Hassan Saeed

Kurdish forces are massing in northwest Iraq for an offensive to retake the town of Sinjar from Islamic State militants who overran it more than a year ago, killing and enslaving thousands of its Yazidi residents and triggering US-led air strikes.

Lahore High Court judge Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan issued the order to ban the release of the film, starring Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif, in the theaters in Pakistan after hearing the arguments of Hafiz Saeed's counsel and the government law officer

A Pakistani court today banned the release of Bollywood movie "Phantom" in the country on a plea filed by JuD chief and Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed.

Iranian President Hassan Rowhani has tasked the foreign ministry with handling the country's sensitive nuclear talks, his website said on Thursday, in a possible signal of a less confrontational approach with world powers.

Iranians will go to polls on Friday to elect a new president among eight candidates who have been cleared by a vetting body.

Sources say new chief of police and army have been appointed. Brigadier Ahmed Shiyam, who was chief of the Male Command, has been made the new Chief of Maldivian National Defence Forces .

Kurdish forces are massing in northwest Iraq for an offensive to retake the town of Sinjar from Islamic State militants who overran it more than a year ago, killing and enslaving thousands of its Yazidi residents and triggering US-led air strikes.

Lahore High Court judge Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan issued the order to ban the release of the film, starring Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif, in the theaters in Pakistan after hearing the arguments of Hafiz Saeed's counsel and the government law officer

A Pakistani court today banned the release of Bollywood movie "Phantom" in the country on a plea filed by JuD chief and Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed.

Iranian President Hassan Rowhani has tasked the foreign ministry with handling the country's sensitive nuclear talks, his website said on Thursday, in a possible signal of a less confrontational approach with world powers.

Iranians will go to polls on Friday to elect a new president among eight candidates who have been cleared by a vetting body.

Sources say new chief of police and army have been appointed. Brigadier Ahmed Shiyam, who was chief of the Male Command, has been made the new Chief of Maldivian National Defence Forces .