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ISLAMABAD: The caretaker federal cabinet on Satudecided to grant an interim extension of three months to the registered Afghan refugees in the country. The decision was made at a meeting of the federal cabinet in Islamabad on Saturday with Prime Minister retired Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk in the chair. The meeting discussed, in detail, the issue of extension in stay of the Afghan Refugees. It was further decided to place the matter before the incoming elected government. Budget of Capital Development Authority for the year 2018-19 was also approved by the Cabinet. The Finance Minister also briefed the Cabinet about the deliberations during the recently held meeting of Financial Action Task Force in Paris. The post Interim extension of three months granted to Afghan refugees appeared first on ARYNEWS .

Governor Sindh Mohammad Zubair. — Geo News FILE KARACHI: The Sindh government on Saturday transferred and posted Zulfiqar Ali Shah as principal secretary to Governor Sindh Mohammad Zubair, according to a notification issued by Sindh Services,...

A quick look into nomination papers submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for 2018 general elections reveals an interesting detail i.e. about the taxes the electoral hopefuls pay. Amongst the uber-rich paying next to nothing in taxes and the richest candidate paying not a single rupee in tax, the man who turns out to be the highest tax-payer is no political heavyweight. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s Najeeb Haroon, a relatively lesser known political figure, has paid more than Rs86 million in taxes during the year 2015 and Rs134 million (0.134 billion) in the year 2017.     “I am an engineer by profession and working in construction industry since last 31 years, I have been contributing to the national exchequer (through taxes), when Imran Khan formed PTI, he also urged wealthy and affluent Pakistanis to pay their taxes in full so their underprivileged country men can enjoy its benefits,” Najeeb Haroon told ARY News when asked about his tax record. Najeeb w

KAZAN: The notion of a supremely talented number 10 carrying an entire team on his back through to the World Cup quarter-finals figured heavily ahead of France’s game with Argentina, but it was Kylian Mbappe — and not Lionel Messi — who made the difference on Saturday. The 19-year-old ravaged Argentina from start to finish in France’s thrilling 4-3 win in Kazan and the South Americans’ only recourse to halt his lethal bursts forward was to take turns in fouling him. By the end, they were powerless to stop Mbappe, who restored France’s lead midway through the second half with a clever low shot and sealed the win — and Messi’s fate — four minutes later, with a ruthless strike into the bottom corner of the net as France again ripped open their opponents’ fragile defence on the break. Mbappe, rather like France as a whole, had not really got going in the tournament until the game against Argentina, with French media saying he was so angry after his insipid display against Australia in

LOS ANGELES: Canadian rapper Drake, the world’s best-selling artist of 2016, looked on course to set records tumbling again on Friday with his soul-baring new album “Scorpion,” in which he reveals he is a father. Spotify said the album was streaming at an average rate of 10 million times an hour on Friday, while Apple Music said “Scorpion” was the No. 1 streamed album in 92 countries. On the 25-track double album, Drake, 31, confirms long-standing rumours that he has fathered a son, but does not name the mother. “Single father, I hate when I hear it,” he raps on the final track “March 14.” The album also features collaborations with Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, Ty Dolla Sign, and posthumous vocals by Michael Jackson. “Scorpion” follows Drake’s best-selling 2016 album “Views” and his 2017 release “More Life,” which set a record across all music streaming services of 385 million streams in its first week of release. The Recording Industry Association of America said on Friday that Drake h

Uruguay forward Edinson Cavani. Photo: AFPSOCHI: Uruguay forward Edinson Cavani headed the South Americans into a 1-0 halftime lead in their World Cup last-16 match against Portugal on Saturday.Luis Suarez produced a pinpoint cross from the left...

KAZAN, RUSSIA: Teenager Kylian Mbappe scored two goals in four minutes to send a youthful France charging into the World Cup quarter-finals with a thrilling 4-3 win over Argentina on Saturday that sent Lionel Messi’s team home. The 19-year-old forward’s electric pace caused Argentina problems all afternoon and his twin strikes helped France overturn a 2-1 deficit at the Kazan Arena as they set up a meeting with Uruguay or Portugal, who play later on Saturday. Messi provided assists for two goals but the 31-year-old was otherwise subdued in the “false nine” role and his fourth, and possibly final, crack at winning the World Cup was destined to end in disappointment. While Mbappe was the most influential player on the pitch, Argentina winger Angel Di Maria and France full back Benjamin Pavard fought out a private contest for the best goal of the match with two magnificent long-range strikes. Di Maria’s goal cancelled out Antoine Griezmann’s early penalty for France just before the

Today, June 30, was supposed to be the last day for availing the scheme/ file photoISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to extend the Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) tax amnesty scheme until September 30, 2018. According to sources, the...

SOCHI: Bernardo Silva and Goncalo Guedes return to Portugal´s starting line-up for Saturday´s World Cup last-16 tie against Uruguay in Sochi.The pair come in along with right-back Ricardo Pereira as coach Fernando Santos makes three changes to...

GAZA CITY: Thousands of Palestinians on Saturday attended the funeral of the 11-year-old son of a Hamas military commander killed by Israeli fire in the southern Gaza Strip, with mourners demanding revenge. Yasser Abu al-Naja, whose father is a member of Hamas’s military wing, was shot in the head on Friday in border clashes near the southern city of Khan Yunis. Senior members of Hamas, which rules the blockaded Gaza Strip, and commanders of its Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades attended the funeral. “Yasser’s martyrdom is clear proof of the crimes committed by the (Israeli) occupation against the Palestinian people,” said senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya during the ceremony. “The occupiers killed the child in cold blood,” said Hayya, a member of the Islamist Palestinian group’s political bureau. Read More: Pakistan calls for resolving Palestine, Kashmir issues according to UN resolutions The boy was one of two Palestinians killed on Friday by Israeli troops during border clashe

Gilgit Baltistan Inspector General Sanaullah Abbasi. Photo: FileISLAMABAD: Grade 21 officer Sanaullah Abbasi on Saturday took charge as 16th Inspector General of Gilgit Baltistan Police.The federal government issued notification for Abbasi's...

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Earlier, Bilawal Bhutto visited Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine and initiated election campaignKARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto while reacting to the statements of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, said those...

NEW YORK: At the United Nations, Pakistan has decried double standards in implementation of international obligations to protect civilians and prevent crimes against humanity. This ‘selectivity’ has meant that egregious crimes, including killings and mass blinding claim innocent victims in Indian-occupied Kashmir, are commuted in full view of the international community, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN, Maleeha Lodhi said while speaking in the General Assembly debate on responsibility to protect and prevent crimes against humanity. “The tragic victims in occupied Jammu and Kashmir suffer the further indignity of living under an illegal occupation”, she declared. She also referred to the grave situation in Palestine where the failure of the international community to uphold these norms, has been what she called “most manifest and telling.” As the killing fields of Gaza were drenched in the blood of over 130 innocent Palestinians, including countless women and children, Ms. Lodhi sa

KARACHI: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will on Sunday launch the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)’s election campaign from Lyari. He will visit different places in the Lyari constituency, NA-246, from where he is contesting election. A statement issued by the PPP Media Cell said Bilawal would start campaigning in the rest of the Sindh on Monday. After Sindh, he will campaign in South Punjab and then the rest of the country. “The chairman PPP will be greeting his supporters all over the country during the PPP’s election campaign,” said the statement. Read More: Women among six drown at Gadani beach Bilawal Zardari visited the shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi on Saturday to pay homage to the sufi saint. He then condoled with the family in Lyari who had lost six members in an unfortunate incident a few days ago. He also inaugurated his main campaign office in Lyari. Speaking to party workers, he said he was looking forward to representing the people of Lyar

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CAIRO: President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Saturday Egypt was on the “right track” to rebuild its economy after years of instability that had nearly brought the country to its knees. Speaking on the anniversary of 2013 mass protests that helped propel him into power, Sisi said Egypt had faced challenges, including political instability, armed insurgency and an economic meltdown since 2011 protests forced President Hosni Mubarak from power after more than 30 years in office. “I tell you in all objectivity, every Egyptian man and woman is entitled to feel proud for what his country has achieved in facing the three challenges, and in record time,” Sisi said in a televised speech. Sisi, who was elected for a second term in March, has been pushing ahead with economic reforms required under a three-year, $12 billion IMF loan that have left many of Egypt’s 100 million people struggling to make ends meet. Spurred by the painful reforms, an online campaign calling for Sisi to step down

KAZAN: France beat Lionel Messi’s Argentina 4-3 in a thrilling last 16 World Cup match on Saturday as teenager Kylian Mbappe scored two goals in a superb performance in Kazan. Mbappe, 19, struck twice within minutes in the second half to put France 4-2 ahead and although Sergio Aguero gave the French a late scare with a goal in injury-time they held on. The post France beat Messi’s Argentina 4-3 to reach World Cup quarter-finals appeared first on ARYNEWS .

MOSCOW: An Indian soccer fan, in Russia for the World Cup, died in a car crash on Saturday on a road near the tournament host city Sochi, Interfax news agency cited sources as saying. The incident, the first reported death of a World Cup visitor to Russia, was blamed by police on the driver, although Russian roads are notorious and claimed over 19,000 lives in 2017. A statement released by the regional police department said a Russian taxi driver and an Indian citizen died at the scene and another Indian passenger was taken to hospital. It didn’t say whether the victims held World Cup tickets. Read More: Three malls evacuated in Russian World Cup city of Samara – local media “Around 6.50 a.m. the duty officer of the Sochi police department was informed of a traffic incident on the road between Adler and Krasnaya Polyana,” the statement said. “According to preliminary reports, the Renault Logan taxi drove on the wrong side of the road, violating road regulations, and crashed into

DUBAI: Iran is studying ways to keep exporting oil and other measures to counter US economic sanctions, state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday. Since last month, when US President Donald Trump pulled out of the nuclear which lifted most sanctions in 2015, the rial currency has dropped up to 40 percent in value, prompting angry protests by bazaar traders usually loyal to the Islamist rulers. Speaking after three days of protests, Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the US sanctions were aimed at turning Iranians against their government. “They bring to bear economic pressure to separate the nation from the system … but six US presidents before him (Trump) tried this and had to give up,” Khamenei said on his website Khamenei.ir. With the return of US sanctions likely to make it increasingly difficult to access the global financial system, President Hassan Rouhani has met with the head of parliament and the judiciary to discuss counter-measures. Read More: Oil jumps as

MOSCOW: Belgium scored nine goals in their three World Cup group games, more than any other country, and forward Dries Mertens said on Saturday he was motivated by more than just winning the trophy. Mertens, scorer of an outrageous volley against Panama that opened Belgium’s account in Russia, joked that friends back home were counting on him to help the team hit a target of 16 goals to make good on a retailer’s special World Cup promotion. Asked by reporters at their training camp near Moscow about Belgium’s free-scoring run, the Napoli player noted that a Belgian electrical chain was offering to reimburse people who bought a TV for the World Cup — if the team score more than 15. “My friends bought the television. So I’m thinking about that. So I want to score a lot of goals to give a free television to my friends,” he declared ahead of Belgium’s last 16 clash with Japan on Monday. The post Free-scoring Belgium target 16 goals to get free TVs appeared first on ARYNEWS .

Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan addressing Chakri rally on Saturday. Photo: Geo NewsRAWALPINDI: Former Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Saturday that he received disloyalty from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Nawaz Sharif despite...

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Saturday that Saudi Arabia’s King Salman had agreed to his request to increase oil production “maybe up to 2,000,000 barrels” to offset production from Iran and Venezuela. Saudi authorities had no immediate comment. The world’s top oil exporter plans to pump as much as 11 million barrels of oil per day (bpd) in July, an oil industry source told Reuters this week, after OPEC agreed with Russia and other oil producers to raise output by about 1 million bpd. Trump tweeted: “Just spoke to King Salman of Saudi Arabia and explained to him that, because of the turmoil & disfunction in Iran and Venezuela, I am asking that Saudi Arabia increase oil production, maybe up to 2,000,000 barrels, to make up the difference … Prices to high! He has agreed!” The Trump administration is pushing countries to cut all imports of Iranian oil from November when the United States re-imposes sanctions against Tehran, after Trump withdrew from

RAWALPINDI: Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan once again claimed that he fought the war on terrorism along with the armed forces, and was also responsible for the Karachi operation. The disgruntled Pakistan Muslim league – Nawaz (PML-N) leader, who is now contesting as a independent candidate, was addressing a campaign rally on Saturday in his home constituency Chakri. Nisar claimed that he along with the Pakistan Army fought the war against terrorism, and also initiated the mega-operation in Karachi which helped restore peace in the city. “As interior minister I started the Karachi operation. And along with the Pakistan army fought the war on terrorism,” he stated. He also said that he was given power several times, but he never commit against injustice against his opponents, and always served his constituents. “I was given power several times, but I never committed any injustice against my opponents,” he said, adding he never set up any mill or factories or any business ventures but mer

Scotland Yard chief Cressida Dick says, 'This is a murder which has very strong overseas connections.' Geo News screengrabLONDON: Scotland Yard chief Cressida Dick has admitted that complexities and breakdown of communication exists between...

Pak Sarzameen Party leader Mustafa Kamal. Photo: FileKARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leaders on Saturday took jibes at the ‘political stature’ of Pak Sarzameen Party leader Mustafa Kamal.Geo News’ reporter asked the party...

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan on Saturday said he had never learnt to be defeated, neither he ever considered his opponent as weak, ARY News reported. “The PTI has never been this much prepared before for an election. My youth, get ready for Jul 25 (the poll day),” he said while addressing a workers’ convention in Islamabad.  The post Imran says never learnt to be defeated, neither considers opponent as weak appeared first on ARYNEWS .

Maryam Nawaz was addressing media in London/ Geo News screen grabLONDON: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz leader Maryam Safdar said on Saturday that her father former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and her return to the country depends on Begum Kulsoom...

KARACHI: Several politicians across the country are facing hostile public while visiting their constituencies during the ongoing election campaign. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Arif Alvi found himself in a similar situation while campaigning in the NA-247 constituency. Alvi, who is also the party’s Sindh president, was elected from the constituency in 2013 general elections. An angry resident confronted him asking the lawmaker has done for the year, and is visiting after five years to seek vote. “Do you recognise me, you even gave me a certificate,” asked the voter as Alvi replied in the affirmative. “Then why are you visiting after five years? What have you done for us?” he asked angrily. Alvi attempted to convince him, but was unable to answer the acrid questions and moved away continuing on with his campaign. NA-247 lies in Karachi south and includes several posh localities such as Clifton and Defence Housing Autority. However, the area faces several issues such as an acut

MUMBAI: Thousands of people took to the streets in central India this week demanding the death penalty for assailants who raped a seven-year-old girl lured away from school as she waited to be picked up by her parents. Two men have been arrested for the crime in the city of Mandsaur, police said. The victim was hospitalised but is recovering, doctors said. Following rise in rape cases across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government introduced the death penalty for rape of girls under 12 and increased the minimum punishment for those whose victims were under 16, after the rapes of an eight-year-old girl and a young woman in two states ruled by his party earlier this year led to public protests. There were 40,000 rapes reported in India in 2016 and the victims were children in 40 percent of those cases. Every day, newspapers carry fresh stories of sexual violence against women. In Mandsaur, the girl was waiting to be picked up from school by her parents, who were runn

Former MPA Zareen Zia alleged Gandapur is selling the party tickets reserved for women seats. Photo: Geo NewsPESHAWAR: Disgruntled women workers of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday protested against former provincial lawmaker Ali Amin...

KARACHI: The Rabita Committee of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan politely declined on Saturday Farooq Sattar’s plea to withdraw from the General Election 2018. The MQM-P leader along with MQM Bahadurabad faction was addressing media, where...