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Back to Square One!<\/span><\/b> Peace is Still Elusive<\/span><\/b> Nature’s Wrath or Sheer Ineptness?<\/span><\/b> Better Late Than Never!<\/span><\/b> A Wake-up Call<\/span><\/b> It’s A Big No!<\/span><\/b> Historic Yet Insignificant <\/span><\/b> Imposed Reconciliation<\/span><\/b> A Never-ending War <\/span><\/b> Back to Square One, Peace is Still Elusive, Spilling the Beans?, Nature’s Wrath or Sheer Ineptness?, Better Late Than Never!, A Wake-up Call, It’s A Big No!, Historic Yet Insignificant, Imposed Reconciliation, A Never-ending War, Back to Square One! On Aug 18, New Delhi called off the Aug 25 meeting of foreign secretaries of the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131,7607],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOn Aug 18, New Delhi called off the Aug 25 meeting of foreign secretaries of the two countries because of Pakistani high commissioner’s consultative session with a Hurriyat leader.<\/p>\n
\nOn Aug 26, Israel and the Palestinians agreed to an Egyptian-brokered plan to end the fighting in Gaza after 50 days of combat in which more than 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians, 64 Israeli soldiers and five civilians in Israel were killed.
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\nOn Sep 01, the President of PTI, Makhdoom Hashmi, alleged Imran Khan of going against the core committee decision to not to march on the PM House. He said that the country has been brought to the verge of martial law.<\/p>\n
\nOn Sep 07, hundreds of thousands of people were marooned, their houses submerged and livestock washed away as the river Chenab in ‘super flood’ hit 600 villages in Gujranwala and Sialkot regions.<\/p>\n
\nOn Sep 13, Maulana Asmatullah Muawiya, head of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Punjab, said that his group had decided to abandon its armed struggle in Pakistan and instead would focus on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153peaceful struggle\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for the implementation of Shariah.<\/p>\n
\nOn Sep 16, two late-arriving politicians \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Senator Rehman Malik and an MNA Dr Ramesh Vankwani \u00e2\u20ac\u201d were forced to get off a PIA aircraft by angry passengers because they had caused a long flight delay.<\/p>\n
\nOn Sep 18, the people of Scotland voted in a referendum crucial for the existence of the United Kingdom. The Scots gave a big NO \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 55.3 percent against 44.7 percent for YES \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and gave their verdict to stay in the UK.<\/p>\n
\nOn Sep 19, the longest joint session of the parliament \u00e2\u20ac\u201d began on 2nd September \u00e2\u20ac\u201d was prorogued. The parliamentary resolution reiterated its ‘unequivocal, unwavering and unqualified resolve’ to uphold the supremacy of the Constitution, the democratic system, sanctity of state institutions, the rule of law and the sovereignty of parliament.<\/p>\n
\nOn Sep 21, Afghanistan’s presidential rivals, Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, signed a power-sharing deal according to which the former will be the President of Afghanistan whereas the latter will nominate his choice for the new post of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chief executive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n
\nOn Sep 23, the US military began airstrikes against ISIS in Syria. Fighters, bombers and Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles are being used in the attack. The airstrikes focused on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"