Trump website resumes ‘Muslim ban’ proposal

 Trump’s proposal for calling a ban on Muslim immigrants from worldwide disappeared from his campaign website on Thursday, but a spokesman said what some observers took as a softening of Trump’s policies was due to a technical glitch.

The link to Trump’s Dec. 7 proposal titled: “Donald J. Trump statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration,” in which he called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” vanished temporarily from the website but later reappeared.

So too did a list of Trump’s potential Supreme Court justice picks as president and certain details of his economic, defense and regulatory reform plans.

“The website was temporarily redirecting all specific press release pages to the home page,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in an email.

Links to Trump’s policy proposals, including the Muslim ban, were working again by 3:30 p.m. EST (2030 GMT).

The links, which had redirected readers to a campaign fundraising page, appeared to have been removed around Election Day on Tuesday, when Trump won a historic upset against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, according to a website that records historic snapshots of web pages.

In an appearance on CNBC on Thursday, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal praised Trump for removing the Muslim ban proposal from his website and also said Trump had deleted statements offensive to Muslims from his Twitter account.

The prince could not be reached for comment after the links were restored.

Several tweets attacking Muslims that Trump sent while campaigning for president remained in his feed on Thursday, including a March 22 tweet in which Trump wrote:

“Incompetent Hillary, despite the horrible attack in Brussels today, wants borders to be weak and open-and let the Muslims flow in. No way!”

After initially praising the removal of the Muslim ban proposal at a news conference with other civil rights leaders on Thursday, Samer Khalaf, president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, said in a follow-up interview the group was hoping to see better behavior from Trump.

“False hope just came over us,” Khalaf said, but “we didn’t really think it was monumental that they took down the language.”

Khalaf said Trump’s policies were more important than any statements. “He’s elected, he said some horrible things, now we have to see what his policies are. If they’re good policies we’re going to commend him for it. If they’re horrible policies we’re going to challenge him on it.”

Despite the temporary glitch, most of Trump’s core policy positions had remained on his website, including his central immigration promise to build an “impenetrable physical wall” on the border with Mexico and make Mexico pay for its construction.

It was not the first time the Trump campaign blamed technical difficulties for changes to its website. The campaign this year also replaced the part of the site describing Trump’s healthcare policy with a different version. When contacted about it by Reuters in September, the campaign put the original page back up. –Reuters

source: The News Tribe

King Khan Pictorial Biography

MUMBAI: Bollywood’s legendary star, Shah Rukh Khan aka King Khan has on Wednesday night launched his pictorial biography in an aspiring event in Mumbai.

While talking to media at the launch, Shah Rukh recounted his early days in the industry.

“I was an odd-looking guy, I was not from a film background, I spoke too fast but I am thankful to all the filmmakers and those friends who gave me an opportunity. So for me, if a newcomer comes, I have been trained by people like these to respect the newcomer and love them,” he said.

The actor later took to twitter and thanked author Samar Khan for the book. He even specially mentioned how his younger son AbRam loved the book. SRK wrote, “Thk u @samarmumbaikhan this is so special. The book is lovely & my lil 1 is happy to c so many papas #25yearsofalife”.

SRK has had an awe-inspiring journey in Bollywood for 25 years now. While he is known as the ‘Badshah of Bollywood’ today, 25 years ago, he was just a guy who wanted to make it big in the city of dreams.

The biography ’25 Years Of A Life’ has captured his journey in the world of films, where each of its chapters are a director’s take on a particular character created by them and portrayed by SRK. The book was unveiled by King Khan himself at an event on Wednesday night.

The story originally appeared in TOIM

America gets Trumped

NEW YORK: Millions of Americans went to bed in utter disbelief late Tuesday night and many more
 woke up to a shocking reality Wednesday morning when they discovered that Donald Trump would
be the 45th President of the United States. He secured, at least, 290 electoral votes against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton who managed to bag 228 votes. Trump, 70, will be the oldest man ever elected president of the United States. He married thrice and his youngest son, Barron, is ten years old.

A new surge of white voters, mostly without college degrees and doing blue-collar jobs, negated all
 projections and predictions by the mainstream US media and ensured his victory. High percentage
of Latino, black and Asian voters failed to help Hillary Clinton become the first female president of
 the United States. For months, she was the favourite of the New York Times, Huffington Post and
other credible publications. “Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. Sorry to keep you waiting. Complicated business. Complicated. Thank you very much,” the president-elect told his jubilant
 supporters, at his victory speech, in New York’s Hilton.

Mrs. Clinton conceded defeat and called President-elect Trump to congratulate him.

“I have just received a call from Secretary Clinton. She congratulated us. It’s about us. On our victory,
 and I congratulated her and her family on a very, very hard-fought campaign. I mean, she fought very
 hard… and we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country,” the president-elect said.

In her post-defeat speech Wednesday morning, Mrs Clinton believed Trump would be a successful
president of the United States. She said they were not expecting such results, which left both her and
 the supporters disappointed. “Our campaign was not about one person. It was about building America
. Our nation is deeply divided. We must accept these results and look to the future. Donald Trump is going
 to be our president. Our constitution enshrines peaceful transition of power,” she said

President Obama called the president-elect to invite him to the White House on Thursday to discuss the
 smooth transition of power. He also called former Secretary of State Mrs Clinton and expressed admiration
 for the strong campaign she waged throughout the country. Polling began in the United States on Tuesday
 with high hopes among Mrs. Clinton supporters. However, as clocks ticked she and her supporters had to
 face one shock after another. Five States including Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa
flipped to Republicans and played a decisive role in President-elect Trump’s victory.

The Republicans also won the Senate and maintained their majority in the House of Representatives,
 which meant they were in virtual control of three power centres. Besides, after assuming office the
 president will appoint a ninth Supreme Court judge, expected to tilt the balance in Republicans’ favour.

Trump, who never held any public office before, will be heavily relying on his advisors to formulate domestic

 and foreign policies. He already made it clear that he would not follow the policies of Obama administration
 vis-à-vis Middle East and ISIS.

Democrats’ election night parties abruptly ended across America after it became clear that they had lost the election. They came with happy faces to celebrate victory. However, they had to leave early in tears. “Yikes,” snapped Congressman Jamie Raskin, when Daily Times sought his comments about America under Trump.
 “Is this really a serious question? I shudder to think about it,” he said.

Cathy, a paramedic, refused to accept that America would be just fine under Trump presidency. “This man wanted all immigrants to leave. He harassed women. He evaded taxes. He lied. He cheated. He is the last
nail in the coffin,” she said.

Trump was uncharacteristically gracious in his victory speech, saying he would pursue harmony over hostility throughout the world. “I will be President for all of Americans, and this is so important to me. For those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, I’m reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that we can work together and unify our great country,” Trump said at his victory speech to throngs of jubilant supporters.

source:daily times

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Trump win ‘opens period of uncertainty’: France

PARIS: French President Francois Hollande, who once said Donald Trump made him want to retch, warned Wednesday that the Republican billionaire’s stunning victory in the US election “opens a period of uncertainty.”

In a televised address, Hollande underlined that the United States was a key partner for business, for solving wars in the Middle East and tackling global warming — something Trump has dismissed as a hoax.

“This American election opens a period of uncertainty,” he said in a statement that offered only brief congratulations to the Republican billionaire.

As well as France keeping up its global role, “this context calls for a united Europe, capable of making itself heard and of promoting policies wherever its interests or its values are challenged,” he said.

Hollande, who has disastrous approval ratings ahead of France’s presidential election next year, has been an outspoken critic of Trump and in October had predicted a victory for Hillary Clinton.

In the wake of a feud between the incoming US president and the Muslim parents of a slain US soldier in August, the Socialist French president told journalists that “his excesses make you want to retch”.

Trump has raised hackles in France after saying attacks in Paris last year that left 130 people dead might have been avoided if the country relaxed its gun laws.

He has also referred to “vicious” no-go zones in Paris and said French people arriving in the United States could face security vetting because of fears about extremists. –AFP

source: The news Tribe

Junior Rawalpindi Express

Shoaib was over the moon with this big news and declared the day as the ‘best day of his life’.

Guys, am ecstatic to share that me & Begum have been blessed with a healthy baby boy just now. Oh what a feeling! Thank u Allah Pak.

— Shoaib Akhtar (@shoaib100mph) November 7, 2016

While speaking to Geo News exclusively, Shoaib let it be known that both mother and the baby are fine and out of danger.

He further thanked all his fans and friends for keeping the family in prayers.

Both Mom & little angel are fine. Getting a human life to dis world is surely d biggest miracle. Rawalpindi Express is now a Proud Papa!!!

— Shoaib Akhtar (@shoaib100mph) November 7, 2016