groups linked to al Qaeda, India said on Friday. India has accused JeM and its top leader, Maulana Masood Azhar, of masterminding several attacks, including a deadly assault on an Indian air base in January. Pakistani security ...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he would not expel any Americans in response to Washington turfing out dozens of Russian diplomats over alleged election interference. The Kremlin strongman’s shock decision came after Russia’s foreign ministry asked him to send home 35 US diplomats in a tit-for-tat retaliation for the expulsion of the same number of its staff by ...

Maulana Fazlur Rehman addressing a press conference in Peshawar on Thursday. — White Star PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Thursday said if military courts were given a permanent status, it would be tantamount to confessing that the government had failed to achieve the targets of the National Action Plan. The JUI-F chief told reporters at the party’s ...