6 Sunday, August 13, 2017 Sharif’s wife to contest his seat Convoy of Sharif kills boy at rally Former PM and wife Begum Kulsoom Nawaz on arrival in China (file photo, source APP) Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s convoy passes during a rally in minister in Pakistan’s has largely stayed out of Lahore he wife of Pakistan’s 70-year history to be ousted politics. former prime minister before completing a full But when Gujranwala Wednesday as he makes his Lalamusa police station, said. NawazT Sharif will contest the term. arrested her husband in a coup he motorcade of way down the major road An investigation had been parliamentary seat left vacant Nomination papers for in October 1999, the former Pakistan’s former prime from capital Islamabad to launched, he said. after her husband was deposed Begum Kulsoom Nawaz were first lady led the movement ministerT hit and killed a his party’s stronghold in the Railways minister by the country’s top court last submitted in the eastern city for him to be freed before the 13-year-old boy who had eastern city of Lahore, weeks Khawaja Saad Rafique month, a party official said of Lahore by her son-in- family were exiled to Saudi come to a rally Friday at after he was deposed by the called the teenager “the first Friday. law, an official from Sharif’s Arabia. which Nawaz Sharif was Supreme Court. martyr of this movement The Supreme Court sacked eponymous Pakistan Muslim Within days of Sharif’s protesting his recent ouster, “A 13-year-old boy who for democracy” in an Sharif after an investigation League-Nawaz (PML-N) ouster the PML-N nominated officials said. had came to see the rally was address to the thousands- into corruption allegations said. former oil minister Shahid The ex-leader has been hit by a car in the convoy,” strong crowd in nearby against him and his family, Kulsoom, who has been Khaqan Abbasi as a new prime rallying crowds since Sajid Ali, head of the local Gujrat. making him the 15th prime married to Sharif for 46 years, minister. (AFP) Hunter fells elephant that killed 15 in India

An elephant lies on the ground sur- ronded by locals after it was shot by Indian forest officers at Taljhari forest in the Sahibgunj district of Jharkhand state

New Delhi forcing him to fire a second and wildlife conservator L.R. ndia’s top hunter told on time. Singh said the decision to Saturday how he felled “If we had been hit by his kill the elephant came after aI rogue elephant which had truck it could have been fatal. a week-long operation to try killed 15 people in a series of It was a dangerous operation,” to tranquilise and capture the attacks since March. Khan said of the hunt in animal. Nawab Shafat Ali Khan Sahibganj district of the eastern “It was quite a difficult told AFP he shot the elephant state of Jharkhand. operation because of the thick late Friday just hours after The marauding elephant, bushes and since the animal being called in by authorities. believed to have lost its way had turned rogue it charged at Saturday was World Elephant after becoming separated from us before I pulled the trigger,” Day. its herd, crushed four victims Khan said. Khan said he shot the in Bihar state in March before About 100 people including elephant at point-blank crossing into neighbouring forest officials and villagers range, but before the animal Jharkhand and killing 11 took part in the hunt, but Khan fell it tried to swing its more. said he was the only person trunk at the hunting party, Jharkhand’s chief forest authorised to shoot.