Ex-wife mocks Imran Khan over Kashmir, says Qureshi waiting to take over

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September 2, 2019

Islamabad, Sept 2: Reham Khan, the former wife of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, has taken pot shots at the PM over his call for observing 'Kashmir Hour', and said that Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi is waiting in the wings to take over when the PM's chair is toppled.

In a video that has gone viral, Reham, who had earlier criticised Imran for lack of decisiveness, said that on Friday when Pakistan observed Kashmir Hour for half an hour "some were forcibly made to observe it, and some did it willingly for the sake of Kashmir".

"But now voices are coming from India -- what is Jammu and Kashmir, let's go for PoK, (Pakistan occupied Kashmir).

"They (India) are tweeting, and at the official level they are saying PoK. They are saying Pakistan has been able to do nothing (on Kashmir). All they could do is stand for half an hour for Kashmir, now let's go for PoK.

"Now the question arises, if for J&K they (Pakistan) can stand for half an hour... then it occurred to me what can they do if India goes for PoK? Yes, 'ghanta', they can do 'ghanta'", she said with a smile, punning on the meaning of 'ghanta', which means an hour, and also means do nothing.

"I gave an interview to some Indian channels, and one of them chopped my interview so brutally, like a butcher," said Reham.

"I was speaking as a human rights activist. And Indian journalists were telling me that war mongering is going on, war mongering is going on'. I asked who is doing the war mongering?' Because here (in Pakistan) people are hiding, so who is doing the warmongering?

They said Imran Khan has said he will go to any extent'. So what extent does he (Imran) mean? Maybe he means the extent of LoC, behind the LoC?," she said mockingly.

"And you know Shah Mahmood Qureshi, our PM waiting in the wings. There is talk of the toppling of the chair (of PM). Qureshi said, talk of war does not arise!"

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August 3,2020

Manila, Aug 2: The number of COVID-19 cases in the Philippines has exceeded the 100,000 marks with a record 5,032 new infections registered on Sunday, the Health Ministry's data showed.

With the total cases now reaching 103,185, the spread of COVID-19 in the Southeast Asian nation is steeply rising. The daily growth rate just this Thursday set a record at over 3,800 cases, the next day there were nearly 4,000 new infections detected and on Saturday, over 4,800 cases were detected.

More than 65,000 people have recovered from the ailment, while 2,059 people have died.

The Philippines' epidemiological dynamic mirrors that of many Southeast Asian nations, where COVID-19 infections have only recently begun to climb. 

Most other nations in Europe and the Americas experienced an initial spread of the virus which later tailed off only to begin climbing again after easing of restrictions.

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June 24,2020

Washington, Jun 24: Twitter has once again flagged a tweet from US President Donald Trump which promoted violence by saying if protesters tried to set up an "autonomous zone" in Washington, DC they would be met with "serious force".

This is the fourth time Twitter has red flagged Trump's tweet for glorifying violence or violating its policies.

Trump has been critical of the "autonomous zone" in Seattle, an area occupied by protestors for much of this month.

"We've placed a public interest notice on this Tweet for violating our policy against abusive behaviour, specifically, the presence of a threat of harm against an identifiable group," Twitter's safety team tweeted late Tuesday.

Trump had tweeted: "There will never be an ‘Autonomous Zone' in Washington, D.C., as long as I'm your President. If they try they will be met with serious force!"

Twitter earlier labeled a video tweeted by him which mocked CNN as manipulated media.

According to Twitter, "this Tweet has been labeled per our synthetic and manipulated media policy to give people more context".

In May, Twitter labeled two Trump tweets that made false claims about mail-in ballots in California.

Twitter later labeled another Trump tweet glorifying violence in which he said, "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."

Facebook also removed a Trump campaign ad featuring a symbol used by Nazis for political dissenters, saying the ad violated its policies.

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June 17,2020

New Delhi, Jun 17: With an increase of 10,974 new cases and 2,003 deaths in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count reached 3,54,065 on Wednesday while the toll due to the virus stands at 11,903.

This includes 1,55,227 active cases and 1,86,935 cured, discharged and migrated patients, according to the Union Health Ministry.

While the spike in the number of cases has stayed below the 11-thousand mark, the death toll has increased manifold today as compared to the 380 death reported on Tuesday.

Maharashtra with 1,13,445 cases continues to be the worst-affected state in the country with 50,057 active cases while 57,851 patients have been cured and discharged in the state so far. The toll due to COVID-19 has crossed the five thousand mark and reached 5,537 in the state.

It is followed by Tamil Nadu with 48,019 and the national capital with 44,688 confirmed cases.

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