Afghan envoy summoned by FO

ISLAMABAD: Afghan Ambassador Umar Daudzai was summoned to the Foreign Office on Thursday, where Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir made a demarche over the cross-border attack by militants on a checkpoint in Dir district. "The foreign secretary has conveyed to the Ambassador of Afghanistan strong concern on the cross-border attack launched from the territory of Afghanistan [...]

NP leader shot dead in Turbat

QUETTA: A leader of the National Party, Nasim Jangian was shot dead by unidentified attackers in Turbat on Thursday, police sources said. Mr Jangian, NP's deputy organiser for Turbat zone, was sitting with his friends at a restaurant on the outskirts of Turbat when gunmen on a motorcycle appeared and opened fire at him. Mr [...]

Cartoon 03, June 2011

Strike in parts of Balochistan

QUETTA: A strike was observed in different parts of the province on Thursday in response to a call of the Baloch National Front to condemn the assassination of Prof Ghulam Hussain Saba Dashtiari of the Balochistan University. Prof Dashtiari was shot dead by unidentified attackers on Wednesday. The strike was observed in Gwadar, Panjgur, Turbat, [...]

US likens LeT to al-Qaida

WASHINGTON: The US homeland security chief has likened the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba to al-Qaida and says it could pose a threat to America. Janet Napolitano was speaking Thursday following security cooperation talks last week with India. India has accused Lashkar of mounting the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people. Napolitano described [...]

Forex & Gold 03, June 2011

Note: We do not receive Foreign Exchange Rates regularly. The last received rates are given below. Spot Rates for public per unit of currency Exchange Rates for Currency Notes Bullion Rate in Rupees per 10 gms.   Spot rates for public per unit of currency June 2, 2011 Countries Selling Buying Buying T.T & O.D [...]

Forty years on, Edgbaston resonates with Zaheer’s 274

Forty years to the day in 1971, a star was born when Pakistan took on England in the first of the three-match Test series at Edgbaston. Only 23-year-old then and unknown to the cricketing world, he wielded such authority and presence in only the second Test of his career, that for the rest of his [...]

PCB forms four-member committee to hear Afridi’s case

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board, while not responding to former captain Shahid Afridi's request of re-issuance of NOC required to play for English county Hampshire, on Thursday formed a three-member disciplinary committee headed by Sultan Rana which will hear a disciplinary case against the all-rounder from June 8. "After reviewing the reply from Shahid Afridi, [...]

Afridi hires law firm to contest PCB charges

KARACHI: Former ODI captain Shahid Afridi has hired the services of prominent lawyers to contest the various charges pinned on him by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and has challenged the abrupt cancellation of the NOC granted earlier to him for his appearance in English County Hampshire's T20 exhibition matches. In a letter sent to [...]

Chile murder probe into death of author Pablo Neruda

SANTIAGO: Officials in Chile said they will launch a murder investigation into the death of Nobel Prize-winning writer Pablo Neruda, who died 12 days after the 1973 coup that overthrew the government. It had long been believed that the writer, among Latin America’s most renowned literary figures, had died of cancer, but officials here said [...]

Nawaz calls for commission in light of parliamentary resolution

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) Chief Mian Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said the PML-N has unanimously decided that the government should implement the parliament resolution on Abbottabad operation in letter and spirit. Addressing at a press conference, he said that the government should not violate the supremacy of the parliament and make a commission immediately [...]

APNS president backs HRW claims on Shahzad’s murder

KARCHI: Hameed Haroon, president of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society, has sharply reacted to the denial by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) regarding its involvement in the abduction and murder of Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad. The ISI has denied any role in the murder and termed the allegation of Human Right’s Watch (HRW) as “baseless”. Haroon, [...]

Former bin Laden associate captured: Nato

KABUL: Nato said Thursday it captured a senior al-Qaida operative and former Osama bin Laden associate in northern Afghanistan. Nato said the man was based in Pakistan and was a former associate of bin Laden, who was killed in a US raid in Pakistan on May 2. Nato also said the captured man may have [...]

Pakistan journalist’s killing may be linked to state

ISLAMABAD: A prominent Pakistan journalist may have been tortured to death for exposing growing links between the country’s intelligence agencies and militants who appear to be infiltrating every state institution, a leading human rights activist said on Thursday. Saleem Shahzad, who worked for Hong Kong-based Asia Times Online, disappeared from Islamabad on Sunday. His body [...]

‘Dangerous’ to abandon Pakistan: Mullen

WASHINGTON: US military chief Admiral Mike Mullen said Thursday that Pakistan needed space to sort out internal problems and that it would be dangerous for the United States to abandon the troubled war partner. Mullen said that Pakistan has been going through "a great deal of introspection" in the month since US forces killed the [...]

Pakistan to reel in tax evaders: Shaikh

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will raise $623 million by forcing wealthy tax evaders to cough up, the country’s finance minister said Thursday, speaking on the eve of unveiling the budget for the next financial year. Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh did not go into details about how they would be made to pay. Analysts say meaningful tax [...]

Syrian activists call more protests after dozens dead

DAMASCUS: Anti-regime activists in Syria have called for "Children’s Friday" protests, snubbing government concessions after a week in which they said security forces killed more than 60 people. The fresh protests are to honour the children killed in the uprising, such as 13-year-old Hamza al-Khatib whom activists say was tortured to death, a charge denied [...]

India to deploy marine commandos in Sir Creek

NEW DEHLI: India will deploy an elite unit of its Border Security Force (BSF) ‘marine’ commandos to keep a vigil on infiltration from Sir Creek area in Kutch along the Indo-Pakistan border. Marine unit will specifically be deployed along ‘Harami Nala’ area in Sir Creek which is a marshy, sluggish and shallow water channel, spread [...]

A working lunch for nine billion

Oxfam’s activists wear masks depicting (L-R) Belgium’s Prime Minister Yves Leterme, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British Prime Minister David Cameron, sitting on a table and ordering food for nine billion people, outside the European Parliament in Brussels. The EU needs to start the transformation to [...]

South Africa intends to bid for 2022 Commonwealth Games

DURBAN: South Africa will bid to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games having last week pulled out of the race to stage the 2020 summer Olympics, the country’s Olympic federation chief Gideon Sam said on Thursday. "Immediately after the announcement of where the 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held, we will go in for 2022. It [...]

Coaches doing their job very well: Sana Mir

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan women’s cricket team captain, Sana Mir said on Thursday that she is very happy with her coaches adding that they are doing their job very well. Mir contradicted a news item published in a section of the press saying that they were fully satisfied with their coaches. "It is due to our hard [...]

US-Pakistan form an anti-terror squad: report

WASHINGTON: The US and Pakistan are trying to bandage their relationship by forging a new joint intelligence team to go after top terrorism suspects, officials say. The move comes after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton presented the Pakistanis with the US list of most-wanted terrorism targets, US and Pakistani officials said Wednesday. The list [...]

French Open: Day 11

Champion Rafa Nadal cut loose after a shaky French Open start to batter Robin Soderling 6-4 6-1 7-6 and Andy Murray again tried to tie himself in knots before easily sealing his semi-final spot on Wednesday.

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F1 revenues set to double by 2016: report

LONDON: Annual revenue from Formula One’s commercial rights is set to double in the next five years to more than $3 billion thanks largely to race hosting fees, according to a report published on Thursday.  The Formula Money report predicted annual revenues for the Formula One Group would rise at a rate of 12.7 percent [...]

Nawaz rejects commission

LAHORE: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif rejected on Wednesday what he termed a 'unilateral commission' set up by the government to investigate the Abbottabad operation and said it was tantamount to 'humiliating' parliament. Talking to reporters after offering condolences to ten family of navy officer Yasir Abbas who was killed during the terrorist attack on a [...]

Karachi violence claims four more lives

KARACHI: Four more youngsters were killed in separate incidents in the Lyari area on Wednesday bringing the death toll to 10 in three days of violence in the strife-hit neighbourbood, police said. Although guns fell silent by Tuesday evening following intense firing and armed clashes between two rival ethnic communities in Lyari, violence returned [...]

Ilyas rejects Afridi’s allegations

LAHORE: Former Test cricketer and member of the national selection committee, Mohammad Ilyas, has expressed his disappointment over the remarks made by former one-day skipper Shahid Afridi against him and his family in a recent TV interview shortly after quitting the game. Addressing a media gathering here on Wednesday, Ilyas said: "We are living in [...]

I can’t help Sri Lanka, says Murali

LONDON: Retired Sri Lanka great Muttiah Muralitharan has said there isn't much he can do for his compatriots as they struggle to come to terms with their dramatic first Test defeat against England. "I have finished my career and they have to handle themselves," the 39-year-old said. "The coach [former Australia batsman Stuart Law] is [...]

Forex & Gold 02, June 2011

Forex Update: KARACHI, June 01: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 86.3 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 15:30 PST)   Note: We do not receive Foreign Exchange Rates regularly. The last received rates are given below. Spot Rates for public per unit of currency Exchange Rates for Currency [...]