QUETTA: Notable nationalist leader and veteran politician Sardar Attauallah Mengal has strongly rejected the news that he is assuming the president’’s

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PARIS: AB de Villiers threw down a challenge to South Africa’’s bowlers Sunday after a fighting innings of 97 gave his team an outside chance of victory in the fourth and final Test at the Oval. England, set 197 to win, were naught for no wicket when bad light stopped play on the fourth day. De Villiers said he wasn”t disappointed at falling just short of a century but he was disappointed that he hadn”t been able to stretch the lead to 250. “I came up short by about 50 runs,” de Villiers said. “The hundred wasn”t really an issue.” He felt South Africa had a chance to complete a 3-0 series win. “The bowlers still haven”t really been where we know they can be and it will be a good time tomorrow to hit their straps,” he added. “If we can pick up a couple of early ones I don”t see why we can”t push through.” England fast bowler Stuart Broad, who ended a 95-run eighth wicket stand between De Villiers and Paul Harris, said England remained strong favourites to pull off a win in Kevin Pietersen’’s first match as captain. “It was a pretty good wicket to bat on today,” said Broad. “The Oval’’s a quick-scoring ground and if we get our heads down and bat well 197 is something we should certainly knock off. It’’s been a good week for Kev so far and we”ve got the chance to make it a very good week for him.” Pietersen’’s tactics of letting De Villiers score singles backfired as Harris (34) batted competently. The pair defied the second new ball which was taken when the stand was worth only 23. The resistance ended when Harris was caught at second slip by Andrew Flintoff off Broad, with De Villiers following in the next over when he charged down the pitch against left-arm spinner Monty Panesar and was bowled. “I just tried to keep scoring because we had Andre Nel at the other end, who is a real tail ender,” De Villiers said of the way he got out. De Villiers, who went to the wicket when his side were only 16 runs ahead with four wickets down, hit 12 boundaries in a 170-ball innings. It was the fifth time De Villiers had been dismissed in the nineties in Test cricket. He has hit six centuries.

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HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peace Coalition in its meeting expressed deep appreciation of the recent decision of the ruling coalition parties to initiate the

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KarachiPublic transport owners in Karachi are all set to charge new bus fares from Monday (today), while hapless commuters are feeling bitter

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IslamabadThere are number of familiar hiking tracks in the capital city, but a newly discovered alleyway stretching from Pir Sohawa downwards

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PESHAWAR: The Pakistan People’’s Party-Sherpao is likely to abstain from voting on the resolution, which the ruling ANP-PPP coalition government would

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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka tightened the screw on injury-hit India with a superb all-round performance on the third day of the crucial third and final Test he

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ISLAMABAD: Lack of political will and red tape have hindered the generation of more than 960 megawatt expected potential energy that could be retrieve

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ISLAMABAD: After passing five years in detention, reportedly at the Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, the ill-fated Pakistani woman, Dr Aafia Siddiqui, w

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President Pervez Musharraf should resign to spare Pakistan the trauma of a bitter impeachment process that will include accusations he violated the constitution, Pakistan’s law minister said Sunday.

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