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ISLAMABAD: Senate Wednesday adopted the Constitutional Twenty-eighth Amendment Bill giving a go-ahead to the extension of military courts for another span of two years to try militants charged under terrorism charges.

As police rounded up dozens of PTI workers and halted party's Youth Convention in Islamabad, a female worker speak to SAMAA and expressed her firm resolve to join Islamabad Lockdown on November 2. Watch what she has to say.

"HAFIZABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate for vice chairman of a union council in Punjab's Hafizabad town was booked in a FIR on charges of ransacking local office of Returning Officer (RO), Samaa reported Wednesday."

Two gunmen riding a motorcycle shot and killed a policeman in Karimabad area of Karachi yesterday. One portion of the firing episode was caught on CCTV camera, in which gunmen can be seen opening fire on policeman, who was not in the frame. As they opened fire on the policeman, passers-by started running to escape the attack.

KARACHI: An anti terrorism court (ATC) Monday sentenced an activist of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to jail for 19 years, Samaa reported. Chaudhry Shujaat, the convicted MQM activist, was charged with criminal possession of weapons and explosive material. Last year the government launched a major crackdown against criminal elements in the largest city of the country.

PARIS: French prosecutors said Monday they had identified two more Paris attackers, including a Syrian and a Frenchman who was previously charged in a "terrorist" case. A suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the Stade de France stadium is believed to be Syrian Ahmad Al Mohammad from Idlib.