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22:50 At least 90 killed in Syria after ceasefire plan announced

At least 90 people were killed in airstrikes that rained down on northwestern Syria on Saturday and Sunday, a rights group said. The surge in violence came just hours after the US and Russia announced a new ceasefire plan.

The airstrikes landed in the rebel-held areas of Idlib in the northwest and Aleppo in the north of the country, according to the monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The worst strikes were in Idlib, where at least 61 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in an attack that targeted a market, an activist who witnessed the bombing and its aftermath told CNN.

The activist, who asked to be identified as Omar for security reasons, said he was in Idlib to cover the atmosphere a day ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday. Omar took a detour to the city since the roads near the markets were closed as a security precaution, and that probably saved his life, he said.

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French authorities have charged a woman in relation to an alleged ISIS plot to attack this city's famous Notre Dame Cathedral last week, the Paris prosecutor's office said.

The woman, whose name was given as Ornella G., was charged Saturday night with "terrorist criminal association to commit crimes against people" and "attempted assassinations as an organised gang in connection with a terrorist enterprise," the office said.

The prosecutor, Francois Molins, whose office handles terrorism investigations, said Friday that the woman's fingerprints were found last Sunday in a car containing a half-dozen gas cylinders and left parked in front of Notre Dame, in the heart of Paris.

Five of the cylinders were reportedly full. No detonator or firing device was found.

Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton today left the 9/11 commemoration ceremony here abruptly after feeling unwell.

"During the ceremony she felt overheated and departed to go to her daughter's apartment" in the city's posh Flatiron neighbourhood, the Clinton campaign said adding that she is feeling "fine now."

Clinton, 68, and Republican rival Donald Trump separately had visited the memorial site, but they did not address the event.

In December 2013, the former secretary of state had to be rushed to New York's Presbyterian Hospital after a medical scare following a fainting spell and concussion.

President Barack Obama is joining the nation in remembering the nearly 3,000 people who died in the Sept. 11 attacks 15 years ago.

The White House says Obama observed the somber anniversary with a moment of silence in the Oval Office at 8:46 a.m. EDT. That's the time when the attacks began on that sunny day in 2001 when a hijacked airplane slammed into the north tower of New York City's World Trade Center.

Afterward, Obama arrived at the Pentagon, where he laid a large wreath at the beginning of a memorial service.

The American flag is flying at half-staff atop the White House and other federal buildings. Obama has invited governors, interested organizations and individuals to follow suit.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in New York, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon when al-Qaida terrorists crashed the airplanes in those locations.

U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden nearly a decade later during a May 2011 raid that Obama authorized on his Pakistani hideout.

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To woo farmers ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal addressed a rally at Bagah Purana area in Moga and released a 31-point farmers' manifesto today. Kejriwal meet local leaders before the rally.

AAP's manifesto committee chief Kanwar Sandhu had told reporters in Chandigarh on Wednesday that the manifesto would cover all issues affecting the Punjab farmers as the party was committed to zero-farmer suicide.

19:04 Armed men occupy Sikh temple in the UK

A group of 20-30 men, believed to be carrying "bladed weapons", occupied a Sikh temple in the UK today, apparently opposing a mixed marriage between a Sikh and a non-Sikh.

Warwickshire Police said about 20 or 30 men entered the Gurudwara Sahib in Leamington Spa, earlier this morning and occupied the Sikh temple.

Jatinder Singh Birdi, a former treasurer at the temple, said a marriage between a Sikh and non-Sikh couple was due to take place at the Gurudwara, the BBC reported.

Police officers are currently inside the temple on Tachbrook Drive negotiating with the group, it said. A force spokesman said the occupation by the men was being treated as "an aggravated trespass" from "the escalation of a local dispute" and was not a terror incident.

Police have cordoned off the area while officers and religious leaders try to end the stand-off.

Birdi said mixed marriages has been a contentious issue in the local Sikh community, with a minority opposing using the temple for such services.

18:47 AAP MLA Somnath Bharti booked

In fresh trouble, AAP MLA Somnath Bharti has been booked for allegedly inciting a crowd to damage AIIMS' fence and misbehaving with the hospital's security personnel but the former Delhi Minister has denied

the charges.

The chief security officer of AIIMS gave a written complaint on September 9 stating that "Bharti provoked the mob to damage the fence of the hospital with JCB at Gautam Nagar Nallah road in order to give access to unauthorised persons inside AIIMS property and also misbehaved with security personnel" At around 9.45 AM, said a senior police officer

today.

The medical examination of six security personnel was done and a case under IPC sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of his public

functions), 353 (assault or use of criminal force to deter a public servant from discharge of his duty) and 3/4 Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act has been registered at Hauz Khas police station, added the officer.

The death toll in the fire tragedy at a Bangladeshi factory that claimed at least 25 lives may go up with authorities today listing 11 people missing in the latest industrial accident to hit the country.

The fire yesterday broke out following a powerful boiler explosion at the four-storey Tempako Packaging Factory in Tongi industrial area, north of the capital Dhaka.

Eleven people still remained missing based on information from their relatives, said Fatema-Tuz-Zohra, an official of the control room that the Gazipur administration has opened.

About 100 people were inside the food and cigarette packaging unit when the explosion occurred and the fire spread quickly because of flammable chemicals stored in the building.

More than 24 hours after the tragedy, several relatives of the people missing in the accident gathered in front of the unit part of which was reduced to ashes yesterday.

18:17 'Keith not a bad person,' says wife

Keith Vaz's wife today came out in his defence saying though she felt "betrayed" she would forgive him as he was "not a bad person" after UK's longest-serving Indian-origin MP was embroiled in a sex scandal

involving male prostitutes.

Maria Fernandez said she felt "betrayed" after the 'Sunday Mirror' claimed in a report that the 59-year-old Vaz paid for two male prostitutes and made references to drugs, but has decided to give him a second chance.

"The shock was also the whole scenario of allegedly using sex workers because it is so unlike him," the 'Sun on Sunday' quoted her as saying.

The 57-year-old former barrister, who has two children with Vaz, said: "Keith is not a bad person."

Her comments came as it emerged that local police in the influential Labour MP's Leicester constituency had beenlooking into claims of misconduct.

According to a 'Sunday Times' report, four witnesses, including a former lord mayor of Leicester, last week confirmed they had been interviewed by Leicestershire detectives.

Scotland Yard is facing allegations of racial discrimination including by a British-Indian woman officer who was called a "good little Hindu girl".

Legal firm Equal Justice this weekend disclosed details to 'The Sunday Times' of six new discrimination claims, involving race, sex and gender, being lodged against the Metropolitan police.

Lawrence Davies, head of Equal Justice, has allegedly provided details of six new anonymised claims to show the scale of the challenge in stopping discrimination within the force.

It is alleged in one case a British-Indian woman detective was described as a "good little Hindu girl" and another was told by male colleagues: "You need to grow a beard, shout more and be more masculine."

17:08 PM Modi remembers 9/11

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today remembered the "contrasting images" of 2001 terror attack in New York and Swami Vivekanada's historic speech in Chicago in 1893 in which he had talked about universal brotherhood and harmony.

"11th September...two contrasting images come to the mind. Today we pay tributes to all those who lost their lives in gruesome 9/11 attacks. On this day in 1893, Swami Vivekananda delivered his historic speech in Chicago & won many hearts & minds," Modi wrote in tweets.

He said Swami Vivekananda's speech in Chicago had "demonstrated the strength of India's rich culture & the power of universal brotherhood and harmony."

On this day in 2001, terrorists used planes as missiles to carry out attacks at the iconic Twin Towers of World Trade Center and three other places.

As Keralites gear up to celebrate Onam, RSS has triggered a controversy by questioning the legend behind the festival, arguing that it marks the celebration of birth of 'Vamana' (incarnation of Lord Vishnu) and not the homecoming of demon king Mahabali.

An article published in the Onam special edition of RSS mouthpiece 'Kesari' claimed there was no reference in any mythological scriptures which supports the popular and widely circulated legend that Vamana had sent Mahabali to the netherworld through deceit and the king visits the land annually to meet his subjects.

Countering the argument, senior CPI-M leader and state Health Minister K K Shylaja said Onam was celebrated by all irrespective of caste, creed and religion and the attempt of the RSS was to bring back the bygone "upper class hegemony".

It was also a part of RSS's agenda to "hijack the festival", the minister alleged.

Samsung Electronics is urging consumers worldwide to stop using Galaxy Note 7 smartphones immediately and exchange them as soon as possible, as more reports of the phones catching fire emerged even after the company's global recall.

The call from the South Korean company, the world's largest smartphone maker, comes after US authorities urged users to switch the Galaxy Note 7 off and not to use or charge it during a flight.

Several airlines around the world asked travellers not switch on the jumbo smartphone or put it in checked baggage, with some carriers banning the phone on flights.

In a statement posted yesterday on its website, Samsung asked users around the world to "immediately" return their existing Galaxy Note 7 and get a replacement.

Aam Aadmi Party has refused to accept the resignation of Waqf Board chief Amanatullah Khan.

The AAP MLA from Okhla had resigned from all posts on Saturday, saying that while he was trying to work, he and his family were being dragged into unnecessary controversies.

Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said: "We have checked the facts of a complaint against Khan, made by his brother in-law's ex-wife.

His brother in-law and his wife separated about four years back and Khan has had no contact with her. This seems to be a family dispute into which Khan's name is being dragged.

While we will not spare anyone if they are caught indulging in any wrongdoing, we will also stand by our people if we think they are being harassed. I have spoken to the CM and other senior party members about this and have decided to not accept his resignation," Sisodia said.

Ratcheting up pressure on Pakistan, Home Minister Rajnath Singh will visit Russia and the United States next week to highlight the issue of the neighbouring country sponsoring terrorism in India and discuss efforts to counter ISIS activities in the region.

Singh will visit Russia for five days beginning September 18 where he will have bilateral talks with Russian Minister for Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev and discuss issues related to Indo-Russia joint anti-terror cooperation.

They will also discuss cross border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and growing activities of ISIS in the country and its neighbourhood.

The home minister will travel to Washington on September 26 for a seven-day visit for the Indo-US Homeland Security Dialogue with his American counterpart Jeh Charles Johnson.

Singh will raise the issue of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism and activities of ISIS in India and other South Asian countries.

Hillary Clinton today expressed "regret" for calling half of Donald Trump's supporters "deplorable" people but promised to keep fighting "bigotry and racist rhetoric" by her Republican rival as the presidential campaign got shriller ahead of the D-day.

"Last night I was 'grossly generalistic,' and that's never a good idea. I regret saying 'half' -- that was wrong," Clinton said in a statement in which she also vowed to call out "bigotry" in Trump's campaign.

The 68-year-old Democratic presidential nominee had sparked an uproar on Friday when she described Trump's supporters at a fundraiser.

"To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," Clinton said. "Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it."

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit northwestern Tanzania, killing 11 people and leaving dozens injured, state media reported.

At least 192 people were injured when the quake struck near Nsunga town Saturday, according to Daily News Tanzania.

It hit near the shore of Lake Victoria, the US Geological Survey said. The tremors rippled as far as western Kenya and parts of Uganda, both of which share the waters of Lake Victoria.

A considerable number of Kashmiri youths, especially from South Kashmir, have been missing and are believed to have joined the ranks of militant groups after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani in July this year.

A conglomerate of four districts -- Pulwama, Kulgam, Shopian and Anantnag, which has seen an uprising since Wani was killed in an encounter with security forces on July 8, is believed to have accounted for the disappearance of nearly 80 youths in past two months with majority from Pulwama district, sources in the know said.

According to the intercepts of militants groups and some sketchy intelligence inputs gathered from the ground in South Kashmir, youths were mainly moving towards Hizbul Mujahideen militant group with a few attracted to banned Lashker-e-Taiba, they said.

North Korea demanded today that the United States recognise it as a "legitimate nuclear weapons state" following its fifth and largest atomic test.

"(President Barack) Obama is trying hard to deny the DPRK's (North Korea's) strategic position as a legitimate nuclear weapons state but it is as foolish an act as trying to eclipse the sun with a palm," said a foreign ministry spokesman quoted by the official KNCA news agency.

13:48 Subramanian Swamy awarded 'Tamil Ratna' in US

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has been honoured with 'Tamil Ratna' award by a body of Tamil diaspora here for fighting corruption and working for more transparency in the functioning of the government.

The America Tamil Sangam awarded the 'Tamil Ratna' to the senior BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP, who is currently on a visit to the US.

The Sangam's president Prakash Swamy highlighted the BJP leader's contribution to fighting corruption and working for more transparency and accountability in the functioning of the government, a statement issued by the organisation said here yesterday.

13:27 'ISIS inspired' youth stabs man in Austarlia

A 22-year-old youth "inspired by" the Islamic state group allegedly stabbed a man multiple times while he was walking through a park in southwest Sydney with Austarlian police calling the attack as "new face of

terrorism".

The attacker, named in local media as Ihsas Khan, was today charged with committing a terrorist attack and attempted murder after the alleged attack on a 59-year-old man in the suburb of Minto yesterday.

The victim, known as Wayne, was allegedly stabbed while walking through a reserve, suffering serious injuries to his hands and body.

Witnesses heard the accused man shouting in Arabic during and after the attack. The victim managed to run to a nearby home to seek help.

A Sikh subway driver who saved countless lives by reversing a train headed for ground zero on 9/11 and a decorated Sikh-American army veteran are among the several men and women from the community profiled in an art exhibition to showcase their perseverance in the face of

backlash against them after the terror attack.

As the US commemorates the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks today, the photography exhibition 'Sikh Project' will run from September 17-25 here to highlight the aesthetic of the Sikh articles of faith, including the turban and beard.

The exhibition is a collaboration between civil rights group 'The Sikh Coalition' and acclaimed British photographers Amit and Naroop.

Featuring nearly 40 powerful portraits of Sikh-Americans of various ages, the exhibition will tell the story of the triumphs and perseverance of the community that has overcome great challenges in the 15 years since the attacks in 2001.

12:38 Transgender in Pakistan shot at

A transgender in Pakistan was shot and injured allegedly by a man over a monetary dispute in this city, the sixth case of violence against the community members in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province this year.

The transgender, Deedar, was attacked yesterday when she visited the house of her alleged attacker, Shahid, to take back her money which was loaned to him, police said.

She alleged that she had lent Shahid over Rs 100,000 two months ago, which he had promised to return in a month, but later he refused to return the loan, the Dawn reported.

"When I went to his home for my money, Shahid not only misbehaved but also dragged me out and shot at me," Deedar was quoted as saying by the Dawn News.

The injured transgender was shifted to Khyber Teaching Hospital.

"She was shot in the arm, we provided initial treatment in the emergency department and later shifted her to the surgical ward," said a senior doctor at the emergency department of KTH.

A large crowd of transgenders gathered at the hospital following the incident.

12:12 Last pieces of 9/11 rubble reach memorials

For six years, Amy Passiak oversaw the distribution of hundreds of objects from the World Trade Center in New York, a task she finished days before the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

There was only a knot of people on July 27, in a corner of the cargo area at New York's Kennedy airport, to help with the end of the adventure.

The last pieces from the Twin Towers still stored in Hangar 17, which had been exposed to the view of thousands, left under Passiak's watchful eye.

For six years, she coordinated the distribution of almost 2,800 pieces under the control of the site's owner, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Among them, there was no individual, personal object: a damaged police car, sunglasses sold at one of the stores in the building, but mostly massive objects, fragments of the destroyed skyscrapers in lower Manhattan.

4 militants were killed as Army today foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in Naugam sector of Kashmir.

"Alert soldiers posted along the Line of Control in Naugam sector noticed some suspicious movement and challenged the intruders," an army official said.

The militants opened fire at positions of security forces which was "effectively retaliated", triggering a gun battle, he said.

"Four militants have been killed and war-like store recovered from the scene of the gun battle," the official said, adding that the operation was still in progress.

The SWAT team was just finishing up an "active-shooter" training exercise when they got the call that a real-life massacre was taking place at a San Bernardino County government building.

The team arrived in nine minutes, but too late to make the initial entry.

A San Bernardino detective, a patrol officer, a motorcycle officer, and a staff lieutenant on his lunch break had already entered the building with only handguns to rescue people they believed were still under threat by shooters armed with AR-15 assault rifles on December 2, 2015.

The non-tactical team moved in a "diamond formation" they had learned during active-shooter training; they went through the door, uncertain of what waited, after one uttered, "Okay, it is time to go."

"I felt so naked, because we didn't have cover and concealment approaching the building," the patrol officer told debriefers who studied the police response.

"You know you are outgunned; it is going to be hard to beat an AR with a handgun, so I knew we needed good shot placement."

The remarks were part of the 141-page review of the police response to the shootings, which left 14 people dead and 22 wounded.

Karnataka has moved the Supreme Court for urgent hearing on its plea seeking a direction to restrict the quantum of water to be released from River Cauvery to Tamil Nadu, from 15,000 cusecs to 1,000 cusecs.

The application has also sought modification of the apex court's September 5 order in which it directed release of 15,000 cusecs of water for 10 days as an immediate relief to Tamil Nadu farmers.

Karnataka's decision to move the Supreme Court comes even as the Cauvery Supervisory Committee is meeting here tomorrow to decide on the quantum of the river's water to be released to Tamil Nadu and other states.

The application has sought that instead of 10 days, the apex court should restrict the flow of water only for six days as the state itself was facing distress situation in view of massive agitation and loss of Rs 500 crore per day.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi should have consulted the party's old guard before following strategist Prashant Kishor's electoral formula in Uttar Pradesh.

He would have learnt that the last time his father Rajiv Gandhi -- erstwhile party supremo and former prime minister -- flirted with soft Hindutva, the strategy brought disastrous electoral results for the Congress.

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On Sunday, the day of the Aam Aadmi Party's rally at Baghapurana in Moga where party chief Arvind Kejriwal is to release a poll manifesto for farmers, district authorities in neighbouring Muktsar have called for all school buses to be off roads.

The move was decried by AAP leaders, including Kejriwal, who saw in it a ploy to reduce the number of transport vehicles available to ferry people to the rally.

In a tweet, Arvind Kejriwal said the Badal family which governs Punjab is "scared".

The Aam Aadmi Party will debut in Punjab elections next year and its brand is seen as high-value, largely because of the time and effort expended by Kejriwal in frequent visits to the state, where he won a surprise four seats in the last general election.

Kabul has threatened to shut the Afghan transit route for Pakistani exports to Central Asia if Islamabad does not allow Afghan traders to use Lahore's Wagah border for trade with India.

"If Pakistan does not allow Afghan traders to use the Wagah border for imports and exports of their goods, Afghanistan will also not allow Pakistan to use Afghan transit routes to reach Central Asia and other countries for exports,' President Ashraf Ghani said in a meeting with UK's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Owen Jenkins in Kabul.

The remarks came amid tension between the two uneasy neighbours over several issues and particularly in the backdrop of Pakistans decision to introduce a new mechanism at its Torkham border that requires every Afghan to carry passport and visa for crossing the border.

10:28

JUST IN: Clash between security forces and protesters in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, 12 people injured

09:55 Militant suspected in Bangladesh cafe attack killed himself: Police

A suspected militant believed by Bangladesh police to have been among the planners of a July cafe attack that killed 22 people killed himself during a police raid on a hideout in the capital, police said on Sunday.

National police chief Shahidul Hoque said the dead man, identified as Abdul Karim, was suspected to be one of the planners of the cafe attack, and to have rented a flat for the militants who carried it out.

"He killed himself inside the flat so that we can't collect information from him through interrogation," another official, Sanwar Hossain, told reporters on Sunday, without elaborating.

Police, who had earlier said they shot the man during Saturday's raid on the hideout, gave no reason for the change.

Three women who were wounded and arrested in the raid also tried to kill themselves, Hossain added.

09:42 Kashmir to witness protests on Eid

Kashmir separatists have for the first time in two-and-a-half decades called for protests during the three-day Eid festival beginning Tuesday, prompting the Mehbooba Mufti government to brace for a showdown.

The government has started working on contingency plans to impose "curfew-like" restrictions in parts of the Valley and disallow big gatherings following fears of a flare-up on Tuesday, official sources said.

Such measures were not taken even during the three waves of the summer agitation from 2008 to 2010 in the Valley. If the separatists indeed enforce the shutdown, this will be the first time since the inception of armed insurgency in 1989 that there will be a hartal on Eid.

Greta Friedman, the woman kissed by a sailor in the iconic picture taken in Times Square on V-J Day in 1945, has died, according to her son Joshua Friedman.

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08:41

JUST IN: One police personnel killed in an ongoing encounter between security forces and terrorists in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.

08:40 Sushma Swaraj helps Pakistani Hindu girl get admission into school

The story of 16-year-old Pakistani girl Madhu who is struggling to get an admission in school caught the attention of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj so much so that she reached out to her via Twitter and also vowed to secure her admission in a Delhi college.

Madhu had come to India with her family two years ago after fleeing religious persecution in Pakistans Punjab. All her necessary documents, such as the school leaving certificate, were, however, left behind.

Consequently, when her family approached the government school in her neighbourhood for her admission in Class IX, they were turned down.

When we went to the school, they told us she was overage. Then they asked for a transfer certificate, but we had left the same in Pakistan. The school then asked for her Aadhaar card. When we got that made, they asked for other documents, says Jevar, Madhus uncle. Advocate and activist Ashok Agarwal had also written to Kejriwal seeking intervention in the matter.

When the external minister read of the girls plight, she invited the girl and her family to her residence and also tweeted Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to secure her admission.

To reduce the travel time between Delhi and Mumbai to less than 12 hours, the final trial run of Delhi-Mumbai Talgo train at 150 km per hour speed was conducted on Saturday which reached Mumbai in the wee hours on Sunday.

Spanish Talgo train aims to reduce travel time between Delhi-Mumbai by four hours.

Currently, the super-fast Rajdhani Express train takes around 16 hours between New Delhi and Mumbai.

Railways had conducted the first trial run of Talgo trains on the Bareilly-Moradabad stretch in Uttar Pradesh followed by the second trial run was conducted on the Palwal-Mathura section of the North-Central Railway.

Handwritten notes providing the only complete verbatim record of how George W Bush reacted as he received the news of the 9/11 attacks have been made public for the first time.

To mark the 15th anniversary of the attacks, Bushs former press secretary Ari Fleischer has released the six pages of notes that he made as Bush and those around him reacted to the unfolding terrorist atrocity.

They reveal that amid the confusion, Bushs immediate reaction was to seek revenge against the terrorists.

Telephoning his Vice President Dick Cheney from Air Force One, he said: Were going to get the b******s. Were at war.

After hanging up the phone, Bush turned to his aides and said: "When we find out who did this, they're not going to like me as president. Somebody's going to pay."

Pakistan government has come under fire from the Opposition which accused it of hiding the details of the probe into Pakistani nationals' involvement in the Pathankot terror attack, prompting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to announce that the findings would be made public.

Pakistan Peoples Party senator Farhatullah Babar during a session of Senate, upper house of parliament, lambasted the Sharif government over its failure to respond to his query about details of the January 2 attack on the Indian airbase.

The Express Tribune reported that the senator accused the government of misleading the Senate by deliberately concealing information from them and went to the extent of alleging that the government was patronising militants.

He said government had failed to respond to question asked four months ago.

'Has the Indian government provided any facts/information to the Pakistani government? And what is the latter doing in this regard?' he had asked.

The queries, however, went unanswered.

This prompted Prime Minister Sharif to announce that the findings of the probe would be made public.

00:07 Top headlines at this hour

Obama urges unity on eve of 9/11 anniversary

Kapil explains remarks as BMC cites more violations by him

DRDO seeks info on 'graft' in 2008 Embraer deal

'Tired of giving justifications', AAP MLA quits all posts

In UP, Rahul takes potshots at Akhilesh, PM's foreign tours

AirAsia, Emirates ban use of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on their flights

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