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ISLAMABAD: A passenger was offloaded from Turkish airlines’ flight by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) immigration after recovery of fake residence permit of Italy at the New Islamabad airport, ARY News reported on Wednesday. As per details, passenger named Muhammad Nadeem was trying to travel through TK-711 flight, but he was offloaded by the FIA immigration team over Italy’s fake residence permit. The passenger was handed over to Anti-Human Trafficking Cell of the FIA for further inquiry. Read more: Two caught trying to travel with fake passports to Canada from Lahore In the month of January, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had deported Afghan national for travelling on a fake passport from Germany to Pakistan. According to the FIA, Afghan national named Abdullah Jan’s passport was found fake during checking at the FIA immigration counter after he had landed at the Islamabad airport from Germany. Abdullah Jan was deported by the FIA officials, wh...

Rivals take aim at Sanders’ electability at South Carolina Democratic debate

February 25, 2020

CHARLESTON, S.C: Surging front-runner Bernie Sanders came under withering fire in a Democratic debate in South Carolina on Tuesday, as rivals criticized the high cost of his ambitious economic agenda and warned he would cost the party the White House and control of Congress. In a contentious debate that featured candidates repeatedly shouting over one another in a bid for attention, Sanders’ opponents united in attacking the independent senator and self-avowed democratic socialist as a risky choice to lead the party against Republican President Donald Trump in November. “Bernie will lose to Donald Trump, and Donald Trump and the House and the Senate and some of the statehouses will all go red and then between gerrymandering and appointing judges, for the next 20 or 30 years we are going to live with this catastrophe,” billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. Pete Buttigieg, the moderate former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, criticized Sanders for the shifting estima...

South Korea reports 169 new coronavirus cases, including first US soldier

February 25, 2020

SEOUL: South Korea reported 169 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, including a U.S. soldier, as health authorities readied an ambitious plan to test more than 200,000 members of a church hit hardest by the country’s outbreak. The new cases pushed the total tally to 1,146, with the numbers expected to rise as the government widens its testing. Of the new cases, 134 were from Daegu city, where a branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, which has been linked to outbreaks, is located, the Korea Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (KCDC) said. The U.S. military reported its first case of the coronavirus on Wednesday, in a 23-year-old soldier based in Camp Carroll, about 20 km (12.4 miles) from Daegu. The camp is also near a disability centre that has had its own outbreak of the virus. A twelfth death from the virus was reported on Wednesday, according to the Joongang Ilbo newspaper. Around 80 percent of the country’s cases – including at the disability centre – are linked ...

Tanker filled with 15,000 litres of oil overturns in Karachi

February 25, 2020

KARACHI: An oil tanker loaded with 15,000 litres of oil, overturned due to over-speeding at the National Highway in Gulshan-e-Hadeed area of Karachi, spilling the oil on the road, ARY News reported on Wednesday. Getting the information of the incident, police, fire brigade and rescue teams reached the spot and blocked one track of the National Highway to avoid any untoward incident while the other track remained open for the traffic. With the help of heavy machinery the oil tanker was removed from the scene and the oil was also transferred into other tanker, said the traffic police. The affected track will be opened for the traffic soon after clearing the oil that spilled on the road. According to rescue sources, no casualty was reported in the accident . Read more: Two minors crushed to death by a speeding oil tanker in Karachi Earlier this month, an oil tanker carrying 60,000 litres of diesel had overturned at the National Highway near Ghala Mandi Road, Kandhkot. Followi...