Following are the top foreign

Following are the top foreign

stories at 1700 hours today:

FGN5 PAK-SHARIF-LD PANAMAGATE

Islamabad: Embattled Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's legal team dismisses as illegal and biased a probe panel's final report that recommended filing of a graft case against him and his children as the Supreme Court resumed the hearing of the Panamagate graft case. By Sajjad Hussain

FGN6 NIGERIA-BLAST

Maiduguri: Eight people were killed when a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, in the latest attack in the restive region. (AFP)

FGN4 AFGHAN-TALIBAN

Kabul: An Afghan official says the country's security forces have driven the Taliban out of a key district in southern Helmand province from where they had been threatening the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah. (AFP)
 

FGN3 AFGHAN-CIVILIANS-LD UN

Kabul: Civilian deaths in Afghanistan hit a new high in the first half of 2017 with 1,662 killed and more than 3,500 injured, the United Nations says.