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ISLAMABAD
Banners urge army chief
Sharif to contest polls
Mysterious banners have
appeared in Pakistan urging army
chief General Raheel Sharif, who is
set to retire this month, to contest
elections, according to a media
report. The banners put up on
electricity poles in Rawalpindi
urged 60-year-old Sharif to
contest election in 2018. It claims
that this move will end tension
between military and government.
#NeverTrump feeds vote trading frenzy
Using an app developed by an Indian-American entrepreneur, people in safe states are trading votes with people in swing states. More than 55,000 people
have now signed up for the trade. If the participants keep their word, the trend can influence results in key states
TIMELINE
As Hillary Clinton and
Donald Trump battle for the
White House, a look at key
events in the campaign that
began nearly two years ago
2015
MARCH 2: News breaks out
that Clinton used a private
email server while working as
secretary of state
APRIL 12: Clinton formally
announces her candidacy. At
the time, Trump was not even
included in polls of hopefuls
JUNE 16: Trump announces his
candidacy
2016
FEBRUARY 1: Trump finishes
second in the Iowa caucuses,
and first in New Hampshire,
South Carolina and other states
MAY 3-4: Trumps last
surviving rivals, Ted Cruz and
John Kasich, throw in the towel,
Trump emerges victorious
JUNE 7: Clinton manages to
clinch enough primary delegates
for the Democratic nomination,
defeating Bernie Sanders
JULY 5: FBI recommends that
no charges be filed against
Clinton over her email server
LATE JULY: Trump accepts the
Republican nomination and the
Democratic convention chooses
Clinton as the first women
presidential nominee of a major
AUGUST: Trump has a very bad
party
month: he again reshuffles his
campaign staff, and is
excoriated for criticising the
parents of a Muslim American
soldier killed in Iraq
SEPTEMBER 12: Clintons
doctor says shes being treated
for pneumonia
SEPTEMBER 26: The first
presidential debate draws 84
million TV viewers. Trump loses
his temper with Clinton. She
boosts her lead in the polls
OCTOBER 7: A video of Trump
making lewd comments on
women is out. Dozens of
Republicans withdraw their
support
OCTOBER 28: In a gift to
Trump, the FBI director
announces a probe into
previously undisclosed emails
that he says might be pertinent
to the probe into Clintons
server
Wrath of the Euphrates: US-backed forces launch attack to capture IS capital
Turkey not to play any
role in capturing Raqqa
Washington has agreed that
Turkey will play no role in the
battle to capture the Islamic
State groups Syrian bastion
Raqqa, the spokesman for the
Kurdish-Arab force leading the
fight said Sunday. The Syrian
Democratic Forces is an alliance
led by the Kurdish Peoples
Protection Units, which Turkey
considers a terrorist group
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PESHAWAR
Pakistani authorities halt
Afghan girls deportation
Authorities in Pakistans Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa province have
temporarily halted the
deportation of Sharbat Gula,
National Geographics iconic
green-eyed Afghan Girl, for using
fake ID cards to stay here. They
will also request the federal
government to grant her refugee
status. Gula will complete her
15-day jail sentence Wednesday.
FARWA IMAM ALI @ NEW YORK
IN two days, America will vote for
its next president. The polls are
tight. The candidates are wrap-
ping up their last-minute pitches
in swing states. Yet, scores of vot-
ers are still in a quandary.
Some Republicans are upset
with Trump, voting for Clinton
undermines their core political
beliefs and voting third party
sounds futile with the candidate
having no serious chance at win-
ning. A unique fourth possibili-
ty? Vote trading. This involves
finding a voter in a swing state
of your choice, offering to vote
for his candidate in your safe
Singer Katy Perry (L) and presidential nominee Hillary Clinton cheer during a Get Out The Vote concert at the Mann Center for
the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Sunday | AFP
With 2 days to go, Trump and
Clinton go down to the wire
NEW YORK
DONALD Trump and Hillary
Clinton packed their schedules
with last minute campaign events
Sunday, two days out from an
election that has gripped the
world. Clinton is banking on star
power to lock in her narrow poll
lead, hosting back-to-back week-
end concerts with Beyonce and
Katy Perry and booking a date
with President Barack Obama.
For his part Trump has em-
barked on a cross-country odys-
sey through Iowa, Minnesota,
Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virgin-
ia, Florida, North Carolina and
A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces flashes the V-sign for Victory in the
town of Ain Issa, some 50 km north of Raqqa, on Sunday | AFP
BEIJING
Panel asks govt to take
control in Hong Kong issue
Amid defiant assertions by
newly-elected pro-independence
legislators that Hong Kong is not
a part of China, a top Chinese
legislative panel asked for the
government to intervene and take
control of the situation. The
panel said that two Hong Kong
lawmakers words and actions
posed a grave threat to national
sovereignty and security.
state and have him commit to
vote for your candidate in his.
Even though it sounds far-
fetched, Vote trading is a reality
in the 2016 Presidential election.
And the biggest draw is #Never-
Trump, a marketplace app start-
ed by an Indian-American Silicon
Valley entrepreneur Amit Ku-
mar. The app allows voters in
swing states to swap candidates
with Clinton supporters in safe
states. First introduced by Sena-
tor Jamie Raskin during the 2000
presidential race, to help Al Gore
garner support against Ralph
Nader in swing states like Flori-
da, it did not work. The internet
was not as potent and the voters
New Hampshire.
The latest major survey, an
ABC/Washington Post tracker
released early Sunday, gave Clin-
ton a five percentage point 48-43
lead. Polling averages however
are closer. At his campaign stops
the billionaire Republican re-
mained triumphalist. In three
days we are going to win the great
state of Colorado and we are go-
ing to win back the White House,
Trump said Saturday.
Trump hit his key themes:
promises to tear up free trade
agreements, expel undocument-
ed migrants, rebuild an allegedly
depleted US military and purge
killed and over 30 wounded in suicide
bombings in two cities north of Baghdad
SEOUL
South Korea cracks whip, Gunmen kidnap Australian
arrests two top Park aides aid worker in Afghanistan
S Korean prosecutors arrested
two former top presidential aides
Sunday in a snowballing scandal
which saw demands for President
Park Geun-Hyes resignation. Ahn
Jong-beom, a senior advisor to
Park, was arrested early Sunday
on charges of abuse of power and
attempted coercion, and Jeong
Ho-Seong was alleged to have
leaked classified information.
unprepared to make that swap.
Fast forward to 2016, #Never-
Trump at last check had been
signed by 55,805 voters ready to
make the swap on the ballot. All
thanks to a robust internet. Trad-
ing votes at #NeverTrump is sim-
ple. For example a person in Cali-
fornia who wants to vote for
Clinton in Florida will find a vote
trade candidate on the app, prom-
ise to vote for Trump in Califor-
nia on election day and ask for
the candidate to vote for Clinton
in Florida. Once a trade has been
agreed to, the execution simply
involves honoring the commit-
ment and making the swap at
the ballot as agreed.
Washington of corruption. And
his fans roared back the same
three-word chants: Build the
wall! Drain the swamp! Lock
her up!
Clintons late decision to head
to Michigan with Obama on Mon-
day and to add a midnight rally in
North Carolina as election day
begins raised eyebrows. Cam-
paign manager Robby Mook dis-
missed suggestions that Clinton
is trying to shore up her crum-
bling northern firewall. Trump
has to win all of these battle-
ground races, he said. If we
win Pennsylvania and Florida,
he just has no path. AFP
BATTLE FOR RAQQA
AIN ISSA, SYRIA
A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alli-
ance launched an offensive Sun-
day on the Islamic State groups
de facto Syrian capital Raqqa, up-
ping pressure on the jihadists af-
ter Iraqi forces entered their Ira-
qi bastion Mosul.
The major battle to liberate
Raqqa and its surroundings has
begun, Jihan Sheikh Ahmed, a
spokeswoman for the Syrian
Democratic Forces (SDF), said at
Colombo
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Cops arrest over 50 after
fresh attacks on Hindus
An Australian woman was Bangladesh Police Sunday
kidnapped from Kabul by arrested nine more persons in
unknown gunmen, an official with connection with attacks on Hindu
the Kabul police chiefs office temples and members of the
confirmed. Speaking on condition community in the Muslim-
of anonymity in line with majority country, taking the total
regulations, he said the woman number of arrests to 53 so far.
who works for the Agency They would be produced before
Coordinating Body for Afghan local court without remand plea,
Relief or ACBAR was abducted Nasirnagar police station Officer-
Saturday night. in-Charge Abu Jafar said.
Lets say there are millions of Tennessee, he was pulled up by
such people, and the margin of the law. At a time where Trump
victory for Trump is, like, a hun- is claiming the election to be
dred thousand, if we can shift rigged, it is important to remind
just a few of them over to Hillary voters that vote trading was
. . . This only matters on the deemed legal following a 2007
boundary condition, when theres court case Porter v. Bowen. But
a coulda, woulda, shoulda, Ku- the naysayers in the Trump camp
mar had told The New Yorker. term vote trading to be a crude
The only problem is that there form of bribery.
is no way to verify if the voters But Democrat Zachary Ander-
have kept their word, cautions son from California who is look-
expert in Election Law, Professor ing to secure Clintons bid in
Douglas Spencer, University of Florida pays little attention to
Connecticut. Those who propose such talk. #NeverTrump merely
ballot selfies as proof need to re- provide Republican and third
member that it is illegal in most party voters a chance to commu-
states. Recently, when pop icon nicate, decide to trade votes, or
Justin Timberlake did just that in not. Its alternative TrumpTrad-
DESI VOTES CAN TURN THE TIDE
IN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES
NEW YORK
INDIAN-AMERICAN voters can turn the tide in key battleground states
like Florida, Ohio and Colorado, and decide the fate of White House aspir-
ants Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump who are in a dead-heat in major
polls just days ahead of the election, community leaders say.
Community leader Bhupi Patel asked the Indian-Americans to vote for
Clinton especially in Florida, Ohio, Colorado, saying the vote of the com-
munity in the red states (Republican leaning) is going to carry 30-40 per
cent more weight. Patel cited the 2000 presidential election between Al
Gore and George Bush, with Bush ultimately winning by a margin of just
537 votes. The Indian-American vote has value. If you can lose an election
by 400-500 votes, then in places like Florida, the 30-40 per cent weight of the
Indian-American vote will be important, Patel said. PTI
Trump win could turn
US into climate villain
PARIS
PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION
DIPLOMATS gather next week
for a fresh round of UN climate
talks in Morocco, but all eyes will
be on the US where presidential
elections may determine the
planets future. Donald Trump,
who has described global warm-
ing as a hoax, said in May he
Trump whisked away would cancel the climate-res-
as person yells gun cue Paris Agreement if elected
leader of the free world.
Donald Trump was briefly hustled
The pact, concluded in Paris
off stage in Reno, Nevada, on last December after years of hag-
Saturday in a false gun scare. gling, came into force on Friday
Trump was unruffled, although its goal to stave off worst-case-
his son retweeted a message scenario global warming. On Fri-
implying it was an assassination day, President Barack Obama
attempt. The Secret Service said said, All the progress weve made
that agents found no weapon. on climate change, among other
The unrest broke out when a crux issues, is going to be on the
protester trying to hold up a ballot.
Republicans against Trump sign Obama ratified the agreement,
was wrestled to the ground and giving it a major boost towards
attacked by Trump supporters. the threshold of endorsements
Clintons camp mocked the required for entry into force. The
incident as a sign of panic cutoff was ratification by 55 of
a press conference in Ain Issa, taking control of the city itself.
some 50 kilometres north of the The fight will not be easy, and
jihadist bastion. In Washington, will require accurate and careful
a US official confirmed the start operations because IS will defend
of the operation. The operation, its bastion knowing that the loss
dubbed Wrath of the Euphra- of Raqqa will mean it is finished
tes, involves some 30,000 fighters
and had begun on Saturday night,
Ahmed said. The fight will not be easy...
SDF spokesman Talal Sello because IS will defend its
bastion knowing that the
said it would proceed in two phas-
loss of Raqqa will mean it is
es, first seizing areas around finished in Syria
Raqqa and isolating the city, ad-
vancing from three fronts, then Talal Sello, SDF spokesman
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LONDON
Scotland to join Brexit
legal challenge: Claimant
Scotlands devolved government
is expected to join a legal
challenge against the British
governments plans to trigger an
exit from the European Union, the
lead claimant in the court case
said Sunday. A British court ruled
Thursday that the government
needs parliamentary approval to
start the process of leaving the
EU, according to Reuters.
ers.com, a web-based vote trading
platform for third-partiers will
consider vote trades with Clinton
supporters provided their vote is
still being counted somewhere.
In third-party voter swing
states that are crucial to the elec-
tion a two-for-one deal is struck.
One third-party vote for two Clin-
ton supporters. In close races like
Ohio, where Trump leads Clinton
by 2.5 points and third-partiers
make up 4 percent of the vote,
these sites could impact the vote
in an election that has come down
to the wire. What remains to be
seen is just how many of the Vote
Traders honored the commit-
ment #Im with Her!
The Indian-American
vote has value. If you
can lose by 400-500
votes, then in places
like Florida, the
30-40 per cent
weight of the Indian-
American vote will be
important
Bhupi Patel, community
leader
the 197 parties to the UNs climate
convention (UNFCCC), repre-
senting 55 per cent of greenhouse
gas emissions. That having been
achieved, it would be cumber-
some, but far from impossible, for
a country to withdraw from the
international treaty. America is
the worlds second-largest green-
house gas polluter, representing
nearly 13 per cent of emissions.
Trumps threats, if carried out,
would recast the US in the role of
climate villain. AFP
in Syria, he said.
An AFP correspondent in Ain
Issa saw dozens of armed SDF
fighters heading on vehicles to-
wards the front line. The long-
awaited operation comes two
years after IS seized control of
large parts of Syria and Iraq and
declared its cross-border
caliphate. The loss of Mosul
and Raqqa would deprive IS of its
largest population centres, effec-
tively ending the groups claim to
a self-declared state. AFP