The Lahore High Court dismissed Muhammad Rizwan's petition challenging notices from the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA). The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) awaits the NCCIA's forensic report on mobile phones seized from Rizwan and Imam-ul-Haq to decide on potential disciplinary action against the players.
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A strike in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) over unfulfilled demands turned violent, resulting in one death and multiple injuries. Mobile and internet services have been suspended in the region.
India has stopped releasing water from the Baglihar Dam on the Chenab River and is planning similar measures at the Kishanganga Dam on the Jhelum River, following a recent terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir. These hydroelectric dams offer India the ability to regulate water releases. This decision potentially affects the Indus Waters Treaty, a decades-old agreement between India and Pakistan governing the use of the Indus River and its tributaries. The Baglihar and Kishanganga dams have been points of contention between the two nations in the past.
Army spokesman Lt Gen Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry in a media interaction said at least 26 people were killed and 46 injured in the missile strikes on cities in Punjab and PoK. "The six locations that India attacked last night... Pakistan lost 26 people and 46 were injured," he said.
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Pakistan has been opposing the construction of the Kishanganga hydropower project on Ganga river in Kashmir, which is called Neelum upon entering Pakistan. Pakistan has said that the diversion of the waters of the Neelum is not allowed under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, and that it will face a 27 per cent water deficit when the project gets completed.
Indian authorities have told Pakistan -- during a recent visit to the site of the Kishanganga Dam which is being built on Neelum Jhelum River -- that it has stopped work on the project and will not violate the stay order granted by an international court, officials have said.
A moderate earthquake rattled Jammu and Kashmir early on Friday morning. So far authorities say there has been no report of any loss of life and property.
Putting a stamp on India's stand that several terror training camps in Pakistan occupied Kashmir along the Line of Control continue to operate, local PoK political leaders and residents have said that extremists are 'regrouping' in the region and trying to cross over.Arif Shahid, secretary general of the All Parties National Alliance, told the BBC that Jihadi activities have recommenced on the Pakistani side of the LoC.
"I can never let down the Kashmiris, (I) can never forget Kashmir. A solution for Kashmir is closest to my heart and I will take it forward towards a resolution," he said.
The field intelligence units of the Army coupled with inputs comprising HUMINT (human intelligence) and TECHINT (technical intelligence) indicate that around 300 terrorists, mainly of the banned Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT), are waiting across the border to sneak in, officials said, citing reports from Srinagar collated in the national capital.
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Notwithstanding India's objections to China-assisted developmental projects in PoK, Pakistan asserted it will go ahead with its plans there, including the multi-billion dollar Sino-Pak economic corridor.
PoK residents exposed Pakistan, confirmed that terror camps are thriving in the region.
The 40-year-old Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan has been an outstanding example of conflict resolution but scarcity of water in the basin states since the early 1990s has brought the agreement under strain and its "survival appears weak", according to a UN report.
The reasons for China's negative response are located in its territorial dispute with India but also to its grand designs of dominating the region from its previous position of being merely a "balancer" between India and Pakistan, points out Srikanth Kondapalli, Professor in Chinese Studies at JNU.
The sources said that the terrorists were not expecting an action by the Indian Army and therefore were taken by surprise.
After frequent incursions in Ladakh area, Chinese People's Liberation Army troops have been spotted at forward posts along the Line of Control on the Pakistani side of Kashmir, ringing alarm bells in the security grid.
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