Top 10 world news: Defence minister exhorts PoK residents to 'join India'; Trump leads in new poll, & more
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India's Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has urged residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to join India. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was addressing a public rally in the Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir where he said PoK will soon become a part of India.
In other news, former US president Donald Trump is leading Democrat rival, Kamala Harris, in the homestretch of the presidential campaign, a national poll of likely voters byThe New York Timesand Siena College has shown.
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh tells PoK residents to 'come and join India'
India's Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has urged residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to join India. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was addressing a public rally in the Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir where he said PoK will soon become a part of India.
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