The Pakistani defense minister has warned of “open war” if efforts to reach a recent ceasefire agreement between the two nations are unsuccessful. Officials from Pakistan and Afghanistan have met in Istanbul for discussions.
The discussions, which started on Saturday and are scheduled to continue on Sunday, come just days after Qatar and Turkey brokered a truce in Doha to put an end to neighborly deadly clashes. Difficulty number of people were killed and hundreds more were hurt in the cross-border violence.
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From Sialkot, in eastern Pakistan, on Saturday, Pakistan’s defense minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif declared, “We have the option, we have an open war with them,” if no agreement is reached.
However, he continued, “I saw that they want peace.”
Sinem Koseoglu, a reporter from Istanbul, claimed that the “technical-level discussions” in Turkiye are intended to “open the door for a permanent solution between the two neighbors.”
Pakistan has not disclosed the names of its representatives, despite Haji Najib, the deputy interior minister of Afghanistan, leading the delegation there.
The negotiations must address “the threat of terrorism emanating from Afghan soil toward Pakistan,” according to a spokesperson for Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday.
Pakistan has claimed that Afghanistan, including the Pakistani Taliban (TPP), is home to what it calls “terrorist groups.” Kabul refutes the claim and points to the military strikes as a result of Islamabad’s inaction.
Following the recent fighting, key border crossings between the nations are still closed, with the Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industry estimating that traders are still losing millions of dollars each day because of the ongoing closure.
A key topic of discussion during the Istanbul talks will be intelligence-sharing with armed groups, according to International Crisis Group analyst Ibraheem Bahiss, who is an analyst in Afghanistan.
Pakistan would provide the location of TTP fighters or commanders, he said, and Afghanistan would be expected to carry out strikes against them instead, he said.
The ceasefire that was declared in Doha last Sunday is still in effect.
According to Tahir Andrabi, a spokesman for the Pakistani Foreign Ministry, “there hasn’t been any significant, full-scale terrorist attack emanating from Afghan soil in the last two to three days.”
Jobe Bellingham and Joshua Zirkzee could leave Old Trafford in January, while Tottenham and Manchester City are interested in signing Morten Hjulmand on loan.
Borussia Dortmund’s 20-year-old English midfielder Jobe Bellingham is on loan at Borussia Dortmund until January. (Express)
For 24-year-old Netherlands and Manchester United forward Joshua Zirkzee, West Ham and Sevilla are looking into making a move. (Mirror)
Morten Hjulmand, 26, a midfielder for Sporting and Denmark, and Manchester United are interested in both. (Record in Portuguese)
Anthony Gordon, 24, and Antoine Semenyo, 25, both from Newcastle and England, are thought to be moving to Liverpool. Football Insider
Ezri Konsa, an England defender, has been tracked by Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United over the past 12 months thanks to his efforts at Tottenham and Manchester City. (TBR Football)
Middlesbrough and England Under-21 midfielder Hayden Hackney is a 23-year-old player who has interest in Newcastle, Brighton, Fulham, Fulham, and Brentford. (TBR Football)
Roma want to renegotiate the loan terms for Brighton and Republic of Ireland forward Evan Ferguson, who could make a comeback from the Seagulls in January. (Sport Witnesses’ Gazzetta)
Pierre Kalulu, a 25-year-old Juventus and France defender, is wanted by Tottenham and Newcastle. (TuttoJuve – Italian)
Mason Greenwood, a 24-year-old Marseille international, has been under the radar of Barcelona scouts for some time. (Sun)
An offer for Leeds target Piotr Zielinski, who is currently a Polish midfielder, could cause the 31-year-old to leave in January, would be accepted by Inter Milan. Football Insider
Jobe Bellingham and Joshua Zirkzee could leave Old Trafford in January, while Tottenham and Manchester City are interested in signing Morten Hjulmand on loan.
Jobe Bellingham, a 20-year-old English Borussia Dortmund midfielder, is on loan at Manchester United at the end of January. (Express)
For 24-year-old Netherlands and Manchester United forward Joshua Zirkzee, West Ham and Sevilla are looking into making a move. (Mirror)
Morten Hjulmand, 26, a midfielder for Sporting and Denmark, and Manchester United are interested in both. (Record in Portuguese)
Anthony Gordon, 24, and Antoine Semenyo, 25, both from Newcastle and England, are thought to be moving to Liverpool. Football Insider
Ezri Konsa, an England defender, has been tracked by Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United over the past 12 months thanks to his efforts at Tottenham and Manchester City. (TBR Football)
Middlesbrough and England Under-21 midfielder Hayden Hackney is a 23-year-old player who has interest in Newcastle, Brighton, Fulham, Fulham, and Brentford. (TBR Football)
Roma want to renegotiate the loan terms for Brighton and Republic of Ireland forward Evan Ferguson, who could make a comeback from the Seagulls in January. (Sport Witnesses’ Gazzetta)
Pierre Kalulu, a 25-year-old Juventus and France defender, is wanted by Tottenham and Newcastle. (TuttoJuve – Italian)
Mason Greenwood, a 24-year-old Marseille international, has been under the radar of Barcelona scouts for some time. (Sun)
An offer for Leeds target Piotr Zielinski, who is currently a Polish midfielder, could cause the 31-year-old to leave in January, would be accepted by Inter Milan. Football Insider
Reese Witherspoon, who has just released a new book with Harlan Coben, and Michelle Keegan, who posed alongside her in front of a stunned audience, is a Hollywood legend.
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Reese Witherspoon and Michelle posed for photos.
Michelle Keegan has shared a snap posing with a Hollywood superstar while saying “two geniuses collide”. The former Coronation Street actress took to her Instagram page to share a post which featured Legally Blonde star Reese Witherspoon.
Michelle attended a gathering to promote Reese’s new book, Gone Before Goodbye, which she and Harlan Coben co-authored.
Michelle also has her own connections to the iconic author as she took on the star role in the Netflix adaptation of Fool Me Once. Michelle posed with Reese as they both beamed for the camera while getting to know each other.
Michelle wrote: “When two genuises collide, “Gone Before Goodbye” is created! Reese Witherspoon is exactly as you imagined her to be, what a woman.
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Michelle and author Harlan were also spotted conversing at the event. The star’s friends and fans took to the comment section to share their opinions. One person remarked, “Oh how magical! You are entitled to it.
As a second commentator said, “I prefer to meet THEE MICHELLE KEEGAN to Reese,” and a third added, “Beautiful girl and a brilliant actress.”
A fourth actress described it as “two beautiful and brilliant actresses meeting.” Michelle’s exciting moment came shortly after vandals recently targeted her £100,000 car.
The 37-year-old actress shared the car’s paintwork damage with her 7.5 million Instagram followers on Wednesday, October 15 and expressed her regret for anyone who caused the damage.
She pointed to the lengthy scratch on her car door in the short clip that she posted to her Stories and wrote, “Hope the person who did this felt better about themselves afterwards]thumb up emoji] scruffs.”
She then recorded herself in the car, captioning: “Working out how not to let it ruin my day. Smiling on the outside, screaming on the inside. But why? “?
Michelle and her husband Mark Wright haven’t had much luck over the last few months, as this isn’t the first time they have been targeted by vandals.
Four masked burglars entered the famous couple’s £3.5million Essex home just eight months ago while they were still inside it.
The gang escaped with their getaway car after Mark yelled out at the time. Police arrived at the mansion right away thanks to their state-of-the-art security system, which they also used to make their alerts.
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Mark, 38, and Michelle claimed to be relieved but “very shaken up” by the harrowing ordeal, but that nothing had been removed from their home.
As negotiations for the next stage of Trump’s 20-point Gaza plan progress, US President Donald Trump thanked Qatar for its efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.
As the US president’s plane made a stop in the Gulf nation on its way to a summit in Malaysia on Saturday, Trump welcomed Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani.
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Trump and the Qatari leaders both expressed how much they have worked together, particularly recently.
“I just want to thank you for what we’ve accomplished, peace to the Middle East,” the author writes.
Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were in Israel this week to check on the top US allies’ compliance with the agreement and discuss the details of phase two of the US-led plan.
According to experts, the agreement’s key provisions, such as Washington’s call for Hamas to disarm and the possibility of deploying an international security force to Gaza, are still ambiguous.
According to Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabari, who was reporting from the Qatari capital Doha on Saturday evening, the first phase has not yet been completed, including the removal of all Israeli prisoners’ bodies from Gaza.
She said that has been a source of contention because Israel claims Hamas has not returned any of those bodies in the past four days.
Hasas, for its part, claimed that more time is needed to access areas that the war and the heavy bombardment on the Strip have rendered impossible.
Israel has continued to carry out deadly strikes across Gaza and to obstruct unhinged humanitarian aid to Palestinians throughout the area, further straining the fragile ceasefire.
Palestinians were shot and wounded by Israeli forces throughout the day, according to medical sources in Gaza on Saturday.
In a car attacked by Israelis in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, which the Israeli military claimed was targeted an alleged Palestinian Islamic Jihad member, at least four people also suffered injuries.
Hani Mahmoud, a journalist for Al Jazeera in Gaza City, reported that the attack “looks like a break in an already fragile ceasefire.”
Despite the fact that more work is still necessary, US officials have been attempting to convey a positive message to the media this week.
Rubio said speaking separately to reporters on Saturday that American officials would be asked for opinions on a possible UN resolution or international agreement granting permission to the multinational force in Gaza.
The US secretary of state added that he would hold a Sunday meeting with Qatari officials regarding the subject.
According to Rubio, “many of the nations that have expressed an interest in participating at some level, whether it be financially, personnel, or both, will need that [a UN resolution or international agreement] because their domestic laws demand it,”
So that’s why a whole team is engaged in that process.
The Trump administration’s message on Saturday, according to Al Jazeera’s Jabari, was that Qatar has a significant role to play as the negotiations progress.
She said, “The American president has made it clear that this ceasefire would not have been possible in the first place due to their mediating efforts.”
At a party with comedian Ben Elton, Stephen Fry was “minutes away from suffering permanent brain damage” and even “death” after “whacking cocaine up his nose.”
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Stephen Fry’s friend reveals his near-death experience(Image: Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty I)
Celebrity Traitors star Stephen Fry survived a “near-death experience” after a booze and coke binge, his close pal has revealed.
Comedian and telly writer Ben Elton has told how he rushed the actor to hospital in a cab because he was in “extreme danger”.
He claimed that doctors then informed him that Stephen, renowned for his intelligence, was “minutes away from permanent brain damage – and not many more minutes away from death.”
The revelation comes just after Stephen became one of the latest stars to leave Celebrity Traitors as he was voted out despite being Faithful.
Pals Stephen and Ben had been out for dinner in London before an afterparty together at the Islington home of late author Douglas Adams.
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Stephen, who he affectionately calls “Bing,” was the creator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy at the time. Ben, 66, said: “You know it’s time to pull the pin, but you don’t, and you instead open a few more bottles.
“We were drinking beer, which Stephen very rarely did, and for some reason he had some weird organic Belgian stuff which he thought we should try. We were smoking fags pretty copiously as we did in those days and, on top of that, Stephen was whacking cocaine up his nose.
“I can say this because he’s been entirely forthright about it in his own memoir and, having admitted to doing it at Buck House, doing it with me is hardly a scandal. Personally, I’ve never been a fan of hard drugs.
“I used to drink beer with my beer while everyone else was using the restrooms while the Groucho was a member of the Groucho during the notorious days of the late 1980s.” I just thought everybody had a weak bladder. “
In his newest book, What Have I Done? Ben claimed that he was scheduled to call it a night and that he had been waiting for a taxi when he realized something was wrong with his partner.
He continued:” Had I decided to have another beer, Stephen almost certainly would have been dead in an hour because shortly after he’d called for the cab, he started to wheeze.
I recognized there was a problem as the wheezing turned into throaty gasping. Bing? Is this a serious matter? “Yes.”
” His head was rolling a bit and his breathing suddenly sounded alarmingly hollow. In a second, it happened. Would you like me to make an ambulance call? ‘ Yes.. ‘ He was beginning to slump in his chair. “
When Ben realized he didn’t know the address and that Stephen couldn’t breathe in his own way, he admitted to having to leave a 999 call. Thankfully, his taxi drove him home.
The cabbie then requested that they be taken to University College Hospital, adding that “it must have been at least two in the morning.”
Ben explained:” I got Stephen out of the cab and virtually dragged him up the steps to the front entrance. Because he was essentially a dead weight (literally), neither of us managed to gain strength. His breath sounded like a death knell, and I had no idea how he was able to breathe without any oxygen.
“At the top of the stairs, I found a wheelchair. I managed to get Stephen to the door and chair. Stephen was almost in the chair as he was slouched like a sack. His long legs were splayed out and I couldn’t get his feet onto the foot plates.
And I couldn’t move the chair without turning it around and dragging it backwards. Stephen yelled at me as I turned it in the corridor, and I blasted his head against the wall.
He didn’t seem to notice, but as I dragged the chair and Stephen into what appeared to be a reception, I felt utterly sick.
Ben claimed that the area was deserted at the time, so he yelled “I have an emergency,” which prompted a nurse to assist him. He continued: “She ran in, took one look at Stephen and called for help.
I was completely alone when a doctor came in and a minute later they had spirited him away. I can’t even recall having a seat there. I just stood there, wishing I hadn’t drunk so much because I knew I had to concentrate. “
Ben admitted in his autobiography that he felt the need to inform doctors that his friend had a habit of drinking coke. He said, “It had occurred to me that I had to tell them something. Urgently.
“Fortunately, the nurse reappeared with a doctor who told me that Stephen was in the emergency room. ‘Has he had much alcohol?’ the doctor asked. ‘Yes, a lot,’ I said, ‘and many cigarettes.’ I took a deep breath. ‘Also, I need to tell you that I think it’s possible – quite probable, in fact certain – that he has had cocaine.’
Have you any idea how difficult that was? Stephen was years and years away from his drug confessions in the early 1990s.
“Since those long-gone innocent days, he and Kate Moss and a host of other white-nostrilled celebrities have established a culture where talking to Jonathan Ross about how much illegal powder you’ve ingested is commonplace.
Spun properly, cocaine can even be used as the protagonist in a heroic battle with personal demons, which has helped to better understand the necessity of concentrating on mental health.
“But at the time, cocaine was a terrifyingly illegal Class A drug, and I was weeding out my former flame to a powerful figure.” I hated doing it but absolutely I felt I had to. I had no idea what was wrong with him or what drugs were being given to him.
Who was aware of the effects of one drug on another? The doctor nodded and made a note. ‘ I don’t bother myself, I weakly stated.
That sounded sopathetic, despite being true. It seemed to me that, at best, an entire hospital would now be telling all their friends that I did cocaine and, at worst, I was going to be spending a night in a police station while Stephen died and avoided all the unpleasantness.
I was concerned for Stephen, and I feigned that the police would come over and make an arrest.
Ben claimed that doctors later assured him that everything would work out, but that the incident had taken place in the Nineties. He added:” I was shown into the emergency room and he certainly didn’t look okay.
He appeared to have gray, translucent skin, no apparent life left in his eyes, and numerous tubes and wires had been attached to his entire body.
The doctor informed me that Stephen was just minutes away from suffering permanent brain damage.
“And not many more minutes away from death. Given the choice, I said that Stephen would have preferred the latter. So there you have it. I saved the most celebrated brain in showbiz.
The cerebral, throbbing hub of national treasure-dom has throbbed on my memory for the past three decades.
Ben also stated that he was “still very concerned” about staying with Stephen and that he wanted to tell him that he had shared his cocaine use with the doctor.
He said:” I imagined that the big ‘ coke ‘ word was all over Stephen’s notes and I felt he needed to know.
In 1992, Stephen taking cocaine would have been extremely significant, entirely unexpected, and probably devastating news to the public. Additionally, it might have led to his arrest and possibly even imprisonment.
” Stephen was pretty woozy and nodding off, but he was conscious enough to hear me. ‘ I whispered, “Bing, mate.” I apologize, but I let them know that you had been drinking coke. I felt I had to because they were medicating you. ‘
He squirted my hand and whispered that everything was alright. He continued, “Don’t worry,” between his gratingly longer breaths. I’ll be writing an entire book about it in 20 years. ‘”
Stephen and Ben and Richard Curtis have been friends for many years, and they both played the roles of Lord Melchett in the second and fourth series of Blackadder.
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The 68-year-old was one of the top stars in hit BBC show Celebrity Traitors but exited the game in Thursday night’s episode.
He said afterwards: “It’s a word that’s overused as people give them as Christmas presents, but it really was an experience. A remarkable experience. And of course, it’s shaped by the rules of the game. No question, the structure of the rules of the game gives it its shape. And I was familiar with those from watching it, but it is formed more, in a way, by the nature of the group who are participating. That was just wonderful to get to know some extraordinary people I would probably otherwise never have met. And some people, of course, whom I knew, that made it very rich and interesting. Every day was astonishing.
