Pak: Kashmir polls no substitute for plebiscite
Islamabad: As people in Jammu & Kashmir voted for the lok Sabha polls on Thursday, Pakistan said any election in the State is not a substitute for plebiscite. “Absolutely not,” said Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam here when asked if the election in the state was an alternative to a plebiscite.
Object found on Aus coast not from jet
Perth: Hitting yet another dead end, the search for the crashed Malaysian jet failed to make any headway as an object washed ashore on Australia’s coast was not from the plane, with 90 per cent of the focused area scanned without any trace of the wreckage.
Suicide attack in Iraq kills at least 11
Baghdad: A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a police checkpoint south of Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing at least 11 people, officials said, the latest episode in an uptick in violence in the run-up to next week’s parliamentary elections in Iraq.
Sikh man barred from jury duty in California
Washington: A Sikh American is being prevented from doing jury duty in Sutter County in Northern California because of his kirpan, the ceremonial dagger worn by Sikhs as part of their religion.
Air raid kills 27 at Syria market: monitor
Beirut: An air strike on a market killed at least 27 people, including three children, in a village of the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.
New US restrictions to regulate E-cigarettes
Washington: US regulators proposed new restrictions on Thursday on the soaring 2 billion USD market in e-cigarettes, which until now have been free from federal oversight. The changes would also apply to other, previously unregulated tobacco products, including cigars, hookahs, nicotine gels, and pipe tobacco; and are aimed in large part at keeping these substances away from young people.