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Founder member of Imran Khan’s party shot dead
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sarabjit murder
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Founder member of Imran Khan’s party shot dead
Karachi, May 19 Zahra Shahid Hussain, the 60-year-old vice-president of the party's Sindh unit, was shot by two unidentified men outside her home in Defence Phase IV last night. She died while being taken to a nearby hospital. Zahra, a mother figure for party workers, was a member of the party's central executive committee. The motive for the murder could not immediately be ascertained. The killers escaped on a motorcycle. "The assailants opened fire on Zahra at the gate of her residence. Apparently, they were there to target her only," a police official said. Her murder came a day before re-polling at 43 stations today for the National Assembly seat of NA 250 constituency which the MQM has boycotted. Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan immediately held MQM chief Altaf Hussain directly responsible for the killing. On his Twitter account, Imran Khan wrote: “I am shocked and deeply saddened by the brutal killing of Zahra Shahid Hussain - Zahra ‘apa’ to us - in Karachi tonight. A targetted act of terror!” "I hold Altaf Hussain directly responsible for the murder as he had openly threatened Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf workers and leaders through public broadcasts," Imran said in a statement. Re-polling
Karachi: Re-polling was held in 43 polling stations in Karachi on Sunday. It was ordered following allegations of vote-rigging during the May 11 general election. A low turnout at many polling stations was noticed as compared to the thousands of people who had come out to vote in the general election in the same constituency of NA250. —
PTI Sharif's party gets majority in Pak Parliament
Lahore: Nawaz Sharif's PML-N has secured majority in the National Assembly after 18 Independent candidates joined the party, allowing it to form the government at the Centre without striking an alliance with any other party. The PML-N had emerged the single largest party in the May 11 general election by winning 124 seats. To win a simple majority, a party or coalition needs 137 of the 272 directly elected seats. Now, PML-N has 142 seats in Parliament. — PTI |
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N Korea test-fires another short-range missile
Seoul, May 19 The guided missile was fired into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) this afternoon, a Defence Ministry spokesman said. On Saturday, the North fired three short-range missiles off its east coast, apparently as part of a military drill. The North’s short-range missile launches are not unusual but come at a time of heightened alert on the peninsula, following Pyongyang’s February nuclear test which sparked tougher UN sanctions. Angered by the sanctions and by a joint US-South Korean military exercise, the North for weeks threatened nuclear or conventional attacks on Seoul and Washington. The South and its US ally had earlier been on heightened alert for any test of medium-range Musudan missiles by the North. But a US defence official said early in May that the two mid-range missiles had been moved from their launch site. South Korea's Unification Ministry, which handles cross-border relations, said the launches pose threats to the region and should be stopped immediately. "We find it deplorable that the North does not stop provocative actions such as the launch of guided missiles yesterday," said unification ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-Seok, speaking before the latest exercise. — AFP Flexing muscle
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Pak judge may visit India
Lahore, May 19 Justice Naqvi of the Lahore High Court is investigating the death of Sarabjit who died on May 2 following a brutal assault by prisoners on April 26 in Kot Lakhpat Jail here. The one-man inquiry tribunal has appealed to Indian nationals having information to file written submissions within seven days. — PTI
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Indian-American buys NBA team for record deal
Washington, May 19 Ranadive, founder-CEO of multi-billion dollar realtime computing company TIBCO, led a group of investors this week to secure an agreement to buy 65 per cent stake in Sacramento Kings for a league-record valuation of $535 million. The long-awaited deal was announced by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, himself a former NBA player, early this week. "This was one heck of a comeback," said Johnson as he announced the deal to keep the leading club in Sacramento, the California capital. With this sale, Ranadive has become the first Indian-American owner of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league and one of the Big Four major sports leagues in North America. Ranadive, who landed in this country from Mumbai with $50 in his pocket and later on went on to earn a master's degree in electrical engineering from MIT and MA from Harvard, said he jumped in for the bid to prevent the Sacramento Kings from moving away to Seattle. NBA Commissioner David Stern hopes that the deal will help him take basketball to India, a country of more than 1.2 billion people. "It's going to be exciting. We're going to build a global brand with the Kings. We're going to give the fans the product that they deserve," 55-year-old Ranadive said. "I'm going to do what I do in my business, which is surround myself with people that are way smarter than me," he said. "But I am a huge fan. I'm going to be there at all the games, be there to support the team in every way." Ranadive led the group of investors to buy Sacramento Kings after the NBA Board voted 22-8 against relocation of the team to Seattle. "The committee voted and recommended to the board and it was adopted that if the Sacramento community could produce a site, a construction team, a strong, financially strong ownership group, and the kind of support by the city and the region that the Mayor Johnson has galvanised, then the appropriate outcome was to keep the team in Sacramento, and that's what they did," Stern said. — PTI Meteoric rise
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Samina becomes first Pakistani woman to scale Mt Everest 29 killed in South Sudan cattle raid
Hafiz Saeed’s chief security officer killed Iran hangs two for spying for Israel, US Indian-origin businessman’s son jailed ‘Guptagate’ probe implicates Indian official
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