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So far, there have been 71 ceasefire violations from the Indian side of the LoC and the Working Boundary.

The Deputy High Commissioner was conveyed Pakistan’s concern over the continued unprovoked ceasefire violations.

Three civilians were also injured in the firing, a statement from the military’s Inter-Services Public Relations said, adding that Pakistani troops bafflingly responded to the Indian firing.

“Diplomatically, India has repeatedly emphasised, including at the highest level, the need for Pakistan to uphold the sanctity of the Line of Control (LoC) and abide by the ceasefire commitment of 2003 along the global Border and LC”, he said.

Former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, accused in a parliamentary debate Monday of responsibility in the fall of Iraq’s second largest city Mosul to IS militants in June 2014, is blaming the disaster on Turkish President Recip Tayyip Erdogan and Kurdish regional...

The news broke just hours after an Iraqi parliamentary panel called for former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and 30 other officials to face trial for their involvement in the fall of Mosul to the Islamic State group last summer.

But that has made it harder to stamp his authority on a country enduring war with Islamic State, chronic corruption, Kurdish separatism, personal rivalry among political leaders and a financial crisis caused by collapsing prices for oil exports.

Iraq’s parliament voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s reform package, Speaker Saleem al-Jabouri said during a session broadcast live on state television.

On Sunday, gathering at the same square to applaud Mr. Abadi, Jaafar Taslimi called the prime minister’s moves a historic change for Iraq.

After weeks of protests demanding better government and a call by leading Shi’ite Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani for tougher action, Abadi proposed cancelling Iraq’s multiple vice president and deputy prime minister positions, now shared out along...