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Iconic Pakistan legspinner Abdul Qadir dies aged 63

Abdul Qadir, who revived the leg spin bowling technique in the 1970s and 1980s, died in Lahore due to a heart attack. Qadir, an important part of the most successful aspects of Pakistan in the 1980s and Shane Warne and Mushtaq Ahmed, was 63 years old, nine days shorter than the next birthday. Qadir worked […]

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At least five dead in US from vaping-related lung disease – World

At least five people died in the United States after vaping, officials said Friday, in an outbreak that made hundreds of people with severe lung disease sick and left several teenagers in an induced coma. Federal authorities said that no single substance has been found in all the laboratory samples examined, however, researchers in New

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India loses contact with Moon lander on its final approach – World

India's space program suffered a major setback on Saturday after it lost contact with an unmanned spacecraft just before a historic soft landing on the Moon was made. Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to comfort gloomy scientists and a stunned nation from the lunar program command center in Bangladesh, saying that India was "proud" and

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Classmates of Hunain burn school – Pakistan

LAHORE: A public order situation was reported in Gulshan-i-Ravi on Friday night when several accused students set fire to private school following the death of their colleague who was tortured to death by the teacher of school. According to initial reports, several people, mostly students of the American Lycetuff School, suddenly appeared there carrying bottles

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Taliban launch offensive to take key Afghan city – Newspaper

HERAT: The Taliban launched an offensive on Friday against a key city in western Afghanistan, authorities said, the latest in a wave of attacks while the United States pushes for an agreement that allows it to begin withdrawing troops. The fight began early in the morning when insurgents briefly seized an Afghan army recruitment center

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IMF programme ‘on track’, govt insists – Newspaper

ISLAMABAD: The government said Friday that its reform agenda signed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was on track and that progress so far in almost all performance and structural benchmarks for the first quarter of the current fiscal year were Very encouraging with a strong indication that all objectives will be met. “The progress

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