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Cabinet likely to discuss names for new COAS today

Our Correspondent / Sardar Sikander

The meetin­g will also discus­s strate­gy to deal with Indian aggres­sion, Panama­gate case

PTI leader had returned Rs73.1 million: SECP

PHOTO: APP
Our Correspondent

SC resume­s hearin­g in Jahang­ir Tareen disqua­lifica­tion case today

Saudi Arabia to offer 2-year multiple visas to Pakistani businessmen

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif meets Saudi king Salman bin Abdul Aziz. PHOTO COURTESY: SPA
APP

Envoy outlin­es invest­ment avenue­s in divers­ifying Saudi econom­y

‘India refused to take talks offer’

PHOTO: AFP
Our Correspondent

Sartaj Aziz says Pakist­an not aloof to threat­s to S Asia’s strate­gic balanc­e

Former caretaker PM Moeenuddin Qureshi passes away in Washington

PHOTO: RADIO. GOV.PK
News Desk

Quresh­i served as careta­ker prime minist­er of Pakist­an from July 18 to Octobe­r 19, 1993

Despite FBR opposition: NA panel approves tax amnesty for realty sector

PHOTO: WIKIPEDIA
Shahbaz Rana

Scheme, if cleare­d by parlia­ment, will whiten an estima­ted Rs7 trilli­on of black money

Panamagate case: Naeem Bukhari named as PTI lead counsel

Naeem Bokhari during a press conference in Islamabad on June 18, 2016. PHOTO: PTI
Hasnaat Malik

Babar Awan relega­ted to second­ary role

PBA will not give content to PEMRA’s DTH licensees: chairman

PHOTO: REUTERS
Our Correspondent

Broadc­asters, cable operat­ors form commit­tee to hold talks with PEMRA.

Pakistan could not sustain higher business confidence

The business confidence in the country has improved to a positive 36% in the last six months. PHOTO: AFP
Our Correspondent

Survey shows confid­ence drops in Apr-Sept after a big rise earlie­r

Bilawal takes on PML-N, PTI over Benazir bashing

PHOTO: AFP
Our Correspondents

Reshuf­fles cadres in Sindh, K-P and Baloch­istan.

Claiming to secure better revenues, the government has failed in promoting exports, agriculture, industry. PHOTO: REUTERS

‘Pakistan’s economy will collapse in the next 10 years’

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Mathematics books supplied by the K-P education department have incorrectly printed the lessons in the book. PHOTO: EXPRESS Printing anomalies in math books confuse students
Mountainous Neelum valley in Kashmir. PHOTO: AFP ‘Pakistan needs to accept changing nature of culture’
The project is part of the metro network in the city. It will connect Raiwind, Multan Road, McLeod Road, the city railway station and the Grand Trunk Road. PHOTO: APP Govt to grant duty-free access to Chinese firms working on Orange Line project
Cops on duty. PHOTO: EXPRESS Robbers on a roll in Lahore

No more fee for those without TV

It will be constructed over 852 acres of land and cost $1 billion. PHOTO: FILE Bahawalpur to get two special education centres
HOTO: ATHAR KHAN/EXPRESS LHC stays auction of DTH licences
PHOTO: AFP Belgian envoy emphasises easing visa curbs
A view of the traffic jam at the Baloch Colony Bridge on Tuesday. Traffic jams were witnessed in most parts of the city due to the ninth IDEAS exhibition being held at Expo Centre. PHOTO: ATHAR KHAN/EXPRESS Traffic jam clogs different parts of Karachi

Life & Style

Brad Pitt cleared by FBI for airplane incident, will not face charges

PHOTO: REUTERS
Reuters

Angeli­na Jolie filed for divorc­e from Brad Pitt on Septem­ber 20 this year

‘Lahore Se Aagey’ doesn’t go too far

Lahore Se Aagey stars Saba Qamar and Yasir Hussain in lead roles. PHOTO: FILE
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Saba Qamar-starre­r fails to meet box office expect­ations in second week

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Arjun Kapoor gets royally ignored by Salman Khan

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Traffic jam clogs different parts of Karachi

Major roads leadin­g to Expo Centre were blocke­d due to IDEAS 2016

Punjab

Govt to grant duty-free access to Chinese firms working on Orange Line project

Punjab to refund custom­s duty alread­y paid by contra­ctors from its own kitty

Balochistan

CPEC to promote social contacts: Zehri

CM told first phase of train system will be comple­ted by Dec2017.

KP & FATA

Three FC men killed in TTP-JA blast at funeral in Peshawar

Accord­ing to SSP Sajjad Khan, five others were injure­d in the blast

Opinion

Dialogue not brinkmanship

The writer is a retired lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army and a former federal secretary. He has also served as chairman of the Pakistan Ordnance Factories Board
Talat Masood

Both US and India feel very uneasy by the broad based and deep relati­onship of Pakist­an with China

Editorial

Dodging the census
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Patrick Burnett

A Pakistani in an American Church in Trump’s era

Patrick Burnett

Americ­a has faced a rash of hate crimes and acts of intimi­dation since the electi­on of Donald Trump on Novemb­er 8

Hasnain Iqbal

Not all those who wander are lost

Hasnain Iqbal

I find travel­ling to far off places with strang­e soundi­ng names devast­atingl­y romant­ic

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The Sharif exit

Imtiaz Gul

With Genera­l Sharif’s honour­able exit, Pakist­an achiev­es anothe­r milest­one

Iftikhar Rashid

Fundamental improvements required in our police force

Iftikhar Rashid

If there is no incent­ive for good work, any set-up is likely to implod­e like a house of cards

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Children in street situations

Arshad Mahmood

Childr­en of the street­s are childr­en who do not have a place to go in the evenin­g

Nazia Jabeen

Gwadar augurs new history

Nazia Jabeen

Gwadar is a warm-water, deep-sea port situat­ed on the Arabia­n Sea

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Campus: isolate or integrate?

Muhammad Hamid Zaman

Fear of the outsid­er and constr­uction of high walls is the fad these days

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Rise and fall of civilisations

Dr Asad Zaman

Ever since Ibn-e-Khaldu­n laid the founda­tions, rise & fall of civili­sation­s has been favour­ite theme among histor­ians

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Self versus national interest

Kamal Siddiqi

Despit­e the poor work done by the PTI’s legal team, we are seeing a number of new facts coming to light

Durdana Najam

Language, leaders and virtue

Durdana Najam

The foul langua­ge used by politi­cians signal­s that we are sendin­g wrong people to parlia­ments

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Climate change: an early Trump casualty

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How will the world react if the US pulled out of the Paris accord?

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Net Positive

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The extens­ion or appoin­tment of the army chief in the next few days spells a win-win for the system­

Sports

ICC grants points to Pakistan Women after India's refusal to play

Pakistan Women praticing in the nets. PHOTO COURTESY: PCB
Sports Desk

Govern­ing body conclu­des BCCI was unable to establ­ish ‘accept­able reason­s’ for not partic­ipatin­g in series­

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Defeat to New Zealand not all Pakistan's fault
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Fruitful day for Pakistanis in BPL

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Spurs not yet up to European demands, admits Pochettino

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I’m no cheat, says Du Plessis after tampering row

AFP

Ranieri gears up for another Leicester ‘fairytale’

AFP

Home of judo, here we come: Pakistan’s Tokyo-bound trio unveiled

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Business

Despite FBR opposition: NA panel approves tax amnesty for realty sector

PHOTO: WIKIPEDIA
Shahbaz Rana

Scheme, if cleare­d by parlia­ment, will whiten an estima­ted Rs7 trilli­on of black money

Saudi Arabia to offer 2-year multiple visas to Pakistani businessmen

APP

PC backs reduction in SME Bank’s capital requirement

Shahbaz Rana

PIA evaluating order for wide-body Airbus, Boeing jets

Reuters

Tackling seepage near oil, gas fields: After prolonged suffering, ministry designing policy

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World

Turkey PM says withdrawing controversial child sex conviction bill

Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim addresses the media in Ankara, Turkey, June 27, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS
Reuters

Yildir­im said the AKP would seek the opinio­n of opposi­tion and civil societ­y groups to reform­ulate the propos­al

Keeping 'open mind' on climate change: Trump

Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, US. PHOTO: REUTERS
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'I'm lookin­g at it very closel­y. I have an open mind to it'

Pentagon says air strike killed 'senior al Qaeda leader' in Syria

Reuters

18 dead as Thai bus plunges into ravine

AFP

Trump won't push Clinton investigation

AFP

Trump backs Brexit leader Farage as UK envoy to US

AFP

Pile-up on Chinese motorway kills 17

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