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No one seems to be happy with current Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s attempts to politicalize a formal letter that came in from the United States. The court squashed his party’s appeal to send Khan into a trust vote situation in the coming days. He apparently used the formal letter to prove that the American administration was trying to play diplomacy, poisoning and forcing people of opposition to oust him. Mr. Khan is known to have accused US Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu of being involved in the plot to overthrow his government. This only went on to suggest that Lu had warned Pakistan’s ambassador in Washington that there would be implications if Khan survived the no-confidence vote. The US has dismissed this claim. Sources in the diplomatic circles added that it will be difficult to manage foreign relations in the future if the image being projected is that the government could use diplomatic communications for political gains. Pakistan’s latest political crisis erupted las...

Four days after a major fire broke out at the South Africa’s parliament in Cape Town, Firefighters have handed over the responsibility to police. The fire has destroyed the main chamber, causing the roof of one building to collapse. A man was arrested in this case, suspected to be cause the fire. He has appeared in court under the charges for housebreak, theft, arson and contravention. As per the law the access to government buildings is restricted, where-as he has entered the building un-lawfully. Explosive devices were also found with him as per the Police. The suspected man is in custody now. His motive behind this is still not clear, as per Police Officials, it is too early to make any comment on the real motive, neither it is clear if it was an intentional attack on the seat of South Africa’s democracy. As of now, he is on Police custody till the bail hearing. No more arrests have been made so far in this case. The National Ass...