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India: 15,000 paramilitary personnel deployed in Punjab, Haryana; mobile internet to be suspended

Tribune News Service New Delhi/Chandigarh, August 24http://tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/15-000-paramilitary-personnel-deployed-in-punjab-haryana-mobile-internet-to-be-suspended/456852.html More than 15,000 paramilitary personnel have been deployed in Punjab and Haryana ahead of Friday’s Dera verdict by a Panchkula court, a Union Home Ministry official said on Thursday. Meanwhile, mobile Internet and data services across Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh will be suspended for […]

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To devise reply to Trump’s accusations

Source: Dawn A meeting of high-level military and political leadership is currently underway at the PM House under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.Members of the national security meeting gathered on Thursday with the agenda to come up with a combined response to US President Donald Trump’s new […]

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Trump rhetoric versus Afghan reality

Source: BBC Of course Mr Trump inevitably tried to present this policy as a new departure. A conditions-based strategy means the US is involved for the long haul.Things are not going well for government forces. The Taliban hold almost half of the country and the Afghan military’s performance – other […]

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Psalm 23 – A psalm of David: A Message of Hope

A psalm of David. 1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. 2     He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3     he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths     for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk     through the darkest valley,a]”>[a] I will fear no evil, […]

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Women-only train carriages: Keeping women ‘safe’ by separating them from men is Handmaid’s Tale territory

CLAIRE COHEN 23 AUGUST 2017 •  http://tpc.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-10/html/container.html#eid=21060375 Acouple of years ago, I was ‘goosed’ on my way to work. A man stood behind me on the tube and firmly pressed his groin into my backside, leaving it there for an uncomfortably long time. I could feel his hot breath on […]

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Toronto Islamic High School shuts down

By NOOR JAVEDNews reporter Wed., Aug. 23, 2017, thestar.com With just two weeks before the school year begins, students at a private Islamic high school in Toronto are “devastated” and scrambling to find other options after they were informed over the weekend it was abruptly shutting down. Management of the Islamic […]