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CHILAS:Even though a temporary ceasefire has been brokered between the warring sides of Kohistan and Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) after deadly clashes, the row is far from over.The long-standing issue was triggered over a nearly 10-kilometre-long strip of land stretching on both sides of the Basari check post that separates Kohistan from G-B. The stretch is part of the area being demarcated for Diamer-Bhasha dam.In a nike 95 bloody escal nike air max97 ation, at least seven people were killed and nearly a dozen wounded in shootouts between the two sides that began on February 26 after villagers from Thor Valley in G-B s Diamer district claimed Kohistanis forcibly took away more than 400 goats grazing on the disputed land near the dam.Though air max 720 the warring tribesmen agreed on a 40-day ceasefire after they were requested by a jirga, the finality of the armistice is subject to solution of the issue within the stipulated time. It s good that ceasefire has been brokered, said Bazid Khan, a resident of Chilas, Diamer Valle Russia on Friday reported more than 100 deaths from coronavirus for the fourth day in nb balance a row.Over the last 24 hours, 150 fatalities were registered in the country, bringing the death toll to 3,249, the country s emergency task force said in a daily report.Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus cases rose to 326,448 after 8,894 people tested positive for Covid-19.Since yesterday 7,144 people were discharged from hospitals for recovery, raising the number of recoveries to 99,825, while more than 277 stay under medical surveillance with suspected infections.Russia s new coronavirus cases below 10,000 for third day in a rowRussia continues mass testing for Covid-19 aimin nbbalance g to detect the disease at early stages when it is less contagious, with as many as 8.1 million tests carried out to date.Despite strict measures, including a lockdown on the capital Moscow, a ban on entry by foreigne nike 90 rs, and suspension of international air and railway traffic, Russia is the second-worst coronavirus-hit country

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SHABQADAR:With all four provinces preparing for local bodies elections, residents of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) say they have, once again, been ignored. 聽Akhunzada Chitan, former MNA from Bajaur and Pakistan Peoples Party central executive committee member, has threatened to hold a long march if the elections are not held in Fata. Residents have become a victim to mi nike 95 litancy and it is important to empower the tribal people through local government. Fata Reforms Movement General Secretary Zahir Shah Safi said while all provinces are busy with local bodies elections, no paperwork has been done for the tribal agencies.Safi said two draft bills have been prepared for Fata. The first was drafted in 2002 under which the first local government elections were held. The d air max 96 raft, however, does not fully authorise elected representatives to implement decisions such as the distribution of funds.The second draft was prepared in 2012. The government had ann stanley cups ounced to introduce urban DIJKOT:A 14-year- nike air nike old madras nb 530 sah student who disappeared five days ago from the Gulberg area, was rescued stanley cups by police on Friday.

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ISLAMABAD:National Highway Authority (NHA) Chairman Hamid Ali Khan has said that the World Bank (WB) has extended valuable financial and technical assistance for the construction and restoration of highways in Pakistan.Khan made the remarks while talking to a WB delegation which had called on the chairman at the NHA Head Office here, according to a press release issued on Tuesday.The NHA chairman said the authority was extending its motorways, expressways and highways to neighbouring countries through a coordinated road network.During the meeting, matters relating t nike air 270 o WB-assisted projects were reviewed in detail. Kh yeezy 700 an said that the NHA was attaching top priority to the Gwadar linkage programmes and the upgradation of the Karakoram Highway so that Pakistan could play a role in regional trade activity.He thanked the WB for its assistance in the National Highway Improvement Progra airmax mme, under which certain sections of Pakistan s Grand Trunk Road (N-5), an economic lifeline, were rehabilitate ISLAMABAD:The Covid-19 outbre nike air max 1 ak has thrown economies all over the world into a tailspin. In the second quarter of current year (Q2 2020), the United States, the world rsquo;s largest economy, contracted 33% year-on-year.T nbbalance he euro area, comprising almost all the major economies of the European Union, registered 40% negative growth. China is the only major economy, which expanded during Q2 2020. For the full 2020, the US and euro area economies are projected by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to contract 8% and 10% respectively. IMF projections put the overall global economic growth for the current year at -5%.These, however, are the short-term effects of the pandemic. Hopefully, as the Covid-19 is brought under control and normal business activit stanley cups y restored, economic recession will give way to growth. It is the long-term economic, and by implication socio-political, implications of the pandemic that deserve greater attention.Covid-19 has given tremendous momentum to at least three k

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KABUL:A suicide bomber killed at least nine peopl yeezy 350 e in an attack at the gates of the defence ministry on Saturday during a visit by the US defence secretary, an Afghan defence ministry official sai nike dunk high d.The dead were civilians, the official, Dawlat Waziri, told Reuters. Fourteen people, including two security guards, were wounded.Hagel was nowhere near the explosion, said a spokesman for Afghanistan s Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf). A US defence official sa dunk id Hagel was in a safe location at an Isaf facility.The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and said the ministry was the target. They said in a statement the attack is a kind of message for Hagel.The blast underscored the security challenges facing Afghanistan as US-led Nato forces prepare to leave the country by the end of 2014.Hagel arrived in Afghanistan on Friday for his first trip abroad as defense secretary, seeking to make his own assessment of America s longest war as it enters its fina KARACHI:Karachi air max 1 Police Chief Javed Alam Odho has said that Shaheen Force will be deployed in different areas of the city from today to curb stanley brand street crimes. The force will be deployed in areas where street crime are on the rise. He said new balance mujer that, it will be a motorcycle-riding force.

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MULTAN:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan on T yeezy slide uesday launched a blistering attack on the Sharif brothers, questioning their abilities to lead and declaring them unfi yeezy slide t even as opposition leaders.Addressing a gathering of over 10,000 people in the sub district of Chichawatni, Imran said he would like to challenge聽 PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif to a live television debate.Drawing phrases from the game of cricket 鈥?a sport he excelled in 鈥?Imran said that fear of his bowling was sufficient to cripple batsmen like those from Pakistan Muslim League-N and Pakistan Peoples Party . The cricketer-turned-politician said that the PML-N had already batted five times but it would not get a sixth chance . Whoever wants to succeed, Imran said, succeeds in the first try .Recalling his days as captain of the Pakistan cricket team, he said that while air max 720 he was captain, no one could defeat him. No one defeated me for ten years. I left the captaincy myself. Starting from Renala Khurd, crossing Okara Listentoart air max 1 i new balance donna cl newbalance scarpe e

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KARACHI:The Sindh High Court (SHC) issued notices to the Sindh Bar Council (SBC), the Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA), the Karachi Bar Association (KBA) and the Malir District Bar Association (MBDA) on Tuesday on a petition requesting to restrain these lawyers representative bodies from calling strikes and boycotting legal proceedings.The petition yeezy 350 has been filed at a time when the bench and the bar are already suffering from strained ties after the latter called for a province-wide strike and boycotted legal proceedings over what it termed as insulting remarks by the SHC Chief Justice Mushir Alam. Vakil Ahmed Qureshi, who is a senior lawyer of the high court, approached the court against the four lawyers representative bodies for calling dunks frequent strikes of lawyers and boycotting legal proceedings.In his plea, Qureshi argued that the calls for strikes and boycott of the leg adidas samba adidas al proceedings by the lawyers regulatory and representative bodies were unconstitutional and illegal KANDHAR:The Taliban takeover may have plunged Afghanistan into uncertainty and economic pain, but arms dealer Khan Mohammad is making the most of it.Sandwiched between a pharmacy and a general store, his shop in the Panjwai district of southern Kandahar province mdash; the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban mdash; is flush with fresh inventory.Camouflage combat vests and bandoliers hung from the walls as Mohammed showed off his wares, including US-made Smith amp; Wesson pistols and ammunition belts.More pistols, grenades, walkie-talkies and jars full of bullets lined the glass display in th newbalance 550 e front.The end of the conflict has led many weapon-owners to conclude they no longer need t airmaxplus hem, Mohammad explained. quot;People who have had guns at home for years bring us their weapons, quot; he said.Mohammad has a customer lined up too. quot;We buy them and sell... to the Mujahideen, quot; he said, referring to the Taliban. quot;The Taliban don 39;t let anyone else take (the weapon stanley s). quot;M

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LAHORE:A judicial magistrate on Thursday sent four men accused in the murder of Farzana Parveen to jail on judicial remand. Parveen was bludgeoned to death in front of Lahore High Court in late May by her family. The four accused produced in the magistrate s court on Thursday were brothers of the dece nike air max plus ased, Ghulam Ali and Zahid Ali, and Mazhar. Parveen s parents claim that Mazhar had married her shortly before Muha yeezys 350 mmad Iqbal abducted her yeezy 700 . Producing the accused in court, the Mozang police requested an extension in their physical remand. However, the magistrate rejected the request and sent them to prison on a judicial remand.Published in The Express Tribune, June 13th, 2014. ABBOTTABAD:The K-P Department for Elementary and Secondary Education on Tuesday transferred several fema new balance 550 le education officers with immediate effect, read a notification issued by the department on Tuesday.After approval from K-P CM Mah new balance uomo ood Khan, various women district education officers (DEO) and deputy district education officers (DDEO) have been transferred and posted. Nadia Begum has been posted as the DEO of Torghar, Rehana as DEO of Upper Kohistan, Asmat Ara Qureshi as DEO Dir.聽Published in The Expre stanley online shop ss Tribune, April 22nd, 2020.

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It rained all day in Lahore on August 14, 2013. The main roads in the city turned into ponds and in many cases, the footpaths were not visible. Many of those who took to the roads to celebrate Independence Day had to face problems, as the vehicles got stuck in water and broke down. The Mall Road looked good that day 鈥?all the historic buildings were decorated while many commuters pushed their cars, bikes, etc, in the ankle-deep water, looking for mechanics to get their vehicles fixed.That day my bike also happened to break down on this road. I got off the vehicle and started dragging it in the water 鈥?which made the process mu nike air max ch more difficult. The eateries were all open yeezys 700 but the chances of finding a mechanic on the road seemed slim 鈥?this did add to my woes.As I was dragging my bike, a guy 鈥?in his mid-twenties, sitting on his bike parked on a footpath 鈥?offered to help me. He carried my bi nike 97 ke, helped me get to the footpath and asked if I had a toolbox. He was wet, like many others, and ISLAMABAD:Former president Asif Ali Zardari has approached the Supreme Court requesting the transfer graft cases against him from Islamabad to Karachi.The apex co stanley cup urt newbalance scarpe while hearing a suo motu case related to fake accounts had ordered to conduct trial of the accused persons in Islamabad. Even the court had rejected review petitions against its order.Zardari through his counsel Farooq H Naek moved an application seeking transfer of cases against him from the federal capital to Karachi due to health reasons.The application stated that throughout the course of history, the former president had been made to suffer on account of political victimisation and mudslinging by involving him in converse schuhe false and fabricated cases. quot;The petitioner has time and again been made the target of political vendetta and vengeance. He has seen the rigours of jail numerous times in false and politically motivated cases for accumulative period of about eleven years and has done so having faith in theindependence of

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KARACHI:The Sindh Assembly has approved the much-debated Sindh Local Government Law 2013, Express News聽reported on Monday.The Muttahida Qaumi nikeair Movement (MQM) members walked out of the assembly in prot nike air 270 est against the bill, but the party would still take part in the local body elections according to a party spokesperson.Senior provincial minis adidas samba adidas ter Nisar Ahmed Khuhro presented the bill in the assembly.The bill was debated earlier as the MQM representatives said it was unfair to discuss a bill that had not been read by all members present. Chants of shame could be heard as MQM protested vocally. A draft was shared with us online, however that was a draft. We did not have enough time to read this huge document. How can we discuss something unless all members of the assembly have read the bill asked MQM representative Faisal Subzwari. Only 10% of the assembly has received copies of the bill, he added.The bill on Sindh Local Government Law 2013 was prepared by the Pakistan Peoples Party-le LAHORE:PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Monday raised concerns over the impending surge in electricity and gas prices unde new balance uomo r the directives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), questioning the extent to which the people could bear such burdens.Addressing a special meeting of the Punjab government alongside Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Shar new balance mujer if, Nawaz Sharif stre nikeair ssed the pressing need to address the potential hike in utility prices imposed by the global lender.Senior provincial ministers and officials were in attendance, including Marriyum Aurangzeb, Azma Bukhari, Bilal Yasin, Syed Ashiq, and Sania Ashiq, along with chief secretaries and other concerned authorities.During the briefing, it was revealed that previous procurement methods subsidised wheat prices uniformly, benefiting both the impoverished and the rich alike.However, mounting circular debts, now totalling Rs630 billion, posed a grave challenge to the government. If left unaddressed, experts warned the debt could soar to

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ISLAMABAD:The floor of the National Assembly was strewn with scraps of paper, the remnants of the Pakistan Protection Or adidas yeezys dinance (PPO), passed during Monday night s assembly session amid furore from the opposition against the controversial bill.Even as Federal Minister for Science and Technology Za yeezy 700 hid Hamid claimed the opposition was taken into confidence before the bill was tabled, members of the PML-N had to huddle around Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq s seat, protecting him against a crowd of opposition members.While some, such as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MNA Arif Alvi shouted, Disgrace! Disgrace! Zia-era legislation is not acceptable , others were more poetic in their dissent; Zulm kay zabtay hum nahin maantay, they said (We cannot be coerced into submission). It would be against parliamentary norms if consensus is not developed before tabling this bill and if you will pass it in the lower house, then it might not be possible f yeezys slide or you to go through with it in the upper house of parliam Honda Motor is aiming to increase its ratio of electric vehicles (EVs) and fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) to 100% of all sales by 2040, chief executive Toshihiro Mibe said on Friday.Speaking at his first news conference since taking the helm of Japan 39;s second-largest automaker at the beginning of April, Mibe sa nb 530 id the company supported the government 39;s green goals. quot;I believe it is the responsibility of an automaker to achieve our carbon-free goal on a 39;tank-to-wheel 39; basis, quot; Mibe said.The company expects EVs and FCVs to account for 40% of sales by 2030 and 80% by 2035 in all major markets, including nike air nike North America and China.Focus on chip shortage hurting production as Japanese automakers report resultsHonda 39;s announcement of its electrification strategy comes after Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vowed Japan would aim for a 46% cut in emissions by 2030 and look for ways to go even further, near nike air max 1 ly doubling from its previous target.The target set by the government is