‘Pak min punched, pelted with eggs’ London: Pakistan railway minister Sheikh Rashid
Ahmad was punched and pelted with eggs during a visit to London, according to Pakistani media reports. The Minister, the chief of Pakistan’s Awami Muslim League, was accosted when he stepped out to smoke his cigar at a London awards ceremony earlier this week.
Imran khan discusses Kashmir with Merkel
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday held a telephonic conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the Kashmir. During the talks, the PM “emphasised that India scrapping the special status to J&K has serious implications for peace and security in the region and the international community has the responsibility to act urgently”, the Foreign Office said.
Taylor Swift accuses Trump of ‘autocracy'
New York: Taylor Swift, currently promoting the release of her latest album, has accused Donald Trump of treating his White House reign as an “autocracy,” in a new political turn for the singer. “We're a democracy — at least, we're supposed to be — where you're allowed to disagree, dissent, debate,” the pop star said in snippets of an interview teased Friday by The Guardian.
22 missing after Indonesia ferry fire
Jakarta: Nearly two dozen people are missing from the carcass of a ferry that went up in flames off Indonesia’s Java island, a port official said on Friday. The boat was en route from Indonesia’s second-biggest city Surabaya to Balikpapan on Borneo island with some 277 people aboard when it caught fire Thursday evening.