LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board may be hopeful of hosting the postponed Champions Trophy in 2009 but former ICC President Ehsan Mani has advised PCB to surrender the hosting rights of the mega event for the greater interest of the game.Mani suggested the PCB should in return ask the ICC to allot them one of the future Champions trophy events.Pakistan was supposed to host the eight-nation tournament from September 12 to 28 but the ICC was forced to postpone the event till next October after five of the competing teams raised serious security concerns about travelling to Pakistan.
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RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Wednesdays said the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country will be defended
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KarachiPresident Asif Ali Zardari will arrive in the city on Thursday to pay homage to the Father of the Nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jin
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ISLAMABAD: Upset and embarrassed by a large number of legislators” vote for Asif Zardari in the presidential election, the Pakistan Muslim League-Q ha
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ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan has decided to shut down the Chasma Nuclear Power Plant for a period of five months for purpose of necessary maintenance.This shut down is very likely to intensify the ongoing power crisis in country. According to a senior journalist Hanif Khalid, the power plant has a capacity to produce 300 MW electricity per day.Earlier, the plant was closed for necessary maintenance on August 7. The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) controls Chashma Nuclear Power Plant.
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ISLAMABAD: The ongoing power crisis is expected to deepen as the authorities concerned have decided to shut down the Chashma Nuclear Power Plant-I for
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ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan has decided to shut down the Chasma Nuclear Power Plant for a period of five months, according to Geo News.Earlier, the plant was closed for necessary maintenance on August 7. Chashma Nuclear Power Plant has a capacity of producing 300-mw electricity and is controlled by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).
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ISLAMABAD: High Commissioner of United Kingdom Robert Edward Brinkley called on President Asif Ali Zardari here at the President House.Brinkley congratulated the President on assuming the office of head of state.The President thanked the High Commissioner and appreciated the strong bilateral ties between Pakistan and the UK. He said the existing bilateral relations between the two countries would further strengthen in the days ahead.
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The U.S. military, faced with rising insurgent violence in Afghanistan, will revise its strategy for region to include militant safe havens in neighboring Pakistan, the top U.S. military officer said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON: The U.S. military, faced with rising insurgent violence in Afghanistan, will revise its strategy for region to include militant safe havens in neighboring Pakistan, the top U.S. military officer said on Wednesday.”I”m not convinced we are winning it in Afghanistan. I am convinced we can,” Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a congressional hearing.He said he was “looking at a new, more comprehensive strategy for the region” that would cover both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.”In my view, these two nations are inextricably linked in a common insurgency that crosses the border between them,” he said. Mullen was speaking after the United States stepped up attacks on militant targets inside Pakistan, including a raid by helicopter-borne U.S. commandos last week.
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