Sartaj Aziz, Khurshid to meet in Bishkek today
Islamabad: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s top foreign policy aide Sartaj Aziz will meet External Affairs Minister Salman
Khurshid on the margins of a SCO meeting in Bishkek on Friday to discuss bilateral relations. Aziz and Khurshid are expected to try to schedule a meeting between the premiers of the two countries on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly later in September.
hacking at ‘Sunday Mirror’: Probe begins
london: Scotland Yard has launched a probe into Britain’s Sunday Mirror newspaper over allegations that its former employees indulged in phone hacking, accessing voicemail messages of celebrities.
Indrabi’s nephew sent to police custody
Islamabad: A nephew of radical Kashmiri leader Aasiya Indrabi has been booked for attempt to murder and illegal possession of explosives after being arrested during a raid by security agencies in the Pakistani capital. Mohammad Shoaib Indrabi was remanded to police custody for three days by the court of magistrate Inamullah Khan in Islamabad on Wednesday.
Freed Taliban leaders haven’t reached homes
Islamabad: None of the seven Afghan Taliban prisoners freed by Pakistan recently to boost the reconciliation process in war-torn Afghanistan have reached their homes yet, a media report said on Thursday. The militants were not handed over either to the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad or to the country’s missions in Pakistani provincial capitals.
Sa's Gupta family denies burglary
Johannesburg: South Africa's high-profile Gupta family have dismissed media reports that their home here had been burgled and one of their staff arrested. “The report is erroneous. The family can categorically state that none of their properties were robbed,” said Gupta family spokesman Gary Naidoo.
3 soldiers among 7 dead in Iraq attacks
Baghdad: A spate of attacks across Iraq killed seven people on Thursday, including three soldiers who died when a suicide car bomber struck as recruits were leaving a military base, officials said. The attacks come amid Iraq’s worst bloodshed with more than 4,000 people killed this year.
EU conveys concerns on NSA snooping again
Brussels: The EU's Home Affairs chief Cecilia Malmstroem
on Thursday said she has conveyed fresh concerns to Washington over new reports of alleged US snooping, demanded ‘clear satisfactory answers’.
emergency extended in Egypt by 2 months
Cairo: Egypt has extended state of emergency, scheduled to end on Thursday, by two months, Xinhua reported citing the official MENA news agency.