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Pak to retaliate iF india sends submarines again: naval ChieF Karachi Pakistan naval chief Admiral Muhammad Zakaullah on Thursday termed as “unusual” the alleged effort by an Indian submarine to enter into its territorial waters and warned of retali-ation if such effort was made again. “If India does something like this again, Pakistan Navy will respond to protect our sovereignty,” he said, speaking on the sidelines of the 9th International Defence Exhibition here. Pakistan Navy last week claimed that an Indian submarine was pushed back after being detected near its territorial waters. India, however, strongly dismissed the charge as “blatant lies”, saying the In-dian Navy did not have any under water movement in the said waters as claimed by the Pakistani Navy. / PTI /

Pakistan, eu to Continue anti-terrorism CooPerationislamabad Pakistan and the Euro-pean Union have agreed to continue cooperation in the spheres of counter terrorism, security and defence, disar-mament and non-proliferation, officials said on Thursday. Top diplomats reached the agreement at the seventh meeting of Pakistan-EU Joint Commis-sion held in Islamabad on Wednesday, a Foreign Ministry statement said. They welcomed the holding of the second Dialogue on Disarmament and Non-Pro-liferation, as well as the fifth round of the Counter-Terrorism Dialogue in April 2016 in Brussels. The Pakistan side was jointly led by Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry and Secretary Economic Affairs Division Tariq Bajwa. The EU delegation was led by Gunnar Wiegand, managing director of the European External Action Service. The meeting discussed the economic reform programme of the Pakistani government and the EU welcomed the progress made in this respect./ IANS /

viagra adds PeP to south korean President’s imPeaChment moveseoul The discovery that the staff of South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who is currently mired in a huge corruption scandal, stocked up on drugs like Viagra, added pep to the opposition move to impeach her early in December. South Korea’s main oppo-sition party, the Democratic Party, on Thursday said it will put the impeach-ment motion to vote in the National Assembly between December 2 and 9, Efe news quoted a party spokesperson as saying. On Monday, the three largest opposition parties announced their intention to call for Park’s impeach-ment after the prosecution indicted her as an accomplice to her confidante Choi Soon-sil in a large-scale corruption and influence-peddling case. / IANS /

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India will not forget for generations if Pak launches surgical strikes: Gen Raheelislamabad Upping the ante, Pakistan on Thursday warned India that its “battle hardened” military is capable of respond-ing to any aggression, with army chief General Raheel Sharif saying if ever Pakistan launched surgical strikes India would not be able to forget it for generations.

“If Pakistan were to launch surgical strikes, India would not be able to forget it for gen-erations to come,” General Sharif said just days before his scheduled retirement.

“India would be teaching its children as part of syl-labus what a surgical strike

means if Pakistan launched such strikes,” he said. He also dismissed India’s assertion that it had carried out surgical strikes in Pakistan. He said that Pakistan army was capable of teaching Indian forces a lesson.

Addressing tribal elders after inaugurating a cricket stadium named after flamboy-ant cricketer Shahid Afridi in Khyber tribal region, the General confirmed he will be retiring on November 29 after a three-year term, as scheduled.

He said he would dedicate his life after retirement for the welfare of the families of martyrs of the armed forces.

Earlier, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Pakistan will

not tolerate “deliberate target-ing” of civilians particularly children and women, ambu-lances and civilian transport.

“Pakistan has exercised maximum restraint despite continuing ceasefire violations from Indian security forces along LoC,” he added. “We will not tolerate the deliberate attack on innocent civilians.” Air Force chief Marshal Sohail Aman also said Pakistan is not worried at all about any threat from India and its “battle hard-ened” military is capable of responding to any aggression.

“We are not worried about India at all,” he said, speaking

‘Pakistan has exercised maximum restraint despite continuing ceasefire violations from Indian security forces along LoC’

6.1 magnitude quake hits JaPanan earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck off Fukushima early on Thursday, Japan me-teorological agency here said. no tsunami warnings were issued. The epicentre of the shallow quake was in the waters offshore the Fukushima prefecture. no major damage or injuries were reported. no abnormalities were observed at the Fukushima nuclear power plants. another strong quake of magnitude 7.4 had hit the same area on Tuesday.

sri lanka seizes CoCaine worth millions oF dollarsSri Lanka’s custom officials on Thursday seized a large haul of cocaine valued at $13.8 million in the international market. The drug was being smuggled in a sugar container from Brazil, Xinhua news agency reported. customs Spokesman dharmase-na Kahandawa said the 200 kg of seized cocaine was hidden in eight sugar bags in a shipping container.

russia oFFers guns at ‘buy one, get one Free’: dutertePhilippine President rodrigo duterte on Thursday said Russia has offered to sell the Philippines rifles in a “buy one, get one free” deal. duterte said he can always buy rifles from Russia. He made the comments after he returned from the Asia-Pacific Economic Coopera-tion (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Lima, Peru. duterte said russian President Vladimir Putin told him during their meeting in Lima that Moscow is willing to sell guns to the Philippines at “buy one, take one free”.N

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at the 9th International De-fence Exhibition and Seminar in Karachi. He said it is better if India showed restraint and solved the Kashmir issue to prevent escalation of tension.

“India should show restraint and instead solve the issue of Kashmir as that would be bet-ter for them,” he said. Aman said that Pakistan does not want war but cannot ignore this kind of pressure. “We are well capable of responding in the face of any aggression,” he asserted. He said Pakistan had “readied all of its (battle) plans following threats from India” after the Uri terror attack./ PTI /

beijing At least 67 people were killed on Thursday when an under construc-tion platform at a power plant col-lapsed in east China’s Jiangxi province, the latest industrial disaster to hit the world’s second largest economy.

The accident occurred at about 7:00 am (local time) when a cooling tower platform plunged to the ground, trapping people beneath it, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

70 people were working at the site when the platform collapsed at the Fengcheng Power Plant in the city of Yichun.

68 people were killed, one person was missing while two others were injured, whose conditions remain unknown.

More than 200 firefighters were deployed for rescue work along with search and rescue dogs. 32 fire engines and 212 military personnel had also been deployed, local officials said.

Images from state broadcaster CCTV showed a pile of twisted metal and dozens of rescue workers searching for victims under the rubble.

The construction of two 1,000-megawatt coal-fired power units at the power station began last July and was expected to be completed by early 2018, the local government said.

China has a long history of industrial accidents, from factory explosions to mine collapses and there have been growing demands for more stringent safety standards. Last year, the Chi-nese port city of Tianjin was rocked by two massive blasts, killing at least 173 people and injuring hundreds others.

A metal dust explosion at a car parts factory in eastern China in August 2014 killed at least 75 people and injured more than 180. ./ PTI / At least 67 people were killed todaywhen an under construction platform at a power plant collapsed in east China’s Jiangxi province, the latest industrial disaster to hit the world’s second larg-est economy./ IANS /

67 killed in power plant collapse in China

islamabad Britain today asked India and Pakistan to find a “last-ing” solution to the Kashmir issue amid an escalation in tension, but made it clear that it was not for the UK to “prescribe a solu-tion or act as a mediator”.

UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who is on his first visit to Islamabad, said “we call for an end to the violence”.

“The longstanding position of the UK is that is it for India and Pakistan to find a lasting solution

to the situation in Kashmir taking into account the wishes of the Kashmiri people,” Johnson told reporters at a joint press confer-ence with Adviser to Pakistan Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz.

But, he added, it was not for Britain to “prescribe a solution or act as a mediator” over the “disputed” region.

Johnson said “we are con-cerned about recent incidents on both sides of the Line of Control”

and called for a solution, taking into account the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.

Tension between India and Pakistan have increased after the attack on an Indian Army base in Uri on September 18 and the resultant “surgical strike” on terrorist launchpads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir by the army 10 days later. Since then, cross-border firings have increased killing soldiers and civilians on both sides.

Yesterday, 12 people, including three Pakistani soldiers, were killed in alleged Indian cross-border firings. India’s response came after the Indian Army warned of “heavy retribution” following the killing of three of its soldiers, with the body of one of them mutilated in a cross-LoC attack.

Pakistan denied as “false” and “baseless” its troops were responsible for the mutilation and deaths of Indian soldiers.

However, Aziz today said Pakistan has briefed the British delegation about increase in ten-sion on the LoC as he stressed the need for dialogue with India “otherwise these issues would become more serious.” Talking about the “incredible” human and economic poten-tial of the region, Johnson said “imagine what the future could be like if this was sorted out.” He said the “mutual sequestration” of the India-Pakistan economies

was holding back the region from becoming a “boomzone”.

Aziz said Pakistan and the UK have been cooperating under the framework of enhanced strategic dialogue since 2011. “The two sides had already agreed to three new road-maps on trade and in-vestment, culture and education and security,” he said.

Johnson said it was important for the UK and Pakistan to work together for security and stability of the entire region. / PTI /

UK asks India, Pak to sort out Kashmir, end violence at LoC

Karachi Pakistan has signed a deal with Tur-key to supply 52 Super Mushshak basic trainer aircraft, a minister said.

Talking to media at the 9th International Defence Exhibition and Seminar (IDEAS) 2016, Minister for Defence Production Rana Tanveer said the deal will strengthen ties between two brotherly countries and result in huge foreign exchange for Pakistan, DunyaNews reported.

“Development of a fleet tanker in collabora-tion with Turkey, is another example of close relationship in the field of defence production between two countries”, Tanveer added.

The aircraft are scheduled to be delivered in three batches – in 2017, 2018 and the last batch in 2019. The indigenously-made Super Mushshak aircraft, is a primary trainer aircraft with a recorded range of 814 km and a maximum speed of 268 km/h. These state-of-the-art train-ing jets, developed by the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), have been in high demand from various African and Middle Eastern nations.

The Minister also announced that another agreement was signed with Ukraine for the upgradation of 200 al-Khalid-1 tanks.

The Al-Khalid or “The Immortal Tank”, is a main battle tank developed in a joint venture between China and Pakistan in the 1990s. It is powered by a Ukrainian diesel engine.

Talking to media, Tanveer said Ukraine de-fence industry is one of the most advanced in the world, which also produced battle tanks for the Russian army. / IANS /

Pakistan to supply 52 trainer aircraft to Turkey

islamabad Amid escalated border firing, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday that Pakistan has shown utmost restraint in the face of Indian belligerence and will not tolerate India’s “deliberate target-ing” of civilians and ambulances.

Sharif ’s remarks, made during a high-level meeting chaired to review the LoC situation, came a day after Pakistan claimed that nine of its civilians and three sol-diers were killed in firing by the Indian Army.

“We cannot tolerate deliberate targeting of innocent civilians, par-ticularly children and women, the ambulances and the civilian trans-port,” Sharif said, Dawn reported.

Pakistan on Wednesday said three of its soldiers were killed in Indian firing along the Line of Control, while nine civilians were also killed as Indian troops alleg-edly targeted a passenger bus in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

“Pakistan has exercised maxi-mum restraint despite the continu-ing ceasefire violations from the Indian side,” Sharif said.

Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz and National Security Adviser Naser Janjua briefed the meeting about the “unprovoked Indian firing”.

The Inter-Services Public Rela-tions (ISPR) said that Indian troops fired at an ambulance which went

into the area for evacuation.At least 18 persons were injured

in Wednesday’s firing, the ISPR said.

The meeting, also attended by Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) General Rizwan Akhtar, paid tributes to the killed soldiers and deplored the targeting of the ambulance as a violation of International Humanitarian Law, a statement said.

Sharif reviewed the situation along the LoC and called upon the international community to play its active role in defusing tension be-tween the two nations, “which has been deliberately escalated by the Indian side”, said the statement is-sued by the Prime Minister’s office.

The meeting concluded that India was trying to divert the at-tention of the international com-munity “from the grave human rights violations, massacres and atrocities being committed by the Indian security forces” in Kashmir, it said.

In a related development, Paki-stan Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman on Thursday said Pakistan’s armed forces were “not worried about India at all”.

Aman said: “We are not worried about India at all, it is better if they show some restraint.”

/ IANS /

Pakistan won’t tolerate targeting of civilians by India: Nawaz

ISLAMABAD Britain is in talks to boost trade and security co-operation with Pakistan, Foreign Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday, part of London’s ef-forts to improve trade links with emerging market countries.

Britain has been seeking to bolster global trade ties follow-ing its June referendum vote to leave the European Union, with the government seeking to broaden relations with the fast-growing economies outside Europe.

“consider the size of the Pakistan economy, how fast it’s growing, look at the size of the UK economy, we could do so much better,” Johnson said in islamabad before meeting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

The two countries have had strong cultural ties since Paki-stan gained independence from Britain in 1947, with more than one million people of Pakistani origin currently residing in Britain. Pakistan’s sputtering economy has rebounded in re-cent years, helped by improved security in the country, and growth is expected at just over 5 percent this fiscal year, the high-est rate since 2008. / REUTERS /

britain and Pakistan to inCrease trade, seCurity ties

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People cycle in snowfall in Tokyo on November 24, 2016. Tokyo woke up on November 24 to its first November snowfall in more than half a century, leaving commuters to grapple with train disruptions and slick streets. / AFP

tokyo hit by First november snow in 54 yearsTOKYO The Japanese capital of Tokyo on Thursday was hit by its first November snow in 54 years, slowing rush hour trains as residents slogged to work wearing heavy coats and boots in a city far more accustomed to earthquakes than to snow.

The last time snow fell in november in Tokyo, John F Ken-nedy was President of the United States and singer Bob dylan - who this year won the nobel Literature Prize - had released his debut album just months before. The snow, which began as sleet around dawn but turned to snow soon after, was sparked by an unusual cold front spreading over the Tokyo area that sent temperatures down to near zero C (32 F). / REUTERS /

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