Raheel: foreign agencies funding terrorists
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Army chief General Raheel Sharif has accused “hostile” foreign intelligence agencies of providing financial support to terrorists operating in the country.”Terrorists are being funded by hostile intelligence agencies and have their sympathisers at home who provide them shelter and refuge,” Raheel said.
Germany to try ex-guard over Auschwitz killings
Detmold: A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard will go on trial on Thursday for complicity in the murders of thousands of people at the Nazi concentration camp. Reinhold Hanning faces court in Detmold seven decades after the defeat of the Nazis, charged with at least 1,70,000 counts of being an accessory to murder in his role at the camp in occupied Poland.
Musharraf in ICU after high blood pressure
Karachi: Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was on Thursday rushed to the ICU of a naval hospital here after he developed high blood pressure and fainted. The 72-year-old ex-commando-turned-politician was admitted to the Pakistan Navy Ship Shifa or PNS Shifa.
Bail plea of Rajapaksa’s son rejected in lanka
Colombo: Former Sri lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s son, who is facing money laundering charges, was further remanded in custody for two weeks after his bail plea was rejected by a court. Yoshitha Rajapaksa was arrested last month along with four others and remanded in custody for nearly two weeks in connection with financial discrepancies.