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First off the blocks, was Chaudhary Mukhtar's old cabinet colleague, Former Interior Minister Rehman Malik. He claimed that CNN IBN was twisting the story and Chaudhary Mukhtar said what he said because of a language barrier.

"From the Hmeimim air base, the crews of Su-34, Su-24M and Su-25SM warplanes carried out 41 sorties against 40 targets of the Islamic State's terrorist infrastructure in Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, Hama and Deir Ezzor," said a ministry spokesman.

The President did not wait for the proposed signing of the MoU between higher education institutions of the two countries.

Pakistan has maintained that it did not know that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad and the US operation was undertaken without its knowledge.

However, a statement from the Russian state-controlled Almaz-Antey arms-maker said a draft of the Dutch report found the plane was shot down by a Buk missile warhead that uses submunitions shaped like a capital letter I.

Gunmen stormed a bus in Karachi in May, slaughtering members of the Ismail minority community in one of the deadliest incidents in Pakistan in 2015.

Sharif is expected to meet Obama on October 22 in Washington during his US trip for which he was invited by the US President.

As Parliament is all set to vote to elect the new premier on Sunday, Koirala's resignation is just a formality as he himself is in the race to become prime minister again.

In its Asia and Pacific Regional Economic Outlook Update released in Peru on the sidelines of the annual fall meeting of the IMF and World Bank, the IMF has projected a slight drop in India's growth rate from 7.5 per cent to 7.3 per cent in 2015 and maint...

It's the first public comment by a US official on the cruise missile failures.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that Obama called MSF chief Joanne Liu "to apologise and express his condolences" over the weekend attack.

President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration on Monday, making federal aid available to the southern state that has been drenched with a level of rain that -- as Governor Nikki Haley put it -- the region has not seen in 1,000 years.

A total of 1,830 people were brought ashore in six different operations to save passengers in four stricken boats and two rubber dinghies on Monday, the coast guard said.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine 2015 was awarded with one half jointly to William C Campbell and Satoshi Omura for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites and the other half to Youyou Tu for her discoverie...

The suspects were part of a "network of recruitment, indoctrination and sending foreign fighters to fight for Daesh (Islamic State) in the regions of Syria and Iraq under its control," the ministry said in a statement.