The powerful army, which enjoys considerable influence over policy decisions in Pakistan, has ruled the country for much of its life since it gained independence 70 years ago.
A day-by-day look at the ordeal of 12 boys and their soccer coach, who were trapped deep inside a flooded cave in northern Thailand for 18 days.
Liu Xia, 57, had gone to "start her new life" in Europe, her younger brother, Liu Hui, said on his WeChat account, according to a screenshot of the message shown to Reuters by a friend who declined to be identified.
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha warned that safety measures would have to be put in place inside and outside the cave.
The pan-European aviation giant employs nearly 15,000 people in Britain for the production of aircraft wings, and had warned its investment was at risk from a disorderly exit.
Doctors are taking no chances with their physical recovery, quarantining the group, administering tetanus and rabies shots, and putting two of the team on antibiotics after they showed signs of pneumonia.
Elite foreign divers and Thai Navy SEALs extracted the final batch of four boys, plus the 25-year-old coach, on Tuesday afternoon via a treacherous escape route that required them to squeeze through narrow, water-filled tunnels.
The boys were still far from being rescued at the time the offer was made and as of Tuesday afternoon only eight had been freed as the complex mission entered its final stage.
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Former skipper Sourav Ganguly has advised Virat Kohli to bat at the crucial number four position to provide solidity to India's batting line-up in the three-match ODI series against England, starting here on Thursday.
The Tamil Nadu Premier League is set to get underway as scheduled with the Supreme Court allowing the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association to host the league. But the apex court has made it clear that no outstation player can participate. TNCA had moved the Supreme Court for clarifications on the eligibility of participation of outstation players after the BCCI at its SGM had cleared the way for outstation players to play in domestic leagues conducted by state associations.
Rangana Herath, who at 40 is the last active men's international cricketer who played in the 1990s, told BBC Sinhala that he was considering retiring from all formats in November after the three-Test series.
It’s unfair to suggest that the South Africans are ill-equipped to deal with conditions in Sri Lanka based on their 3-0 defeat in India – when they just couldn’t handle Ravichandran Ashwin (31 wickets) and Ravindra Jadeja (23 wickets) – in the four-Test series in late 2015. They are a team more used to playing in seam- and swing-friendly conditions, but the last time they made the trip across to the island nation, in 2014, they did win the two-Test series 1-0.
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