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MARRIAGE LAWS & THE IMMIGRATION SYSTEM
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12.01.19 - Sarah Harvard*
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OVER THE PAST few decades, the United States government approved thousands of requests by men to bring in child or adolescent brides to live in the country, according to newly collated federal data. In one of those cases, a 49-year-old man applied to admit a 15-year-old ...
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ABSCONDING LIQUOR BARON Vijay Mallya became the first tycoon to be charged under a new anti-fraud law, with a court in Mumbai today naming him as an offender under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018. The anti-corruption court was hearing an application by the Enforcement Directorate, ...
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'WE'RE NOT PLAYING GAMES'
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US President Donald Trump has warned that the partial government shutdown could go on for months or even years, delivering no real breakthrough with congressional leaders as his own administration scrambled to shore up support among Republicans for a gambit that has started to fracture. Trump stood ...
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WITH THE OPENING of the Kartarpur corridor, Prime Minister Imran Khan has been handed a diplomatic victory in his first 100 days, which beats his domestic score card hollow. But there are few who are willing to see this as a game changer in the ...
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THE DESIRE EXPRESSED by the Indian government for a link to the holy Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib and Pakistan government’s offer to provide the link four kilometres inside its territory is a landmark moment in the confidence building relationship between the two neighbours.
 It appears that backdoor ...
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India will sell stocks worth millions of dollars seized from people who moved to Pakistan following the partition and the wars since, as a way to make up for a shortfall in revenues.
The stocks worth at least Rs30 billion ($412.26 million) are part of what ...
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BOMBAY (now Mumbai), my native city, had always charmed me because of its cosmopolitanism and also because I have had a number of friends and relatives there.
In 1965, a year after I had appeared for my finals for my Master's in English literature, I thought ...
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GIVING A BIG relief to former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam; the Islamabad High Court on Wednesday suspended their sentences in the Avenfield corruption reference case and ordered their release from a high security prison. The trio of Sharif, his daughter and ...
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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said that his country is sitting on hundreds of billions of rupees in "dead capital" in the form of state land and rest houses and official residences built on that land.
According to a Dawn ...
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EVERY EVENING, on prime time news television in India, spokespersons of various rightwing outfits defend the most reprehensible acts, statements and claims. They defend rapes and murder, threats to rape and murder, the culture of lynch mobs policing the streets, and worse.
On certain television channels, ...
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In yet another addition to the ever increasing cases of racism, a Sikh man was allegedly assaulted by two white men in Keyes in California and was told to head back to his country. They shouted, "You’re not welcome here! Go back to your country!” ...
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ORDERS RECEIVED FROM THE TOP?
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02.08.18 - PT Pakistan Desk
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IMRAN KHAN'S New Pakistan began its relationship with the free voices in the media this week in a rather disappointing manner: Just as it became clear that Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Party will be forming the government in Punjab, authorities moved fast to seal the ...
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THE FUTURE OF THE LYNCH MOB - GADHE HEE GADHE HAIN
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18.07.18 - PT Foreign Desk
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THE INDIAN LYNCH mob can now see what it will look like a few years from now: A donkey was beaten to pulp, its nostrils were ripped apart, its face bled profusely, it writhed in pain, and its nose was broken.
Scores of political activist adamant ...
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SHER AAYA TO PINJRE MEIN DAAL DENGE
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06.07.18 - PT Foreign Desk
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OUSTED AND NOW sentenced to 10 years in jail, former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has declared he is returning from London to lead a massive agitation against what he called "a bunch of judges and army generals" but he is likely to be arrested ...
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HOURS AFTER OUSTED Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was awarded a 10 year jail sentence, he declared he is returning to Pakistan from London.
"I am not a thief. We got independence from the British but a handful of judges and a handful ...
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PAK POWER POLITICS SHOCKER
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Ousted Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been sentenced to 10 years in jail, his daughter Maryam for seven years and his son-in-law Captain Safdar for one year in a case of corruption and buying unexplained high-end properties in London.
The verdict, delivered less than 20 ...
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IN A SHOCKING ATTACK, 19 people, many of them Sikhs and Hindus, who were on their way to meet Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani to seek better guarantees of their security, were blown to pieces by a suicide bomber. Ghani himself was a considerable distance away.
A ...
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24.06.18 - kanwar manjit singh
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AS PAKISTANI POLITICS hurtles and hobbles towards its date with democracy on July 25, the entire political scene has now exploded with the Daily Mail of London publishing details of the mega empire-style properties allegedly bought by Nawaz Sharif with dirty money.
With political field already ...
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FORMER PAKISTAN PRESIDENT Pervez Musharraf on Friday resigned from the chairmanship of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML). Party president Dr. Mohammad Amjad said Musharraf has sent his resignation letter to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
Dr. Amjad was quoted by the Dawn, as saying that ...
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