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Staff Report LAHORE: All-rounder Shoaib Malik has said that upcoming series against Sri Lanka will be beneficial for players.
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CANNES: Take a timeless French classic, “Dangerous Liaisons”, and whisk it to 1930s Shanghai: a South Korean director pulled off the unlikely stunt in Cannes on Thursday. “It’s a delightful reworking of ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, a cruel fable with two wonderful actresses,” said Edouard Waintrop who picked the selection at the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar section of the festival
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Staff Report DIR: The teacher, who allegedly tortured a five-year-old female student in a private school of Lower Dir, was produced before a local court on Friday. According to reports, Qari Ibrahim, a teacher at Iqra Model School, beat up the innocent girl, Roheen, with a plastic pipe.
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Staff Report KARACHI: President Asif Ali Zardari has called an important meeting at Bilawal House over law and order situation in the metropolis, SAMAA reports Friday. According to Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar, various high-ups including Federal Interior Minister Rehman A.
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Staff Report KARACHI: At least four people were killed and three others injured in separate incidents of firing and violence in different areas of the city, SAMAA reports Friday morning. Meantime, 15 miscreants involved in serious crimes in the city have been arrested in a targeted operation conducted by the Rangers.
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Staff Report ISLAMABAD: A trial court on Friday rejected Hamid Saeed Kazmi’s plea seeking acquittal from Hajj corruption case. The former religious affairs minister is facing corruption charges in the Hajj scandal. He will be formally indicted on May 23.
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A three-member bench headed by chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard the case pertaining to the Lal Masjid operation on Friday. Deputy attorney general informed the court that a case has been registered in Aabpara police station following the court orders. The court ordered to file fir of the parents whose children went missing during the operation.
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Staff Report GUJRANWALA: Police arrested the parents of ten-year-old Sobia who was yesterday found dumped on a roadside with severe torture marks on her body, said City Police Officer Kamran Yousuf on Friday. The arrested parents include Lashkar Khan and his wife, step mother to Sobia, the police official told adding arrested parents of the abandoned minor girl will be produced before the media today. Two parents were arrested from Banglabad Gakhar Mandi.
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WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday denounced as “unjust and unwarranted” the treatment of a Pakistani doctor who was jailed for 33 years for helping in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. A tribal court in Khyber Agency on Wednesday convicted Shakeel Afridi of treason after he agreed to collect DNA for US intelligence to verify the presence of the most-wanted Al-Qaeda leader
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi next week during the first visit by an Indian premier to Myanmar in a quarter of a century, her party said Friday. India has faced international criticism in the past for its engagement with Myanmar s former junta, and Singh s meeting with the veteran activist is seen as a sign that Delhi wants to reaffirm ties with the democracy activist. Nyan Win, a spokesman for Suu Kyi s National League for Democracy (NLD), said the talks would take place on Tuesday, pushing back plans for the Nobel laureate to visit Bangkok in her first foreign trip in 24 years.