Pak court orders Musharraf’s arrest
Islamabad: A special Pakistani tribunal has ordered the Government to arrest Pervez Musharraf and confiscate all his properties as it heard the high treason case against the “proclaimed offender” for imposing emergency rule in the country in 2007.
1mn without power as snowstorms hit US
New York: Nearly one million residents were left without power and in the cold as two nor’easters hit the United States in less than one week.
Mahara elected Nepal parliament’s Speaker
Kathmandu: CPN Maoist Centre leader Krishna Bahadur Mahara was on Friday elected as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the bicameral federal parliament of Nepal.
Pak under pressure to rein in blasphemy law
lahore: One of the most frightening things about Pak’s blasphemy law is that the simplest act can spiral into charges that can bring the death penalty.
8 jihadists killed in Marawi strikes
The Philippine military said on Friday it had killed at least eight ISIS terrorists in an operation to stop jihadist efforts to set up base in the country following the deadly five-month siege of Marawi city last year.