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New Delhi: The Pakistani military has rescued a kidnapped US-Canadian couple and their three children after receiving intelligence from the United States.
The couple was kidnapped from Afghanistan five years back. 

American Caitlan Coleman, her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle and the children born in captivity were believed to be held by the Taliban-allied Haqqani network, which the United States has long accused Pakistan of not doing enough to fight.

Coleman and Boyle were kidnapped while backpacking in Afghanistan in 2012. Coleman was pregnant at the time, and a video released by the Taliban in December showed their two sons born while they were hostages.

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi by saying in 2030, "bring the moon to earth."

"PM Modi will give every person in Gujarat a house on the moon in 2028, and in 2030, PM Modi will bring the moon to earth," said Rahul, accusing the BJP and PM Modi of making fantastic promises that they cannot possibly keep.

Addressing a rally in the PM's home state, the Congress leader charged that the BJP had done nothing to eradicate poverty in the 22 years it has been in power in Gujarat.

 New Delhi: International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that in spite of a sharp fall in inequality around the world, the US, China and India have witnessed upward trends in its level.

The International Monetary Fund said that despite the relevance of education, health and progress in recent years, gaps of access to quality education and healthcare services between different income groups in the population remained in many countries, including in advanced economies.

"If one focused on citizens around the world, global inequality has trended down sharply in recent decades, and that is a change from the upward trend since the beginning of the 19th century," Vitor Gaspar, the Director of the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department, told reporters on the occasion of release of the annual Fiscal Monitor report.

New Delhi: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has rejected the application of Milli Muslim League (MML), the political front of Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) for registration as a mainstream political party.

The decision was taken on basis of a letter that the Pakistan home ministry had sent to ECP last month asking it to avoid registration of MML as a political party for its ties to banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the parent organization of JuD.