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  • Actress Felicity Huffman sentenced to 14 days in prison in US college scandal

    Actress Felicity Huffman, the first parent sentenced in a wide-ranging US college admissions cheating scandal, was given a 14-day prison term on Friday after pleading guilty to paying to rig her daughter's entrance exam...

    Prosecutors had recommended a sentence of one month behind bars after Huffman tearfully entered a guilty plea in May to conspiracy related to her payment of $15,000 to have someone secretly correct her daughter's...

  • College student abducted and gang-raped in India's Haryana state

    A college student was abducted and raped by three men in India's northern Haryana state while on her way home from a tuition class, the latest sexual attack to shock the country...

    Haryana, governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, is a largely rural and conservative state...

  • Nawaz says he will rid Pakistan of ‘state above state’

    LAHORE: As the Pakis­tan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) prepares to give a rousing welcome to ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz on their arrival in Lahore on Friday, the party supremo has pledged that he will liberate Pakistan from “those who are running a state above the state”...

    Speaking at a party conference in the ballroom of the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London’s Mayfair district, Nawaz Sharif...

  • State and non-state actors

    It is not just cross-border involvement but also the activities of banned outfits at home that raises questions about how much control the state really has within its own domain...

    Then there is also the question of whether or not we are really serious about getting rid of all violent non-state actors that have become a pervasive challenge to state authority...

  • RSS and BJP: Battling for India's 'soul', state by state

    An election in the volatile state of West Bengal has become a prime target in its game plan...

    Interviews with more than two dozen RSS and BJP officials and rare access to closed RSS meetings reveal a two-stage strategy — electoral victory at the national level, which has been achieved in the lower house of parliament, followed by similar success at the state level...

  • State of the state

    AWAY from television screens and crystal balls of analysts, there is a slow-moving change under way in Pakistan that may impact civil-military relations more than the person to be appointed as the next COAS...

    The lever between the two is the logic of the state itself, and it seems to be evolving...

  • Karachi incident vindicated Nawaz's 'state above the state' stance: Maryam

    PML-N vice-president Maryam Nawaz on Friday said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's stance that there was a "state above the state" in Pakistan has been proven true through the Karachi incident"...

    She was referring to her husband Mohammad Safdar's arrest in Karachi early Monday morning — just hours after the Pakistan Democratic Movement's (PDM) successful rally — which brought Sindh's law enforcement agency and security...

  • British agency's tip-off helped uncover Pakistan Super League scandal: ICC

    Britain's National Crime Agency provided the initial intelligence that helped uncover a major spot-fixing scandal in the Pakistan Super League (PSL), a leading official from world cricket's governing body said on Thursday...

    Sir Ronnie Flanagan, head of the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption and safety unit (ACSU) was speaking to reporters in Lahore after testifying in a case against opening batsman Sharjeel Khan, who has...

  • Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistan's redeemer from scandal to supremacy

    Misbah-ul-Haq defied critics and his advancing age to take Pakistan from the depths of a major spot-fixing scandal to the world's number one Test team, becoming their most successful captain along the way...

    The 42-year-old, who will retire at the end of the West Indies Test series starting Friday, completed Pakistan's climb to the top of the rankings with a hard-fought draw in England in 2016, exorcising the ghosts of the tainted...

  • Misbah — Pakistan’s redeemer from scandal to supremacy

    KARACHI: Misbah-ul-Haq defied critics and his advancing age to take Pakistan from the depths of a major spot-fixing scandal to the world’s number one Test team, becoming their most successful captain along the way...

    The 42-year-old, who will retire at the end of the West Indies Test series, completed Pakistan’s climb to the top of the rankings with a hard-fought draw in England in 2016, exorcising the ghosts of the tainted visit six...

  • Pakistan's bogus bomb-detectors in business despite global scandal

    But in an astonishing security threat, more than 15,000 of a new variant of the handheld device have been made in Pakistan to guard high-value facilities such as airports and government installations, despite officials conceding they are effectively useless...

    Pressed on whether Taliban and Al-Qaeda insurgents — who have been waging an insurgency that has that claimed more than 60,000 lives in Pakistan since 2004 — may by now be wise...

  • Child abuse scandal: Will Pakistan rise like India did?

    Child abuse is rampant in Pakistan, everyone secretly admits that it is a problem, but hardly ever openly...

    Explore: Pakistan’s Hidden Shame: Documentary reveals horrors of pedophilia in KPWill we come out onto the streets like people in Delhi did, like the people in Bangalore did, like the people in Kolkata did? Can Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi not muster similar courage?God knows we owe it to the abused and tortured, sons and...

  • Scandal-hit Australia vow 'hard but fair' series against Pakistan

    Skipper Tim Paine vowed Australia will play "hard but fair" against Pakistan as they embark on their first Test tour since a ball-tampering scandal and with fresh controversy raging following allegations by England's Moeen Ali...

    "Two reviews into the state of the game were set up in the aftermath of South Africa — one focusing on the culture within Cricket Australia and the other into the team...

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