www.WeeklyVoice.com SOUTH ASIA Friday, September 14, 2018 | A-9 Suicide Bomber Kills 68 In Afghanistan KABUL: A suicide bomber det- province, said people from Achin onated his explosives-illed vest district had come to the Moman- among a group of people protest- dara district to block the main ing a local police commander in highway between the capital Ja- eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, lalabad and the Torkham border killing 68 and wounding about with . 165, a provincial oficial said. Stanikzai said locals had gath- Attahullah Khogyani, spokes- ered to complain about a local po- man for the provincial governor lice commander and the suicide said the all 68 people killed in bomber targeted them. It was un- the attack were innocent civilians clear whether the attacker knew gathered for a protest. A number the nature of the protest. of wounded people are in critical Taliban insurgents in a state- condition, he said. ment posted on their website “Around four hundred people denied any involvement in the gathered for the protest and the attack. Funeral Service Held For bomber detonated his vest full No any other group immedi- of explosive among the crowd,’’ ately claimed responsibility for said Capt. Qais Saii, an oficial at any of the attacks, but both Tali- Nangarhar province police head- ban insurgents and the Islamic Sharif’s Wife Kulsoom quarters. State group are active in eastern Gen. Ghulam Sanayee Stan- Afghanistan, especially in Nan- ISLAMABAD: Mourners have to be buried. holding ofice and later an anti- ikzai, police chief of Nangarhar garhar province. attended the funeral of the wife of In Pakistan, authorities have graft tribunal convicted him and former Pakistani prime minister temporarily freed Sharif, his his relatives. in London, where daughter and her husband from a Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Imran Removes Ahmadi she died at a hospital this week prison to allow them to attend last Khan, President Arif Alvi, army after months in critical condition. rituals of Nawaz. Sharif and his chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, Thursday’s funeral service of daughter and son-in-law are cur- and political leaders including Member From A Council Kulsoom Nawaz, 68, was held at rently serving 10, 7 and one-year political rival former president a mosque there. sentences respectively in a cor- Asif Zardari expressed their sor- ISLAMABAD: The govern- Angered by the move, Asim Her family plans to bring ruption case. row over Nawaz’s death and con- ment of Pakistan’s newly elected Ijaz Khawaja, a Sunni Muslim Nawaz’s body to Pakistan’s east- Pakistan’s Supreme Court last veyed their condolences to the prime minister removed a minori- economist who teaches at the ern city of , where she is year disqualiied Sharif from family. ty Ahmadi Muslim from a recent- Harvard Kennedy School, also ly established economic council quit the council. He said Khan’s because of opposition from hard- move saddened him. “Personally, line Islamists. as a Muslim I can’t justify this,’’ Shiite Festival Muharram In Critics say the move indicates he said about Mian’s removal. that Prime Minister Imran Khan Meanwhile, dozens of Islamists has bowed to religious igures rallied in the eastern city of La- opposed to the appointment of hore against Khan for appoint- Atif Mian to the Economic Ad- ing an Ahmadi as member of the visory Council because of his council. They urged Khan to re- faith. Khan set up the 18-member frain from such acts in the future. council recently to seek guidance The Ahmadi sect was founded for improving the country’s ailing by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in the economy. Indian subcontinent in the 19th The council included 11 econ- century. Ahmadis are a tiny mi- omists and seven government nority in Pakistan. Their homes oficials. A spokesman for theand places of worship are target- Ahmadi sect, Saleem-ud-Din, ed by Sunni militants who con- conirmed Mian’s removal, - saysider them heretics. Pakistan de- ing he will be available should clared Ahmadis non-Muslims in Khan’s government seek his ser- 1974. Several thousand Pakistani vices in the future as “we love our Ahmadis have led to Canada and country too much.’’ other countries.

US-India Statement Assailed Pakistani Shiite Muslim women on their way to attend a Muharram procession in Peshawar, ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has conveyed our position to the US Pakistan, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Muharram, the irst month of the Islamic calendar, is a month taken “strong exception to the un- side. Mentioning a ‘third coun- of mourning in remembrance of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mo- warranted reference” against it in try’ with accusations in a formal hammed. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad) the joint statement issued follow- document is inconsistent with es- ing the 2+2 India-US dialogue in tablished diplomatic norms. New Delhi. He added the trial of the Paki- The statement had called upon stanis said to be involved in the Punjab Labourer Hits Jackpot With A Loan Pakistan to ensure that its terri- 2008 Mumbai terror attack was CHANDIGARH: A labourer he found that his lottery number et holders including Manoj. tory was not used to launch terror ongoing in a court in Pakistan and in Punjab who borrowed money matched with the winning num- Director Lotteries of Punjab, attacks on other countries. “the judicial process shall take its to buy a Rs 200-lottery ticket ber of the Punjab State lotteries T.P.S. Phoolka assured him that Pakistani Foreign Ofice course”. Faisal asked the US to has hit a Rs 15 million (Rs 1.5 on August 29 for the Punjab State payment would be made at the spokesperson Muhammad Faisal also focus similarly on what he crore) jackpot. Manoj Kumar of Rakhi Bumper 2018. earliest.“I had borrowed money said: “Pakistan rejects the base- said was “Indian state terrorism” Mandvi village in Sangrur district The irst two prizes, Rs 1.5 to purchase the ticket. I had never less allegations. We have also in Jammu and Kashmir. could not believe his luck when crore each, have gone to two tick- imagined winning.” such a big

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