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Nearly 200 suspects arrested by CIA-Sindh in Karachi during Feb 2017

  • KARACHI, Mar 6 (APP): All the three units of CIA-Sindh – Anti Violent Crime Cell, Special Investigation Unit and Anti Car-Lifting Cell – arrested 197 suspects across Karachi during February 2017 and recovered heavy cache of weapons, vehicles, drugs and liquor. DIG CIA-Sindh, Dr. Jamil Ahmed at a press conference here on Monday said a […]

  • Football: British police discuss security with Russia’s World Cup organisers

    MOSCOW, March 6, (APP/AFP) – Britain’s most senior officer in charge of football policing said Monday he was confident Russia would do ‘everything possible’ to provide adequate security for fans at the 2018 World Cup. Assistant Chief Constable Mark Roberts was speaking after meeting the head of the 2018 World Cup organising committee Alexei Sorokin […]

  • Environmental risks kill 1.7mn kids under 5 a year: WHO

    GENEVA, March 6, (APP/AFP) – More than one in four deaths in children under five are linked to polluted environments, according to two new World Health Organization reports published Monday. Each year, environmental risks such as indoor and outdoor pollution, second-hand smoke, unsafe water and poor sanitation kill around 1.7 million children between the ages […]

  • Work on Astore projects to restart in April: XEn

    ASTORE, (MILLAT/APP): Executive Engineer Water & Power, District Astore, Fayyaz Alam has said that developmental works in Astore were stopped due to winter season. Talking to media persons here he said currently there were many power projects were under construction in different parts of Astore however work on these projects has been stopped due to […]

  • FBI chief rejects Trump wiretap accusation

    NEW YORK, (MILLAT/APP): The head of FBI, the U.S. domestic intelligence and security agency, has blasted President Donald Trump’s claim that his predecessor was wiretapping him and he wants the Justice Department to back him up, according to an American media report. Senior U.S. officials told The New York Times on Sunday that FBI Director […]

  • France’s Fillon fights for survival as party leaders meet

    PARIS, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Francois Fillon was fighting to keep his embattled French presidential bid alive on Monday as former president Nicolas Sarkozy piled pressure on him ahead of a crisis meeting of their rightwing Republicans party. The conservative Fillon, 63, was once a clear favourite to win France’s two-stage election in April and May but […]