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QWP leader killed

  • PESHAWAR, (MILLAT/APP): A senior lawyer and local office bearers of Quami Wattan Party (QWP), Mohammad Jan Gagyani Saturday was killed by unidentified assailants in tehsil, Shabqadar of Charsadda. According to police, the victim was on his way to tehsil courts, when attackers opened indiscriminate firing on him in Hijizai area of tehsil, Shabqadar. The injured […]

  • Alpine skiing: World Cup women’s downhill results

    JEONGSEON, South Korea, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – World Cup women’s downhill results from Jeongseon, South Korea, on Saturday: 1. Sofia Goggia (ITA) 1:38.80 2. Lindsey Vonn (USA) 1:38.87 3. Ilka Stuhec (SLO) 1:39.03 4. Laurenne Ross (USA) 1:39.38 5. Tamara Tippler (AUT) 1:39.40 6. Stacey Cook (USA) 1:39.42 7. Jasmine Flury (SUI) 1:39.57 8. Johanna Schnarf (ITA) […]

  • Cricket: West Indies v England ODI scoreboard

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, (MILLAT/APP/AFP): Scoreboard in the first ODI between West Indies and England at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua on Friday: England J. Roy lbw b Gabriel 13 S. Billings c C. Brathwaite b Nurse 52 J. Root b Gabriel 4 E. Morgan run out 107 J. Buttler c Carter […]

  • China 2017 defence spending to rise ‘around 7%’: official

    BEIJING, (MILLAT/APP/AFP): China will raise defence spending by “around seven percent” this year, a top official said Saturday, just days after US President Donald Trump outlined plans to raise American military expenditures by 10 percent. China has been steadily building up and modernising its once-backward armed forces over the decades as it seeks greater global […]

  • Pro-British DUP party narrowly wins Northern Ireland vote

    BELFAST, (MILLAT/APP/AFP): The pro-British Democratic Unionist Party came first in Northern Ireland’s snap election, winning just one seat more than Irish republicans Sinn Fein, according to final results on Saturday. The DUP held onto its prime position with 28 seats to Sinn Fein’s 27 — a major boost — in the province’s semi-autonomous 90-seat parliament.

  • Minor handed over to mother

    FAISALABAD, Mar 3 (APP): Additional District & Sessions Judge Rana Qamar Yaseen Nadeem on Friday handed over a minor child to his mother after recovering him from custody of his father. Saadia Bibi resident of Raza Abad filed a petition in the court, contending that her husband Muhammad Tariq resident of Rehman Town had kicked […]