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JUBA - South Sudan President Salva Kiir and ex-rebel leader Riek Machar on Tuesday agreed to form a unity government by mid-February 2020 at the expiry of the 100-day extension to the peace agreement. Kiir said he had agreed with Machar to form a new unity government even if the parties failed to implement all the outstanding issues at the end of the 100-day extension period. "We have said that after the end of the 100 days extension period we must finish forming a new unity government, and if there are still pending things not complete, we shall form a transitional government of national unity to implement the remaining outstanding issues," Kiir told journalists at a joint news conference in Juba. Kiir who held a two-hour meeting with Machar at the State House said the current prevailing ceasefire will continue to hold, noting that the parties are committed to ending the conflict. Machar, Sudan's People's Liberation Movement-in opposition (SPLM-IO), said the...

ISLAMABAD -- A special court in Pakistan on Tuesday handed death sentence to former President Pervez Musharraf on charges relating to the imposition of extra-constitutional emergency in November 2007, according to local media reports. A three-member bench of the special court delivered a short verdict in the case in the absence of Musharraf, finding him guilty of abrogation of the constitution under the article 6 of the Pakistan's constitution among others, local media reported, adding that two judges were in favor of the death sentence while one was against it. Musharraf is currently living in the United Arab Emirates and his lawyers say he is seriously sick. The special court had issued notices to Musharraf to appear to record his statement, but he failed to return to the country. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan said the government will review legal aspects of the judgment and Prime Minister Imran Khan is likely ...