John Kerry says U.S. war on Iraq was serious mistake

BEIJING: US Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that the Iraq war was a serious mistake for which the sufferings continued even today, Geo News reported on Tuesday.

In an interview to Chinese news agency, US Secretary of State, John Kerry said he had termed this decision of former President George Bush going for war on Iraq a grave mistake.

Even today, the region's many problems are caused by the Iraq war, the U.S. is trying to address, citing example of President Obama’s pulling out the troops from Iraq, he said.

The statement of the US Secretary of State has come at a time when Iraq has already suffered an irreparable loss and the country is bleeding in a civil war.

Typing mistake causes discrepancy in vote count in NA-68: EC

ISLAMABAD: Additional Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Dr Sher Afgan said typing mistake in a polling station result did not have any impact on the election result of NA-68 Sargodha.

Talking to mediamen here, Afgan said 15 candidates contested in National Assembly constituency NA-68 in the last general election and the winning candidate Mohammad Nawaz Sharif secured 140,000 votes.

The seat was later vacated and by-election was held in which the voter turnout was comparatively low and this time the winning candidate got 68 000 votes, he added.

He said the Election Commission feels that the result issued by Returning Officer for polling station number 246 carried a numerical typing mistake which was later corrected.

He said the Election Commission only issued ballot papers according to number of voters at the polling station. 7000 ballot papers were not even issued for the polling station concerned, Afgan added.

Ban on Geo News will be a big mistake, says Fazl

LONDON: JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that ban on popular channel ‘Geo News’ would be a big mistake.

Talking to Geo News here, Maulana Fazlur Rehman said Geo News is popular among the masses and ban on it will be a big mistake.

Commenting on attack on Geo News anchorperson Hamid Mir, Maulana Fazl said judicial commission should be trusted in this regard.

Has Vidya Balan learnt from pregnant Aishwarya's mistake?

 

Speculation is rife in Bollywood that stork is visiting ace actress Vidya Balan and UTV CEO Siddharth Roy Kapur. 

The actress has been spotted visiting a hospital on several occasions recently. What added fuel to the pregnancy fire, was her decision to step out of Sujoy Ghosh's next venture, which is most likely going to be a thriller.

Although the lady in the spotlight has on several occasions vehemently denied being in the family way, her weight gain in recent times has not added 'weight' (pun intended) to her denials.

Now, whether or not Vidya reveals to her fans and the entire world about her impending pregnancy, the lady does deserve kudos for her professional conduct with her director (read: Sujoy Ghosh).

So, has Vidya learnt from Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's bad experience of hiding her pregnancy from her director (in Ash's case it was Madhur Bhandarkar who learnt from the social media about his leading actress' pregnancy). For the uninitiated, Aishwarya and Madhur had a bitter fall out over her untimely pregnancy announcement.

Vidya could well have learnt from Aishwarya-Madhur episode and decided to take Sujoy in her confidence.

While the 'Kahaani' director has not spoken to the media, the word on the street is that he has moved on and decided to take 'Quen' actress Kangna Ranaut on board.

According to some sources in the media, Vidya has also been mulling over endorsing brands only in the immediate future. After all, Aishwarya has also been doing the same through and post her pregnancy and staying in the limelight.

Endorsements of brands translate into perfect work-life balance for actresses who are new mothers and have intention to make a comeback in the showbiz industry after a gap.