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Staff Report DIR: A teacher tortured a fifth class student, breaking his hand in upper Dir area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday. The student was shifted to Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital for treatment. Parents of the 12 year old child told media that he was tortured over making a noise in the class
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KARACHI: Pakistan’s central bank said it would buy government paper from commercial banks on Friday in seven-day reverse repo to inject funds into the money market. The State Bank of Pakistan did not say how much money it would inject through the open market operation.
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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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BEIRUT: The Syrian regime and an increasingly organized rebel force are carrying out illegal killings and torturing their opponents, but government forces are still responsible for most of the violence stemming from the country’s uprising, a U.N. panel says. The findings were released Thursday in Geneva by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, which said the conflict has become “increasingly militarized.” The report was based on hundreds of interviews since March with victims and witnesses who fled the country.
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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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PARIS: French President Francois Hollande arrived in Afghanistan on Friday for a surprise trip to visit France’s troops there and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Hollande’s office said.
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Staff Report ATTOCK: The mutilated dead body of a five-year-old girl, kidnapped 8 days ago from Attock District, was recovered from Jund locality, police said Friday. The dead body, wrapped in a gunny bag, was recovered from jungle at the identification of accused Masood. The girl, Sidra, was kidnapped eight days ago while she was playing outside her house