ISLAMABAD: The Meteorological Department of Pakistan on Saturday predicted widespread rain-wind/thundershower (with scattered heavy falls) in Sindh, Balochistan, and South Punjab during the next 24 hours. Whereas isolated rain-wind/thundershower is likely in northeast Punjab, upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan during the next twelve hours. Temperature of some major cities recorded this morning: Islamabad twenty-three […]
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Indonesia election rivals toil in ‘war rooms’ to check ballots
In a low-rise Jakarta office block, young Indonesian supporters of President Joko Widodo sit hunched over screens to count photographed vote tallies from polling stations, two weeks after an election to lead the world’s third-biggest democracy. Opposing campaigns have set up their own operations, dubbed “war rooms”, to verify counts after Widodo’s challenger, Prabowo Subianto, […]