Entertainment news: IB overseer gunned down in Peshawar 'target execut...

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IB overseer gunned down in Peshawar 'target executing'

IB overseer gunned down in Peshawar 'target executing'

PESHAWAR: An Intelligence Bureau (IB) controller was shot dead by obscure aggressors in what police called a focused on killing in the Wazir Bagh region on Monday. 

Unidentified shooters opened fire on IB Inspector Usman Gul close to a Christian burial ground in Wazir Bagh at around 9:15am while he was strolling to work, slaughtering him on the spot, Senior Sub-Inspector Police (SSP) Operations Abbas Najeeb Marwat said. 

A kid going by was additionally genuinely harmed by terminating. He was raced to Lady Reading Hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds. 

In spite of the fact that the zone was cordoned off not long after the assault, the aggressors succeeded in escaping, police said. 

"We are exploring the occurrence," SSP Marwat said.

Entertainment news: Kuwaiti trooper declines to convey Olympic banner

Entertainment news: Kuwaiti trooper declines to convey Olympic banner: Kuwaiti trooper declines to convey Olympic banner RIO: Legendary Kuwaiti shooter Fehaid al-Deehani has declined to convey the Olympic ...

Kuwaiti trooper declines to convey Olympic banner

Kuwaiti trooper declines to convey Olympic banner

RIO: Legendary Kuwaiti shooter Fehaid al-Deehani has declined to convey the Olympic impartial group banner at the Rio Games opening function, where the Gulf state's competitors can't walk behind their own particular symbol. 

Kuwait is suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and other driving organizations, for example, FIFA, football's reality body, over government obstruction in game. 

In spite of a minute ago calls for exchange to get the Kuwait government to make a concession, al-Deehani, victor of Kuwait's exclusive Olympic awards, and seven different competitors are surrendered to competing in Rio as alleged Independent Olympic Athletes. 

As per Kuwaiti media, the IOC asked al-Deehani, who took trap shooting bronze decorations at the 2000 Sydney and 2012 London Games, to convey the Olympic nonpartisan group banner. 

In any case, the Kuwait armed force officer turned down the solicitation. 

"I am a military man and I will just convey the Kuwait banner," he said. "I can't convey the IOC banner." The IOC and FIFA have now suspended Kuwait three times subsequent to 2007 over government obstruction. 

The most recent question has brought about anguish over the Gulf state, setting the legislature even against worldwide wearing powerbroker Sheik Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, an individual from the IOC and FIFA, who is from Kuwait. 

The legislature has dispatched court activity in Switzerland looking for $1 billion in harms from the IOC over its suspension, which Youth and Information Minister Sheik Salman al-Humoud al-Sabah has called "baseless". 

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has officially controlled against the administration, and an UN emissary's endeavors to intercede have likewise come to nothing. 

The Kuwait parliament corrected its disputable games law in June, however the administration still has the ability to break up games affiliations and organizations. 

The Kuwait Olympic Committee on Sunday approached the administration to begin exchange in a last-pant offer to get the Kuwait banner into the Rio opening function. 

Hussein al-Mussallam, bad habit executive of the advisory group's legitimate and universal relations commission, told AFP the time had come "to take a seat together and audit things decidedly". 

He said "the interests of Kuwaiti competitors ought to come most importantly else". 

"I am talking for the KOC and not for the sake of global associations," al-Mussallam included. 

"The time has come before everybody, the Kuwaiti government and the service for youth and games, the Kuwait Olympic Committee and the Olympic Movement Kuwait to sit together for the national interest and for Kuwait to return as it seemed to be." 

Al-Mussallam additionally offered for all sides to "avoid individual issues". 

"The Olympic development has a part to manage the legislature in light of a legitimate concern for game. The administration needs to hear the perspective of worldwide associations and the United Nations and the sentiment of the Kuwaiti Olympic development." 

The authority said that Kuwaiti competitors need to contend in Rio "under the banner of our nation, so and we request the games pastor react to the guidance of the International Olympic Committee and to stop the usage of the clashing articles in the Kuwaiti games law". 

Al-Deehani is one of six Kuwaiti shooters in the Kuwait appointment in the impartial competitors. The others are Saud Habib al-Kandari, Abdul Rahman Fayhan, Khaled Al-Mudhaf, Ahmad al-Afasy and Abdallah al-Toraqi. 

Fencer Abdulaziz Al-Shatti and swimmer Abbas Al Qali make up the eight sitting tight for a conclusion to the fight.

Entertainment news: Sartaj Aziz desires agents to proactively ensure P...

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Sartaj Aziz desires agents to proactively ensure Pakistani interests at three-day debatable

Sartaj Aziz desires agents to proactively ensure Pakistani interests at three-day debatable

ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz at the opening of an agents' meeting on Monday asked Pakistani envoys to proactively secure Pakistani interests and venture the nation's position on crucial issues. 

Gone up against with an irritating remote strategy emergency, the administration has assembled the three-day meeting to diagram a way. 

This is the third such meeting amid the present government's residency and will concentrate on "basic issues in outside arrangement", as indicated by a source, Dawn prior reported. 

Nine Pakistani ministers authorize to different capitals and multilateral foundations are in participation at the debatable, Foreign Office Spokesman Nafees Zakaria said. Shockingly, emissaries to the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia are not present. 

Issues that will be taken up amid the occasion incorporate relations with the US, India (particularly with regards to Kashmir uprising), Afghanistan, China, Russia and the European Union; the up and coming Saarc summit; participation of the Nuclear Suppliers Group and demobilization issues; terrorism, and UN-related matters. 

Consultations will likewise be essential from the point of view of the up and coming presidential races in the US and real worldwide realignments right now under way. 

"The agent's gathering is a normal element in which Pakistan's delegates in different locales brief the legislature on essential improvements in their particular regions of accreditation, and difficulties and open doors emerging out of such advancements," Zakaria said. 

The FO representative included that the agents additionally exhibit their proposals in regards to Pakistan's current outside approach with a perspective to survey, adjust, and recalibrate strategy as per pervasive vital, political and financial patterns. 

The members will likewise get briefings from military and ISI authorities, as per a prior Dawn report. 

Excepting several examples of overcoming adversity, the remote arrangement disaster has pushed the nation into global disconnection. 

While the emissaries and the Foreign Office big bosses conceptualize on the issues and methodology for moving out of detachment, it is likely that crucial issues bringing on loss of motion in outside strategy working — the nonattendance of a full-time remote pastor, duality at the top in the FO chain of importance, lessened part of the outside secretary, and the military's contribution in basic leadership and execution — won't be examined, Dawn prior reported. 

Head administrator Nawaz Sharif will go to the finishing up session of the debatable, where he will be informed by envoys and share his vision for the nation's remote approach. 

Agents in participation at the unsettled are Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani (Washington); Amb Maleeha Lodhi (United Nations, New York); High Commissioner Abdul Basit (New Delhi); Amb Masood Khalid (Beijing); Amb Qazi Khalilullah (Moscow); Amb Tehmina Janjua (United Nations-Geneva and Conference on Disarmament); Amb Naghm­a­­na Hashmi (Brussels and EU); Amb Ayesha Riyaz (Vienna and International Atomic Energy Agency) and Amb Abrar Hussain (Kabul).

'Most IS men in Afghanistan are TTP warriors'

'Most IS men in Afghanistan are TTP warriors'

WASHINGTON: Almost 70 for each penny of the warriors of the activist Islamic State (IS) gathering in Afghanistan are Pakistani Taliban who joined IS subsequent to having been constrained out of their nation, says a top US officer. 

Gen John W. Nicholson, who charges the US and Nato strengths in Afghanistan, additionally said that in spite of the fact that the United States had been battling in Afghanistan for a long time, twelve terrorist gatherings were all the while working in the nation. 

"On account of Islamic State Khorasan area, most of the individuals are from the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)," said the general while instructions Washington-based writers at the Pentagon not long ago. Huge numbers of these terrorists were constrained out of Pakistan by the Zarb-i-Azb military operation, he included. 

Gen Nicholson said that numerous IS contenders in Nangarhar region originated from Pakistan's Orakzai tribal organization. "What's more, they were previous individuals from the TTP, complete with their initiative, who wholesale joined Islamic State, promised bayt (devotion) to Islamic State and went along with them not long ago," he said, including that 70pc, generally, of those warriors were from the banned TTP and a considerable lot of them were Pakhtuns from Orakzai. 

Gen Nicholson said the IS, likewise known by Arabic acronym Daesh, activists were trading their radical philosophy from their bases in Iraq and Syria to Afghanistan and different nations in the district. 

"Daesh is one and only of nine US-assigned terrorist associations here in Afghanistan," he said. "Furthermore, there are three other rough fanatic associations." 

Frightened by the expanding impact of these activist gatherings, the United States as of late continued its air strikes in Afghanistan. The Air Force Times gave an account of Friday that since a month ago there had been an emotional increment in the US air strikes on aggressor focuses in Afghanistan. 

"Strikes against Afghan targets hit a 2016 high this month, particularly between July 19 and 25, when more than 70 weapons were utilized," Lt Col Chris Karns, representative for the US Air Forces Central Command, told the daily paper. F-16s, MQ-9s and B-52s led a large portion of the operations. 

"These gatherings are the primary center of our counterterrorism mission," Gen Nicholson said, including that other than Daesh and the Afghan Taliban, the Pakistani Taliban and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan were likewise working. A few contenders from both gatherings have now moved over to join Daesh. 

Gen Nicholson said Daesh was included in last Saturday's assault in Kabul that left more than 80 regular citizens dead. 

He said Daesh controlled around 10 locale in Nangarhar territory in December a year ago. Be that as it may, since January, when President Barack Obama approved US powers to take part in counterterrorism assaults, the gathering has been compelled to withdraw from a portion of the zones. 

Gen Nicholson said the expanding impact of Daesh in Afghanistan had additionally prompted conflicts amongst them and the Afghan Taliban, adding to Daesh's retreat from a few territories. "Along these lines, now since January, their region has contracted to...parts of three or four regions in southern Nangarhar." 

He said the US strengths were currently working with Afghan security powers to recover huge bits of the domain that was already controlled by Daesh. Numerous Daesh commandants and officers were murdered in these joint operations and their key framework capacities and logistical hubs were obliterated, he included. 

"Daesh warriors are withdrawing south into the mountains of southern Nangarhar. We will keep on staying after Daesh until they are crushed here in Afghanistan," Gen Nicholson said. 

He clarified that this "basic battle" was a piece of a bigger worldwide system against the IS and matched with continuous operations in Iraq and Syria. He said there were an expected 3,000 IS warriors in Afghanistan in January, a large number of them individuals from other terrorist aggregates that changed allegianc