LAHORE: The manager of Pakistan’s cricket team resigned on Monday, just days after the players flew home from England following controversies over spot fixing.Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt relieved Yawar Saeed of his duties at Saeed’s own request, the board said.The 75-year-old Saeed had hinted about stepping down before the tour began in June and denied that his decision to go was connected to the allegations that marred...

Nato-led forces say they have killed more than 50 insurgents on Pakistani soil after a rare pursuit across the border from Afghanistan.Two Apache helicopters from the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in Afghanistan are said to have taken part in the weekend's operation.It followed an attack by insurgents on an Afghan security outpost in Khost. Isaf said no civilians were killed in the operation, but this has not been independently...

JOHANNESBURG: Chennai Super Kings added the Champions League Twenty20 title to their Indian Premier League crown Sunday, underlining their status as the best club team in the world in cricket's shortest format.Chennai produced a dominant performance to beat South Africa's Warriors by eight wickets in the Champions League final at the Wanderers in Johannesburg and collect the $2.5 million prize.The Indian team cruised to 132-2, and a convincing...

ISLAMABAD: By the time evening fell, Islamabad had witnessed a Sunday full of feverish political activities which showed no signs of slowing down. All eyes are already focused on the Supreme Court for Monday morning when the judiciary resumes hearing the all-important cases of the 18th Amendment, implementation of its judgment on the NRO, appointment of NRO beneficiaries at key posts and missing people. Each one of them has a bearing on...

STOCKHOLM: A Pakistan International Airlines jet carrying 273 people bound from Toronto to Karachi landed Saturday in Stockholm after Canadian authorities received a tip that a man on the plane was carrying explosives, airport and police officials said.The Boeing 777 landed safely at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport and was parked at a ramp away from the terminals as Swedish police prepared to board the aircraft and remove the man.“We are not...

KARACHI: Pakistani activists poured into the streets on Friday shouting “Death to America” and burning effigies of President Barack Obama after a US court jailed a woman scientist for 86 yea...

Jordan's King Abdullah II warned that the Middle East may see another war if the issue of settlements is not resolved as part of the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.Abdullah made his remarks Thursday night during an appearance on the "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.""If we fail on the 30th [of September], expect another war by the end of the year. And more wars in the region over the coming years," Abdullah said.Abdullah...

Japan is to release a Chinese fishing boat captain whose arrest two weeks ago led to the worst row with Beijing in years, Japanese media report.The Japanese authorities had accused Zhan Qixiong of deliberately ramming two patrol vessels near disputed islands in the East China Sea.China had been demanding his immediate and unconditional release.The move came after four Japanese men were detained in China on suspicion of illegally filming...

NEW DELHI: The Commonwealth Games should never have been awarded to India, Australia’s Olympic chief said on Friday as more top athletes pulled out of the event plagued by filthy accommodation, shoddy construction and security fears. “I don’t think it is a cultural thing. When you agree to host (a Games) you are required to provide the basics in terms of health and hygiene for the athletes,” Australia Olympic Committee president John Coates...

KARACHI: One-day Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi Friday called Pakistan’s scandal-marred tour of England the “most difficult” of his career as the team staged a low-key return home after four gruelling months away.Coach Waqar Younis also conceded that it had been a punishing tour “on and off the field” after corruption investigations engulfed the side, triggering a barrage of condemnation from the press and public.An exhausted-looking...

UNITED NATIONS: Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad provoked yet another controversy Thursday saying a majority of people in the United States and around the world believe the American government staged the Sept. 11 terror attacks in an attempt to assure Israel's survival.The provocative comments prompted the US delegation to walk out of Ahmadinejad's UN speech, where he also blamed the US as the power behind UN Security Council...

LONDON (Reuters) – The Titanic hit an iceberg in 1912 because of a basic steering error, and only sank as fast as it did because an official persuaded the captain to continue sailing, an author said in an interview published on Wednesday.Louise Patten, a writer and granddaughter of Titanic second officer Charles Lightoller, said the truth about what happened nearly 100 years ago had been hidden for fear of tarnishing the reputation of...

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Three years after Russian divers thrust a rust-proof flag into the seabed below the North Pole, the country is again staking its claim on the Arctic region.An international forum held in Moscow Wednesday aimed to "present the world community with a picture of the region's future as it is seen by the Russian experts," according to Sergei Shoigu, the President of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS) who is also the country's Emergencies...

President Barack Obama has told the UN a revamped US foreign aid policy will help lift nations out of poverty by focusing on good governance and encouraging trade and investment.Mr Obama told the UN summit in New York on the Millennium Development Goals that the focus should be on development, not dependence.But he insisted helping poor nations was in the US national interest.He said the US would do its part to help lift millions out of...

TEHRAN: A bomb tore through a military parade in Iran Wednesday killing nine people, mostly women and children, as the country marked the 30th anniversary of the start of the bloody Iran-Iraq war, reports said.Dozens of people were wounded in the blast, which occurred during an annual military parade in the northwestern Kurdish town of Mahabad, Arabic-language television channel Al-Alam said.“The explosion happened in the morning as people...

SOUTHAMPTON, England: Eoin Morgan's latest match-winning Rose Bowl century saw England to a crushing 121 run-victory against Pakistan as they took the five-match one-day series 3-2 on Wednesday to end a scandal-marred season.Success meant England had won consecutive Test (3-1), Twenty20 (2-0) and limited overs series against a Pakistan side whose tour was overshadowed by 'spot-fixing' allegations.Morgan made 107 not out in a total of 256...

LONDON: The combination of depression and coronary heart disease in a patient could be much more deadly than either condition alone, researchers say.French and British experts say people with both conditions could be four times more likely to die from heart or circulatory disease.The study, in Heart journal, tracked the mental and physical health of 6,000 middle-aged people over five years.Experts said doctors must pay more heed to depression...

NEW DELHI: The Commonwealth Games are in jeopardy less than two weeks before the opening ceremony.Severe delays in the completion of the athletes’ village led Commonwealth Games Federation president Michael Fennell to contact the Indian government Tuesday and urge them to finish work on the accommodation – which many have described as “unlivable” – in time for the October 3-14 games.“Many nations that have already sent their advanced parties...

ISLAMABAD: (PAKISTAN) Brig. Imtiaz (rtd) and Adnan Khawja of the OGDCL have been shifted to Adeala Jail who were earlier arrested from the courtroom today. They were kept at Secretariat police station after arrest from the courtroom until the authorities received written order of the Supreme Court in the evening.Both of them have been arrested from the court on orders by Supreme Court (SC) during the hearing of a case relating the implementation...

KARACHI: Pakistan’s one-day captain Shahid Afridi said Tuesday his team could have filed a police complaint against England batsman Jonathan Trott over an altercation with fast bowler Wahab Riaz.Newspapers reports said Trott and Riaz had an altercation minutes before the fourth one-day at Lord’s, with Trott grabbing Riaz by the throat after both exchanged heated words in the net area.Reports said the incident started when Trott accidentally...

ISLAMABAD: (PAKISTAN) The frosty Indo-Pakistan ties may experience a thaw in the cool autumn of New York.Nine weeks after their talks for rebuilding trust hit a wall, the foreign ministers of the two countries are likely to meet next week on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly session. The offer for renewing contacts has come from India whose delegation led by External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna was accused...

KARACHI: (PAKISTAN) Some 100,000 more people have been displaced after a lake burst in southern Pakistan where massive floods have already affected millions of people, a UN spokesman said Tuesday.The Manchar lake in southern Sindh province overflowed on Friday, forcing people living in the area to seek refuge elsewhere, UN spokesman Maurizio Giuliano told AFP.“More than a hundred thousand (have) been displaced. Not only houses, but boats...

England and Scotland's Commonwealth Games teams are concerned the poor quality of the athletes village in Delhi may put the whole event in doubt.Scottish officials found their original accommodation to be "unsafe and unfit for human habitation".England are "optimistic" they will compete, but say urgent work is needed before the Games begin on 3 October.But Welsh officials are content with their headquarters and believe that organisers...

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LAHORE: Pakistan batsman Umer Akmal and umpire Aleem Dar have been shortlisted for the International Cricket Council (ICC) awards. Umpire Aleem had also been awarded the best umpire award in the last year’s ceremony. The names of other two representatives from Pakistan, Mohammad Asif for ICC Test Player of the Year and Mohammad Aamer for Emerging Player of the year, have already been excluded from the list following their suspension by...

BEIJING: China’s main nuclear energy corporation is in talks to build a 1GW atomic power plant in Pakistan, a China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) executive said on Monday.China has already helped Pakistan build its main nuclear power facility at Chashma in Punjab, where one reactor is running and another nearly finished, and it has contracts to build two more there, despite the qualms of other governments. Qiu Jiangang, vice president of the CNNC, told a meeting in Beijing that the company was already looking beyond those...

Pakistan has suspended former Olympic runner Sumaira Zahoor for two years after she tested positive for steroids. Sports ministry spokesman Faik Ali said the 30-year-old Zahoor was given the suspension after appearing before a three-member committee of the national anti-doping body on Monday.Committee member Khalid Mehmood said Zahoor could appeal against the ban.Zahoor competed in the 2004 Athens Olympics, but failed to get out of her...

President Asif Ali Zardari discussed with British High Commissioner Adam Thomson on Monday the issue of match-fixing allegations levelled against the Pakistani cricket team and assassination of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Imran Farooq in London.According to sources, President Zardari, who is the Patron in Chief of the Pakistan Cricket Board, expressed concern over the match fixing allegations and said the blame game should be...

An investigative committee looking into last month's bungled bus standoff in the Philippines has recommended criminal or administrative charges against former top police officials and three television networks, President Benigno Aquino told reporters Monday.Among those the committee found liable is the then-Philippines National Police Chief Jesus Verzosa; then-Manila Police District Chief Rodolfo Magtibay, who served as ground commander;...

North Korea's ruling party will host its largest meeting in decades on September 28 to pick new leadership, the official Korean Central News Agency reported Tuesday.State media previously said the Korean Workers' Party would assemble in early September, but had not reported a date.The party has not convened its delegates in decades, and speculation that North Korea's political leaders are working to set the stage for a possible handover...

Iranian border guards detained seven U.S. troops as they tried to illegally enter the Islamic state, a local news agency reported on Sunday, without giving a source. "Recently seven American troops were detained by Iranian guards in a southeastern province of the country ... Two Iranians accompanying the troops were also arrested," said the news agency. No other news agency reported the incide...

Former Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her six-year captivity in a book due to hit the shelves Tuesday.Betancourt, a former presidential candidate in Colombia, was held for more than six years by Marxist rebels before the Colombian military rescued her and 14 others in 2008."Meme le Silence a une Fin," or "Even Silence Has an End," will go on sale around the world, the publishing house Gallimard said.In June, Betancourt...

Chief JUI and chairman Kashmir Committee, Maulana Fazlur Rehman has been barred from entering USA on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Federal Minister Science and Technology Azam Khan Swati has been okayed to go America unconditionally.An official in US State Department confirmed to media on condition of anonymity that Maulana Fazlu was stopped from going to US at Doha international airport when he was ready to fly for America to attend an OIC moot...

MUZAFFARABAD: Casualties are feared as a school bus carrying at least 25 students skidded into a river near Garhi Dopatta, Geo News reported Tuesday.The school van sank in River Jhelum.According to police sources, bodies of two students have been retrieved from the river and the search for others is still underw...

UNITED NATIONS: The outside world cannot foot the entire bill for Pakistan's recovery from devastating floods and the Pakistani government must do more, US special envoy Richard Holbrooke said Monday.The day after world donors raised aid pledges to almost two billion dollars, Holbrooke said the eventual cost of the monsoon disaster could run into the “tens of billions of dollars.”“The international community will not be able to pick up...

LONDON: Pakistan took the one-day series against England into a deciding fifth match after winning by 38 runs Monday. Having set England 266 to win the fourth one-dayer and take an unassailable lead in the series, Pakistan bowled the home side out for 227 in 46.1 overs at Lord's to level it at 2-2.Pakistan paceman Umar Gul had the best bowling figures of 4-32, while England captain Andrew Strauss top-scored with 68. The match went ahead...

KARACHI: At least nine people were killed in incidents of violence in Karachi on Monday. Commercial centres remained closed and traffic thinned out as tension and fear gripped some areas during funeral of five people who were shot dead on Sunday night. Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Dr Farooq Sattar held the federal interior ministry and the Sindh home department responsible for the renewed wave of violence in the city. “If they are...