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Pak Taliban extend ceasefire by 6 days
AFP, Miran shah
The Pakistani Taliban yesterday extended a ceasefire by six days to allow the government more time to meet their demands of releasing "non-combatant" prisoners and pulling back soldiers, the militia said in a statement. The government began negotiations with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) through intermediaries in February to try to end the Islamists' bloody seven-
Turkey PM slams court over Twitter ban lift
Afp, Ankara
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday criticised a Constitutional Court ruling that lifted his government's March 20 ban on Twitter. "We are of course bound by the Constitutional Court verdict, but I don't have to respect it," said the premier, a day after the USbased social media site went live again in Turkey.
CIA interrogation report to be released
AFP, Washington
The Senate Intelligence Comm ittee voted Thursday to release key parts of its classified report on the CIA's brutal interrogation program, with President Barack Obama urging the sharply critical findings quickly be made public. The report found that the CIA misled thegovemment and the public for years about parts of the program and overstated the significance of intelligence gleaned from detainees subjected to hard techniques at secret CIA-run "black sites" outside the US,
Russian court reduces Pussy Riot sentence
AFP, Moscow
A Russian court yesterday decided to partially grant the appeal in case of Pussy Riot punks, ruling that their 2012 cathedral stunt was not directed against a "social group" and shaving one month off their sentence. The three women, Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, were convicted in 2012 after staging a protest performance in a cathedral during Vladimir Putin's presiden-
Pakistan-Afghanistan border closed
IANS, Islamabad
The Pakistan—Afghanistan border was closed yeste4rday ahead of the Presidential and provincial council elections in Afghanistan, an official said. The border was closed to avert any unwanted incident on the eve of the Afghan