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Staff Report ISLAMABAD: An employee of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) was arrested at the Benazir Bhutto International airport on Thursday after one kilogram of heroin was found hidden in his shoes and cap during a flight to Birmingham. The arrested man was identified as flight steward M. Javed.
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Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Foreign Office has said that there are many options including going to the UN Security Council and moving International Court of Justice against missile strikes in the country, SAMAA reported on Thursday. Foreign Office Spokesman Moazzam Khan said during weekly briefing in Islamabad this day that Pakistan did not expect any big breakthrough in Chicago Summit but still attended that on NATO invitation.
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MONACO: Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso showed his mastery of Monaco on Thursday with the fastest lap in a first free practice session cut short in a cloud of smoke.
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MUMBAI: Director Arnab Chaudhuri is quick to point out that his new animation project on a Mahabharat hero is not a children’s film. “Arjun – The Warrior Prince” puts the spotlight on the third of the Pandava brothers in Indian mythology and is the coming-of-age story of the legendary archer. “It’s a hero’s journey
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BEIRUT: Lebanese security forces stormed a building in the capital Beirut early Thursday following a shootout during the night with a man holed up inside a flat, an AFP correspondent at the site said. The gunman was killed and the body of another man was found inside the flat located on the sixth floor of a building in west Beirut’s Karakass district, a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity. The spark for the shootout appears to have been a personal dispute between at least one of the men and a woman in her early 20s.
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Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami, Liaqat Baloch has supported three names for the chief election commissioner suggested by Chaudhry Nisar, SAMAA reported Thursday. While talking with media here Baloch said that Nisar telephoned him and suggested three names, i.e Fakhruddin J. Ibrahim, Nasir Aslam Zahid and Shakirullah Jan.
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CANNES: Nicole Kidman sizzles as a small-town vamp drawn to a convicted murderer in Lee Daniels’ “The Paperboy”, marking the US director’s return to Cannes Thursday after his harrowing hit “Precious”. The steamy new picture, set partly in Florida’s humid swamps, features a bleached-blonde Kidman as Charlotte, an “oversexed Barbie doll” who carries on correspondence with dozens of prison inmates in the late 1960s.
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Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India on Thursday began their two-day talks here in Islamabad, focusing on visa relaxation and progress on the Mumbai terror attack investigations, SAMAA reports. The Indian delegation led by Home Secretary R K Singh and the Pakistani team led by Interior Secretary Khwaja Siddique Akbar gathered at a hotel in the heart of Islamabad for the talks.
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Staff Report KARACHI: The attempt to kidnap a chief of a private bank has been was foiled late yesterday night, SAMAA reports Thursday. According to details, Hussain Lawai, head of a private bank and a high-profile figure came out of his residence to offer Isha (late night) prayers when miscreants ambushed and caught hold of him.
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AMMAN: The main Syrian National Council opposition group said it had accepted the resignation of its president, setting the stage for a showdown between the powerful Muslim Brotherhood and its political rivals over who will be the new leader. The internal conflicts have come to a head over the position held by Burhan Ghalioun, a secular sociologist backed by the Brotherhood, who offered to step down as leader of the 313-member council last week if a replacement could be found. Squabbling in the council has undermined international support for the opposition, as a military crackdown against the 14-month revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, now coupled with an armed insurgency against his rule, shows no signs of relenting.
