COURT SEEKS GOVT REPlY ON SAEED’S PlEA
lahore: Acting on JuD chief and Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s plea seeking a ban on the release of Bollywood movie Phantom, a Pakistani court on Monday issued notices to the federal and Punjab Government as well as the censor board asking them to reply to the petition.
B’DESH COURT SENDS 17 MIlITANTS TO JAIl
Dhaka: Seventeen operatives of the banned Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were on Monday sentenced to 10-year rigorous imprisonment by a Bangladeshi court for their involvement in simultaneous blasts across the country in 2005. Witnesses and lawyers said 12 of the convicts faced the trial in-person, while the rest were fugitives and tried in absentia for the blasts on August 17 that killed two persons.
IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO VISIT PAK
Islamabad: Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif is set to visit Pakistan later this week to hold wide-ranging discussions with the leadership here and review bilateral ties in the wake of the recent nuclear deal between Tehran and the world powers.
COPTER-SEAPlANE COllISION KIllS 9
Moscow: Russian investigators say all nine people aboard a helicopter and a seaplane were killed when the aircraft collided over a water reservoir near Moscow. The Armenian Embassy said four citizens of Armenia, including two children, were among the dead. Russian Channel One state television said one of its journalists also was killed.
3 MORE HElD IN PAK CHIlD ABUSE SCANDAl
lahore: Pakistan police have arrested the main accused and two other suspects in the country’s biggest child abuse scandal in a village in Punjab bordering India, taking the total number of arrests in the case to nine even as victims’ families accused police of protecting the culprits.
TYPHOON DEATH TOll RISES TO 18 IN CHINA
Beijing: The death toll from Super Typhoon Soudelor, which has lashed China with rainfall not seen in over a century and forced evacuation of more than 3.34 lakh people, rose to 18 on Monday after four more deaths were reported. Soudelor killed four persons and coerced authorities to evacuate at least 1.81 lakh people in east China’s Anhui province since it entered yesterday morning, authorities said.