March, 2018

• 19 March

  Nauert’s meteoric rise taakes State Department by surprise

  

  When the ax fell on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, his spokeswoman was half a world away, a distance he and his inner circle preferred and enforced. Now, it’s Tillerson who’s on his way out after his unceremonious firing by President Donald Trump, and Heather Nauert whose star is ascendant. …

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• 19 March

  Israel bombs Gaza ‘underground’ complex after blast

  

  Israel’s military carried out an air raid overnight against an underground Hamas facility in the Gaza Strip and destroyed a separate tunnel under construction that could be used for attacks, it said Sunday. No casualties were reported in either operation, which came after an explosive device was detonated near the …

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• 19 March

  Majority believe Japan PM bears responsibility for altered documents

  

  A majority of Japanese believe Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bears some responsibility for altered documents at the centre of suspicions of a cover-up linked to cronyism, according to an opinion poll on Sunday that also showed his support sliding. In his worst crisis since taking office in 2012, Abe and …

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• 19 March

  Modi ‘mismanaging’ Kashmir ‘like never before’: Manmohan

  

  ISLAMABAD: Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday accused the Narendra Modi government of ‘mismanaging’ the situation in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) ‘like never before’, NDTV reported. “The situation in Kashmir valley is worsening with each passing day,” said Singh at the Congress party’s 84th plenary session that is being …

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• 19 March

  Alliance with PTI can’t be ruled out: Khursheed Shah

  

  SUKKUR: Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah said on Sunday that the Pakistan People’s Party could not rule out the possibility of seat adjustment or an alliance with Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in the upcoming general elections in 2018. While speaking to media in Sukkur, Shah said …

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• 19 March

  Pakistan has spared no terrorist group: ISPR

  

  Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asif Ghafoor has said that Pakistan has eliminated sanctuaries of all terrorists groups including the Haqqani Network from its soil through a well-thought-out military campaign. “But all this has come with a huge price. Besides cost in blood of over 75,000 …

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• 19 March

  Complainant summoned in Khawaja Asif money laundering case

  

  Lahore: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has summoned Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Usman Dar to record his statement in the recently opened investigation against Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif. Media reports say that the bureau has sent a letter to Dar, a complainant in the case, asking him to appear with …

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• 19 March

  PML-N’s ‘Zia alliance’ in Senate defeated: Bilawal

  

  ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto on Sunday said he who failed to respect parliament during his tenure as prime minister now seeks ‘respect for the vote’. “Opening batsmen of Gen (r) Ziaul Haq thinks democracy is linked to him only,” the PPP chairman told a rally in …

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• 19 March

  Imran, Zardari two sides of the same coin: Nawaz

  

  NANKANA SAHIB: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Sunday that Imran Khan and Asif Ali Zardari were the two sides of the same coin. “Those calling each other ‘thief’ have shaken hands now,” the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo told a rally here, adding that both his rivals were …

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• 17 March

  Abel ‘s Hershu ( حِرشُ هابيل )

  

  I do not know if I am alive or dead. I feel everything now. Something is walking across my fingers, and of because its delicacy, I suspect that it’s an ant. I start to feel the easy-moving sunlight touch my swollen eyelids. It disappears, then comes back. I hear the …

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